Or Happy Holidays, whichever you feel is more appropriate. I think the so-called “War on Christmas” is a bunch of hooey, personally, particularly since most of the evidence I’ve seen tossed around was either taken out of context or a fabrication to begin with.
Regardless of what you believe, who you believe in, or how [...]

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True or False?
The shortest distance between two points is always a straight line.
True or False?
The shortest traversable distance between two points is always a straight line.
As I played with Google’s new service Google Transit that overlays public transportation routes and schedules on top of Google’s already-amazing Google Maps service, I discovered this was not always [...]

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I’d explain my title, but I think those of you in the Portland area know exacxtly what I mean by it.
I completely forgot to note the release of Mozilla Firefox v1.5 with my last post. This is the first new version since its release last year with some additional functionality that builds upon the [...]

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It’s been awhile, I know. I’ve been busy at work trying desperately to get this project that’s been on my desk for three months done, and at home I’m dogged by a lack of computer. Well, I still have my laptop, but it’s extremely difficult to find motivation to do anything at all [...]

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Every year my family agonizes over what to get me for Christmas, not because I’m difficult to shop for, but because they never really know what I need. Most of the time I’m pretty tight-lipped about what I want or I have something specific in mind, and so I frequently find myself the recipient [...]

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I’ve come to fear that moment when I move the mouse to wake up my computer, because on occasion, it just doesn’t wake up again and requires me to reset it manually. I built a computer using high-quality parts earlier in the year, and I’ve been extremely happy with the speed and general usefulness [...]

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Clearly I didn’t win the Powerball jackpot, though the winning ticket was sold in Oregon. I was a bit surprised to see that, and I believe it’s the first jackpot that’s hit in Oregon. Too bad it wasn’t someone I knew. Most of us in the office had purchased our own tickets, [...]

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Everyone have their Powerballs ticket(s)? I’m not typically a lottery player, and truth be told, I spend maybe $5 a year on lottery tickets. We had a lottery pool going in the office for awhile, but I eventually dropped out because I couldn’t justify spending the money on Powerball. I tried to [...]

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I decided to continue my domestic streak, and Saturday night I made a tasty stew for dinner. I took the bus up to Zupan’s Market Friday after work and picked up the ingredients, and then Saturday morning I chopped the carrots and celery, diced the onions, cubed the potatoes and the beef ($5/pound chuck [...]

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Lacking my bicycle that I left at Heather’s apartment when I left as well as the intermittent rain for the last week or so, I’ve found myself driving up to Fred Meyer once or twice to grab a few things that I’ve found myself needing throughout the week. On one trip last week, I [...]

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I realize it’s been close to two weeks since I last posted, but I have good reason for remaining absent. Rather–there’s a lot that’s gone on in the last two weeks, and I did start to write several times but abandoned my entry a couple of paragraphs in.
Firstly, my birthday went very well, and [...]

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I can think of few things that rank lower on my list of things not to do on a Sunday morning besides getting up at 5:15 AM as I did yesterday, but I knew it was for a good cause and so I did it (mostly) willingly. I got up, showered, shaved, and got [...]

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So…I’ve found an apartment for myself.
After what I would consider to be an extensive search that included touring six different apartments that met my initial criteria (well, five actually, one was on a lark because I happened to be going there, anyway) and wading through hundreds of listings that didn’t meet my criteria, I finally [...]

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Heather made a lovely plate of chicken jerky Sunday night. Now, for those of you thinking that you’ve never seen chicken jerky before, rest assured, neither have I. In fact, she’d put a whole package of chicken on the grill and left it on for too long…way too long. So she ended [...]

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Wednesday night, Erika and I went to go see the movie Crash at the Bagdad Theater. The Bagdad, for those who may have forgotten or don’t live in Portland, is an old 1920’s movie theater purchased and renovated by McMenamins and turned into a second-run movie theater. It’s big, it’s beautiful, they let [...]

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