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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