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• Another Already Invented Invention

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:11 pm

  Tags: General Nonsense

  I hate waiting for my computer to do something, or a web page to open. Why can't someone invent a replacement for the little hourglass, or the browser progress bar, that is more interesting to look at? For example, I think it would be hilarious to see a little graphic of two dogs humping. The hourglass only shows for a few seconds, usually, and

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• Inventing the Already Invented

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:09 am

  Tags: General Nonsense

  People always ask me where my ideas come from. It feels as if my ideas originate in my mind, in a something-from-nothing way. But sometimes I think my brain is some sort of zeitgeist vacuum, sucking in scraps of ideas already floating around the universe until there's enough of one kind of scrap that I notice. For example, in a recent post I

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• Politeness

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: General Nonsense

  Recently I saw a sign outside a store that said, Please enjoy our food and drinks outside. It seemed so much nicer than the more direct No food and drinks. And it reminded me of my friend Jason's favorite joke. It goes like this: Two Southern ladies, Maribelle and AnneMarie, were sitting on the porch drinking mint juleps. They have

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• Things I Used to Know

  Published: July 25, 2007, 9:36 am

  Tags: General Nonsense

  When I was a kid, it was common knowledge that you would get cramps and drown if you went swimming within an hour of eating. It never occurred to me that if eating and swimming was a deadly combination, the bottom of every pool would be covered with corpses. I never heard of anyone perishing from a sandwich-related drowning. It turns out there was

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• Immigration

  Published: July 24, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: General Nonsense

  It's hard to talk about immigration without sounding like a racist. So let me just say this and get it out of the way: I think Mexicans are superior to me. By me, I am referring to people who are part English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Dutch, German, and Native American. There are three of us that I know of. I think my brother and sister

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• Presidential Polyps

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:31 am

  Tags: General Nonsense

  President Bush recently had some polyps removed from his colon. Sometimes polyps can turn cancerous, but I doubt his are. After all, President Bush hasn't had much luck finding weapons of ass destruction. I'm posting this now before someone else thinks of it. I might already be too late. And allow me to be the first to wonder aloud how the

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• The Loser Decision

  Published: July 23, 2007, 7:45 am

  Tags: General Nonsense

  was about Dilbert's life in general. He just happened to have a job. I was surprised to learn, via my e-mail, that readers loved the relatively rare comics featuring Dilbert in the office. Personally, I didn't think those were my best work. My ego told me to do it my way. My readers told me I was wrong. What the hell do readers know? After all,

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• missing posts

  Published: July 22, 2007, 8:08 pm

  Tags: General Nonsense

  I was in a happy place where the Internet don't shine. Posts commence Monday.

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• Career Advice

  Published: July 20, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: General Nonsense

  Instead, I recommend a general formula for success. Allow me to explain. If you want an average successful life, it doesn't take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1. Become the best at one specific thing.2. Become very good

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• The Goldfish Treatise on Marriage #2

  Published: July 29, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: General Nonsense, Equality, Love

  a few years back), but in general, human beings fall in love with other human being - each of us being reasonably complex and interesting in our own right.The business of childrenSo much of the social outcry about marriage or lack thereof is about the potential effects of our relationships on children. Bad news here, I'm afraid: bringing up a

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• My trip to Newmarket

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:46 am

  Tags: Shopping, General Nonsense, Equality, Getting Out

  Today is the 40 year anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which decriminalised male homosexuality (at least, in strict privacy, between no more than two people, over the age of 21). I haven't seen anything about this anywhere, so I thought I would mention this here.In other news, my Mum, AJ and I went on an adventure to Newmarket. This was

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• The Goldfish Treatise on Marriage #1

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:08 pm

  Tags: General Nonsense, Equality, Love

  I'm going to make some generalisations about a subject which people tend to get a bit emotional about. I'm sure I'm not talking about you.There is no way to increase the numbers getting married and decrease the number of people getting divorced without backtracking on sexual equality. The principle reason there were more marriages and less

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• Meme Mut8nt-R4

  Published: July 23, 2007, 12:16 pm

  Tags: General Nonsense, Clicking, Food

  The 8 things Meme Mutated at Andrea's Buzzing About and Andrea (the index case) passed this virulent strain onto me. New genome for Mut8nt-R4: 1. Let others know who tagged you.2. Players start with 4 recipes they especially like (ethnic or regional recipes and quick meals are especially nice).3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and

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• 8 Random Facts about the Goldfish

  Published: July 18, 2007, 12:55 am

  Tags: General Nonsense, Clicking

  I have been tagged twice with this, by Jemma and McEwen. At Andrea's Buzzing About, the Meme mutated! I am very excited about this extraordinary development and will do that one soon as well. But for now, the original;Here's the rules.1. Let others know who tagged you. (I did that already).2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.3.

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• Time Travel

  Published: July 14, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Headspace, General Nonsense, Lurgy, Handiwork

  you make all kinds of nonsense. I string beads sometimes; that is completely and utterly banal. Okay, so I choose which beads go nice with which others, in what order, but that's a three second creative process followed by, I don't know, hours if I make enough mistakes and drop them all once or twice (which I generally do). It's not about

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