even from Frisco, still my Homaha

Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under

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Okay, maybe the only time I’ve heard the term “Homaha” is in a facebook group, but a few links from the interwebs caught my eyes lately.
Jonathan Segura, in support of his novel Occupational Hazards, blogs about Omaha at Powell’s, including a nod to the “miraculously” alive Dave Sink at The Antiquarium (which last I head [...]

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half-assed

Posted on July 8, 2008 - Filed Under

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what i do when busy not blogging
1 - tinkering with my muxtape
2 - butt rocket

3 - Fail Dogs

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Slapped The Mac(intosh)

Posted on January 5, 2008 - Filed Under

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Once again, Anonymous brings the logix:
it’s all psychological. if anyone is willing to make the change from PC to Mac it’s like starting off on a clean slate. so many Mac owners probably see it as an atonement for their illegally downloading sins, and want to keep their computers clean with legal downloads. it’s easier [...]

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slicker than snot

Posted on November 16, 2007 - Filed Under

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SFGate put together a pretty nice google map of areas affected by the recent oil spill in the San Francisco Bay.
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From a distance…

Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under

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…I continue to love Ernie Chambers:
(09-17) 16:15 PDT Lincoln, Neb. (AP) –
Fed up with the threats, tired of natural disasters, the state’s longest-serving state senator is using his legal muscle against who he says is the culprit — God. State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued the Almighty in Douglas County District Court last week.
Chambers, [...]

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i am i remix

Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under

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At apophenia “pointer remixing“:
We craft our identity through pointing all the time. Language is mostly about pointers (”signs”). The list of favorite TV shows, movies, and music on social network sites are a linguistic pointer to these cultural referents. Yet, in a multimedia world, instead of having to just reference them by name, I can [...]

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dumps

Posted on August 8, 2007 - Filed Under

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Buddy Bell out the door… Davies for Dotel… The silence is deafening.

Early warning signs?: “Toward the end of his senior season, Hand was suspended for 30 days for leaving the school campus at lunchtime to get something to eat at a local KFC.”

There’s balls getting chopped in the middle west. {via}

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confusing laws

Posted on May 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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I’m no lawyer but…how can one simultaneously be guilty of “malice murder” and “involuntary manslaughter”. As in: “I didn’t mean to hurt them, but the murder was malicious”
PS: what’s the deal with grape nuts?

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back to choking the chicken

Posted on March 29, 2007 - Filed Under

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A Half Moon Bay man who shot an ostrich to death after the flightless bird pummeled him and his friend when they trespassed on a coastal ranch was ordered released today after serving five months in jail for animal abuse.
Jonathon Porter, 20 — who prosecutors say killed for revenge after the bird humiliated him in [...]

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Bigger Landslide than Castro’s Election

Posted on February 27, 2007 - Filed Under

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Have you ever seen somebody cheat a MUNI fare?

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Lost & Found

Posted on January 23, 2007 - Filed Under

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The Gaurdian reports “The novellist Ian McEwan has discovered that a bricklayer is the older brother he never knew he had, following the man’s quest to uncover his roots.”, but the real juicy part is in the correction: “The novelist Ian McEwan was educated in a state school, not a private one”.

I give it [...]

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Jurisprudence in CA

Posted on December 20, 2006 - Filed Under

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According to Lafayette, California Police Chief Mike Fisher there are not victimless crimes: “You need a victim to have a crime.“

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Now taking bets on…

Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under

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… how long before Geraldo answers the call.

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I’m In Love With The Living And The Dead

Posted on November 16, 2006 - Filed Under

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Dave Eggers next book: How We Have Very Low Food Security?

George Bush’s next book: How I Might Have Killed Thousands of Iraqis?

The new Bond, Daniel Craig … a British Steve McQueen?

The Tom Green / Bill Clinton defense? Prosecution of a case involving alleged sexual contact with a dead deer may hinge on the legal definition [...]

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File under: No Shit, Sherlock

Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under

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In an article about the Nebraska state trooper, Robert Henderson, who was fired (and later reinstated) for being a member of the Ku Klux Klan:
According to a copy of Caffera’s ruling, the case had its origins in 2003, when Henderson’s wife left him for a Hispanic man. Henderson is white.

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Sophistry

Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under

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Americans! Don’t be drawn in by Daniel Radosh’s terrorist loving, children hating wordplay.
If somebody is selling liquid explosives at the airport newsstand, I would think the thing to do would be to make them stop, not to let people buy them as long as they don’t get on the plane. Or is the point that [...]

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I Must Be In The Front Row

Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under

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How bout another roundup…

One off my favorite times of year is the NBA draft. Not because I watch the draft, but because Bill Simmon’s draft diaries (from before liveblog was a “word”) are reliably awesome.
And that brings us to our featured attraction of the evening …
“THE KNICKS ARE ON THE CLOCK!”
ESPN wisely works the MSG [...]

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Loose in the ‘Cuse

Posted on June 13, 2006 - Filed Under

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It appears that sweat and blood make a workable lube in a pinch.

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Feelin’ Good in the Neighborhood

Posted on April 8, 2006 - Filed Under

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“The company that owns a Papillion Applebee’s restaurant has placed a number of employees on unpaid leave in connection with the possible methamphetamine poisoning of two sheriff’s deputies last month.”

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Chef Bogusardee?

Posted on April 6, 2006 - Filed Under

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Child porn may be the $20,000,000,000 industry, but “‘Italian-sounding’ products now rake in some six billion dollars in sales while the genuine articles only make about two billion dollars”.
So what is an “Italian-sounding” product? The article focuses mostly on fake sauces & cheeses with alliterative ire:
The USA is now churning out 1.7 million tonnes of [...]

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