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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I heard they were naked when they got busted

Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under

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Bob Holmes at New Scientist reports:
Fruit flies have free will. Even when deprived of any sensory input to react to, the zigs and zags of their flight reveal an intrinsic, non-random - yet still unpredictable - decision-making capacity.
If evolution has furnished humans with a similar capacity, this could help resolve one of the long-standing puzzles [...]

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It’s Just A Shot Away

Posted on November 14, 2006 - Filed Under

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Escaped from the office for a spell the rainy last weekend and saw 4, count’ em f-o-u-r, movies.  Here is what I learned.

Departed–Scorcese apparently is a Gimme Shelter fetishist
Borat–drunk frat boys don’t have a case
200 Cigarettes–If you wait till the end of the credits, Dave Chappelle instructs: “If you only remember one thing I’ve said [...]

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Lorem Ipsum Christ-em

Posted on June 16, 2006 - Filed Under

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It looks like the big wheels are turning to reword some prayers, chants and such for US Catholic masses. For example, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you” becomes “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof”, to which The Almighty responds, “Do you wanna take this outside?”. Whatever, it’s [...]

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My relationship in a nutshell…

Posted on January 26, 2006 - Filed Under

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“Expressed loosely,” he writes, “being smart makes women patient and makes men take more risks.”

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Let My Blog Open The Door To Your Sartre

Posted on January 12, 2006 - Filed Under

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On the surface this is nothing more than a typcial geek howto with instructions to make a lock-picker with a vibrating flosser. With little (no) digging, we are also treated to some tossed off pyschological & philosophical jems. For example: “…there is a decade or more of heated debates on the topic of humanity and [...]

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The Moment of Truth

Posted on November 17, 2005 - Filed Under

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One of the reasons I got a Costco membership was their reputedly generous return policy. Now, my digital camera just went belly up (approximately 2 weeks after the 1-year manufacturer’s warranty expired). So this weekend, I’ll see if I they walk the refunding walk. On the one hand I am confident (I’ve seen people returning [...]

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George Michael, Ted Leo, Leonard Cohen, Flavor Flav, KRS-ONE, Jose Lima and Mark Twain

Posted on September 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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Faith, Hype, Belief on today’s BMK roundtable. Now, we hand it over to our experts…
GM: You gotta have faithTL: It’s not in your faith or your apostasyLC: I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch FF: They must be on the pipe right?KRS: cause the crack cost moneyJL. Believe It!

Uh…and Mark Twain has a story [...]

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