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I’m waiting for the next piece of bad news.

Written on 23 Jun, 2008 at 10:21 in General Nerdom | viewed times | 7 Comments

Today started out well enough. I’m only working through Thursday this week as Friday starts a 10 day vacation, so I was in reasonably good spirits this morning until… I heard on the radio that George Carlin had died. For a... (Continue reading)

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Of Interest to Me…and Jezmon…and APril…and Ms. Love…and others

Written on 22 May, 2008 at 11:34 in General Nerdom | viewed times | 6 Comments

We knew this was coming. And by “we” I mean, me. I knew it was coming because, honestly, this country just doesn’t read enough to support TWO national book retailer chains. I doubt, honestly, that in this... (Continue reading)

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I will now share my epic failure with all of you.

Written on 28 Apr, 2008 at 8:56 in General Nerdom | viewed times | 28 Comments

Longtime (well, not so long…) Normalinauts are aware of my second job, and what a wonderful job it is. And even though I’ve come to oddly enjoy the routine anal cavity searches, after seven years, I’m finding less and... (Continue reading)

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I have found my personal Mecca - Selexyz Dominicanen

Written on 9 Apr, 2008 at 13:03 in General Nerdom | viewed times | 11 Comments

Selexyz Dominicanen is the name of a bookstore in Holland that was created out of the dormant husk of a 13th century Dominican Church. Behold! Truly I must voyage there and pay homage to the gods of the written word... (Continue reading)

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