Category: Misc
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Harry Potter’s Car has been stolen
The “Flying” Ford Anglia from the Harry Potter movies has been stolen off of the studio lot. Here is the article : Reuters BTW, Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire opens on 11/18.
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Insomnia strikes
It’s about 1:30am. I should be in bed but I’m not. We are officially at 34 days until the Wedding. Here are some useful tips for grooms out there : 1. Come to terms with the fact that weddings are expensive. 2. Freaking out about wedding expenses will not make them inexpensive (but it may…
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Good thing, Bad thing
Sometimes planning a wedding can be stressful so today : Good Thing : I surprised my fiance by finding tickets to take her to go see Wicked – The Musical! Bad Thing : She is leaving town a few hours before the show is scheduled to start for buisiness and the tickets are not refundable.…
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Buy one game, get one free
According to slickdeals.net, Amazon / Toys R Us has a buy 1 get 1 free coupon for Hasbro, Milton Bradley, and Parker Brothers games. Here is the link : http://www.slickdeals.net/#p6593
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Sold out to the man!
I added Google Adsense to this blog (and its rss feed) today. If it is annoying, troublesome, etc. Please comment here. Thanks! -The guy who sold out
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This product really sucks
But in this case that is a good thing. My vacuum has given up the ghost, thrown in the towel, etc, etc. So I went to amazon to start looking for a new one and found the Dyson DC07 which is a refurb model but is also $300 less than the “new” model. Since all…
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Konnichiwa
Well I made it to Tokyo! It’s huge. There are skyscrapers as far as the eye can see. (Similar to New York City, in theory, but it has a completely different feel) So far not too much culture shock other than the several hours of sumo wrestling on TV and the inadvertent bowing contest I…
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I want one
I want to hook my DVD player up to this.
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How to get hired, or at the very least, how to get me to take a 2nd look at your resume
I was taking a look at some resumes this week and I was taken aback at the state of most of resumes that were submitted. So here are some basic rules for anyone who cares to listen : 1. Use spell check. 2. Use punctuation, at the very least use an occasional sentence and end…
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A Star Wars Diversion
Why don’t you try this little game and let me know if you find it a little disturbing.
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A very weird one
I had an extremely weird dream last night. It did have a neat setting setting: Victorian England. And did seem to have a pretty good “soundtrack” a la Gladiator. But a few words of advice to those of you out there : – Don’t extensively read CNN before going to bed. – Don’t watch German…
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everybody!!! It was a white christmas .. in Houston, which hasn’t happenned since 1986. A good time was had by all.
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We’ve got approval
My future mother-in-law has decided that she really likes the idea of a Rome wedding. So the we’re eloping and you are welcome to come along with us idea now has wings.
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We’ve lost our minds …
Well unless my fiance get talked out of it by her mom during negotiations at Christmas, it looks like we may be doing a “we’re eloping to rome but you are welcome to come along” wedding during Thanksgiving week. Tickets (~$350) and hotels should be dirt cheap since it is the off season and the…
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My current mantra
Meet the wednesday deadline … Sleep later… Oooh! Shiny! err… Meet the Wednesday deadline …. …
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Domestic Cheese Trays
Well the quest for the wedding locations/date has begun although still a little half-heartedly (after christmas the real fun will begin). So far 3 cities are in the running Dallas, New Orleans, and Miami. We have shot down the destination wedding at this point just so we don’t unitentionally stop anyone from coming due to…