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Living Under a Rock

With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet,

#FridayFive: Favorite Places in Maui

View the Friday Five from January 29th, 2010

Adventures with Microsoft Support

In which Microsoft has me running around in circles

I can’t stand when people say, “I could care less.”

“I could care less,” is one of those little things that drives me absolutely batshit crazy. If you could care less, it means you care. That’s not what you mean when you say that, is it? What you mean is that you don’t care. Someone posted this handy little graphic in a discussion forum and it really helps. (Click it to see!) Do you get it now?

Spenser: For Hire

On the death of my favorite author

All I ask of you is one thing: Please, do not be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O’Brien

#FridayFive: Natural Causes

View the Friday Five from January 22nd, 2010

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There’s also a negative side.”

#FridayFive: Favorite Things Containing Tomatoes

View the Friday Five from January 15th, 2010

Dangerous Mistakes

Winning is an all the time thing.

Posts from January 2010