A Shoutout To My Peeps

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With Easter approaching, it’s time to celebrate Peeps and their fans.  Specifically, the history of rock & roll as performed by Peeps Here are some Peeps re-enacting the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly (aka "the day the music died"): Flash forward to 1967, and the album cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Peeper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band: And who can forget … Read More

Dinner In The Sky

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When I went to Belgium, I thought it was nice.  But something was missing. Yup.  Nowhere in that entire country was there a place for 22 people to enjoy dinner while sitting at a table suspended high over the world below. Thank God they’ve fixed that.

Twitter

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I have to confess — I never really understood Twitter. For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is a website — one growing in popularity — that allows users (no fee, it’s free to join) to post what they are doing right now.  This isn’t like a blog, where the user might write lengthy posts about what they’re doing … Read More

Slammed!

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Ugh.  Too many pots in the fire.  Or cooks in the broth.  Or fans fanning the flames.  Or something. In any event, there’s a lot of craziness with my job at the moment.  Higher-ups and colleagues are out of the country, which basically means I have keys to the car this week, which basically means that I’m overseeing 25 attorneys … Read More

Nerd Alert!

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Today — 3/14 — is Pi Day.  (And if you can’t figure out why 3/14 is Pi Day, then you’re not the slightest bit nerdy). Official Pi Day website here. USA Today offers several things you can do to celebrate: Here’s what we found when we searched for things you can do to celebrate Pi Day:• Watch the Pi Song … Read More

More Spam Subject Line Poetry

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The rules: You must use the subject line — the entire subject line and only the subject line — from your spam emails. No more than one subject line per line of the poem (but a long subject line can be broken into two or more lines within the poem) Punctuation and capitalization changes can be made. This installment’s poem: … Read More

PostSecret – Blog Of The Year

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The winners 2007 Bloggies have just been announced and it’s all very interesting.  The Blog of The Year is a site I’ve mentioned before: PostSecret. PostSecret is an ad-free community weblog in which anybody, even you, can send in your anonymous secrets by postcard (or, in these days, electronic postcard).  The site has proven so popular, it has inspired a … Read More

Time To Make The Donut (Jokes)

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[Note: Apologies in advance to those who may be offended, but this is rather amusing] A few weeks ago, many news outlets across the country reported a fluff news story about Krispy Kreme’s new offering: a wheat donut. The NBC affiliate in Augusta, Georgia was among those covering the Krispy Kreme wheat donut story.  To find a suitable image to … Read More

Epidemic Of British 8-Year-Olds Burning Holes In Their PJs?

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British universities going over candidates’ application starting sensing something strange.  It seems that a lot of applicants mentioned "burning a hole in pajamas at age eight" in the personal statement portion of their applications. What could account for such a bizarre concurrence of incidents? Elementary.  They’re all plagiarizing their applications from the Internet.