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Jury Duty

This week I had the priv­i­lege of serv­ing as a jury mem­ber. I took a small note­book with me and recorded my thoughts through both days, as time allowed1. Below you will find a copy of those notes I took to read or ignore as you choose. No real attempt has been made to make […]

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Funny Comment Spam

Even though I run mul­ti­ple plu­g­ins to block com­ment spam; some still makes it into my mod­er­a­tion queue. Mostly it’s annoy­ing and bor­ing, but this bit cracked me up. Your site is very cog­ni­tive. I think you will have good future. If you don’t also find this amus­ing, then I prob­a­bly just need more caf­feine this […]

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Update on the Nibble

Unlike the major­ity of Amer­cians, I did not head back to the office after the Memo­r­ial day week­end. Well, not back to my office any­ways. Instead, I whipped out my inter­view suit1 and went to a job inter­view. It was a really good thing that I left early to get there as I got slightly […]

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Are you a hoopy frood, like me?

If so, you bet­ter have your towel with you today! As today, is Towel Day. For those not famil­iar, Dou­glas Adams was one of the fun­ni­est writ­ers of our time. He wrote a won­der­ful series of radio plays which were con­verted in a a series of books and a TV show and later into a […]

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Finally a Nibble

I men­tioned a short while back that I’m back on the meat mar­ket look­ing for a new job. Well, today over lunch I got my first nib­ble. I’ll post more info some other time, but it felt really good to finally have some­body show some inter­est in me. Until today, the only other reply I’d […]

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