Posts Tagged ‘reading’

Reading List

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Quickie

If you hop over to my library page, you’ll notice my read­ing list has grown con­sid­er­ably. That’s because I just added in all the books we bought at the annual book sale held by our local pub­lic library. There’s far too many for me to fin­ish them all this year, but I hope […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 2, 2007

What’s your Circus Peanuts?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Humor, Life

Some time ago, I was hav­ing a dis­cus­sion with a friend where it came up that I like those nasty, orange can­dies known as cir­cus peanuts.  I don’t really under­stand why I like them myself; I just do.  Since then, I’ve used the term “cir­cus peanuts” in my head as men­tal short­hand for any­thing that […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 28, 2007

Bigots and Marriage

Posted by Mark | Filed under Politics, Rants

I had been con­sid­er­ing right­ing up my feel­ing regard­ing this insane pro­posal to amend the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion to steal the rights of a sub­set of Amer­i­can cit­i­zens. How­ever I was catch­ing up on the news in the blog­sphere when I stum­bled upon Mr. Scalzi’s dis­cus­sion of the sub­ject:
Why aren’t peo­ple ask­ing the mar­riage bigots […]

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Read more | Comments (9) | Jun 6, 2006

Yeeouch

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Over the week­end, Ariesna and I went to the CPL to check out their lat­est book sale. She got a bit ahead of me look­ing around as I was car­ry­ing out picks. I was about to move to the next room to catch up to her when it hap­pened. Sud­denly I felt […]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Mar 7, 2006

Cellphones suck!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Rants

I con­fess. I’m a technophile. I like read­ing about new tech­nolo­gies and gad­gets. Even bet­ter, I like own­ing new tech­nolo­gies and gad­gets. And yet, I don’t have a cell­phone of my own. I bought one for my wife but that was only because she was doing a lot of driving […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 18, 2005

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