Author: cenobyte
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Look up. Look waaaay up.
I’m getting pretty tired of everyone talking about a domed stadium. We have a stadium that’s perfectly serviceable, provided it gets some work done on it. Spend $40 million on the stadium we *have*. Put heated, vibrating seats in there for that matter. We don’t need a new stadium. It’s kind of like how I’ve…
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Stupid animals
If you can’t afford to buy or grow food for your family, what the hell makes you think you can afford a pet? Or, worse yet, pets? I’m all for companionship and saving animals from the CERTAIN DOOM of euthanasia, but give your head a shake. What, did you think that dog would survive on…
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That book again?
It occurred to me halfway through the writing of this post that there’s no way I could possibly review every book I’ve read since October of 2009. Here are a handful of reviews from the last month or so.
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With a side of gravy
Several years ago now, I was at a restaurant trendy with the University crowd I was peripherally involved with, and, as usual, could not finish my meal. One of the guests in our party said, ‘you’ll take that home, yes?”. I stared at him with an odd expression and said, “I hadn’t thought of it,…
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Missing You
I have three cousins. Yes, just three. Well, I have plenty of second-cousins-once-removed and such, but my father is an only child, and my mother had only one brother and one sister. Three of my grandmother’s siblings had no children, and the other two had only two each, but my grandfather and my grandparents on…
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Sensitivity Training
Every year, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in elementary, middle, and high schools, for specialists to try to teach children to be better humans. School is more than just learning your multiplication tables and parts of speech (and sometimes, unfortunately, it is much less than either of those). It’s a place where you…