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Three ideas for someone to steal

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:29
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Three ideas for someone to steal

Sometimes I cook up ideas to make the world better. Rather than go nuts trying to come up with the money, expertise, and time to execute them and thereby become wealthy enough to hire a house cleaner, I usually just keep them to myself. These ideas rot away in my memory and disappear. How selfish! (Even if, as I suspect, the ideas usually suck.) Now that we are firmly ensconced in the era of share everything, I will do my best to spread these half-assed ideas to the rest of the planet via blogging and tweeting and social networking and human interface 2.0ing. Enjoy.

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How my crazy poodle has taught me to be more assertive

Thursday, 11 March 2010 09:34
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How my crazy poodle has taught me to be more assertive

Cricket is certifiably insane. I have expert confirmation of this fact. Sometimes, when she attacks and bites people or works herself into an aggressive tizzy, it isn’t funny in the least. But when she is under control, as she more or less has been for the past few months, her eccentricities can be amusing, even instructive.

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Jude the Obscure
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Alice in Wonderland
Or, as the script would have it titled, Um in Underland. Now, I’m a Tim Burton apologist, so I’m inclined to forgive this movie for many faults, but… More

The Invention of Lying
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Sonnet Winery, Santa Cruz Mountains Muns Vineyard

SonnetShall I compare wine to a summer’s day? Perhaps not, but this especially clean pinot, with a strong cherry note that isn’t bogged down by tannins yet still packs a punch with 14.5 percent alcohol content, drinks well for a long time, lending itself to the extra daylight hours of a long summer’s picnic.

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2010 MLB Predictions (NL edition)
Enough with the Silly League. What’s going to happen in the Real Baseball League this year? (That’s right, where pitchers hit and hitters … also hit.) One thing I’m always annoyed by with preseason rankings is how they invariably follow the previous year’s order. Basically, baseball experts usually expect this year to look like last year. I’m not immune to that, but I think the NL will show more turnover than the AL this year. Also annoying? How they took Opening Day away from the Reds. I remember growing up what a big deal was made out of the fact that the Cincinnati Reds were the oldest and most venerable of all franchises, and thus deserved to have their game start before anyone else’s in the afternoon. Then ESPN moved it to the evening on Sunday. Then they decided the Yankees and Red Sox were more venerable. Gag me. The Yankees used to play in Baltimore. The Reds veritably invented professional baseball. This AL bias is killing me. Anyway, onward: More
Craig Ferguson has balls
CBS, in its infinite lack of wisdom, has yet to post official links to Craig Ferguson’s extraordinary experiment in televised intelligence on Tuesday night, in which he gave over his entire one-hour program to an audience-free conversation with Stephen Fry. Here’s the official excerpt: More