Monthly Archives: May 2006

New Story

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Two Weeks into the Lost Experience

Well, we’re into this thing pretty good now. A good link for figuring out where we are now in terms of the game/annoying puzzles/product placements/fake people/ etc: Lost Experience: The Game So Far. Yes, it’s from Belo, that newspaper corporation. … Continue reading

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Wacky News for You

Four years ago, Paul McCartney of the rock band “Wings” took as his second wife the prettiest wooden-legged woman in the world. However, as we all know, the pretty ones always break your heart. They are separating after 4 years … Continue reading

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One Last Thing on NBA Officiating:

After watching the Clippers and Suns try to out-fail each other at the end of the game last night, I was struck by how much worse the officiating was in that game than in the much-maligned game 4 of Mavs-Spurs. … Continue reading

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Sports Opinions so Hot they Boil Steel

Some HSO’s (hot sports opinions) I thought of while at the Mavs-Spurs game last night: Bruce Bowen is an affront to not just basketball, but all sports. No sport allows you to do what Mr. Bowen does — constant clutching, … Continue reading

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Thanks For Your Eyeballs

This is Epth Nation averaged 31 visitors a day last week, making this, as VH1 would say, the “Best Week Ever.” Thank you all. Clearly, I need to to more stuff about Ubuntu. Just kidding. Seriously, thanks. Now on to … Continue reading

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I Have Seen the Future, and its Name is Ubuntu

To answer everyone’s questions: Yes, I have installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop. Yes, it’s awesome. Yes, I’ve been playing with it so much my marriage is being threatened. Yes, I’m writing this big thing about it as well as … Continue reading

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The LOST Experience: One Big Sprite Commercial?

It’s bad enough we all have to buy the book Bad Twin to see what it has to say about the Hanso Foundation, now we have to deal with this Sprite crap, too? A link at the in-game Hanso Foundation … Continue reading

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Papa John’s Garbage Can Wars, Part II

In this post, about halfway down, I told the story of Man Bob Bill and his quixotic fight against having a garbage can in front of our Papa John’s outlet. His claim was that it makes Papa John’s “look trashy,” … Continue reading

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15 Minutes of TV This Morning

I was asked to do somebody else’s job again this morning, watching “the cage” as a salesperson counted the laptops inside (because nobody can be trusted in there by themselves, with all that tempting shiny technology around). It took about … Continue reading

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