Monthly Archives: August 2008

26 Years. 26 Bad Teams. The Real Redeem Team?

ALERT: If the Brewers make the playoffs this year and the Yankees don’t, I will officially get “back into” baseball per our (mine and mlb’s) agreement.  It might be fun to be following baseball again, even though it’s a totally … Continue reading

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Exiled: MTV Finds a New Way to Appease the Masses

MTV constantly reminds us of how much they loathe their core teenage audience, and the little buggers are too stupid to get it. Hopefully, they’ll subject us to more cynically inane “Vote or Die” campaigns in the coming weeks, like … Continue reading

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Several Quick Hits Before the Real Fun Starts

If you know me, you know that I’ll just let this thing slide like Jim Gantner if I’m not careful.  This past week, I was placed in a hypersealed box by the good folks at GM, and not allowed to … Continue reading

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Dublin Dr. Pepper

You hear that sound? That’s Flock of Seagulls playing “I ran.” It’s going though my head because Russia is playing Iran in Olympic Internet Basketball right now. Things aren’t going very well for this charter member of the Axis of … Continue reading

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ODing on The Chinese Olympiad

When Darius Unternet invented the internet, this is the sort of thing he envisioned: Thanks to NBC.com and sanity, we can now watch live (and taped) coverage of tons of Olympic events online whenever we want. The Olympics is a … Continue reading

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I Told You IT Was Coming

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And It Shall Be a Sign Unto Me

…Word 2007 for some reason posted with all of its formatting data intact at the top of the post.  If that’s not a harbinger of the computer apocalypse, I’m a green bean. Soon.

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This Post is a Voice Crying Out in the Internet

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Plenty of Things to Do in Coppell and Valley Ranch

The areas of Coppell and Valley Ranch (which is technically part of Irving, but would rather you not know that), are a pair of sleepy areas northwest of Dallas and northeast of Fort Worth.  There are a myriad of activities … Continue reading

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