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My good friend Chris prodded me to update my blog again. Here I go.Mrs. Pickle and I are settling into our suburban jar. I've been busy painting every paintable surface and, or course, try to grow some grass on the mud pit we inherited from the previous owner. My elementary school did not assign traditional letter-type grades. Instead, we were evaluated using hippie criteria like "Excellent"

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This guy is out of control.

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A Leroy Anderson classic played in gastrointestinal form. Other hits include the the Hawaii Five-O theme and Hail to the Chief.

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This must have shocked the kids.

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Being catapulted rapidly into adulthood, I could not resist this product for the future gherkin.

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The best part of this video is the head crossing. Oh, and the dude doing his chemistry homework in the back.

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Finally.

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I must have spent an hour reading fake Japanese subtitles this afternoon when I was supposed to be working. This site is addictive. Maybe I'll abandon my dream of writing captions to New Yorker cartoons and just make some of these instead.

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From the Tech Law Advisor, this is a a coloring book for lawyers. Props to SB for bringing this to my attention.

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A recent post about the concept of "tribute" bands in On the Overgrown Path, one of my regular stops in my blog-reading rotation, cites to a recent article in The Guardian by Meurig Bowen:who, although he keeps it a secret in the Guardian article actually manages a world famous Benjamin Britten tribute band himself - the Aldeburgh Festival. I thought that was pretty funny.The article itself is

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IntroductionMost classical music fans have massive CD libraries and want to fully take advantage of music management software. Without a consistent labeling system, it's impossible to find music quickly and accurately. Based on trial and error, I've developed the following "best practices" for my collection of 1000 + CDs. I've converted my entire music collection as Apple Lossless files,

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A list of the best Web 2.0 apps. Wow, am I actually excited about the internet again?

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Backpack really is a cool application. I even upgraded to the $9/month version, which allows you more uploads and more lists. It's flexible enough to implement GTD (your own version), but sophisticated enough to be usable as-is. I even included an Oblique Strategy in an iframe which refreshes on each load to my main page.

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In my constant struggle to deal with information overload in my personal and work life, I've recently adopted an old school, lo-fi solution to organizing stuff. I maintain a notebook with tabs for "projects," "to-do", and "waiting for." The big problem with this system is that I carry around three notebooks at a time - I have a planner, a calendar, and a reference book. The plus-side is that

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Skype is better than Google Talk.

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Yahoo widgets are one step closer to making Windows work like MAC OS. The coolest thing I've come across in a long time.

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Note the "ominous blood" font.

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I recently sold my 60GB iPod photo. High frequencies sounded distorted on a recording of Bach piano music I was listening to, as well as some choral music. I encode all of my CDs as Apple Lossless. I had a 20GB iPod and bought the iPod 60 GB photo because I needed a little more room. As soon as I noticed that my 60GB photo was experiencing this slight distortion, I found out other users had

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I used to be a "web developer" during the internet boom. I only wore black turtlenecks. I used the phrase "paradigm shift" with my grandmother. I checked out k10k every day. I was so hip and on top of my game. Then, I quit because I was bored and I kind of sucked at programming.Anyway, for old time's sake, I was just reading some articles about what's going on with internet development these

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The New York Times ran a great summary about the problems inherent in multitasking, interruptions, organizing information overload, and GTD:Many of O'Brien's correspondents, it turned out, were also devotees of "Getting Things Done," a system developed by David Allen, a personal-productivity guru who consults with Fortune 500 corporations and whose seminars fill Silicon Valley auditoriums with

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In the nostalgic spirit of Cookie Puss, my friend and mentor Mr. Snapping Turtle, a/k/a/ N. Otis Peice recently reminded me of a Web classic which circulated around the office during my last year of my miserable tenure as a web developer. Leave it to Wikipedia to strip the phenomenon of its mystery and glory.Remember the genius here...

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I recently found myself channeling the voice of Cookie Puss while having a conversation with my little sister. Cookie Puss was a seminal part of my tortured childhood. I had not fully appreciated the grisly ramifications of consuming Cookie Puss until I saw the image below:

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Leave it to The Smoking Gun to parse through a pile of boring correspondence and pick out the damning and funny bits. The Bush-Miers letters were released this week by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission...

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