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  • Need proteins… Sushi for dinner. #
  • @ComcastBill It's all good now. I got a call from the call center a few minutes ago too. I'll keep on monitoring. #
  • If you live in Texas and your parents are on your property, 'trespassing'… Can you shoot them? #

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  • Another firmware upgrade for my Samsung Blu-ray player. That was quick. #
  • @comcastcares Whatever you guys did; It worked. After rebooting the comcast router for the 10x times today, everything is back to normal. #
  • @RussB Russ, use ping.fm to update all of your statuses at once. That's what I do. #
  • @comcastcares Still getting harendous packet loss in Everett, WA. Been going on pretty much all day. #
  • My whole morning was spent dealing w/ a waterbed that bursted into the garage of the unit below. #
  • Pondering if I should finally crack down and get an iPhone. I guess we'll see what Shiller announces tomorrow. #

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  • She also mentioned that Walmart subcontracts phone sales. So when you buy a phone you sign a contract with both the carrier and subcontr … #
  • Interesting talk w/ the gal selling phones at Costco. They don't carry the iPhone because Apple releases new models too often and they b … #
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  • I just dropped my phone getting into the car. Slippery piece of sh… A few scratches on the back side. Nothing major. #

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The IRS

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At the end of the tax year the IRS sent an inspector to audit the books of a synagogue.

While he was checking the books, he turned to the Rabbi and said, 'I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?'

'Good question,' noted the Rabbi. 'We save them up and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles.'

'Oh,' replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way: 'What about all these matzo (bread) purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?'

'Ah, yes,' replied the Rabbi, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. 'We collect them and send back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send a free box of matzo balls.'

'I see,' replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi. 'Well, Rabbi,' he went on, 'What do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?'

'Here, too, we do not waste,' answered the Rabbi 'What we do is save up all the foreskins and send them to the Internal Revenue Service , and about once a year they send us a complete dick.'

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  • Twitter has so many great communicators and social media experts, at least according to their profiles. #
  • Why do most IQ tests include general knowledge questions? Memory and education have very little to do with intelligence, don't they? #

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  • My Zune is back to life. Maybe now I'll start actually using it… #
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