Twitter

Twits du Jour

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My prolix tweets for April 10, 2009

My order of…
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News

Automaker Bailout Plan

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The current automaker bailout plan saga is reminding me of this tongue-in-cheek joke I posted back in July. Even more on point today. A Japanese company (Toy…

Feeling a deeper study was in order,…
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Personal

Gold Class Cinemas: Premium Cinema Experience

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For my birthday I was given a gift certificate to the Village Roadshow Gold Class Cinemas in Redmond Town Center. Yesterday, we went and saw Quantum of Solac…

We had called earlier and they had told us some show times where already sold out, or almost full, so we were there a bit early. We were seated in the lobby, and given menus so that we could order food…
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Humour

An American Story...

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A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach th…

Feeling a deeper study was in order,…
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Hardware

New Laptop

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I just ordered a Sony VAIO VGN-SZ680. Configured as follows: No Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network Wireless LAN (802.11a/b/g/n) Microsoft Windows Vista Bu…

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News

Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

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I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign pol…

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303…
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Personal

One Hell of a Commute!

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We ate at P.F. Chang's in Bellevue yesterday afternoon to celebrate Vicki's niece Birthday. The drive down was uneventful. 20 minutes or so. Same as usual. I…

As we slowly crawled closer to the bottleneck, we saw dozens of cars stranded on the side of the road. It looks like someone decided to close the freeway in order to…
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