Month: September 2008

  • Clipart!

    Clipart! Wow, that’s good stuff. Bookmarking for possible future crafting projects.

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  • At the Bottom of the Garden

    “At the Bottom of the Garden.” Very creepy little short story I stumbled across on MeFi today…

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  • Congrats Julie!

    Congratulations to Julie and her Boy who finally got hitched this weekend! (I was grumpy that I had to go to the DMV in the rain; I can’t imagine maintaining my composure if I was supposed to get married in it. That girl must have super-human patience…)

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  • I prefer coffee.

    I prefer coffee. HA! (Link courtesy of Bex.)

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  • RunningBlog

    Well, that last post pretty much speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Here are the official numbers… Week 9 distance: 21.65mi (34.7km)Week 10 distance: 11mi (18km)Week 11 distance: 26mi (42km) So I had about a 20% increase from my last long-distance week, which is exactly what I was supposed to have. I feel surprisingly good today.…

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  • Going the Distance

    She’s going the distance…According to my training schedule, I’m meant to do a 15-mile run today. That’s 24km. That’s two miles farther than the actual half-marathon. I was debating pushing it back a week just to give my quad injury a little extra time to heal… but it’s been feeling good, and I plan on…

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  • Fact Checking

    The Associated Press dissects some of the lies that were told at the Republican National Convention yesterday. I can respect idealogical differences. I don’t respect lying.

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  • Blogs and PR

    Leveraging the power of the “Bloggosphere”…Okay, how do we feel about PR companies targeting blogs? I’ve been approached by a couple PR people in the past few months, and I’m feeling rather conflicted about it. Here, I’ll describe the two cases so you can see what I mean: Small PR company promoting local independent musician’s…

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  • Palin and Book Banning

    More goodness from McCain’s VP pick: “[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary…

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  • Cream Cheese Penguins

    Cream Cheese Penguins. SO CUTE. And the idea of pairing them with a cheeseball igloo is just brilliant.

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