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October is over. Wow it went fast. As my co-worker said, "If I had a birthday in October I would feel cheated."
It did go fast.

A goofy little film I made about my obsession with Chris Martin. Check it out here.

Woke up to a rainy, overcast day. Went to the dentist. I love the dentist.
Got colder as the day went on.

Official Google Blog: About Google.org

Blogger Buzz: Blogging in the Early Republic: "Blogging in the Early Republic

Indeed, blogging demonstrates the persistence of a key truth in the history of reading … that readers, in a culture of abundant reading material, regularly seek out other readers, either by becoming writers themselves or by sharing their records of reading with others.

There have been a ton of comparisons made between bloggers and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, but an article from Common-Place.org argues that the better historical anology is to “journalizing,” a practice of journal writing and sharing that developed after the proliferation of newspapers in antebellum America.

Surrounded by ephemeral print, many began to make references in their journals to what they had been reading—the rough equivalent of what bloggers do by linking to a Web page. During the Revolution, for instance, Christopher Marshall, a Philadelphian radical and friend of Thomas Paine, peppered his journal with references to the papers, often with brief comments on the news.

In other words, we don’t all have the audience of a Thomas Paine or George Orwell, but we may still use our blogs to, like Christopher Marshall or reformer Henry Clarke Wright, “mix quotidian reflections about life together with records of [our] reading.”"

Click here to see why, and promote awareness.

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
- Philip K. Dick"

...my mom.Note: what my mom and dad are holding are Yoplait yogurt lids that have been collected. Read why here and join the fight.

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I am in no way attempting to begin a "political" discussion, just thought this was well written:

H a w s p i p e: Thoughts from the focsle: "Mission Statement:
So long as there shall exist, by reason of stupidity or naivete, a leftist condemnation, which, in the face of critical thought, irrationally propagates blame and vilifies a benevolent nation with sanctimonious commentary; so long as the three problems of the age - the degradation of morality by Chomsky, the ruin of patriotism by Sontag and the dwarfing of intellect by Michael Moore and Berkeley, California - are not solved; so long as, in certain circles, political asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as The New York Times and The Guardian remain online, blogs like this cannot be useless."

TV Turnoff Network: "TV-Turnoff Network encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities."

"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
- Stephen Leacock"