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Tobias Buckell’s short story ‘Her’, is on Escapeod this week. EscapePod is a great SF podcast which I enjoy listening to each week at work. To check it out head over to EscapePod.org

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For the past 3 weeks I have been without one of my game rentals from gamefly.com, which is a video game delivery service like netflix. My turnaround time has risen to roughly a week and a half from the time I drop my return in the mail until I get my new game. [...]

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Through Lifehacker I found this great link about how to keep a tidy desk.  It focuses heavily on a paper management system, something I do not have mastered yet.  Tommorow I plan to implement the paper management described on teh next page and really get into some GTD ideaology.  I hope to have time to [...]

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I spent the last 30 minutes trying to install AWstats on dreamhost with no luck. I don’t understand why dreamhost doesn’t offer this as a one click install. The “solution” they offer is the worst stats package I have seen. I am giving up for now.
Getting back into the shell takes me [...]

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Field and Stream has a 10 question quiz which will assess your preperation for spending time out in the wilderness in the winter.  According to the quiz I am not yet ready for a winter camp out without any prep.  Though I would like to think I could do better if I were dropped into [...]

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Sorry for the lack of random information and ranting over the past week.  I have started grad school officially in the sense that I have just completed my first paper.  This past week I hvae read Machiavelli’s The Prince and the Art of War by Sun Tzu, along with several other management related selections.  I [...]

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So this past week has been a blur of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Snakes on a Plane trailers and interviews.  My first foray into the Grad school curriculum began at orientation on Monday and will conclude with 20o pages of reading and a 2 page paper on Tuesday.  Thursday Snakes on a Plane with “Samuel [...]

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Last night I was on EBay hunting out Everclear Items and I found a nice blue promo vinyl LP which I thought would make a cool office decoration since I do not own a record player.  After looking over the description I did not easily notice the condition of said LP.  I emailed the user [...]

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Dana Jongewaard, the editor of OPM has decided to purchase an Xbox 360.  You can check out the decision making process on her blog at 1up. Basically it boils down to the PS3 having a high price point and not having any killer apps or even large name titles dropping near launch.  She also notes [...]

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If you have 13 minutes to spare then head over to Youtube to check out the awesome new short film from Steven Leslie Johnson starring Steven Leslie Johnson, Art Alexakis, and Daria O’Neill. The film is an excellent and the ending is especially great.  Even if you don’t have 13 minutes make time and go [...]

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