Month: March, 2010

Top 10 geek songs

16 March, 2010 (12:00) | Top 10

The list comes from CNN, but I went ahead and got the youtube links for each track. “She Blinded Me With Science,” Thomas Dolby “Dare to Be Stupid,” Weird Al Yankovic – Of course Weird all has to be there.  I’d actually put something like “All about the Pentiums” or “White & Nerdy” on the […]

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Hey, remember me?

15 March, 2010 (22:01) | Personal Update

It’s been a while since I posted a personal update.  Things in married life go well.  New job goes well.  Thinking about going back to school in the fall.  That might be the level of detail you get in the updates going forward…not really sure.  I don’t really want to write about my life with […]

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Hall’s Rules of Social Order #293

15 March, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Anything taken too seriously is stupid.  Take Star Wars for example.  While it does have redeeming qualities, it’s still taken way to seriously.  If there is a made up language, it’s taken way too seriously.  Hear that, James Cameron?

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Sitting with the dog

10 March, 2010 (15:46) | Memorable Quotes

“Approach tough problems like a dog  – If you can’t hump it or eat it, pee on it and walk away.” – Unknown

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Hall’s Rules of Social Order #176

8 March, 2010 (12:44) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

When you’re engaged in a group discussion, and someone makes an allusion to a person whose name you don’t recognize – assume it’s a football player.  The accuracy of this assumption can be increased when you hone in on context clues like the gender of the reference, the male ratio of the discussers, as well […]

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