Tag: country

Your new society sounds charming

20 January, 2012 (12:00) | Memorable Quotes

“The beginning of any society is never charming or gentle.” -Ruth in The Last Man on Earth

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Hall’s Rule of Social Order #208

7 November, 2011 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Eagle Scouts are among the best men you’ll ever meet. I’m just saying, an Eagle Scout would be the first boy to get approval to date my daughter.

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In Soviet Russia, Vodka drinks you!

29 September, 2011 (12:00) | Geeked Out

This one will be a story, within a story…where’s Christopher Nolan when you need him? I wanted to make some martini one night, and I didn’t have any vodka.  Deirdre and Jordan were out and planning on coming over later, so I asked them to swing by the state store to pick up some vodka […]

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Globes and maps I see surround you here

19 August, 2011 (12:00) | Thoughts & Ideas

Have you ever looked at states with straight border lines and wondered why they were straight and how true those straight lines were?  I have.  I want to play with those straight lines. I want to buy property right on the line in one state, then buy the adjoining property in the other state and […]

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Winter

10 February, 2011 (12:00) | Wax Poetic

White fields where three white-tailed deer trot, And the snow covered branches of 2 trees that used to hold a cot. How can so much liveliness cease to make a sound? How can the snow flake silently touch the ground? The country house door flies open as 2 bundles of youthful life run out. With […]

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30 by 30

15 November, 2010 (12:00) |

By my 30th birthday, Friday, November 16th, 2012, I’d like to accomplish a few things.  I got the idea to come up with the list from my friend, Ben, but I’m not ambitious enough to list 100 things in 1000 days.  I was thinking about just doing “24 things in 24 months” but that makes […]

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