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Monday, March 08, 2010 12:30 AM

Whips

Some day when I’m old, one of my grandkids is going to ask me what I drove when I was younger before hovercars were invented. How that kid got past the armed guards protecting the Intergalactic Ruler’s Office is beyond me, but I should probably have an...
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Monday, March 01, 2010 12:30 AM

Friday Fun

One of the devs on our team, James , drinks a lot of Talking Rain . (Talking Rain is carbonated fruit flavored water and Microsofties drink gobs of it.) He has been building a pyramid of the cans but it got fairly unstable and people were knocking it...
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Friday, February 26, 2010 12:30 AM

With This Ring

We have a lot of employees at Microsoft who were not born in the United States. If I had to guess, I’d probably say about 15-20% were born in America. This means I get exposed to a lot of traditions from other cultures. One that I’ve noticed is that some...
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Friday, February 19, 2010 12:30 AM

Credit Card Fraud

A couple weeks ago, my phone rang with a number that wasn’t in my contacts list. I generally don’t answer, but for some reason, this time I did. It was the fraud department at from Chase, the company that runs my Sony Visa credit card. As soon as I get...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:30 AM

Olympic Thoughts

I watched a lot of the Olympics over the weekend. Here are a few things that ran through my head: Opening ceremony? BORING. They need to jazz up the parade of nations. If you watch an hour of NBC’s coverage, you’re lucky to see 10 minutes of actual competition...
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Monday, February 15, 2010 12:30 AM

Valentine’s Day

This probably sounds unromantic, but I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. I’m all for picking out special days of the year to do something extra special, but why do we all have to pick the same day? This year I avoided all the hassle of trying to find...
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Friday, February 12, 2010 12:30 AM

Two Months

This week marked the two month milestone to the wedding, and it’s a short two months. 56 days from today we’ll be getting married! Things continue to progress well. In the past couple weeks we have locked in our last major contracts: the cake and the...
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Friday, February 05, 2010 12:30 AM

Engagement Photos

Last weekend, the weather cooperated (no rain) enough for us to have our engagement photo session. This is an opportunity for us to get to know our wedding photographer a bit better and have a test run in hopes of removing a little stress from the wedding...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:30 AM

Horrible Chili

I love chili. I have a fantastic chili recipe that I’m quite proud of. Did you know it’s ok to end a sentence with a preposition ? Anyway, Tyla doesn’t like beans. Since we will be cohabitating in fewer than three months, this presents a problem to my...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:30 AM

Facebook Quizzes

Some of you love the Facebook quizzes. I hate them. It got so annoying at one point that I stopped logging into Facebook regularly because, while I want to see what’s going on in your life, I don’t care which South American drug dealer most resembles...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010 12:30 AM

Washington School Failure

I’ve never paid much attention to school districts or the quality of local education, but now that I’ll have a wedding band on my finger, it’s starting to concern me. I’m not educated enough on the topic yet, but I do get a glimpse of it from Cliff Mass...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:30 AM

2009 Year In Review

I prepared to write this post by looking back through the photos I’ve taken and reading last year’s Year in Review post. The mere fact that Tyla appears prominently in it should have been a big clue to anyone who has followed my blog that this was something...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:17 PM

Red Stag by Jim Beam

Jim Beam recently sent me a 750ml bottle of their “ Red Stag by Jim Beam ” product. It’s a new black cherry bourbon. The rumor is that it was developed as a private drink at the distillery, but it was so good that they made it into a product. I received...
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Friday, December 25, 2009 12:30 AM

Merry Christmas

Luke 2 The Birth of Jesus In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:30 AM

I’m Bringing Sexy Back

I’ve always been curious about the bow tie. How do you actually tie one? What’s it like to wear one somewhere other than a wedding? One of my favorite Purdue professors, Gene “Spaf” Spafford , was a big proponent of the bow tie. I don’t remember ever...
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