We looked at 14 houses and townhouses tonight, trying to find ones that weren't shitty, but were within the meager budget our loan lady set for us. Four were in the same complex that Strongmad's girlfriend used to live in, back before she quit her job, moved in, and became his personal love slave.

One of the four was $70,000 cheaper than its neighbor,...
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Good: At a bar in MGM Studios, the Ambassador of Epcot bought us free drinks. That was really cool.

Bad: We sat down at an upscale sushi restaurant in Epcot and immediately smelled old urine wafting around. It wasn't possible to tune it out, that's how bad it was. Thirty minutes later (after finishing their dinner), the mom at the table behind us bellowed, "Oh...
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For all the artistic people in the audience, check out ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com. It's a meeting house for programmers, designers, writers and entrepreneurs who want to contract work with each other.

If you're thinking about doing this kind of thing on the side, now's a great time to get yourself insinuated into the site. It's just a few weeks old.

I put up an ad last...
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I saw a lady at Fred Meyer today who had a whole cart full of corn. She didn't even bother to bag it. It was just a cart 'o corn.

520 bridge traffic sucks. On weekdays, when our friends are off work and want to do things, we can't travel to Seattle or we'll get stuck in traffic. At least, between the hours of 4:00 and 7:30. As a consequence, we miss out on a lot of events.

I wish I had taken pictures of the Los Angeles area we lived in. Instead of trees,...
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As part of my thirty updates in thirty days pledge to save SG, here's a video of NIN's closer, only, reimagined by a fan, and starring Spock and Kirk.

At the gym this morning, there was a big crowd of angry ladies squaking around the front desk. Without warning us, the staff had fled in the middle of the night.

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When I was a kid, the Epcot sphere was the iconic symbol of Disney World. It was displayed in every ad, all grand and big. The pictures were always from the ground, looking up, so there wasn't a reference point. I grew up naturally believing that all of Epcot, or maybe even all of Disney World, was contained inside.

Many years later, Lankakitten and I...
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