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Enter the Shut Up and Play Yer Revenge of the Son of the Bride of the Return of The To Do List

#1 Run this little 5K race and get "a time"

#2 Clean the house, top-to-bottom, OCD style

#3 Lift weights up. Put them down. Lift them up again. (rinse, repeat)

#4 In the absence of checks (which should be arriving any day now)...
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1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. (or in some cases, just remember them.)
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it correctly and the name of the movie.
and...
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb/Wikiquote search functions. That would be cheatin'.
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It is a brave new world at last, composed solely of binary oppositions and technological realities which would have been difficult to see coming even five years ago. In only such a situation as the one we find ourselves in could I make the statement that follows. "There are two types of people in the world: those who like MySpace and those who do not."...
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My name is Stephen. I live in the Riverside area of Jacksonville, FL. This is a project I am undertaking to see just what happens when someone with virtually no experience or knowledge of gardening attempts to grow an abundance of their own food. Armed with a fairly decent attitude, internet access and the accumulated good will of others, I think I can make this...
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In the states again. kthxbye.

In Australia now. Arrived 4 days ago. Back aboard the Westra (I think they're calling it the "Steve Irwin" these days). This will not be updated for the next sixty days or so. For info on current actions/location try GOOGLE.COM > NEWS> search: "Sea Shepherd"

"In running there is the challenging (26.2 miles, say), there is the grueling (the Western States 100-Miler), and there is the clinically insane."

Stumbling upon an online description of the Sri Chinmoy 3,100 Mile Race I immediately stopped and checked the URL to make sure it wasn't an article from The Onion. It also forces me to reconsider just how radical I really was when...
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Her name is Hlne Grimaud and to say I'm utterly objective about her music, would be--in the strictest sense--a lie.

<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2006/oct/wild_harmonies/grimaud200x200.jpg" border="5"></div>

I was first tuned in to her by <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/popup.php?id=4625297&type=1&date=29-Apr-2005&au=1&pid=62016023&random=2237420264&guid=00069EEED9D8071A007AA7D261626364&uaType=WM,RM&aaType=RM,WM&upf=Win32&topicName=&subtopicName=&prgCode=ATC&hubId=-1&thingId=4625296&ssid=&tableModifier=&mtype=WM">an interview with her</a>, conducted by Robert Siegel on All Things Considered, in late May 2005. Solely on the basis of her intensity, she was able to win me over to...
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Shimmey-shimmey
Cocoa Puffs
Listen to me
Now.

is it just me or is Fractal the most beautiful girl there ever was?