Weekend rambling

Just thinking out loud today.
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Have you noticed that DVDs are getting more expensive?
There was a time when I bought at least one new DVD release a week.  A little over three years ago shortly after my daughter was born I stopped buying DVDs, mainly for budgetary reasons.  After a while I realized I wasn’t really [...]

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Super Bowl XLIII pick

Steelers 108 — Cardinals 3
Why?  Because I loath the Steelers with every fiber of my being.  I hate them with a passion that burns like a thousand suns.  That combined with my Super Bowl* luck assures that they will win — and win big.
* Of the last thirty Super Bowls since I’ve been old enough [...]

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My childhood summed up in a poster

An artist named Dusty Abell has created the greatest poster ever.
 
Visit Debian ART for the full-size version. 
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Read 10 books, you must.

From Iremonger via another blogger via  Biblio Phile…
You have have seen recently the “1000 novels everyone must read” list from The Guardian.  If not, go take a look.  We’ll wait for you.
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/twiddles thumbs
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Thanks to a heads-up from the aforementioned Iremonger, I just learned that the Biblio Phile blog has conceived of a groovy reading challenge [...]

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A Skyline(tm) breakfast

Inspired by blogger pal and experimental chef extraordinaire (and fellow lover of Skyline chili) Chris James, I hit the kitchen this morning to whip up a new breakfast dish. 

Scrambled eggs, fried potatoes with a dash of minced onion (I didn’t have a fresh onion, unfortunately), Skyline chili, cheddar cheese, and some Frank’s Red Hot [...]

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I love the internet

Seen on a message board:
WORK LESS ON VIDEO GAMES, WORK MORE ON SPELLING AND GRAMMER. I felt like I was reading a first graders book report.

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