Archive for December 2007

25 Dec 2007 1024H

Christmas is in the heart

I was having a conversation with a few people lately on the run up to the holidays and it seems like very few of us feel it, really feel it lately. It just seemed like yesterday that Halloween was here and all of a sudden now we’re cooking for 20 again. Where did the year [...]

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23 Dec 2007 1642H

Goodbye for now, Seth

Just wanted to spend a few moments to talk about an acquaintance of mine, former colleague from Viant, Seth Palmer, who discovered he had an acute form of leukemia earlier this year and, all too soon, was taken to his rest last night after a hard struggle. I didn’t spend all that much time working [...]

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19 Dec 2007 1012H

Musical interlude #1289

Love these guys. Winter Haven, FL’s very own Anberlin.

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18 Dec 2007 2033H

Hilarious bit off the World tonight

While listening to PRI’s the World, in a comment on al Qaeda websites now featuring a bizarre ‘Ask Ayman al Zahwahiri’ question and answer segment, there was a hilarious bit on BBC4 listener feedback from Mitchell and Webb.

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16 Dec 2007 0924H

On sinus infections, snow, suckiness

Like my friend E. says, you don’t get to choose when you or a loved one gets sick. Having said that couldn’t have picked a worse time of year to be ill. And, for whatever reason, physiology has ensured that when I catch cold it invariably becomes what I now recognize to be a sinus [...]

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14 Dec 2007 1021H

As American as Lee, Nguyen, Kim, Patel . . .

Yes, these are American names. So says the Census Bureau. In fact, by my rough estimate, there are no less than 160 Asian surnames in the 5000 most common surnames in the United States. Moy happens to be #3827th most common surname in the US, up 1703 from 1990. So don’t let anyone tell you [...]

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