Archive for the ‘Amateur Hour’ Category
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
There have been three sizable earthquakes in the L.A. area in the past 15 years, one of them serious, yet people are still paying upwards of $750,000 for a small single-family home in that area.
I just don't f*cking get it.
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
After a short conversation last night about Obama, I'm convinced now more than ever that he's only a variation on a consistent theme. Now, after a trip to Afghanistan, Obama is now trying to instill confidence in the constituency that considered his foreign relations experience nil. In a bid to ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Don't remember who turned me on to a restaurant in NYC called Florencia 13. Haven't actually been there, but it's a "Chicano" restaurant on Sullivan between Bleecker and Houston in the Village.
[I put Chicano in quotes because I haven't been there yet and I have a fairly rigid definition ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - On the heels of AT&T's announcement last week that it is relocating its headquarters from San Antonio to "The Big D," as they idiotically like to call it here, Toyota today announced that they will shutter the brand spanking new production plant in San Antonio that went ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Sometimes it's good to step back and look at yourself from the outside. Been doing a lot of it myself lately in the form of therapy. Did some of it last weekend while on a weekend trip to Portland when I decided to escape myself for a little while and ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Some little redhead teenage cracker punk crossed the line today when he posted my son's personal (ergo MY personal information) on some forum for PSP nerds.
I've got all I need on my local machine and have already begun the process of reporting it as a denial of service attack. The ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Went to the doctor about a week ago to review some recent blood work. According to my doctor, my good cholesterol reading was extremely low and my bad cholesterol reading was extremely high and the baseline for reading both, my triglycerides, were off the charts. I was pretty alarmed by ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - The Express-News today reports that it has accepted the resignation of music writer Ramiro Burr after a lengthy investigation concluded that Burr had been publishing work for the paper that was, in fact, not his. A local writer, Douglas Shannon, reportedly came forward recently with allegations that ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
"Since my last post on BigBrown.com many of you have contacted me in hopes of purchasing the domain. After much thought we have decided to sell the domain to the highest bidder prior to Friday 5PM CST. Here is how it will work...
... The party who has wired ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - An obscure company operating real estate Web site Relocate-America.com ranks San Antonio number two in their most recent "Top 100 Places to Live" list. Editors at the site factor "nominations, along with key data regarding education, employment, economy, crime, parks, recreation and housing" in their ranking decision.
Did ...
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