Posts Tagged ‘ life ’

It is interesting to observe people (note the username / website). Maybe it’s a bit of a coping mechanism for not being especially interesting myself, but I really enjoy collecting stories of people I know. Not gossip exactly, since I don’t share probably 90% of what I hear… So what has this to do...
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I’m of two minds when it comes to identity on the internet. Generally, I would be completely fin with disclosing my real identity, or at least not making any effort to hide behind pseudonyms and indecipherable IDs. I may not want random trolls on Digg to know my address, but I don’t care if...
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Ten years ago… … I was living with friends in Manassas because the paperwork had yet to finalize on our house in Chesapeake. My friend Dan and I considered slipping outside to throw the power breaker at a few seconds past midnight (remember Y2K?), but elected not to because his grandparents might have heart...
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Just in case any of my non-existent readers think I was chickening out on my discussion of Wikipedia a few days ago, I didn’t. I literally stopped writing, hopped in the car, drove to Walmart, came home, and killed the swarm of spiders attempting to overrun my computer desk. ‘Twould seem that a common...
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