Month: August 2007
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How to Have an Interesting Life
EDIT: Welcome, StumbleUpon users! Thanks for checking out my site. A while back someone e-mailed me and asked me how I had so many interesting experiences in my life. I meant to write him back, but couldn’t find the e-mail. First of all, what constitutes an interesting life? Do we care if OTHER people think…
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Understanding Pickup
Mystery’s show on VH1, The Pickup Artist, has gotten a lot of mainstream attention. As a result there are scores of people in that audience trying to wrap their minds around this whole “pick up thing”. I’ve read a few message boards where people are discussing the show, and almost universally trying to discredit the…
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The Running Bets
I like to bet. For those of you who have read the story about how I was a professional gambler, this is obvious. What I don’t like to do is exercise. At one point in my life, these two activities joined to provide an interesting story. I have a friend named Hayden. He likes to…
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Behind the Scenes with Tax Protestors Ed and Elaine Brown
He doesn’t like to call it a compound, so I won’t. It does have 10 inch thick concrete walls, though. When I heard that Ed Brown was allowing visitors to his “home” in New Hampshire, I had to visit. Ed and Elaine Brown are a pair of famous tax protestors who are evading arrest in…