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Fashion
Today I drove past a store that sells guns and gold. A gun can be a lot of things, one of which is the most useful thing in the world,given the wrong situation. Gold is about survival, especially now. If the economy collapses further, as many economists predict, gold may be a safe place to…
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Austin State Fair
“Wooohoo! Here we go Charlie! Don’t touch my beer. I can still see it, Charlie!” I don’t realize that I am, in fact, Charlie, until my new drunk friend starts petting my fleece from the seat behind me. We’re hanging upside down on “Kamikaze”, a fair ride that doesn’t quite live up to its name.…
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Preparing for 2009?
We stopped posting here abruptly. I wrote that we came back before Todd had the chance to post about running of the bulls, so it sort of just looks like we disappeared. Time in Austin has been fun and comfortable – too comfortable. The first month or so was easy, but since then we’ve both…
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Some Useful and Interesting Updates
Readers First of all, I’m finally over 1000 readers on Feedburner. That’s in addition to the 500-700 readers that just check the site every day. The “missing area” is when I stopped using Feedburner for around a year. I didn’t really have a complete grasp on how RSS worked back then. The second tiny gap…
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Luck of the Draw
Do you believe in luck, or do you believe that people make their own? When I was in Chicago I happened to make friends with the guys at Real Social Dynamics. The timing happened to be such that they were about to rent Project Hollywood with Mystery and Style, and needed an extra roommate. I…
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Shortroping
I’m beginning to think that my speaking engagement at UK was partially a ploy to get me to come on an adventure with Luke, the guy who arranged it, and his friends. If that’s the case, I hope that I’m involved in many more ploys. My flight was diverted, delayed, rescheduled, and rerouted. In the…
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Come See Me in Kentucky!
A couple weeks ago I woke up to a strange e-mail. The subject said “Speaking Opportunity”, which I immediately thought must be spam. But it wasn’t. A guy named Luke, who has been reading my site for a while, just happens to be the president of the Entrepreneur’s Club at the University of Kentucky. His…
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A Lull
I know that a lot of people’s favorite posts are the self improvement ones. They’re the most gratifying to write, and also to read the comments on. I’d write more of them, but I hate writing them unless I feel like I’m really exemplifying the topic. Otherwise it’s disingenuous. My worst nightmare would be for…
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Learn Every Country in Two Hours
Today Annie told me that she has a new project. What is it? To learn where every single country is, what its capital is, its president, and ten current news items from each. That’s a handful. I’m not willing to keep up on the presidents or news items, but countries and capitals rarely change. That’s…
