one would think that as a new yorker i should be used to walking. this morning i awoke to the scream of my blistered feet begging for mercy. yesterday was another trip into the seemingly never ending tokyo shopping labyrinth. i took things slower explored more carefully and found some of the previously elusive spots. the streets are mostly unmarked and initially fairly difficult to navigate to a n...
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you may only throw out your old electronic items once every few years or maybe at most once every year if youre accident prone with your cell phone like some of us but electronic waste contributes to more than 70 of the toxic waste we create in the us. tech companies keep putting out snazzy little machines for us to play with and we continue with our wasteful consumerism so we do have a duty to be...
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so apparently there is this portion of my blog program that holds some comments in a special vault until i come in and search them like a tsa agent.a i just founda them today ack it was like finding five bucks in your coat though. so for those of you who have left messages and they never showed upi know why. apparently if you put in a web link then i have to approve the comment before it posts. bu...
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campaign announcements headline story follows imainundated with messagesaof encouragement and unable toarespond immediately to your emails. thank you also for the many donations large and small.aif you receive an internet explorer cannot display the webpage error message whenasubmittingaa donation please ignore it and do not attempt to make a second contributi on. a aubr ey immelman a a excerp...
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at this point with the opinion polls reporting obama is likely to win by a doubledigit margin some desperate minds are squirming like toads. the thought of such a change is making them gag.who knows how many of them are in charge of counting .........
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i had a conversation with a friend recently in which he declared i get the idea that sound quality means a lot to you.a see it doesnt mean anything to me i just like good songs. unsurprisingly i get a lot of this people telling me they dont care about sound quality in music. frankly i find this claim untenable on two levels. first to claim that somebody could listen to something through a tin ca...
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in july 2006 a friend of mine gave tyler a pirate hat that provided him weeks of entertainment. from an old blog of mine i copied the pictures. this is exactly what he was saying when he came in the room. the next morning he jumped in front of me ready to go again. he was seriously concerned that i wouldnt recognize him. we repeated this performance for many weeks. its so funny he hasnt reall...
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joining the race fox 9 kmsp monday oct. 20a2008 a monday more opponents took aim at bachmann including st. johns university professor aubrey immelman a fellow republican who is reviving his campaign as a writein opponent.a aaa immel man a republican from sartell minn. lost to bachmann in the republican primary in september. he says he wants his candidacy to be a republican referendum on bachmann...
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jesus gonna make up my dying bed in this case it may be jesus figueroa longtime jays coach who outfits me in the stylish coffin pictured above. the major league baseball caskets will be coming soon. the teams featured on the caskets will coordinate with the urns already released. the first eight teams include the atlanta braves boston red sox chicago cubs detroit tigers los angeles dodgers new yo...
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heres something pretty awesome about the city of seattle. from the mayors office of arts cultural affairs comes this collection of nine songs recorded at the offices series of noontime concerts at city hall every thursday. first of all we have an office of arts cultural affairs. that alone is pretty awesome but then that office puts on a weekly series of concerts from a wide range of local artis...
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did you guys see the debate wednesday night wow there will be some serious snl spoofing going on this weekend. all i gotta say is sometimes boys can be such whiners thats something the candidates have in common. who says theres no unity in politics. . . check out edward cullens hair here. i dont know i know youre immortal and all but maybe you could lay off the volumizer and aquanet. so tonight im...
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my thoughts ooooh this was a very fun book to read i enjoyed the journey as i followed the characters through this story as you watch the main character go back and forth from what seems like one world to another you will love the lessons she learns along the way. this is definitely a book where the author did not underestimate the power of a good ie positive ending ill get off my soap box abou...
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dastur jamshed ervad sohrab kukadaru saheb dasturji kukadarus name and fame has spread far and wide both in india and abroad. even today his portrait adorns the walls of several atash behrams agiaries and zarathushtrian homes. he is said to have performed many miracles during his lifetime. his fravashi continues to bless and bring succour to those who remember him and invoke his name in prayer. t...
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somewhat unbelievably this is the first review of anything pearl jam ive done that hasnt been of their 2003 tour. its been 15 months since i finished that puppy off and ive been staring at this album dreading it ever since. as of this posting my tobelistenedto pile will be devoid of pearl jam for the first time in over five years. released in 2006 this album doesnt contain anything i heard on th...
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this cd is summed up in its inside picture. its similar to the one on the outside above but has flowers lounging more horizontally making his fat rolls visible through his tootight leisure suit. fun idea poor execution the picture screams and the sound matches the visuals. taking popular songs and making them lounge seems cute at first but it grows tiresome when presented so meekly here. mike fl...
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a couple of months ago when i was putting the finishing touches on my love letter to jump little childrens magazine i briefly had the new favorite band tag on the post. i hesitated though not quite willing to bestow that title im so slutty with to a band with eight albums based on only one of those. the bands 2001 release vertigo a step in the wrong direction for them justifies that hesitation. ...
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1 zombie playground tags 0ephemera 2 how to become a ninja tags howto ninja 3 toxel.com a worlds oldest skyscrapers tags yemen history photos 4 gnome human interface guidelines v1.0 tags styleguide reference ui 5 gnome handbook of writing software documentation v1.0.2 tags documentation writing 6 dita xml.org online community for the darwin information typing architectur...
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my thoughts im torn my thoughts are all scrambled about this particular book. ill start with the positive this writer has an amazing ability to make the reader part of the story. as an author she is extremely capable of captivating and holding her audience further amazing me considering that this is christa parrishs first book .. but i always hesitate to mention anything even remotely negative...
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tonight is the start of the eight day festival of sukkot the feast of tabernacles. according to the link provided sukkot commemorates the wanderings of the israelites which began with the exodus from egypt passover and continues with the giving of the torah at sinai shavuot and ends with the wandering in the desert for the full 40 years as punishment for the sin of the golden calf. most jewish fe...
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another chapter in the long war against terror is written the toll seventeen american sailors dead hull maintenance technician second class kenneth eugene clodfelter 21 of mechanicsville va. electronics technician chief petty officer richard costelow 35 of morrisville pa. mess management specialist seaman lakeina monique francis 19 of woodleaf n.c. information systems technician timothy lee gaun...
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its learning time at mpl. lets talk about the term classical music. that term probably has some meaning to you that covers most christian and art music from the earliest chants of monks up through that of the present day or at least the early part of the 20th century excluding modern christian folk and rock. youve probably got composers bach beethoven mozart tchaikovsky mahler and maybe even barta...
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ive been slowly over the weeks reimporting my cds to mediamonkey in the lossless flac format as i now have tonnes of hard disk space to accomodate the better sounding but larger music files.a however being able to play my music in windows media center proved tricky until i found this great guide on the lossless audio blog. to add support for lossless flac files to vmc or mce then do the following ...
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were back to sarah mclachlan. three years ago i reviewed her three albums in my babys collection pretty extensively. predating all three of those discs is solace presumably so titled because most songs are about some kind of past love still creating pain and attempt to provide some sort of comfort much like she did on surfacing though its less effective here. not surprisingly mclachlans songwritin...
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