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Archive for September, 2005

A Night of Comedy

Last night we went to the Main Pub in Manchester to check out their comedy show. Big Dave was performing that night. In spite of that, we decided to go anyway.

Karen, enjoying herself. She wouldn’t let me heckle.

Dave, getting ready for his act.
Here’s a quick review of the 8 comics we saw [...]

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Durham Fair

Some pics from the Durham Fair:

I’m not even sure what this is, but it is the cutest possible thing in existence.

Piggies, packed into a pig pile.

LOTS of piggies. This was a good year for piggies.

This foul tempered creature is known for spitting partially digested stomach contents when it is agitated or angry. [...]

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Printer Problems

Last night my fax/copier/printer/scanner mega-combo thing COMPLETELY DIED on me (Brother MFC something something).. Total hardware failure (printer head). Some quick internet research led me to the following conclusions:
1) Lots of people with this printer have had this problem
2) It is a pain to get it fixed.
3) It is even more [...]

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Mighty Mendez: Airline Pilot

Congrats to Mendez, for completing his training and becoming an airline stewardess pilot.

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Balloons!

Walking the dog this morning, I saw this:

I ran over to their launch site, and saw this:

Another balloon, getting ready for takeoff.

When I got home, I found out that they flew right over our house. Didn’t get home in time to get pictures of the flyby.

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Rita. Category 6. Wow.

The people at work are talking about the latest hurricane in the Gulf, and how it’s so powerful that it is now a Category 6 storm. Category 6. That’s just amazing.
In related news, Spinal Tap has apparently taken over the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.

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Giant Scary Spider

I found this while I was walking the dog this morning.

This picture doesn’t even do it justice, this thing was freakin enormous, with the biggest web I’ve ever seen, and I almost walked right into it.

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Jesus Vs Tank

Some original artwork, by Walde. Drawn entirely in Microsoft Instant Messenger.

I call it “Jesus Vs Tank”.
My money’s on Jesus.

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I guess this is pretty common, but the other day I discovered how to plug two monitors into my computer at work, at the same time, both displaying the same desktop.

I really like this setup. The one on the left is for regular code, the one on the right is for Textpad (sql and [...]

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Dog Days of Summer

Coco, getting a much needed belly rub

Sangi and Zoey, playing at the park. They both went swimming, and got incredibly muddy.

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