Wherein I ponder, rant, rave or babble semi-coherently on the nature of life, the universe and everything (and here there be memes)

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Another One

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DR. PAUL KWESI
DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL ENERGY, GHANA.
Attn: Dear Good Friend,
Funds transfer proposal.
NOTE: My good friend I am doing this for my sick son; that is just the truth. Read along.
I presume this mail will not be a surprise to you. I am an accountant with [...]

Spam

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I use the Akismet spam plugin on all my WordPress blogs. It’s a wonderful thing. I think the thing about Akismet that’s most fun is that it tells me the IP address of the spam originator.
So, get this… on my art blog, Akismet has [...]

It’s Easier to Be an Asshole to Words Than to People

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xkcd is one of my favorite web comics.  Randall is brilliant, and in a strange and bizarre way I’m sometimes pleased that I simply don’t understand the math humor.  Sometimes the comic is romantically touching, sometimes [...]

Dear Mr. Kuku

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Dear David,
You don’t mind if I call you ‘David’, do you?
I read your letter with great fascination when it arrived in my spam folder earlier this week. What a new and interesting business proposition! It was especially refreshing to see something this [...]

Kindly Read This Email

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[I received this most interesting and exciting email offer today. I will post my response in a few days. Gosh! What a great opportunity!]
Dear Sir/Madam,
I write to solicit your assistance and support to enable me executes a very lucrative and [...]

Customer Service?

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Dear Retail Food Service Employee:
I know you get annoyed by customers who are more interested in their phone conversations than allowing you to determine just what it is they want. I get that. If it’s any consolation, I think they’re big fat dodos, [...]

An Open Letter to Auto Makers

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Dear Automobile Manufacturers, Both Foreign and Domestic:
I note from watching your many television commercials that some of you are quite concerned with ensuring the passengers of your vehicles ride in the total silence of space. You are to be commended. [...]

Six Quirks

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I was tagged by Lynne for this one! (She actually tagged me on my art blog, but I couldn’t think of six art-related quirks, so I moved it over here.)
The rules (ha ha… we all know how much I care about rules!):

Link to the [...]

High School

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Another meme! This one I found on Bev’s site, and thought it was pretty cool.
What high school did you go to? Roald Amundsen High School
What year did you graduate? 1976
What were your [...]

Happy Blogoversary!

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It appears that I’ve been randomly babbling about things for three years now.  Fancy that.  And now that I’ve managed to develop a routine for the art blog, I believe I’ll go ahead and develop one for this blog too.
As Meg and Liz like to [...]