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Monthly Archives: December 2001

Catfish

Saturday, December 29, 2001

I bought lunch for The Card Collector at Kentucky Fried Chicken again the other day.
He told me about the $25 a night hotel he’d stayed in the night before. “It was nice because I could get under the covers and press the buttons on the TV.” He showed me the key [...]

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Blue on Red

Saturday, December 29, 2001

I tried a little experiment. I placed two pictures on Am I Hot Or Not. In the first I’m wearing a blue shirt and standing in front of a red background. In the second I’m wearing a red shirt in front of a blue background.
The results are rolling in and it doesn’t [...]

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Penguin/Not a penguin

Tuesday, December 25, 2001

I am now the proud adopted father of an endangered Magellanic penguin. It’s name is Pike and it lives in the Falkland Islands. It was a Christmas gift from my friend Fiona.
In July 2000, I was up in England visiting her. Her parents and I were talking about traveling in Scotland – [...]

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Starbucks Nowhere

Sunday, December 23, 2001

[This entry came off more mean-spirited than I intended and now it's gone. The gist of it was:
Starbucks: Bad enough.
Visiting every Starbucks in the world: Worse.]

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The Struat Manual of Style

Sunday, December 23, 2001

I was just typing a sentence that included the phrase “Merry Christmas” and I wondered why I was capitalizing “Merry” in the middle of a sentence. It seems to me that that’s how it’s usually presented. Shouldn’t it begin with a lowercase “m”? Yes it should. That is what I’ve decided. [...]

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The Barber and the Priest

Saturday, December 22, 2001

In Snoopy’s Quixotic mind his best friend was a bird named Woodstock. There were really many different bird-visitors though, and to their shared confusion, Snoopy called all of them Woodstock.

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A Thousand Words

Monday, December 17, 2001

I bought lunch for the card collector at Kentucky Fried Chicken again the other day. At one point he told me that he was dyslexic and couldn’t read because his father had taken him out of school early on. This revelation clarified a couple of things. His dyslexia kind of explains his [...]

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Movie I Only Saw the End of #74

Saturday, December 15, 2001

Another movie that I only saw the end of:
The police are gathered outside a house, guns drawn. Kirk Cameron walks slowly away from the house toward the police car. A small group of kids and a girl of about eighteen or twenty are watching the scene unfold from the open front door. [...]

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Wrong Place And Time

Friday, December 14, 2001

I apologize in advance for this story.
I was having dinner with three coworkers (my boss and two of our visiting counterparts from the European arms of the company) at The Pink Door after work on a Friday. We were finishing up and I got up to use the restroom. The restaurant shares restrooms [...]

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Pocket Standards

Friday, December 14, 2001

I felt optimistic about the clear skies today and wore my lighter jacket. The issue at hand is that the inside pocket of my light jacket is on the left-hand side and the inside pocket of my heavier jacket is on the right-hand side. So when I switch jackets after having favored one [...]

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