Category Archives: General

Gripe: Stop breaking my car

By alex | Published: 3/28/2009
Several weeks ago, I parked my car in LGA long term parking. Maybe that was my first mistake. Someone ran into the car, taking off the trim on the rear bumper. By the time I got in, fairly late at night, the keyless entry wouldn’t let me in. I assume it had set off the […]
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Word of the day

By alex | Published: 3/24/2009
Google Mail tells me that the word of the day is “thaumaturgy”: “The performance of miracles or magic… Thaumaturgy comes from the Greek words for ‘wonder’ (thauma) and ‘work’ (ergon). A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a thaumaturgist or thaumaturge.” And a blog that chronicles such works would be “a thaumaturgical compendium.” The links to thaumaturgical […]
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25 random things

By alex | Published: 3/22/2009
I have managed to evade this 25 things meme that has infected Facebook. But now I have been officially tagged by Ms. Perry, who can–I believe–see Sarah Palin’s house from her back yard. And so, I am cheating, and following Liz Lawley (who was following Julian Dibble), on a 25 things with an obvious twist: […]
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Sheep Pong

By alex | Published: 3/21/2009
(via rmazolan)
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