Archive for May, 2006

Gather ’round the grill

Posted in May 30th, 2006
by PAgent in FYI, Food and Drink

We decided to have an informal get-together on Memorial Day, centered loosely around my showing off our new grill. So we told our neighbors that if they wanted to join us, to come over around 4:00 pm, and to bring something to throw on the grill, and a side-dish to share.
We put out a couple [...]

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I Must Be Odd

Posted in May 27th, 2006
by PAgent in FYI, Portland

Recently the daily Oregonian asked its readers to select a strip to replace the limited reruns they had been publishing of “Calvin and Hobbes.”
They ran a week or two of each candidate, and then asked readers to vote on their favorite strip, which would then be added to the comics lineup.
The candidates were: Classic “Peanuts” [...]

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Oh, Amir, you fool

Posted in May 26th, 2006
by PAgent in Flotsam

So, scamming people on eBay is pretty low, wouldn’t you think? And if you were the one that got scammed, you would be pretty ticked off, wouldn’t you? And wouldn’t it just be awesome if there was some way, somehow, that you could have sweet, sweet revenge against the scammer?
The Broken Laptop I Sold on [...]

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Music Video Madness

Posted in May 25th, 2006
by PAgent in Video

It’s that time again, to wonder down memory lane and relive the glory days of music videos.
We all know that Mozart was a giant among composers. But few have rendered a more moving tribute than Falco:
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

Nothing says ‘love’ like straw boaters and lederhosen:
ABC - The Look of Love

So where did the [...]

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E-mail between partners - passion versus practicality

Posted in May 25th, 2006
by PAgent in Humor, Marriage

Do you remember the kind of notes you wrote your Significant Other when you first fell in love? Sloppy, sentimental dreck, most likely. Even if you managed to keep up a reasonable degree of romance, I guarantee the ratio of informational to emotional content increased geometrically after you got married. No more cute love notes [...]

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Hood Canal Redux

Posted in May 24th, 2006
by PAgent in FYI

We obviously had to drive north last Friday, to rendezvous for our Buddy weekend. After we turned left at Olympia, we began to catch sight of the Olympic Mountains. While they are magnificent in their own right, especially when covered with winter snows, they are especially beautiful when they were your constant companions growing up, [...]

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