By Booker B on 1/28/2009 8:17 AM

So now, apparently, it's not enough that the online pubs get encased in carbomite and posted only and forever in PDF. No. The hell with any idea that content would be presented via a flexible format accessible in a range of delivery methods suited to different users' needs. Now we're marching boldly forward to the new frontier of impossibly unwieldy content formats.

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By Booker B on 1/23/2009 8:40 AM

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Seems like 'That's not the relationship I want' should pretty much cover the case. If that's not sufficient, I have doubts that more explanation will get any closer, but maybe that's just me being stubborn.
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By Booker B on 1/22/2009 6:36 AM

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By Booker B on 1/18/2009 12:07 PM

So this morning I friended my son. I would have friended his S.O. as well, but I couldn't remember a last name. What kind of weird crap is that to be saying?

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By Booker B on 1/17/2009 4:54 PM

So I dropped the price on the house by 10K. I guess I'm OK with making the proceeds I'd get at that price, but I'm still not all that sure it'll sell. But I have another idea.

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By Booker B on 1/7/2009 8:25 PM

I ended up clipping the wires & bypassing it, but the damn starter still wouldn't click over. Just sat there. We roll-started it to get it back to his apt., then after he shut it off, it would start right up. I suspect he has some kind of cold-induced electrical failure, and when we roll-started the car, it warmed up enough to not have the problem. Stoopid cars. That's after a long morning babysitting the Two Stooges of Bangalore as they remoted in to my work PC to debug a problem with the completely nonfunctional crap they had previously delivered. Nope. No solution, despite 2 hours of aimless poking around at every conceivable part of the system.

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By Booker B on 12/21/2008 12:03 PM

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By Booker B on 11/19/2008 1:13 PM

A friend my age who works in public health recently told me the story of his colonoscopy to get me comfortable with the idea of submitting to all the bullshit that the medical geniuses have determined, in their wisdom, that people like us have to endure. My response, quoting bits of his email, is below -- for posterity & stuff.

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