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[Well, fuck a duck]

Yes. Gay couples getting married is just like inter-species marriage, Bill O’Reilly, you continuous font of misinformed, inflammatory tripe, bad writing, and toxic punditry. O’REILLY: The secular progressive movement would like to have marriage abolished, in my opinion. They don’t want it, because it is not diverse enough. You know, that’s what this gay marriage thing is all about. But now, you know, the poly-amorphous marriage, whatever they call it, you can marry 18 people,…

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[Quark is pushing it]

I haven’t used Quark XPress since my demo copy expired earlier this year. I miss it, but I can’t say that I miss Quark, since I’m in love with the design program we use at work. Plus I’m continuing my transition to all things Adobe. And Quark really hasn’t done a good job of making their product competitive in the design market. So it doesn’t exactly pain me to show you this. I wonder if…

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[Can’t never tell what you’ll find]

I dig street fairs. There’s just something timelessly appealing about milling around aimlessly in a crowd of sweaty people and a cloud of barbecue and cigar smoke, crafters hocking their wares everywhere you turn. This Saturday is River Day in Saltillo (sorry, no official link, but you can read a bit about it here) and the Cooper-Young Festival in Midtown Memphis. River Day is certainly out of the question, since I have to work, but…

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[Nightly news roundup: G-SAVE edition]

This is scary. On a related note, Condi doesn’t think the insurgents in Iraq have widespread support. While I don’t suppose they have ticker-tape parades for the guys who wander the streets with bombs strapped to their chests, I don’t think the insurgents face enough overwhelming stern opposition — from the Iraqis or the U.S. or anyone else — to stop ruthlessly killing people left and right. They just keep doing it. I don’t know…

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[iTunes pays better attention than I thought]

OK, one more before I take my snot and mucus to bed. This one’s from Cox and Wendy. Put up the following list of questions, hit shuffle on your digital music player, recite each question aloud, and see what song plays in answer to each question. Then draw random overwrought conclusions. Laugh. Sniffle. Repeat. For the record, I didn’t manipulate these in any way (like toggle certain songs off in iTunes, etc.), which makes several…

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[More like Whiffle balls]

Wonkette has a compilation of some of the more enjoyably, pointlessly soft questions lobbed at John Roberts. I’ve caught bits and pieces of the hearing from NPR, and it seems like the senators are using their little 20-minute allotments as opportunities to just ramble on about whatever they think, as if they aren’t given some sort of platform to do the same thing every day of every year during their terms as senators. I can’t…

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[A tale of pain and despair and other funny things]

I really meant to post this earlier today, and then I read the Gas Guy’s post about whining, and felt like maybe I should cool it with the (mostly self-deprecating) whiney stuff, because it truly is unattractive at best. But then I figured, what the hell, it’s not so much whining that I’m doing here, but sharing stories of my complete ineptitude for performing the simple tasks in life. Now that’s entertainment! I’m practically your…

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[Less than 5 percent of computer users will get this joke]

Mac humor. Hat tip: Kos. I updated iTunes the other day and really wished the rest of the brushed-metal-clad applications had updated their skins along with it, because it looks damn smooth. Perhaps in due time they will. So I’ve been loosely courting the idea of getting an iPod Mini, but it seems the Nano will be my best bet come Christmas (unless they spike it and come out with iPod Pico before then). While…

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