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We got about eight inches

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I’m Afraid I Can’t Wish You a Merry Christmas

I received an email a few minutes ago.  It was a thoughtful email, right up until the very end.

(Redacted company name) would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!!

May the new year bring you Happiness, Health, and Wealth

Warm Wishes to you and your family,

(redacted name of sender)

At the very [...]

Pointless: Location-Aware Smart Phone Services

I’ve seen a lot of tweets in my twitterstream from apps like Foursquare and Gowalla.  These are location-aware apps for the iPhone (Gowalla) and Android (both) that lets you announce to your followers where you are at any given time.

I have to ask: What the heck is the point?

A better question: What’s in it for [...]

Lists

Acquire:

3 GFCI outlets
4 regular outlets
2 wall boxes for outlets
4 junction boxes
2 motion sensing light fixtures
12 CFLs
brackets for stair hand rail
garbage disposal
lunch

To Do:

Rewire existing kitchen outlets
Rewire the two upstairs rooms
Install GFCIs in the kitchen, bathroom, and for the tankless water heater
Install 1 new outlet in the bathroom
Install 2 new outlets in the kitchen
Install garbage disposal
Replace all [...]

My Thoughts on SEO

For those that don’t know, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.  It is (supposedly) a methodology to use to make sure your blog is found by search engines like Google.

Here’s a secret: Unless you put up a robots.txt file to block them, Google will find your blog, period.

Knowing this, it seems to me like the [...]

We bought a house!

We haven’t quite yet – we’re signing the papers on Thursday.

Pics of the house can be found here: http://cli.gs/rBsq8B

1 1/2 story, 3bd, 1ba, on an acre of land. We’ll mostly have cows for neighbors. It’s a bit of a fixer upper, but not in the usual sense – in this case, the previous owners left [...]

How to Become More Intelligent

via dumblittleman.com

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/11/how-to-become-more-intelligent.html

Do you realize that through reading you can learn in a few hours what took someone decades to learn? Reading not only informs, but it also increases your capacity for learning, thereby increasing your intelligence.

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Love this Gary Vaynerchuck appearance on CNN in May

Embedded video from CNN Video