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I leave all that privacy panic to the caveat-emptor rather than the narcissistic belief that Facebook is going to take your status updates and compile them into the Great American Novel destined to sell millions of copies with not a penny to your own pocket for itI don't believe I've ever written anything on Facebook that I wouldn't scribble on a bathroom wall given the opportunityEven writings

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I wrote this really long painful blog post awhile back about the night my wife lost the horse she had for 13 years. I haven't published it and didn't even finish writing it for that matter. It was just a kind of catharsis where I just needed to write to cope with the situation.A strange thing resulted from it though. It made me stop blogging. It's like I was avoiding it because I didn't want to

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My wife and I were driving along a long straight back road through various farm fields on the way to the polling station to vote today. It was much further than we'd expected. We'd never been that way before. It was all farms of various kinds. In certain directions time actually stood still. There really was no way to tell if it was 2008 or 1978. It was just farm fields. I started wondering if

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I figured I'd post a plain old blog post for the day to day tag just because it's been awhile.It's September already. I'll be 33 in seven days or something. I'm not as bothered about getting older this year as I have been in past years. Life is good.My wife and I have settled into married life but we're still as silly around each other as we ever were. It's not the cold boring married life that

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I uploaded a new graphic to my cafepress page. I hope you like it. I hope it doesn't get banned. I hope... I hope... I hope.

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I started avoiding the new wave of super hero movies (mainly the marvel onces) since Spider-Man 3. I don't have time for such perpetual disappointment. That's not to say I won't watch anything based on a comic but I do avoid most of them.Normally, I'd avoid Batman movies as well since they too have all the makings of a bad super hero movie: a huge budget, several big name actors, merchandising

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Since I don't feel like writing essentially the same thing twice. This is the police statement I wrote it for the local RCMP.At approximately 4:09 PM on Sunday, July 13, 2008 I witnessed a Ford Focus, Blue, license plate KAC 396 pass me in the left lane at a very high speed heading west on Highway 16A just east of the over pass that crosses the train tracks east of Spruce Grove. I was still in

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Installation of the Panniers on my bicycle too about 5 minutes. It's a one piece deal and it didn't fit great but I'll blame my smaller than normal rack on that.I loaded the left pannier with a 4L jug of motor oil just to see if it fit and it fit perfectly. That's about the maximum size of container that will fit in there though.The 4L jug of motor oil. It's for my chainsaw, if you're wondering.

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My cats aren't mousers. I didn't get them with the intention of having them around to catch mice. However, since I moved out of town to the acreage with my wife, each of my cats has caught one mouse each.Yesterday, Jester, the fluffy silly cat of the three caught his mouse.He nabbed it in the walk in closet in the bedroom while his little sister looked on in pure hateful envy. The mouse lay limp

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Something's been bothering me for a week or so now. It's like a bad dream that reoccurs only when I'm driving to work so I forget about it when I get to work again. I'm one of those people who never remembers his dreams.Anyway...Miley Cyrus, daughter of country pop icon actor Billy Ray Cyrus and teenage pop queen TV actor too. She is in a sense the result of him and in the same way that Skynet

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I bought this thumb drive to go with my new Asus EEE PC. It does the trick. 16GB is a phenomenal size for a thumb drive. There's also a 32gb model too. I paid something like $50 for my 16GB model after lame mail in rebate.For what it is and what it does it works great. No annoying software preinstalled like on the Verbatim for example. There's a rubbery coating on my Patriot thumb drive which is

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The Trouble with Traditional Laptops:Modern consumer laptops are just too damn big to actually be realistically portable. Secondly, they're just too expensive to take anywhere without feeling like you're babysitting it all the time.Why did I buy an EEE PC instead of a traditional laptop?The GoodSize matters. Only having to carry around 2 lbs of laptop is a huge selling point. Not to mention that

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10,000 BCCrazy cave-people tribes hunting giant woolly mammoths. It's something like Pathfinder and 300 combined but not in a good way. It just made it predictable. You can probably skip this one.The StrangersReally good back to basics horror slasher flick. I found myself grasping at a reason the three strangers were terrorizing this couple but really the creepy part is that there was no real

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This latest George Romero zombie flick is another of the many fictional documentary style films that dot the horror genre. The style is becoming a genre unto itself which is fine by me. I love the gritty simplicity of this style. It's nice to see them getting back to basics.I was initially suspicious about this film when I first heard about it before I knew Romero was behind it. I'd just seen the

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I don't think it's called Rambo 4. I thought it was called John Rambo but the DVD just says Rambo on the cover. Either way, this movie is really good for what it is.Looking back on the series, First Blood was an amazing movie. It was one of those rare action movies where you really cared about the main character. At least I did. He's a deadly combination of military conditioning, intense torture,

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Season 4 has come out to a pretty slow start but that's good because I know that this is the last season and I want it to last forever. Most of what's making it feel so slow is the anticipation of what's coming next.I can't say enough good things about this show but there is one bad thing...I hate how they give away the whole show in a subliminal blipvert montage right after the opening credits.

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This is another difficult to watch Ellen Page film (the other being Hard Candy). I haven't even seen Juno yet and I know that this girl is going to be around for awhile.The story is based on a true story about a girl in the 60s who is locked up in the basement by her caregiver and is brutally torchured by the woman and her children and others in the neighborhood. I knew the story ahead of time

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While the rest of the console kids are butchering their morals on GTA IV, my wife and I have been playing Mario Kart Wii. None the less, I don't think it matters whether cut each other down with a Mac-10 or knock each other off the road with a Winged Koopa-Shell. We still yell and swear just as much. Good times.

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I read about this movie and forgot about it again until it turned up on a list of the most uncomfortable movie to watch so that it, I had to watch it. It is indeed a very very uncomfortable movie. It's about a young girl played by Ellen Page (Juno and the Trailer Park Boys of course) who hooks up with this older guy she met on the internet. It starts out pretty straight forward and you expect it

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I'm still not sure why they used the term Requiem in the title of this movie. I've even checked the definition and the wiki and nothing really hits me. Maybe I'm just an idiot tonight.The GoodI'm a bit of an Aliens fanboy here to mind my bias. The action sequences in this movie are great. The violence and gore also make this movie worth watching. It is very very violent by the way.This movie

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The Good:Great giant monster movie. A little silly how invulnerable the giant monster was but that's giant monsters for ya.The Bad:If I watch it again, I'm fast-forwarding through the obligatory sequence where they try to make you care about the characters cause all it did for me was make me think every one of them was a douche bag in one form or another.I haven't looked at the rest of the DVD

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Contrary to my post on Playground Love, this little entry shows some of the scariest images to ever be taken in a Playground.I give you Nightmare Playgrounds

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I once noticed a girl pass me in the mall while i was using my laptop. My laptop noticed her own laptop's open wifi signal came and went at the same time. It was oddly poetic.

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