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Catchup, yet again

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  1. 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
  2. Darker Matter – Exclusive Interview with Douglas Adams from 1979
  3. Odds of dying equal one.
  4. 26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong
  5. 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
  6. Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy
  7. Is America Too Damn Religious?
  8. The Funny Pages :: Misc :: US World
  9. science vs. faith
  10. A celebration of spring turns ugly – The Boston Globe
  11. BreakingNews.ie | World News | Pakistan: 11 dead, 100 injured in kite flying festival
  12. Film’s View of Islam Stirs Anger on Campuses – New York Times
  13. MEMRI TV
  14. An Atheist’s Guide to Mohammedanism
  15. 5 Blogging Methods That Work » Net Business Blog
  16. Letterman’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists
  17. Most Awkward Interviews
  18. ZUG: Comedy Articles: GAY-OK!
  19. Daredevil condemned for escalator stunt | Oddly Enough | Reuters
  20. Keystroke the Carriers | Brand Name Coupons
  21. Who Is Monitoring Your Domain Searches? » Daily Domainer
  22. In the Company of Jerkoffs – 10 Zen Monkeys
  23. SEC Suspends Trade On 35 Companies In Pump-And-Dump Crackdown — Spam — InformationWeek
  24. BSFW: Penis owner’s manual
  25. DNSFW: The jerk at work

Lots and lots of catch-up blogging to do…

We’ve been really busy, lately. Lots of stuff appears all at once!

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  1. xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
  2. Sinfest: The Webcomic To End all Webcomics
  3. What Would Tyler Durden Do
  4. Top Posting and Bottom Posting
  5. Austin’s Got A Waterpark!
  6. Tomato Firmware | polarcloud.com
  7. The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager
  • Articles
  1. Care After Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
  2. Rock, Paper, Scissors ^ 25
  3. Shopping cart applied geometry
  4. Pi Is Wrong! (even when it is not 3!)
  5. Mike Jones responds to Ted Haggard’s announcement of his heterosexuality
  6. New Study Finds Adoptive Parents More Invested in Their Children than Biological Parents
  7. 9 Signs the Online Job Market is Broken : Instigator Blog
  8. How to Leave Work at Work – Dumb Little Man
  9. Cocktail of additives found in child medicines | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
  10. A Note To Employers: 8 Things Intelligent People, Geeks and Nerds Need To Work Happily
  11. Bumps and bruises are ‘good for children’-Life & Style-Health-TimesOnline
  12. Polar Clock
  13. How to be a Great Dad – 12 Awesome Tips | zen habits
  14. Hand Me Downs – Men’s Health
  15. Golf to get ahead at work
  16. How to Tie the 10 Most Useful Knots
  17. Google Answers: whistling
  18. How To: Slipstream your XP installation – admin – Maximum PC
  19. AutoPatcher
  20. Gay bosses are better
  21. 5 mobile start pages – Mobile Minute – Download Squad
  22. How to Design Your Own Home – wikiHow
  23. TechEBlog » Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Wii) Video Review
  24. Fun Distraction: How To Escape Professional Handcuffs

Golf is back…

and I just played the best 9 holes I’ve ever played. Grace came with us, and had plenty of fun of her own.

My favorite improvement? Out of the 5 holes that caused me problems off the tee box, I only lost a ball on two of them — and I only lost one ball on each hole.

I’m now making good contact on about 35% of my swings — coming closer and closer to my goal of 90%. Not quite to my 60% I had with my previous bad stance, grip, and swing.

Cy is getting adamant that we both should go to Golfsmith and get our swings computer-analyzed. I think I’m now at a point where that could help me improve — even better than more lessons could at this point.

A once-in-a-lifetime kind of evening…

We went out to see stand-up comedy, spur of the moment. The headliner was Marc Maron.

Interestingly, between the opening act and the headliner were two acts — where there usually is just one.

What made it a once-in-a-lifetime thing? Every act was strong. Honestly, there was no weak material. I’ve never had that happen before in my life.

Oh, and it’s too late. They’ve moved on.

Oh, and we got in under the wire.  No, they didn’t sell out, no SRO here.  I’m pointing out that in a few weeks I could have had to sit through Craig Shoemaker again.

Kite practice worked beautifully.

We took Grace to the park.  She chose to get dressed in her soccer uniform, and we brought the soccer ball to the park with us.

She spent plenty of time running around, and played much soccer with Daddy Cy as goalie.

Before leaving, she chose plenty of time to climb on the playscape.  Each time I reminded her that we needed to leave soon, we got negotiation to extend the time.

I’m sure she will be a fantastic negotiator when she grows up.  Sigh.

Go fly a kite

Something to remember — this is important!

The Zilker Kite Festival is coming on the 4th of March. It’s supposed to be windy and warm today, so I may try to take G out to practice locally.

And just how often do I remember to blog about things that are upcoming? How often do I remember about the kite thing before it happens?

This must be a daddy thing.

Then again, you must also remember to not use razor-sharp string.

Finally got an eye exam.

I am aging, but still under 40.  That’s when I fully expect to go from “nearsighted” to “unable to read a menu in the same time zone”.

I’ve gone from -1.25/-1.5 to -1.5/-1.75, though for contacts, she prescribed both to be -1.5 — in anticipation of my turning 40.  No signs of gloucoma, no astigmatism.  They took baseline photos of my retina.

Everything was fine until she manually checked my peripheral vision with my pupils dilated.  Then, we stopped being friends.  For a few moments.  I’ve got a followup visit on the 6th to see how the contacts she gave me are working out.

I’ve been ill.

So, what have I been up to?

I took the spambait on they.com, and instead of learning each one as it comes in, I now batch them up, and learn the batches once per minute.  I also snag everything that imap users put into their imap spam folder, and add that to the learning batch.  I keep the non-spambait stuff, and learn from the latest 30 of those each minute.

Did you know that they.com is getting about one spam each second?

It’s amazing how much I can get done if I stop doing work-work for a day.

I also caught up on a lot of blogging.  I’ve been using foxmarks to have one set of bookmarks across every system, and I created a folder called “2blog”.  Anything I come across that I want to blog about, I add to that folder.  I cleared about half of it out yesterday.  The really fun thing is that I can do that from anywhere, now!

We finally got a new dryer.  We’ve gone gas, this time.  It used to take 2 hours to do a load of towels — more recently, because I had to stop and untangle everything after the last baffle came out completely — but now it takes barely longer than the washer. I’m now thinking that I may want to reverse my standard method of doing laundry, and switch from starting with the whites (since I always ended up waiting on the dryer) to starting with the things done in cold water.

Bleh.  I’m blogging about laundry.  Time to go back to the 2blog folder, eh?  Here we go…