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Frozen Out
I went down to my car this morning at 7:45 to find an icy surprise—both my driver’s side and passenger’s side doors were completely frozen shut. After awkwardly tugging on them for a while, I decided to crack open my hatchback, crawl through the car to the driver’s seat, and kick out the door from…
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Safety Is Our #2 Concern
A lot of companies and organizations with some degree of occupation hazard make bold claims in support of safety. Statements like, “Safety is our mission” or “Safety is our goal” are frequently seen on posters stickers on the back of trucks, whatever. The funny thing about this is that safety actually cannot be a number…
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Left Behind
There’s definitely something to be said for leaving the house in the morning in a controlled and organized manner, rather than the inefficient whirlwind of chaos and failure I perpetuate in those wee AM hours. Case in point: I left my iPod plugged in to my computer instead of transferring it to my backpack. This,…
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Twenty-Four
It’s been a while since there have been new episodes of 24. Of course, the more seasons a show has the greater the chance of it going down the drain—I’m sure it’s near enough to an exponential function. I’ve watched the first four episodes and they’ve been pretty good. Tony and Jack running down hallways…
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Dragostea din tei
2004: Gary Brolsma releases his “Numa Numa Dance” video on Newgrounds.com, starting an internet phenomenon and introducing millions of people to the band O-Zone. 2008: Pop-rapper T.I. releases yet another “hit single” featuring Rihanna, titled Live Your Life. The song samples the opening sequence from O-Zone’s song, Dragostea din tei. The funny thing for me…
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Don’t Bother Signalling
Apparently drivers in the Baltimore-Washington area have decided to simply disable their turn signals to prevent accidently activating them when they are doing things on the road, such as, for example, turning. You’d think an action would be completely intuitive, but no—apparently it’s not a requirement, but a courtesy in the same vein as standing…
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Firefly
The ill-fated Joss Whedon show Firefly has earned a significant place in overall geek culture, so I have been meaning to watch it for some time now. It’s an excellent take on the space western and I think that for the most part it deserves the fame it has achieved. Unlike other popular sci-fi stories…
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Reformatting—Again
Tess (my desktop PC) has been having assorted problems over the past few months, so I took the plunge and went for it. A few hours later I’ve managed to get everything up and running and have almost finished wresting Windows XP to my powerful will. This time, once everything appears to be running smoothly,…
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.
Category: Short Reads
Updates that are comfortably bite-sized.