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Month: October, 2007

really?

I find it hard to believe that every talk show host who interviews an author and claims to have read their most recent book has actually read said book. I’ve seen various hosts claim to have really enjoyed so and so’s book, and then the next three nights they say the same thing to different [...]

a (quarter) milestone

This one almost came and went like your odometer rolling over 100,000 miles and you looking at it on mile 100,002. Luckily, almost doesn’t count. I caught it just in time. We have avoided a great disaster today my friends.
I’ve decided to treat this 250th post like a reflection episode of Saved by the Bell. [...]

redefining beauty

how green are you? huh??

So living green and saving the environment are about the coolest, most popular things you can do these days. If you want to be cool, you have to change your light bulbs, recycle, eat organic and carpool. So you’re probably wondering, well I wonder how cool I am? Wonder no longer, my friend. Simply click [...]

RSS how-to revisited

Seen that thing before? Wondered what it meant? Well you’re gon’ find out.
Ok, I must start by saying I’ve blogged about this before. The reasons I’m revisiting it are two-fold: One, I’m convinced that there are far more people reading blogs at this point in history than there were when I originally posted about it. [...]

GIMP 2.2

One of the perks of having the abundance of free time I’ve experienced this past month is that it offers me the ability of honing my [very amateur] photo editing and graphic design skills. Over a year ago I learned of a freeware program called GIMP that is comparable to Photoshop, equally powerful, yet free!
I’ve [...]

60 hrs in D.O.’s head (abridged)

I’ve had absolutely nothing but time on my hands the past week, and as a result I’ve done absurd amounts of thinking. Even on days when I have little to no free time, I still manage to do a good bit of thinking, so you can imagine how busy my brain has been the past [...]

to all the nay-sayers

Short Version: To those of you who think I look bad now, aren’t you glad I no longer look like this?

Awesome Version: If someone were to write a book on Texas A&M University, the 21st century, Mullet Week 2002 would get at least 1,500 words. It was truly a week of epic proportions. An excerpt [...]