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Category: lists

found and analyzed: a grocery list

As humbling as it is divulging this to the entirety of my readership, there is no denying the fact that I think about girls more often than I ought. That isn’t to say I’m thinking about them in ways I shouldn’t, just that they spend more time in my mind than I care to admit [...]

Post #500: How to Create and Maintain an Award-Winning Blog

If you’ve been around these parts long, you’ll know that I love lists. If you’ve known me long then you’ll know that I’m all about helping others reach their full potential. If you actually know me, then you’ll know that there is absolutely no evidence that points to the previous sentence being true… until now. [...]

Things to Which I May or May Not Commit in 2010

I have, on numerous occasions, been known to say a line by which I strive to live. It comes as a result of a Good upbringing in which the line was modeled for me, though it was never spoken. The line goes like this: “I don’t say things I don’t mean.” I try to apply [...]

Top 5 Facebook Dot Com Birthday Well-Wishes

There has, since 2006, been an unspoken contest that takes place each November on my facebook dot com wall. The sixth of November is my birthday, and for as long as I can remember, facebook has notified its users of their friends’ birthdays. This reminder brings in an onslaught of wall postings that communicate in [...]

notable “came from’s” 2.0

In August 2008, I posted a piece about the various ways Internet users arrive at my blog. A year later, most of the means by which people land here aren’t big surprises: rss feeds, friends’ blogs, the occasional stranger’s blog. (Stranger: I am so, so thankful that you decided to link me in your blog’s [...]