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The past few months I’ve been doing a lot of camera-less driving and it’s been killing me.
Last year, after kicking myself enough times for not having a camera on hand to try to capture some scene or another, I took to driving around with a camera in the car. And not […]

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Metal bowls left atop preheated ovens will also preheat to the desired temperature (375° F). Ouch.

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I’m sure someone spent lots of research dollars researching this very important subject mater, but they could have saved a lot of time (and money) and just asked me. I could have filled them in pretty quickly.
“Young men just find it difficult to tell the difference between women who are being friendly and women who […]

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From WYFF in Greenville, SC today comes this news story about a fire on board a Delta 767. The opening to the story reads:
A passenger was burned during a fire on a Delta passenger plane that was forced to make an emergency landing at Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, according to airport officials.
But a couple paragraphs later […]

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…your doctor shines the light at the back of your throat, and before you can even say “Ahhh” she exclaims, “Oh Wow!”
When she then opens the exam room door and starts looking for other people to come in and see your throat, then you know that staying home from work today was totally legit.
I’m not […]

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I just read an article in Time magazine about companies and free-lance photographers who are hired to follow and photograph regular, everyday people out for a night on the town. Apparently, some people are paying as much as $1,500 to be treated like a celebrity!
Phillip Barker agrees that a photographer is a powerful status […]

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laundromat, originally uploaded by catbagan. used under a Creative Commons license.
This started off as a simple comment to this post. I was about to write something like “ha ha, that does sound like an excessive amount of laundry. ” But then I got to thinking about the subject a little more and it […]

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Based on the guy’s reaction just now, it’s possible you are over tipping.  Either that or it was sarcasm and you totally missed it.

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Apparently you should try Saturday mornings in Annandale.  There were nearly one hundred guys waiting for work on Little River Turnpike between the 7-11 and McDonalds.  I know the spot has been a long time gathering place, but I’ve never seen quite so many people before.

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If there could be only one, which one would I get?
Inside You

or…
Not a Crook

The “inside you” one is funny and colourful and subtle and from Threadless. Meanwhile, “crook” is lacking in design and the image of Nixon waving peace signs is a little over used, but, you have to love the use of an […]

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