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Twitter usage FAIL

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Last night, my wife had one of the most hilarious conversations on twitter I have ever seen. A friend of hers had signed up for a twitter account earlier in the day and just followed her.  He also chose to turn on the option to receive tweets as text messages.
I have included the timeline unedited [...]

Because I Have Nothing Interesting To Say Today…

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

… I’ll let someone who does go for it.
I almost shot Cherry Dr Pepper out my nose when I saw this.
- From the always brilliant xkcd.com

Quite A Blow To The Ego

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

The worst part is that the top 3 hits on Google for “sean lavelle sucks” are a post on this blog, this blog’s front page and then my resume.  Having a low self esteem moment…

Thoughts On A Blue Pantsless Man

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Last weekend Jess and I went to see Watchmen. This is not a review of the movie. In brief, I liked it. Not a masterpiece like the graphic novel, but a good movie. Read the book, then see the movie and all will be good. What kind of caught me is in all the reviews, [...]

Better Then A Dog Anyhow – Darwin On Marriage

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Last week was the commemoration of Charles Darwin’s birth. I have enormous respect for the man, who changed the way we look at the world in a way so few have done in the past. But while listening to the Bugle, Andy started talking about a list Darwin drew up when he was contemplating getting [...]

Links for your consideration

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

I’m having a hard time getting around to writing. It’s been busy at work and I’ve been suffering a lack of motivation.  I have run across a couple of articles that I would like to share though.
Giant killers: macropredation in lions
The Lions of Savuti work in large packs to hunt and kill elephants. Fascinating behavior [...]

The Interwebz Move Fast

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Yesterday morning I came across a tweet mentioning that the Cincinnati Zoo was pairing up with the Creation Museum. I was getting ready to express my outrage and while I was thinking about what to write, others took dramatic action.
Needless to say, the Zoo is no longer offering tickets to the Creation Museum. I guess [...]

Book Meme

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Hopping on a book meme:
Bear in mind that directories and files that anybody can write to are dangerous. – PHP and MYSQL Web Development
God, I’m kind of a geek. That was the closest book, but in my defense I am at work.

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of [...]

My Favorite Picture From the Election

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Thanks to Peter from “this isn’t happiness” for the hook up.

I Don’t Dispute This At All

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

From LibraryThing’s Unsuggester: