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Just Avoid Buying Anything

June 17th, 2008

I’ve got an action-packed week at work followed by vacation bible school immediately after work every night this week. So you’ve had fair warning; posts may be kinda slim.
That being said, definitely take a few minutes to read idiotprogrammer’s post on the perils of mandatory arbitration and follow his links. Unfortunately, all too often as [...]

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Those Who Don’t

June 12th, 2008

There’s a saying that goes “Those who beat their swords into plowshares will be ruled by those who don’t.”
I was recently reminded of this when reading Monday’s Penny Arcade post, which in part relates a friend’s experience in a business school course on negotiation. The story is a short five paragraphs, but it’s one that manages to [...]

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There’s no such thing as leveling. You just spend your points on loot.

World of Wifecraft indeed.
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New Math

June 6th, 2008

Sure, I was going to post photos of my new computer with dual 21″ wide-screen monitors…but this music video has that beat hands down.
var FO_1391 = {movie:”http://clipaday.com/flvplayer.swf”,width:”425″,height:”350″,majorversion:”7″,build:”0″,bgcolor:”#FFFFFF”,allowfullscreen:”true”,flashvars:”file=http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_videos/upload_1212602954.flv.flv&image=http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_videos/thumbs/upload_1212602954.jpg&lightcolor=0xF6C230&backcolor=0×000000&frontcolor=0xCCCCCC&logo=http://clipaday.com/images/playerlogo.png&link=http://clipaday.com” };UFO.create(FO_1391,”bo-burnham-new-math”);
Edit: Link added for LJ’ers who can’t see the embeded vid.
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When the Guns are Gone

May 6th, 2008

James over at Hell in a Handbasket wrote a great post about what happens after guns have been outlawed. In Great Britain, it is increasingly difficult to legally own a firearm. However, criminals still do what criminals do. He documents an event more than a year ago in which two police detectives who were attacked by five criminals were [...]

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Flametoad is the personal website for Preston DuBose, a full-time e-commerce and credit card security professional for the higher-education market, a part-time RPG publisher, and a full-time husband and father.

I ignore conventional blogging wisdom and refuse to focus on a single topic. This website covers gaming, family life, marketing, security, literature, music, and just about anything else shiny that catches my eye.

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