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Whenever a shirt gets stained or the car starts making a new noise, I am quick to tell Julie that Entropy is simply running its course and these things are to be expected.  But when it all strikes at once, it can be a little overwhelming.  A host of housing-related concerns have sprung up in [...]

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Tonight Julie and her Mom took the hour-and-a-half drive up to Strong, leaving both Becca (my 8-year-old sister-in-law) and Amelia in my care.  Although I would not normally categorize this as “one of my favorite things,” we actually have been doing alright.  Becca and I played a lot of guitar hero while Amelia bounced around, [...]

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Yesterday I had the sheer joy of having a “business meeting” with my co-workers back in Kansas City. At least, that is what I called it when our manager walked by. I was advised to install my webcam so that such a meeting could actually occur, and Adam Spriggs endured about 15 minutes [...]

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I have long held that the state of North Dakota is really some kind of government conspiracy and doesn’t really exist.  Even after meeting Dwight, the soundman at Southwood, who claimed to have grown up there, I was skeptical.  Dwight may have been heightened my belief that there is no North Dakota.
Until tonight.
I got the [...]

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It’s been almost a year since I first posted validateThis, and in honor of this, I have updated both the javascript and the sample page. ValidateThis! is a lightweight and unobtrusive bit of javascript for easing the tedious work of form validation. It relies upon special classes attached to form elements to [...]

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My advisor gives me the speech on why I shouldn’t move to Maine.
Julie gets a new case and at 8:30pm is still not home.
My car breaks down in the middle of evening traffic and needs to be towed to the shop.
I want this day to end.

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It appears that Google’s new Gmail 2.0 has been released, but in select theaters only. The new Contact Manager can be accessed however, as a standalone app here.
In just the few minutes that I’ve been poking around, I have very mixed feelings. The Gmail Contact Manager is definitely a great place for some [...]

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Exploring the settings in Google Docs is something I do frequently, hoping to unearth some new nugget of joy. It appears as though this has happened today, as I found that I could enter my blog settings and associate it with Google Docs. I am guessing this means that I can post a [...]

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Sometimes life chugs away from day to day and it doesn’t seem very interesting or meaningful at the time, but later reflection proves this untrue.
Friday of last week brought with it the second installment of Mutemath in Lawrence, KS this year. The 6th in the last two years, according to their front man Paul [...]

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While listening to NPR last night (”Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” September 29th) I was overjoyed to find that Dean Kamen was a guest! He is an inventor and businessman who is most widely known for creating the Segway, for which he was ridiculed on the show. His response, as humble as it [...]

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