November 2005 - Posts
And so it begins . The first videos of fights and tramplings during the 2005 Holiday Shopping Season. One woman in the second video is blaming Wal-Mart for not having sufficient security, so I'm sure the lawyers will be jumping all over this one. But,
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It's 5:30 here, and I'm wide awake. I've got a cold from standing in line for my XBOX, and the resultant sore throat, cough, and runny everything are preventing me from sleeping. I normally take an Ambien to fall asleep at night, and while Ambien doesn't
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So I took yet another plunge last night. With several of my co-workers, I waited it line at a local store to purchase an XBOX360. We had spent some time yesterday tracking down which stores were going to have a fair number in stock, and were also not
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So, hi. Thanks for reading. I don't suppose you could drop a more - how shall we say - good translation of the lyrics you left in my comments the other day. Both Babelfish and Google seem to think it has something to do with networks, and I kinda doubt
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A coworker came in to my office to ask me a question. When I had answered it, he said "Thanks" (well, actually, he said "Gratze", but I was nice enough to translate for you bastards). In my head, I prepared my carefully worded response: "No problem."
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... because, apparently, "The Date" is in some sort of danger, and needs saving. "Save The Date" What the hell does that even mean? It's not like that if people forget about April Xth, it's gonna fall off the calendar.
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There are apparently riots going on in France over some silly thing or another. I honestly haven't even read any of the articles (or watched enough news) to know why they're rioting. Probably something about cheese or wine - I really don't know. Can't
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