1. A Brief Timeline of Last Night's Improbable Events

    A Brief Timeline of Last Night's Improbable Events

    • 3:05am - awakened by dog barking. Roll over.
    • 3:06 - Michelle gets up, saying something’s not right as so many other dogs are barking
    • 3:06:20 - “Yeah, there’s a cop talking to someone in our driveway. I think …
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  2. Burn, Baby, Burn

    Burn, Baby, Burn

    Remember that movie where Clint Eastwood plays a fighter pilot? Yeah, me neither:

    It even inspired a decent comment on YouTube:

    … it’s fun to pretend he’s playing the same character as in Firefox. Why wouldn’t they give the job of stealing a Soviet superplane …
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  3. Hapiness

    Hapiness

    UPS letting me know my Rock Band pedal is out for delivery even though EA claims it still hasn’t shipped + a slab of Grateful Dead tracks. Along the same lines, this story made me smile as well, though I wonder if such a manager ever existed. It’s …

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  4. Winter

    Winter

    I can see where this would make a person suicidal. For the last few weeks, I’ve felt I must have shirked my duties this winter. Judging by the driveways, the house, the road, winter has been winning. We’ve spent the last two weekends trying to dig out …

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  5. Rock Band Track Production

    Rock Band Track Production

    Interesting to me for the bits they discovered in well-known songs’ master tracks:

    Even a seminal punk band like the Clash yielded some surprises. Even wonder why the drums sound so good on “I Fought the Law”? Because there’s two drummers on it (or more …
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