Colbert won’t appear on S.C. Democratic ballot - Celebrity News - MSNBC.com
So, you can be a part of the government….as long as you pay your admittance fee AND get approval by the rest of the club?

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Pete on October 31st, 2007

New house?  Check.  Bags of candy just in case?  Check.  One visitor with two kids the whole night?  Check.  Maybe we should promote the thing more or something.
Check out the awesomely gruesome Aliens vs Predator 2 trailers at IGN.   Why don’t they show these in theaters?
Anyone remember Airwolf?

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Pete on October 4th, 2007

It’s been awhile!
A recent article by Infoworld’s Tom Yager has a great quote:
But for our sake and the sake of those who might want to know something about us after we’re gone, perhaps we should take pictures as if we’re on our last roll of film, and write like we’re using our last sheet of [...]

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Lansing State Journal: Authorities: Smuggling rings defrauded Mich. bottle deposit fund
Didn’t Seinfeld prove this couldn’t be done??

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Pete on September 27th, 2007

And now for a lighter note. Some cool things going on:
Yay for Thursday! Season premiers of CSI and The Office! I present a snippet I wrote at the end of the season last year for a blog post that never materialized:
CSI - A
CSI has often gotten the shaft from us this year. [...]

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Pete on September 27th, 2007

While I try to avoid politics and whatnot as much as I can, last night’s 11 o’clock news pushed me over the edge.  The big issue it seems lately is the state of the Michigan economy with manufacturing jobs being lost and house foreclosures rampant.  Reading the papers and watching the news, you’d think the [...]

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Pete on September 17th, 2007

Fans Against the Ticket Tax: Stop the Michigan Ticket Tax
But it’s ok for Ticketmaster to charge a convenience fee, a save-money-by-printing-the-tickets-yourself fee, a parking fee, a parking lot fee, a service charge, a handling fee, etc., etc. So we’ve been getting raped by Ticketmaster for years, and people are upset over a possible [...]

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Pete on September 10th, 2007

So first we have an editorial in the Western Michigan University’s student newspaper, the Western Herald, about how farmers using growth hormone to increase milk production will be seeing lower prices for their milk.  It starts off well enough, laying the groundwork of what’s going on:
By February, Michigan dairy farmers who decline to treat their [...]

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Get Back Into Work Mode After Vacation / Wired How To’s
As I slowly get back adjusted to the work week after an excellent Labor Day weekend, I found this article to be highly appropriate. Yesterday was rough…next year, I really think I’ll go ahead and take Tuesday off, too, just to get back into [...]

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Pete on August 29th, 2007

Can someone explain why I should have to give up my car, rather than have industry make more fuel efficient vehicles across the board?
On a somewhat related note, it’s comforting to see gas in the area jump 15 cents or so per gallon, conveniently a few days before the Labor Day travel weekend.   Yeah, [...]

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