SuburbanAdventure

For the first time in like 8 months I judged a PTQ for PT: Hollywood.  Pro Tour Qualifiers are events at which Magic players can qualify for invitation-only events. PTQs are interesting events in that there’s a confusing mix of n00bs, semi-pros and absolute pricks.  The event was held in a church basement and it [...]

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A co-worker mentioned she’d bought 15 pounds of cereal from a bulk foods distributor, after I stopped laughing thinking about a 15 lb bag of Wheaties I poked around for a distributor and found bulkfoods.com and checking in their dried fruit section found the section divided into Sulfured and Non-Sulfured Fruits.  That makes me feel [...]

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I regularly bake and bring cakes and such to work and on Wednesday I brought peanut butter brownies but forgot to take the knife I used home.  I use a large chef’s knife because well, I bought an extra during a buying binge brought on by a combination of Amazon Prime, One Click Purchasing and [...]

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Yesterday on the train, the person sitting next to me was reviewing her email when I noticed the name at the top: Annie Aungst. Annie Aungst? I hope her name was Annie Angst and she changed changed it. That’s the name of a porn star, roller derby contestant or fem-punk rock frontwomen, [...]

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In the last week, I’ve been sent a document in WordPerfect format, Corel Draw format, observed 2 people using Lotus Notes and discovered a piece of software at work that only runs on Windows ME.
I think these are signs of the end times.

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Before our Act Sci 3503 test, we were all looking around prepared for the ogive-drench Nelson-Aalen estimator induced death march.  I looked at the guy next to me and asked him to show me his game face.  Nothing… I asked the guy to the right of me, and he look stern faced.  I started making [...]

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From boingboing.net, a steak toaster.

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My computer class required me to make a PowerPoint presentation and sell my soul.  I’ve always been a powerpoint minimalist, a Steve Reich or Phillip Glass.  When I’m doing a presentation I am the center of attention and the slide merely contains words so forceful my lungs alone cannot imbue them with enough force.  I [...]

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I did my monthly soda run yesterday and no longer needed to use my morning coffee voucher to get diet cola, so I got the French Vanilla girly coffee which I’m delighted to have found punishes neither my colon nor rectum.   Dashing for the train, the coffee was left ignore.
Hours later I returned remembering the [...]

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About a week ago, I lost one of the silicone tips for my earbuds and replaced it with the set that came with them.  I then lost those and thought I’d wait to see if I could find them.  After two days of not being able to block out mindless drivel I searched for a [...]

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