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How Cats Might Kill You, Part XIV

My mom explains how her cat made her furnace go “whoosh.”

posted at 11:38 pm on Jan. 29, 2004
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Merge / Consolidate Your Amazon.com Accounts, I Dare You

Can anyone tell me why Amazon won’t let me consolidate two accounts together, even though they both belong to me and I can easliy prove it? I’ve written them three times, but I get the same generic answer each time: That there are “security concerns” that prevent them from offering this to their customers.

posted at 11:24 pm on Jan. 29, 2004
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A Year in Review: 2003 at Smith & Gardner

One year in one journal entry: Even in a boring year, it’s an impossible task—in 2003, so inconceivable it’s laughable. However, sometimes even when success is impossible, you learn from trying. I think I’ve grown a little this year.  That’s a good thing.  I’m 31 now; it had to start some time. But starting at the ending will lead nowhere.  So let me go back and start my story of the year that was, from the beginning.

posted at 12:43 am on Jan. 23, 2004
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Writer’s Block

I don’t have any writing in me. I have done interesting things, I’ve thought interesting thoughts, I’ve spent time with interesting people, but I’m blocked from writing. I feel particularly bad about this episode of drypen, because I recently told my students that there was no such thing as Writer’s Block.

posted at 12:17 pm on Jan. 15, 2004
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Twelve Days of Christmas Food

Here are a few of the best things I ate this holiday.

posted at 10:38 pm on Jan. 7, 2004
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Unpacking

I just got back from a long Christmas (I can say that, can’t I? I didn’t just go on a Happy Holiday...) vacation, and I’m unpacking. By unpacking, I mean, I’m finding things to distract me from unpacking, which in turn is all that stands between me and cleaning the cat litter.

posted at 6:46 pm on Jan. 5, 2004
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Overheard

“BBFF (Best Bacon Friends Forever)”

...who said it?

“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”

...who said it?

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”

...who said it?

“Ever have something in your teeth that you cannot stop tonguing?”

...who said it?

“ . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.”

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