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Archive for September, 2008

Ninja Cat

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I’m checked into my hotel in San Francisco, and I’ve got a full belly, so just a quick Cat Post and off to bed for me…

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September 29th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

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A Tour of LucasFilm

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When I was in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago, high school classmate David Lenihan offered to give me a tour of LucasFilm, where he works as an R&D engineer. Like any good Star Wars geek, I immediately accepted!
LucasFilm has a number of campuses, and the one in San Francisco is located on [...]

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September 29th, 2008 at 11:12 am

Online Market World, October 1-3

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I’m in San Francisco this week, as a crew from Apogee Search are heading out to staff our booth at Online Market World.
Feel free to come on by and see us on the show floor, or even see the panel with Apogee founder and CEO William Leake.

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September 29th, 2008 at 6:28 am

Honeymoon in St. Lucia, Part Two

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Return to Honeymoon in St. Lucia, Part One, should you desire.
Now lets take a look at some of the photos from our first excursion in St. Lucia, the “Catamaran Day Sail with Lunch and Snorkel”. Although we booked our excursion prior to the honeymoon, we were on a sailboat with couples from the Sandals Resorts [...]

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September 28th, 2008 at 11:19 am

Is Texas A&M really as bad as they seem?

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Maybe Sherman is having them tank this season so they’ll get a top pick in next year’s draft … - austintex, HornFans.com
The short answer is “no”.
For a longer answer, let’s review the season so far. They opened the season with a loss at home to Arkansas State. That’s about as bad a start to [...]

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September 28th, 2008 at 10:04 am

UT versus Arkansas 2008

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The Piggies came to town today. I still have post traumatic stress disorder from their last visit. No problems today, however, as Texas wins by the score of 52-10 for the third time this year (fourth win total). A great first step on their six week tough road.
Pregame was the usual great show.

I managed to [...]

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September 27th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

Seven Worst Sequels of All Time

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7th Worst Sequel of all Time - Highlander 2: The Quickening - The original Highlander is one of my favorite movies. When the sequel was announced, I waited with great anticipation for the opening. Fortunately, I was warned of how horrible it was beforehand. Apparently, Highlander was even bigger in Europe than it was in [...]

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September 27th, 2008 at 8:40 am

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McCain benefits from low expectations

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John McCain couldn’t win the election tonight, but he certainly could have lost it.
Between McCain’s bizarre two day pause in his campaign and an undeniable deficit in charisma (compared to Obama), most weren’t expecting much from the Republican presidential candidate tonight. With those lowered expectations, McCain outperformed.
Granted, the topic was as favorable to McCain as [...]

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September 26th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

Honeymoon in St. Lucia, Part One

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Just a quick photoblog entry with some of our photos from the St. Lucian part of our honeymoon in July…
We stayed at the Sandals Grande St. Lucia, which is at the very north of the island on a peninsula. The resort faces out onto a bay on the Caribbean.

Our room, however, faced away from the [...]

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September 26th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

A Tough Road for the Longhorns

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A Hurricane Ike altered schedule results in a scary six-game stretch starting for the Texas Longhorns this weekend:

9/27: Arkansas at home
10/4: At Colorado
10/11: Oklahoma in Dallas
10/18: Missouri at home
10/25: Oklahoma State at home
11/1: At Texas Tech

Arkansas, Colorado and Okie Lite should all be wins, but Texas is young enough that they could easily loose [...]

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September 26th, 2008 at 12:52 pm