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Archive for October, 2006

0.55 terabytes  

I just moved a 250 GB hard drive from my old machine to my new one… and I just realized that I now have 0.55 terabytes of storage in this box. That blows me away.

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Listening  

Son: Dad, I hear fireworks!
Me: You do? I don’t hear any but I believe you. You have better ears than me.
Son: I do?
Me: Your ears are young so you can hear better than me. My ears are old.
Son: Parent ears only hear bad things.
Me: Bad things? Like what?
Son: Like things breaking and messes and opening [...]

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Want to know the best part about Dibs ice cream?  

We recently bought a couple of packages of Dreyer’s Dibs bite-sized ice cream, mainly so it would be easier for the kids to have ice cream without making a huge mess all over the place. Total success and they taste good, too. But the best part… Guess what the serving size is. 2 pieces? 8 [...]

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Boy philosopher  

Lovely and Talented Wife: Ok, bud, get your shoes on.
Son: Um, Mom. The question is: “Where are my socks?”
Lovely and Talented Wife: That is the question, isn’t it? Socks and shoes, Plato.
Son: Ok, Mom.

He’s four, people.

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I kicked Dell’s ass!  

So I went to buy a new computer (because my current aging machine is really starting to annoy me sometimes—it’s several years old) and since my last few purchases have been from Dell I clicked on over to see what they were offering. Isn’t it funny that the simultaneous advance of technology and the decreasing [...]

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