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There are a couple of style blogs that I really like. Put This On is great in terms of editorializing style. And The Sartorialist is equally great at visually curating style. Love ‘em both. There are a few others that I follow (you can see the full list at the bottom of this post), but [...]

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Warning: this post is a total downer. You may want to avert your eyes, lest your illusions be shattered. Synergy is the term used to describe a situation where different entities cooperate advantageously for a final outcome. Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. It’s better [...]

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I always think I’m not much of a goal setter, but then I keep various little mental benchmarks in my head. Sometimes I talk about ‘em, but mostly not. Might as well mention the current goal(s)… A while ago I was able to convince some friends to plan a climb on Mt. St. Helens with [...]

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Tru got to stay up for New Year’s Eve, so to kill some time we messed around with stop motion animations. Have a look!

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My (very sweet) sister-in-law, with whom I apparently disagree mightily about both politics and religion, has a nice post-election blog posting. I considered responding with a blog post of my own, but ended up just dropping a comment in on her post. My comment is so long I probably should’ve made it into it’s own [...]

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I looked for a McCain-based version to do an apples to apples comparison, but it doesn’t appear that they’ve put one out. If you know of a McCain branded calculator similar to this, let me know and I’ll slap it up here too.

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(Advent Conspiracy)

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I’ve been up King’s Mountain before. This time though, I went with an old friend, Del, and Truman (and Frodo). We took it slow, but it was super fun, and Tru did great! Truman wanted to carry my Camelbak for a while, so he carried it from just below the summit ridge up to the [...]

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