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Take that Bender

The robot is going to lose.  Not by much.  But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.Adam Smith
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Signal:Noise

While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.Lee Gomes
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Roy’s Cuddling Index

Here is the best way to remember what the dew point means; use Roy’s Cuddling Index:Favorable 50’sSultry 60’sStifling 70’sUnbearable 80’sMeteorologist Roy Finden on Almanac, 9 July, 2010
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Minneapolis

I went out with some guys (Darrell, Dave N. and Josh R.) for wings at Runyons, to see the movie The Other Guys, then we decided to go for ice cream.While standing in line we […]
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Running Times

My cousin John’s step daughter, Shalane Flanagan (Bronze Medal, Beijing 2008, 1000m), is on the cover of the September 2010 Running TImes.  Now if I can just find a copy of it on the newsstand.via […]
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The future is now

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.  The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of […]