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Hierarchy of Needs

Dec09
2011 Rob Written by Rob

Another year, another round of Black Friday Walmart shoppers pepper spraying each other for awesome deals. What is it about Xboxes that drive people mad? You just don’t hear about Playstations leading to bloodshed.

(Oh yeah. Except for that Philly thing. I guess there is that. Point taken.)

Anyway.

So this year we went through this whole three week phase, jockeying around the penultimate question that defines the embarkment onto federally mandated holiday joviality: what the hell do you want, anyway?
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Posted in Current Events, Everyday Life, Family and Friends, Gift Ideas

Unwind and Rewind

Nov09
2011 Rob Written by Rob

So back in September, we took a vacation. A real vacation: one that involved leaving for a full week, not checking email (or at least, not any more often than absolutely necessary), steadfastly resisting the temptation to do work. We’d taken days, even weekends off before, but we hadn’t had a real vacation since our wedding in the summer of 2008. Burned out and exhausted – our business hasn’t had a slow period in almost two years now – we both desperately needed the break.
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Posted in Diversions, Everyday Life, Travel, Work

Fallout

Mar17
2011 Rob Written by Rob

Fallout Boy Says

Okay, so before anyone accuses me of offering up an insufficient sympathy dosage to the countless numbers who are facing suffering beyond comprehension in Japan today, this has nothing to do with them. I’m as shocked, riveted and sympathetic to their plight as you are. This is about the people living on this side of the Pacific who are making a run on local health food stores for medication to save them from the cloud of zombificating radioactive fallout about to descend upon California at any moment.

Japan is 6000 miles away, people. That’s about a quarter way around the Earth. So just chill out. Any radiation that shows up on the West Coast is going to be very minimal, perhaps not even detectable. Sheesh.

For those reading this who aren’t familiar with Vault Boy, he’s sort of the mascot icon of the Fallout video game series. Think of VB as the famous “duck and cover” turtle, amped up to insanely ridiculous degree.
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Posted in Current Events

BOOM!

Feb25
2011 Rob Written by Rob

Updated to WordPress 3.1 today and.. here.. we.. BOOM!

Completely fried our theme. It was overdue for a visual overhaul anyway; what’s up here now is the WP3.1 default template, so please bear with us while we cobble something a bit less out-of-the-box.

Posted in Everyday Life
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