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Charles L. Black on Louis Armstrong
I am in the middle of watching Ken Burns’ awesome Jazz DVD Set. I never realized the importance of Louise Armstrong had in our music and culture: Charlie Black, a freshman from University of Texas, happened to go see Louis Armstrong at a club in 1931. He knew nothing of jazz and never heard of Louis Armstrong. […]
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The Best Roasted Chicken Recipe
This chicken recipe consists of making a “compound butter” consisting of garlic, spices and butter and sticking it under the chicken skin while it cooks. I have made this a half dozen times and each time people are completely blown away on how good it is. The only problem I keep running into having to […]
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Save Money – Get DSL Without a Phone Line
Here is a great tip that could save you over $500 a year: You no longer need to keep a home phone just for internet access. Costs and Savings Historically, DSL or “Digital Subscriber Line” worked over your home phone line, which forced us to have to pay for basic phone service in order to […]
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Stevie Wonder’s Election Night Toast
Recounting the story of seeing Stevie Wonder at Mr. Chow’s in Beverly Hills on election night, Taylor Swift told this story to Ryan Seacrest this morning on his radio show: “…Half way through the meal, they dim all the music in the restaurant and it was completely silent and one of the waiters said: “Hey, […]
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A Parent Must Have: Flip Video Camcorder
Every parent goes through a video phase where they want to document their kids life. Most realize pretty fast that their $1,000 HD video camera purchase was a waste since: It’s a pain carrying around the video camera Extemporanous moments don’t happen because to catch it you would be forced to shoot ALL the time. No one […]
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Ebay’s Paypal Shipping Is Raping You
I just sold an old video camera on ebay for $203. The buyer paid via paypal, and normally my next step is to go into paypal to print the shipping information. This time instead of presenting me with the buyers shipping information, Paypal prompted me to try to their new UPS Shipping solution. Paypal said […]
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How to Eat in the Apple Store
I just happened to look and see Phoenix doing this out of the corner of my eye. It turns out he was doing this each time I gave him another cheesy.
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Google Reader Broken In Firefox
Google unveiled their new “Notes” feature yesterday, and ever since I can’t use it in Firefox 2 (even Safe Mode). This is what I see: The errors below it are: in file 1104796821-en-scr… (line 205) missing } after function body var Zs=”entry-via-link”;Qs.prototype.gC=function(a,b){if(!a||a.length==0)return;… in file reading-list (line 111) _FR_scrollMain is not defined var userId = “GR-” […]
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Twittering Samantha’s Delivery
In order to keep everyone updated as often as they want to be informed, I am twittering the pregnancy from this stage forward.