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dickens
SYLLABICATION:dick·ens NOUN: Informal 1. A severe reprimand or expression of anger:
PRONUNCIATION: 
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nz\ 2. Used as an intensive: What the dickens is that?
Etymology: euphemism Date: 1598: devil, deuce
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I think you'll find it worth traipsing around.
You are witnessing the fruits of a rennaisance man; A free thinker; A Civil-Libertaran; A Patriot; A wounded soul; and above all- A frightenly tenacious survivor.
I'm a Virginia Native who traces his roots to the House of Burgesses, the Mountains of the Cherokees, and to the medicine wheel of life.
I believe in truth; balance; equality; doing no harm; the human spirit; natural order based on the impermutable laws of physics; and in a divine being more complex than the words of man have ever conveyed.
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2012 Superbowl Commercials
This years game between the NY Giants and the New England Patriots was a great game.
However, no discussion, or even mentioning of the SuperBowl would be complete without bringing up the TV Ads.
I've been disappointed in the past...but not this year. This years ads are a testament to the marketing genious in this country that has driven economies all over the world.
Here are my favorite Superbowl ads from 2012. Watch and enjoy...and feel free to leave comments if you so desire.
Polar Bear Coca-Cola Commercial
AMD vs INTEL
Let me preface this post with two things:
- When building a box for myself...I don't like to go cheap.
- I have a Dual P3 1Ghz box with 1GB of RAM that I originally built in 1998 that is still outperforming a lot of off-th-shelf new P4 computers being sold by many manufacturers.
- It has an Adaptec 39160 Ultra 160 card and Drives
- It started out as a P2 400Mhz machine and 256Mb
- In 1998 I built this "scream machine" for about $800. Had I ordered it from HP, Gateway or Dell, it would've been a server...and it would have retailed for somewhere around $2,000 or more.
So now, 11 years later and after a similar computer with an MSI piece of junk M-Board (that is supposed to run at 133Mhz FSB) I am realizing that a man can not live on Laptop alone...and that it is time to build a new box.
Why They Charge $700 For Ball Joints on an Aerostar
OK. So a while back I took my 1993 Ford Aerostar to be inspected and it got dinged because she needed to have her Upper Ball Joints Replaced. So I got a great big REJECTED sticker for my troubles.
Truth be told...I had a feeling this might be the case, because I'd replaced the lower ball-joints back in 2007, and WANTED to change the uppers then...
...it just looked like a bit more work than I was ready for at the time.
So, since I was not working today, I jumped up this morning, cleaned a little, straigthened a little, and got started on this mechanics job at about noon...
...and the next thing I knew? It was dark...
What the F^cK is a T&P Valve?
So I went out to the garage to complete work on the engine from my beloved 95 4-Runner
after a 4 month hiatus(Head Gasket issues with complications)...
....when I discovered water all over the garage floor in various stages of pooling and puddling.
Ummm...what's going on here?
So I went over to the water heater for a closer look...and discovered water coming out of a long tube running down the side of the thing.
Above the tube is a valve coming out of the water heater...
The Voice Of Sarah Palin
OK. This post is going to be about sound.
More specifically, I would like to address the SOUND of Sarah Palin's voice.
For the sake of full disclosure I have to admit something to you: I have not been able to watch to completion, nor desire any longer to finish watching the movie "Fargo" because the accent of the main characters voices drives me absolutely INSANE!
The gentle, and fabulous dispositions of the people from the Dakotas aside...I'm afraid that my problem with the accent might go back to my childhood, where I had a teacher in 5th and 6th grade (One teacher...small school...two grades...all of us together in the same room for both years) named Mrs. Bowen.
Mrs. Bowen did not WASH the blackboards...she WARSHED them. She didn't drive a car she drove a CAAAHR. Hockey wasn't Hockey it was HAAHWKY.
She did NOT proclaim: "I want y'all to be quiet and listen to me while I read" (as any good southerner would)
Mrs Bowen proclaimed things like "IWanchAH t'AHL beQUITE and listen t'ME whiile iREEEED)
It was an excruciating two years, so my aversion to the accent, I am willing to admit, might simply be a psychological one.
