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  <title>J. Derris - Plinky Answers</title>
  <updated>2010-10-21T17:13:55-06:00</updated>
  
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    <title>The Upside of the Down</title>
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  I try to be an optimist, it just seems when I look at the glass half-full, I&#39;m the only one that can tell it&#39;s half full of shit.
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    <title>No E's Allowed</title>
    <updated>2010-10-16T15:06:37-06:00</updated>
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          <p>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Ah, that&#39;s better. Get it out of the way.</p><br />
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  Phil walks quickly, glancing back. <br/><br/>It was his birthday today, and nobody had RSVP&#39;d to his party. In four hours, nobody would worry about anything again.<br/><br/>Phil didn&#39;t want sympathy anyway. Phil wants companionship; but barring that, subjugation would do.<br/><br/>His doom ray would finish it.<br/><br/>If only that girl hadn&#39;t spurn his invitation. Phil could put up with a lot, but that girl was a singular situation. Why did girls say a good man is optimal, it&#39;s obvious that bad is what wins. <br/><br/>Villainy might not look so good, but with nobody to judge, who could say? Moo hoo ha ha!
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    <title>Reruns of 'Futurama' still hold up</title>
    <updated>2010-03-22T15:37:57-06:00</updated>
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            <p><strong>Futurama</strong><br />
  The humor just gets better as I catch more of the subtle jokes in the background with subsequent viewings.</p>
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    <title>False Memory?</title>
    <updated>2009-12-12T13:21:05-06:00</updated>
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  Outside me window, the snow is coming down. It&#39;s been falling since I came home from work at 2 A.M. last night, and the yard and neighborhood are blanketed, but no warmth is to be had.<br/><br/>When I was really young, maybe two or three, I was playing in the backyard of our place outside of Hailey, Idaho. I was having a ball in the snow, but I fell into the canal behind the house.<br/><br/>There wasn&#39;t any water, but it was steep enough to keep me from getting up again. I don&#39;t remember when I got out, or even if I got out. For all I know, I could still be trapped in that cold canal.
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    <title>Classic and comfortable, with a tactless sharp wit?  Now that's my style.</title>
    <updated>2009-04-10T07:00:35-06:00</updated>
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          <p>I just made it big.  New author tour.  Interviews on morning news shows.<br /><br />But what to wear?</p><br />
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  I have to admit, I&#39;m a fan of the style of Hugh Laurie as Dr. House.  He combines the comfort of jeans and sneakers with sport coats and nice button-up shirts.  I do tend to let a few days go by without shaving now and then, so sign me up for this look.  With the motorcycle, of course.
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    <title>The Net is for Fools, Mark Me Among Them</title>
    <updated>2009-04-01T13:43:39-06:00</updated>
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  April 1st has come again and I was not prepared for it.  I almost didn&#39;t realize it was Fools&#39; Day until I checked my Gmail at 3:00 AM and saw the add for <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html" rel="nofollow">Gmail Autopilot</a>.<br /><br />If you haven&#39;t yet, check it out.  It&#39;s a very funny prank.  They&#39;re offering a download that will use artificial intelligence to automatically answer your email.  From Nigerian princes to coworkers, you just set up the specifications between Capitalization, Typos, Brevity, and Emoticon Use and let it enhance your relationships for you!  The manage relationships option was especially comic, as I have a few friends whose relationships seem to be on autopilot anyway.<br /><br />Gmail didn&#39;t get me, but ThinkGeek did.  After reading about Autopilot, I actually checked my email and saw the TG newsletter.  Two of their items whetted my geek appetite into a frenzy.  First, the <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ultimate-weapon.html" rel="nofollow">Ultimate Assassins&#39; Weapon Ice Mold.</a><br /><br />An ice mold that forms a working dagger?  The perfect weapon!  Stab your victim with an icy dagger that&#39;s the perfect metaphor?  And it melts away from your fallen foe&#39;s body heat?!  (Pardon the interrobang.)  Of course, I have no murderous plots afoot at the moment, but it would have made the perfect conversation piece in the punchbowl at my next dinner party.<br /><br />This next one I can&#39;t believe isn&#39;t an actual item.  The <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html" rel="nofollow">Tauntaun Sleeping Bag</a> is so awesome, I would&#39;ve bought two for my girlfriend&#39;s kids right then!  The best touch is the miniature lightsaber that opens the bag along the beast&#39;s belly.<br /><br />I may have let this year get away from me, but I&#39;ll be stocking up on pranks for next year.  I&#39;m sure <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/a4f4/" rel="nofollow">this item</a> will be a hit at the office.  Moo hoo ha ha!
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    <title>This just in: Newspaper die!</title>
    <updated>2009-03-31T15:55:04-06:00</updated>
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          <p>And if we were waiting for the newspaper, we wouldn&#39;t know about it until tomorrow.</p><br />
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  The problem with newspapers is once you get it, you&#39;re reading out-of-date news.<br/><br/>I can visit the website of my local news station and get up to the minute headlines that I would&#39;ve had to wait until the next day to read about.  Sure, I could watch the nightly news, but I have trouble listening to the phony voices of our local newscasters (although I always hope to catch one of those legendary on-air flubs, like the female newscaster who turned to the weatherman and asked, &quot;So, Bob, where&#39;s that eight inches you promised me last night?&quot;).<br/><br/>My mobile phone has a button on it.  Just one button press and I&#39;m on the headlines page.  I subscribe to news feeds on Twitter, so when big stories break, I get a text message.  I also subscribe to the Mars Rover and the Cassini Probe at Saturn, and I get updates on the new planetary data as soon as they send it.  Now that&#39;s just cool.<br/><br/>The Sunday classifieds are even being supplanted by Craigslist.com and job search websites.  It&#39;s a bit sad.  I wrote for my college paper and it was always exciting to pick up a copy and see my byline.  It&#39;s not quite the same logging onto the school paper website to see it, but that&#39;s the way things are heading.  I won&#39;t be sorry to see journalism make a switch completely to new media.  The amount of paper saved everyday is enough to console anyone with a smidge of environmental concern.<br/><br/>Alas, newspaper.  You did your duty while you were needed.  And I hope to put that paper to good use by getting my books published.
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    <title>Free food for a year!  But there's a catch...</title>
    <updated>2009-03-30T15:06:34-06:00</updated>
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          <p>In a recession, it&#39;s important to make the most of your finances.  I was recently given an opportunity to have my food delivered to me absolutely free for one entire year.  The only problem is... I have to pick one type of cuisine.  And if I&#39;m caught eating anything else, the whole thing is off.</p><br />
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  I&#39;m going to have to go Italian.  Nothing quite like some good ol&#39; oven lovin&#39; from the countryside of The Boot.<br/><br/>The creamy sauces!  The tomatoes!  The pasta!   Oh, my!<br/><br/>I love lasagna and ziti and eggplant parmigiana.  The best sauce in the world is simply alfredo with romano cheese, heavy cream, and judicious shaking from the cayenne pepper container.  Toss that in penne with saut&eacute;ed shrimp, sundried tomatoes, and mushrooms and you&#39;ve made my favorite dish ever.<br/><br/>The variety of a year-long Italian regimen would help immensely, but the best part would be the inclusion of pizza.  I asked my girlfriend this question while writing this, and she said pizza.  I thought that would be a little too specific, but luckily I already picked Italian, so pizza wouldn&#39;t be a problem.<br/><br/>Now if you&#39;ll excuse me, I&#39;ve fantasized myself into a stuffed mushroom with lemon-basil cream sauce craving.
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    <title>I must give away this million dollars?  What?</title>
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  So a mysterious figure tells me that I can have this million dollars in his suitcase, but I must give it away.  Wait, that sucks!<br /><br />Well, in the spirit of &quot;giving&quot;, I think I&#39;ll give my college enough money to cover the rest of my education.<br /><br />While I&#39;m at it, how about giving my credit card companies that last $10,000 they keep sending me requests for every month? <br /><br />My landlord should get a cut: five years of rent?  Wait, nix that.  I&#39;ll just buy a house.  I mean, er, GIVE the money to someone selling a house.  Whew, that was close.<br /><br />Now I&#39;ll give a couple hundred thousand to my bank for safekeeping.  And now the rest...<br /><br />I&#39;ll give the rest to charity.  I&#39;ll give it to a foundation for science, reason, and critical thinking here in Idaho.  Wait, no foundation for that exists here.  I&#39;ll have to start one!  The Pacific Northwest Foundation for Critical Thinking.  Hmmm... maybe not.  I&#39;m not married to the name.  Something like that to combat the copious Ghost Hunting organizations that pop up around here. <br /><br /> I can hear some of you thinking &quot;What&#39;s the harm in people going to supposed haunted houses or graveyards and misusing scientific equipment to search for anomolies in the data rather than hard evidence for the existence of ghosts?&quot;  I used to agree with you, Gentle Reader.  That is, until I realized that it&#39;s 200-effin-9 and they still <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/08/png.witchcraft/index.html" rel="nofollow"><i><b>burn women at the friggin&#39; stake for witchcraft</b></i></a> in this modern world!<br /><br />And all the money is given away.  Maybe I&#39;ll hold on to the last five bucks and buy a mocha.
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