Author Archive: topher

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But the caravan passes on. That’s an old Arab saying, believed to have come from Somalia. I read it first in a Louis L’Amour book, and the context was that despite the words and actions of naysayers, jerks, and antagonists, Right And Good will continue. The older I get though, the more I see it […]

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I really like acoustic guitar. A lot. I have an m3u of good guitar stuff from all my mp3 dirs with some zeppelin, eagles, mike oldfield, etc. e pointed me to the Rodney Branigan site. Rodney is very very good. How good? Check out the video and see. It’s like coke for a guitar junkie, […]

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For those who don’t read Slashdot (enough), the BBC has announced that they’re going to release their audio and video archive online, free for everyone, as the BBC Creative Archive. That’s awesome. I’m VERY surprised. It sort of feels like a significant point in human history. Television and radio have been around a long time, […]

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A woman was assigned to photograph mule wranglers in the Grand Canyon. She asked around and found just the right guy to take pictures of, a guy from Montana. He was a little tense in front of the camera, so she started asking him questions to draw him out. “What do you do here?” she […]

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So, today I saw something cool on TV, and started telling Alan about it. By the time I got to the end, I realized it was an excellent blog post. I’ve noticed that in other situations as well. I’ll start to tell someone about something cool, and realize that I’ve been talking a long time. […]

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Today’s my birthday, and so far it’s a great day. The weather is great, I had the world’s largest doughnut, bacon, and OJ for breakfast, and in a little bit I’m going to see Pirates Of The Caribbean again. Life is good.

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So, I’ve had a whole bunch of posts rattling around in my head this last week, and rather than pull a ron, I’ll break them up (mostly because I categorize them). I’ll also most this one LAST, so it’s at the top. This makes 7 today.

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We rented Shanghai Knights the other night. We didn’t see it in the theater. We saw Shanghai Noon at home too. Sound bad? It wasn’t. I like Jackie Chan. The best part about every movie he’s ever made are the credits. He’s the funniest there. In this movie, Jackie’s father (who guards the Emperor’s Seal […]