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OK, I’ll admit it - downloading music is a huge weakness of mine, and I’m not talking about iTunes or other legal, pay-per-download sites… I love music and I’m always on the lookout for new artists, but feeding this addiction gets expensive so I tend to frequent
torrent sites for my musical desires. [...]

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This for all the
Back to the Future fans out there.

“Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited”
Watch the The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance of parts I and II synched up in split-screen.

This past Sunday was my company’s family picnic. This year it was at
Kings Island. (Last year it was at Coney Island.)
The weather was great and so was the companionship for the day. I invited my friend Carrie to attend as a thanks for helping me run the 5K, but unfortunately she [...]

Well, he did it. Kyle MacDonald traded
one red paperclip for a house. The final trade was a paid, credited, speaking role in an upcoming film for a house in Kipling Saskatchewan. Check out
oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com for the full trading history.

Whoa, 8500 bottle rockets being launched at once!

Probably more impressive, and scary, in person, but still pretty amazing.

Did you ever make up new hand signs for paper, rock, scissors? I sure did, back in my my days of youth. My friends and I came up with about 10 or so additional symbols, including water, tree, fire, wind, dynamite and rabbit. We had trouble remembering what beat what, so the [...]

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday, dear Dad
Happy Birthday to you

What happens when mix 523 Mentos and 101 bottles of Diet Coke?
Think
Bellagio fountains…

Watch it

I can’t get that song out of my head…

I saw this on my NKY neighbor’s blog -
Oddessey2000 and thought I’d take a stab at it.
Find your
personalDNA by taking this personality test. It’s a pretty nice test, with several different methods of answering the questions. Much better than those multiple choice tests…
My results, and some of the descriptions, follow:

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