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The Problem With Dual Monitors

The Problem With Dual Monitors

Sure, having dual monitors is pretty awesome. I mean, I can have four documents open simultaneously without overlap. Or, I can have email, music program, web browser and word processor open. And then there’s streaming video. But what nobody tells you about having dual monitors is that your glass and your bottle are going to [...]

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The Grand Result of Today’s Creative Brainstorming Exercise

Two-headed Space Nazi Sharktapus Rampage That’s a license to print money right there.

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The Greatest Compliment I’ve Ever Received

You have this way of condensing a sentence down to it’s most baffling reduction and yet it still makes so much sense. -Justin Koeppen I now have to get that framed.  

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Too Good To Steal

Too Good To Steal

Many, many years ago, back before “the Internet,” I belonged to a BBS called Top Gun. On said BBS there was a member who would pop on every now and again continue a lengthy, very funny, serial story. Each episode of said story would end the exact same way, “…and then the squirrels attacked.” Every [...]

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Return to the Nightly Blackout

Return to the Nightly Blackout

As I sit down to write this, I have seven minutes until blackout. Okay, that sounds bad. I’m fine. I’m sober. I actually just drinking a coke and will switch that for tea in a bit. However, after some recent chiding, both from friends and that wall in the photo above, I decided it was [...]

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Enter the Blue Pen

After a sporadic five months, I can say with some certainly that Project Kingdom does not suck. It’s not great, but as you can see above, the bones are there. All I have to do now is go back, cut out the crud, rewrite the crap and fill in the holes. It was a bit [...]

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Enter the Green Pen

Late in the evening on Labor Day, I finally wrapped up the first draft of Project Kingdom. I popped the champagne, invited over some close friends and threw some steaks on the grill, and promptly put the printed beast onto the shelf with all of my other work. It wasn’t easy. I wanted to jump [...]

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It’s So Big and Other Observations

The above photo is notable for several reasons: 1. It is photographic evidence of me wearing pants on a weekend 2. Despite having been out of the Army for six years now, I still haven’t found t-shirts more comfortable than Army issue brown tees. and… 3. Yes, I have the gall to hang a Doves’ [...]

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A History of Feeling Small

Let me please preface this by saying that my friend Summer has a job that I am exceptionally enviable of – she works at the Hayden Planetarium in the American Museum of Natural History. That very museum has released a video using 4D mapping technology to impart just how little we are when compared to [...]

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SMCRVA Presentation

Ah, the presentation that many of you missed – be it for geography, prior engagements, or because your Prof wouldn’t let you out of class. No matter, the internet triumphs again. Here’s my presentation complete with non sequitor question and answer session. Niche Communities and Social Networks – A Presentation from Bradley Robb on Vimeo.

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