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the celebration trifecta
This weekend was a success. I’d like to thank K$, Mare, and Neil for orchestrating the events so well, and the memories will stay embedded in my mind.
Friday night was the kick-off for the birthday celebration. We enjoyed a delicious dinner at Trudy’s and some quality drinks. I had my complimentary Mexican martini as well [...]
Posted by Sig on April 14th, 2008 at 10:44pm under DVDs, comics, food and recipes, life, writing.
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the birthday boy
I was planning on getting my haircut today, but I figured that I’d go get it tomorrow. The barber I normally go to is located near my mom’s house, and I have to pick up the food for the party that I’m keeping in her fridge. It’ll save me some gas if I do it [...]
Posted by Sig on April 11th, 2008 at 8:03pm under comics, food and recipes, life, writing.
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the retailer roundtable program
With my fairly recent rekindled passion for comics, I can say that my comic-buying madness is steadily declining. I’m sticking to current titles that I am reading right now, and I am satisfied with that. I am also satisfied with working through the back issues, discontinued series, random issues from the ’90s, and graphic novels [...]
Posted by Sig on April 8th, 2008 at 5:16am under comics, life, writing.
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the exotic thai
After a trip to Costco, Mare, my mother and I all enjoyed dinner at Exotic Thai. This is our second time to dine at this restaurant, and it was as good as the first time.
Exotic Thai is located on the corner of Braker and Lamar. I want to say that they haven’t been open for [...]
Posted by Sig on April 5th, 2008 at 11:12pm under food and recipes, life, writing.
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the wall of flame
K-Money succeeds at making the Wall of Flame at Pluckers on Research in Austin, Texas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegqCYCq_Tw
The group cheers him on as he consumes Fire in the Hole wing #25. Gunner is to his right with an iPhone capturing the moment as well. Neil is on his left very entertained.
Notice at 12 seconds in when K-Money raises [...]
Posted by Sig on April 2nd, 2008 at 2:24am under food and recipes, life, writing.
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the 3hirty (aka the april post challenge)
Similar to what I did in February, I am challenging myself to do the same for the month of April. Will this be a bimonthly challenge? I don’t know but by the looks of it, quite possibly.
I have another post that I will be writing tonight, and this will be the April kick-off post.
What’s going [...]
Posted by Sig on April 1st, 2008 at 1:53am under food and recipes, life, music, work, writing.
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the upgrade was successful
Yesterday, WordPress 2.5 was officially released. As you can tell from my previous post, I was skeptical since I experienced a couple issues I had with 2.5-RC1 were minor. I went for the upgrade anyway, and it was successful.
I didn’t do a clean install but went the route of upgrading 2.3.3 to 2.5. I had [...]
Posted by Sig on March 30th, 2008 at 6:03pm under life, writing.
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the importance of deactivating plugins
WordPress has released the second candidate for Version 2.5.
With the eager anticipation from the WP user community, I boldly went where I haven’t gone before and tried out Version 2.5-RC1. What resulted was days worth of headache after minor pieces of the puzzle broke, and I had no idea how to fix it.
I consider myself [...]
Posted by Sig on March 27th, 2008 at 1:11am under writing.
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the how to
With a paid subscription to WIRED magazine, readers are given a free gift. One of the gifts is How To, a guide published in August 2007 on how to do a multitude of tasks.
The contents are divided up into three sections: how to work, how to live, and how to play.
Some of the articles include:
Popularize [...]
Posted by Sig on March 18th, 2008 at 12:31am under writing.
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the t.g.t.f. part deuce
Thank Goodness Tomorrow’s Friday.
Oh, what a week. Work managed to consume me. For a while, I enjoyed that I could conquer the challenges that I encountered at work. This week has been overwhelming, and I have felt drained these past couple days.
Yesterday, I was so drained that I didn’t even feel like doing much of [...]
Posted by Sig on March 6th, 2008 at 10:34pm under life, work, writing.
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the leap day
Happy Leap Day!
Yes! I have successfully written 29 posts this month to celebrate the 29 days of February that only come around every four years.
I will be watching NOFX rock out a sold out show tonite at Stubb’s.
An attack on the Chinese buffet has been scheduled for this Sunday. At least half a dozen of [...]
Posted by Sig on February 29th, 2008 at 5:32am under food and recipes, life, music, writing.
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the memory foam mattress
Today, my memory foam mattress arrived in the mail. I entered a video contest back in December, and the company hosting the contest picked the ten best videos. The contest was to make a commercial for the company. The winners received a free memory foam mattress with a foundation. The video I made with Neil [...]
Posted by Sig on February 29th, 2008 at 4:55am under life, random, writing.
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the secret life of a blog post
The February 2008 issue of Wired had an interesting article titled The Secret Life of a Blog Post. Being a fan of the blog revolution and thought it would also be interesting to others, I made a PDF copy of the article.
Right-click the image below and Save As to download the PDF. Left-click if you’re [...]
Posted by Sig on February 26th, 2008 at 11:15pm under writing.
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