tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30378392011-09-09T09:15:02.890-04:00Whatever random crap I can pull out of my head. Just like every other Blog out there, really. Boosh!The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.comBlogger741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-21234689932223211332011-09-09T09:14:00.000-04:002011-09-09T09:15:02.903-04:00

They Might Be Giants' brand new album, Join Us Flood! The local stations' 24-hour flood coverage has been nothing short of magical, in the "college radio show when the CD player breaks down" sense. The anchors on 16 are currently showing Facebook photos in order to kill time until something, anything, new comes in, and as I'm typing this have forgotten the meteorologist currently on duty, who

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From the "No, not the Dacia Sandero" Dept.Since we last checked in on the progress of Scranton's luxury condominiums in 2006, they've finally managed to tear down the other half of that building in the back of the lot, as well as another to the side! Well, most of the one to the side:Still, this sucker's gonna be ready to open any day now!We now conclude "Things that tick Peter Hocking off" week

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Series reviews such as this:The phrase "Train wreck" comes to mind, but it’s really not accurate. Trains have momentum and direction. This does not. A better analogy would be a pack of feral chihuauas in heat. With grenades taped to their backs. Entertaining and destructive, maybe even cute and tragic at times, but ultimately a waste of explosives and snake food.from Aroduc's post on the final

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Number of days it took to fix the broken images on this blog: 2Number of days it took to produce the stupid video in the previous "Technical Difficulties" post: 4Of course, most of that time was spent just trying to find a free video editor that actually did what I needed it to, without having to resort to Windows Movie Maker....And after going through about fifteen different Linux video editors

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Well, yay. Enough things on this blog are now so completely borked that I'm going to have to start paying attention to it again. Maybe all of the forthcoming image fixes will convince me to start updating this thing on a regular basis.Okay, okay. You can stop laughing now. Get off the floor. Please.In the meantime, while I scour ten years of hard drive cruft trying to find the stuff that was here

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Let's see, we have Obama, of course, then Biden, Hillary's at the end, and then we have... Wow, I never knew that Morrissey was a high-ranking cabinet official. Or is that David Byrne?I've been maintaining for a few months now that the presidency of Barack Obama, if nothing else, will at the very least result in a level of kitsch that has not been seen since the JFK era ended.Here, now, is the

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The crowd being informed that they're actually in line for the Carousel of Progress.(photo by ryptide)What, exactly, would have happened if he did swipe the pen?Well, that and why the Chief Justice of the United States can't seem to remember thirty-five goddamn words.And why they didn't send Bush out of Washington on a vehicle more fitting to his legacy than Marine One.Like, say, a tricycle.With

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Total number of people affected by this announcement: 2

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I swear that Dick Clark and Jerry Lewis are having some kind of competition over who can look more pathetic in their yearly television appearance.

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I take it back, this is the best video ever.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new winner for the "Creepiest Photo on this Blog" award!In the months since the Lucky☆Star anime aired, Saitama prefecture, the setting of the series, has been finding new and innovative ways to make a quick buck from the franchise. This includes the show's Hiiragi family being registered as official residents of Washimiya, and the Washinomiya shrine (where Tsukasa

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Red arrow - approximate location of Scavenger Hunt.This room is also the location of the latter half of In which I realize far too late...

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Next new year's eve will be the last time you'll be able to wear the incoming year as a pair of glasses for the next nine hundred and ninety one years.Start planning now.

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Man, it's amazing the kind of halftime show you can pull off when you don't have only ten poorly-funded band members trying to share the field with 412 vapid cheerleaders.There are certain high schools around here that could possibly learn a lot from this, but then again, who needs silly things like funding for the arts, when you can have hundreds of teenage girls in miniskirts kicking their legs

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It's kind of nice to see that I'm not the only one who has had to resort to the old "Bed or Chair System". In fact, it seems to be a time-honored tradition. Of course, the best solution seems to be to get a nice, big apartment and clear the local IKEA of shelving units, but A: I'm stuck in retail for at least another two months, and B: there's no IKEA around here, anyway.I have begun collecting

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So as I was in the kitchen a while ago, looking for the usual late-night "I should really be writing that paper, but I don't feel like it" snack, I spotted this really big, really nasty centipede hanging out on the wall. I lunged into the closet and pulled out the old bug spray, and gave it a shot. It immediately dropped to the floor, and began slowly wandering about randomly, stopping every

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Leaving breakfast at the Guster Student Center today, I saw an old man walking up the Commons carrying two trash bags, and wearing a Hillary Duff T-shirt.Just another day in Scranton.

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Some advice for those of you attending La Festa Italiana this weekend:Do: Enjoy your food while standing off to the side, out of the way of walking traffic.Don't: Just plop your plates down on top of your baby stroller and proceed to gather around it and have a picnic right in the middle of the sidewalk, causing that entire side of the festival to become gridlocked with people trying to get

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468: Abstract portrait of Yuki Nagato in a hipster outfit with donkey ears: Check.

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RheumatismSodium PentahydrateWhopper™ with CheeseThe 1967 Boston CelticsFive Pounds, Four and SixpenceNeko Mimi ModeFrench HornRobert Pollard Solo AlbumAir-Conditioned LobbyThe Fibonacci SequencePiece A Pie, Bud?Cowboy NealNOTE: You have only one vote, but you may use it however you wish.

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This really needs to be turned into an Internet meme.This is an image I found on my Mac after I got it from eBay last year. Apparently, its past life was as a graphics machine in the advertising department of a major home improvement chain, one that doesn't really care to wipe their hard drives when they sell an old computer. It's sad that my computers have had better jobs than I have.What I love

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One day, I hope to have a basement that looks like this. That is all.

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of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean CurseBest. Video. Ever.The album is pretty damn good, too.

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So I just get home from work, and flip Conan on in time to hear him say "-arles Barkley is on the show tonight". Which means that for a few brief moments, until he added, "He's a big man.", the show existed in a quantum superposition wherein both Charles Barkley and Gnarls Barkley were simultaneously guests.That is all.

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Am I the only one in the area that actually likes the name "Red Barons" for our baseball team? It's really starting to seem that way, with so many people calling for it to be changed with the team's new affiliation with the Yankees. I've heard a lot of people bring up the fact that Red Barons merchandise "hasn't been selling well". Well, yeah, that's probably because nobody around here really

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My day, in review:11:00 AM:Wake up after long night of planning for my radio show. (Yes, despite popular belief, I actually do plan it.) Find myself confronted by even more planning. I hate having a four-hour slot.12:15 PM: After the usual morning routines, turn on radio to find out that I've missed out on a rare appearance of The Disco Desperado.12:30 - 3:30 PM: Finish preparing for show,

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Previously, on Live from the Mai-King Chinese Restaurant...May 2006And now, our progress three months later:August 2006So, as you can see, we now have more than one car parked in front of the half-building! Better looking cars, too! Not only that, but most of them now seem to have their windows intact! Doesn't that just scream luxury? Surely, the throngs of obscenely wealthy Scrantonians are

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I just heard "Happy Happy Joy Joy" used as the theme for a Sara Lee commercial.My childhood is now officially ruined forever. Thanks.

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From the "have-to-blog-this-before-the-lawyers-kill-it" dept:(Oops, too late.)This is just wrong.Completely.Inexcusably.Wrong.To the infinitieth power.Times 2.Seriously, folks. Do we not remember what happened when someone did this with the Powerpuff Girls? That's right, Japan actually went and made it! We really don't want such a tragic event to happen again, do we?*Waits for coast to clear**

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You know how sometimes, you'll be walking along, and see somebody coming the other way, so you move to one side to get around them. But they move to that side as well, so you move to the other side, but they move at the same time, and it takes you a few attempts to finally get around each other?I just did that with my cat.

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What remains of Lonesome Road in Old Forge, after the Lackawanna River made a snack of it during the June 2006 floods.From the "Why Retail Workers Should be Armed" Dept.So the Scranton Times-Tribune has an article today about the struggles of the Dollar General store on Lonesome Road in Old Forge, which can be seen in the background of the above photo. Not struggles against rising water, or the

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So it's only July 1st right now, and yet despite this, most of my neighbors are already setting off enough rocketpower to launch a small satellite into geostationary orbit. The air outside reeks of smoke and beer, explosions can be heard from all directions, and I swear I just saw Iraqi security forces patrolling the neighborhood.Needless to say, I've put the fire department on speed dial.

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From the "This Made Me Late for My Show" Department:*I plug an ethernet cable into the computer:*Linux:Computer: Ah! An ethernet cable! *Prints a message in a log somewhere*Me: *Fires up a shell and executes a command to start the ethernet interface.*Computer: Roight-O! *Starts up ethernet adapter and connects to the network as configured, falling back on DHCP if there's no configuration*Mac:

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So XScreenSaver (an excellent collection of screensavers for UNIX-ish systems, including Mac OS X) has this saver called "FuzzyFlakes", created by Barry Dmytro, which features multicolored flakes wafting around your screen. Originally, these were pink flakes on a green background, to match the end credits of Azumanga Daioh, which were the inspiration for the screen saver. A few versions later,

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So I've been finding myself using the aforementioned Mac more and more lately, to the point where I can now almost consider it my main computer. Despite the fact that I have two much faster computers sitting here.Is this because of OS X's power, usability, and all-around design? Ehh, maybe a little.Does this have anything to do with the fact that my Windows box consistently suffers total lockups

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They're building luxury condominiums here.And by "building", I of course mean that the building in the background has been sitting there half torn-down since February.

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So last night, a customer walked up to my register to return a tub full of dead fish. That left me with 9 defective slips, which I filled out as follows:Slip 1: Dead.Slip 2: Ceased to BeSlip 3: No MoreSlip 4: It's a stiff.Slip 5: Bereft of life.Slip 6: It rests in peace.Slip 7: If it hadn't been nailed to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies.Slip 8: It's run down the curtain and joined

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Look, I'm just sayin'...

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(Source: vito_excalibur's Livejournal)

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Just when you think that the University of Scranton has finally hit the absolute bottom of the barrel...Riiiiiiiiiicola!... they decide to build a 30 million dollar ski lodge. Not only that, but they decide that, gosh, it would be just swell to eliminate two parking lots in order to erect said ski lodge.Let me just elaborate on why this is a terrible idea: As a part time student, I've spent

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So my Japanese instructor handed out a bunch of New Year's postcards from fourth and fifth graders today, celebrating the year of the dog. Three observations:I did not win the trip to Hawaii. Blasphemy.A Japanese fourth grader has better drawing skills than I do. This is not suprising. (She was about on par with your average ninth grade American anime fanartist, only without the pretending to be

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Well, it seems like it's finally happened. After all these years of managing to successfully avoid it, I now appear to be succumbing to the Dark Side. It all began in November, when I used my "holiday bonus" at work (20% off one item instead of 10%! Aren't faceless megacorporaconglomerates wonderful?) to buy myself a video iPod. It was fine at first, but then I suddenly found myself being

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From all of us here at the Mai-King Chinese Restaurant.

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Is this the best they could do?

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Dead trees for everyone!

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So now if you ever run into a Japanese woman who is attempting suicide, you'll know exactly what to say to her!(From my Japanese workbook)And now, a brief look at some of the various "What the crap?" moments in my Japanese textbook:First up, we have the image above. This is from an exercise in the workbook, where you have to listen to the CD and decide what would be the most appropriate thing for

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So I was down in the diner^H^H^H^H lounge in the basement of the student center (or, as I call it, "That place you go when the Pro Deo Room is full") today, and somebody had a talk show featuring Paul McCartney on one of the TVs there. Suddenly, a shot was fired that was heard around the world. That's right, somebody comitted the heinous act of saying that Sir Paul "wasn't that good". This, of

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Random observations from this year's La Festa Italiana:For some reason, there were a lot of people dragging their dogs along this year. This is the first year that I've ever seen anybody at this thing with a pet of any kind, and for good reason. If you've ever been to La Fester, you'll know that it is no place for pets. I even saw a few people pulling chihuahuas around on leashes, wich I'm sure

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A sheep grazing in the Turkish town of Gevas jumped from a cliff last Thursday, causing nearly 1,500 others to follow. The leap resulted in the deaths of 450 of the animals, in addition to prompting several million college radio DJ's worldwide to play the Monty Python "Flying Sheep" sketch over the course of the next week.(AP Photo)Actual conversation I had with the woman sitting next to me in

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Man, Bush is almost starting to make this too easy...(AP Photo)(AAAARRRRRRRGH!, part V)So a few weeks ago, I mentioned the oddness of the current Pop Tarts stick figure campaign, stating that I really had no problem with it until I came across that dinosaur thing. I would now like correct that statement.I couldn't put my finger on it earlier, but I knew that I've seen that style of stick figure

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(AAAARRRRRRRGH!, Part IV)My latest pay stub contains an advertisement for Britney Spears' new perfume. That pretty much says it all, really.In other news...So the big movie release this week was The Pacifier with Vin Diesel. Now is it just me, or is this the exact same movie that every action star ends his career with? How do the executives keep managing to regurgitate this idea over and over

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I just realized that this was the only blog left on the Internet that hasn't made fun of Phil Spector's hair yet. I shall now remedy this situation.(AP Photo)So for the last few days, the Scranton area has been undergoing an inexplicable influx of British people. It started with a few on Wednesday night, then by Thursday every other customer at work was rattling on about tills and kippers and

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With the scribbly minimalist comic trend sweeping the Internet by storm these days, the fine folks who make Pop Tarts have apparently decided to jump on the bandwagon. So now the foil wrappers are lovingly festooned with various hastily-drawn illustrations of anthropomorphic Pop Tarts being chased down by snack-craving doodles. I had no problem with that, until I saw this one:"Girl Being

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Well, that was quite possibly the single most funnest semester that I've had ever! It was, in fact, so great that I haven't even had the energy to write anything about it until now. That's how wonderful it was. Tremendous! Fabulous! Spectacular even! Please hold on while I go over here and shoot myself.*BLAM!*Okay, that aside, let me just sum up my entire spring semester in one word: "Whuh?".

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(AAAARRRRRRRGH!, Part III)So I noticed the other day that Oreo cookies now have the "got milk?" logo emblazoned across them:Yes, I know it's blurry. Bear with me here.Great. So now, even the food that I eat; food that I paid for, mind you; is covered with cross-promotional advertising for another product. I, for one, can't wait for the day that hospitals start tatooing diaper advertisements onto

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(Only in Scranton, Part III)

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And now, yet another random sign posted on every available vertical surface on the University of Scranton campus:At one point, there was an entire rainforest in the form of these flyers occupying the St. Thomas Hall stairwell.Wow, 98%, that's a pretty big number. But wait, according to that text on the bottom, the increase in hits occured during the week of January 31 through February 5, during

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Well, after almost three years of not doing anything whatsoever with the website I had, I've decided to take the whole thing down and try doing just the blog thing for a while. I'm sorry to disappoint the thousands upon thousands of you who I'm sure are just biting your nails to the quick waiting for the Ashlee Simpson update to "Where Are They Now: 2010", but I'm sure you'll manage. (My

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The University of Scranton's crack team of "Students who pretend to care about issues in the hope that people will think that they really aren't just a bunch of shallow twits who are concerned only with their own image" has apparently noticed that many major clothing manufacturers are running inhumane sweatshops in China. Nevermind that every other person on the face of the Earth has known about

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Well, I was going to do a long rant about how Christmas™ has become an irrecoverable waste, and how we really should just bag it and look forward to President's Day already, but everybody knows that, and yet nothing is ever done about it, so would it really make any difference? Anyway, here are some pictures of cheesy things that you could find in Scranton's famous vibrating mall over the holiday

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From this weeks Best Buy ad:Yes, I know it's pointless, and it's probably happened thousands of times before, but I have a 10-page paper that I need to get done for Tuesday, so there you go. Luckily, some graphic designer was so excited about getting a picture of his kid into a circular for a national electronics chain that he got his operating systems crossed up. Otherwise, I would have had to

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Being hopelessly stuck in Scranton, Pennsylvania for the time being, I tend to have a tremendous amount of free time on my hands. (No, really?) Indeed. Nothing whatsoever has happened in this town since that banana truck crashed, which I think was about 40 years ago. The entire city is nothing more than a series of small bars and large churches, with Italian restaurants and double-block houses

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A local radio station left a three-minute long message on my answering machine the other day. Apparently, they've been suffering from a bout of low ratings recently, and are now pulling out the desperation attempts. I predict that they will switch over to the all-"Louie Louie" format any day now, actually. So here, for your viewing enjoyment, is a transcript of the entire message, complete with

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This week: Advertising in ScrantonIn other towns, deli operators might advertise their businesses by leaving menus under the windshield wipers of cars parked in the area.Here, they leave free samples.While we're on the subject of advertising, here's one of many great signs made by the friendly people at the Crystal Candy & Nut Shop. Remember: if you ever find yourself on Pittston Ave. in Scranton

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What's the best way to show your undying support for your favorite team? Paint their logo on the hood of a beat up '85 Plymouth Horizon, of course!You know what the saddest part of this is? It probably doubled the price of the car. Although it was probably worth about $65 before, so I guess it's not really that big a deal.Next week: How to advertise in Scranton! Be there! Or not! See if I care!

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Well, it's finally happened. I've gotten so bored, so desperate for something, anything to do, that I'm actually going to write a post listing the contents of my desk. I frankly never thought that it would ever really come to this, but here it is, so you might as well enjoy. Just be thankful that this hasn't degraded into Ben Schumin's site yet. That will probably be the next update. Anyway,

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And now, I'm going to answer some of the feedback I've gotten from people just like you over the last 3 years. Actually, I'm going to answer most of it. It's pretty hard not to, since only 8 people ever bothered to send anything. In fact, the feedback file contains more "script test" entries from myself than it does actual feedback. Sad, really. Anyway, on to the first message, from "meow.":

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Yes, some girl actually asked me this the other day. I don't know what she expected; I'm a college student, I'm just as broke as she is. And what little money I did have, I had already spent on food and cartoons. So obviously, I didn't have $100 on me at the time. Okay, so then she asks me if I have $50. The answer is still no."Do you have any money at all?""Uhh... I think I have a quarter here

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Haven't updated this thing in a while. And why should I? It's not like anybody ever visits this thing.Anyway, I went to this concert up at the Montage Mountain ampitheater last year. For those of you outside the Scranton area, it's basically a stage, a giant tent with a bunch of seats under it, and a lawn that has no view of the stage whatsoever, because the back of said tent comes down in front

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Why is it that scanners absolutely, positively never work? Really? Every single time I've ever needed to scan something, I can't find a single one that works. They manage to throw error messages up the wazoo, completely lock up the system, fill the room with smoke, destroy major cities in Japan, even sing Fine Young Cannibals songs, but I have yet to actually see one successfully scan anything.

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For those of you who have actually visited this site more than once, all one of you, you may remember that I had a message board a while back. Then, almost a year ago, I swithced to an outside message board hosted by the fine folks at Computer Stew, which ceased to exist a few months ago. So today, I decided to bring the old board back. Mind you, this thing didn't have a single link at the

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Good evening, and welcome to Views Across America(TM Patent Pending), the show where we discuss current affairs with ordinary people just like you. I'm Edwin L. McGinty, and tonight, we have with us Mr. Nick Foogmaroon, a college Student from the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Good evening, Nick.Nick: Yo, yo, yo! Whut up, homeslice? Shout out to all my peeps back at Redington!

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The Hotel Casey1910-2001

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Look, Ma! An actual quasi-update! Wheeee! Uhh, yeah. So anyway, I figured that, since I haven't really updated this site since... ohh... 1963, I might as well put up one of these handy-dandy Blogger thingamawhoozits so I can at least have some new content up once in a while. It probably won't be very interesting new content, but at least it's using an HTML verson above 0.03. Not like you really

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