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There's something amazing about machines. And I'm not talking about artificial intelligence and technology of today's standards - I mean machines with sprockets, prongs, springs, arms, wheels, levers, tickers, and all manner of tiny things that serve a specific, yet not unimportant purpose.

For instance, this. I want one of these.... a film projector, replete with shutters, apertures, speed and focus knobs... so beautiful. A
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Unemployment is no longer fun.

I mean, cripes! Why is it so cripes darn difficult to find a job?

Yet another interview ended with a vague "thanks for your time, but we're pursuing other candidates" email.

A friend of mine recommended that I try to be of the mind that perhaps I was just too qualified to be doing drone work. It can be hard,...
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So I haven't had much to say lately. This morning, though, I had a little bit of an emotional reckoning when I woke up to an email from none other than the great Joe Hawley of Tally Hall (now working under the pseudonym ミラクルミュージカル) - holler if you're a fan!

It's been just about 4 years since I lost my brother to leukemia, and a...
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I've known for some time that my grandfather was a talented musician. It wasn't until the past 2 years or so that I've begun to discover just how awesome he actually was.

After having found a CD in his house of some old recordings of 78s by a band whose name translated roughly into what I had seen emblazoned on his music stand in old...
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Here's a brief history lesson I learned lastnight. Apparently, there were more than just the 13 virtues of Benjamin Franklin that I'd grown up learning about. Franklin as a young man compiled a list of personal "great virtues" to which he planned to dedicate himself, listed in his autobiography - but these I'd never encountered on that list. Might these be mis-attributed? Somehow, I doubt...
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...is back again. For what seems like years now, the eerie tune of "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" has been drifting into my bedroom window on the warm breeze of spring, but from where it's coming from I can't quite tell. The development a few blocks away? The parking lot of the abandoned special ed school behind the backyard fence? Yet it never seems to...
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I hate making uncomfortable decisions. Or rather, dealing with the consequences from making them.

A few months ago I made my first foray into the world of online dating. Yay! Despite a few hurdles (recent discovery: a lot of people are really fucking RUDE when they have the relative anonymity of the internet behind them!), I've been in a happy, if somewhat rickety dating scenario...
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A little late, but it's time to share some fantastical vinyl discoveries from RSD '14. Wheeeeeee!

By "let's", I basically mean "I". GEEK RANT! Aaaaaaaand.... go.

I'm a big Tolkien fan. Have read most of his texts, re-read them, and scour blogs about philology and mythology in relation to anything I need clarified from his writing. But I'm certainly no purist when it comes to creative deviation in switching from medium to medium. The Lord of the Rings movies are incredibly...
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So strange, in fact, that I often feel as if the rest of the world is far stranger once I leave and return to normality. Despite all of the junk (and there is a LOT), the amount of stories that accompany the denizens of those creaky shelves is sort of mind boggling. In one corner hung a set of 12 marionette puppets from a Chinese...
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Never mind the context. I decided to have some fun while not doing job applications and make a list of as many words as I could think of that seem either or both weird and squishy. Behold! Onomatopoeia is fantastic if you can find an appropriate outlet for it! Also, many of these can be combined to make excellent insults when dealing with unwanted hecklers....
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