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My last post came at an interesting time for more than myself.

With graduations abound, several friends and family had intoxicated themselves to one level or another. Nothing bad has come of it, at least in my estimation of situations.

The most I’ve seen is that same dogged behavior where alcohol combines with sincerity and releases social anxiety such that one can speak importantly about unimportant things. You know, the phrases that start with ’seriously though, don’t’ you think…’ and ramble on for discoveries no one will remember 4 hours and 5 Ibuprofen later.
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In college, social groups find just millions of reasons to throw parties. The paper I worked for was no different.

With finals around the corner, parties for the last night of production and the barn party, which is happening as I type this, are executed with drunken authority.

I attended none of these. Instead, I worked.

At first, I was saddened at the notion of missing this final hurrah with my peers, but I’m coming to a certain quietude and a refreshing confidence.
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It’s important to separate what the issue is on a larger scale from the instance that reminds us something is wrong.

On November 13, 2004 Kevin Sites, a freelance videographer, kept focus on a cryptic scene of Marines in a war-torn mosque. The wounded men inside had been shot, wounded, treated and disarmed. Some were dead, others were waiting.

A Marine claims one of them is playing dead and fires a round into the wounded’s head, his propped up leg limps to the ground.

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Bill Gates, the Microsoft myth

Earlier, my computer failed me. Well, Windows 2000 failed me. The components held up, but my OS had no resolve. Shocker for anyone who remembers Windows 98 failing during its inaugural demonstration to the world.

Why do we deal with it? I’ll tell you why. Point and click.
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Depending on your age and on line geekiness, you’ll understand the mechanism that promotes this problem.

You see, when on line chat surged to public availability with services like AOL people learned to get a long in nearly exactly the same way they did in public.
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This will be a quick post. That’s because, out of no where, Windows has done me the fine honor of just not wanting to work anymore.

There is a chance it has to do with installing over 100 programs in the past several months, many of which I was just ‘checking out’ for friends or interested parties. This built up a large registry file full of empty holes, which allow my OS to operate at the speed of mush.
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I had a chance to meet Anderson Cooper last week, and I didn’t share that experience here in lieu of so many other things going on. With some time to sit back and think upon it, I’ll now share a little of the experience.

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