January 2007

Question re: Internet Explorer.

January 28, 2007

If I have multiple Explorer windows open, is there any way to silence one or more of those windows without muting the entire computer? Bonus points if your answer includes neither a suggestion that I use Mozilla instead of IE nor a suggestion that I buy a Mac instead of a PC. 7 Responses to [...]

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Wife of the Year.

January 21, 2007

At first glance, the average red-blooded American male might hope that Colleen Pavelka does seminars: Nine months pregnant and married to a fervent Bears fan with tickets to Sunday’s NFC Championship game, Colleen Pavelka didn’t want to risk going into labor during the game against the New Orleans Saints. Due to give birth on Monday, [...]

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Superpower.

January 8, 2007

After careful consideration, I have decided that if I could have any superpower, it would be the ability to fall asleep at will. Would it help me protect the world from whatever threats it might face? No. Would it help me achieve total world domination should I go the villain route? No. But sleeping at [...]

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Resolutions for 2007.

January 7, 2007

First let’s review last year’s resolutions: 1. “I shall procrastinate less.” Kept, believe it or not. 2. “I shall be a better friend to my friends, and better enemy to my enemies.” I’ll have to ask my friends. My enemies are not currently in a position to answer. 3. “I shall pass Illinois’s’s Assessment of Professional Teaching.” Kept, [...]

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January 2, 2007

A few weeks ago, I opined that in spite of the death sentence, and in spite of the rejection of his appeals, and in spite of the insistence that the execution be carried out within thirty days, there was absolutely no way the Iraqis would execute Saddam Hussein. I would have bet a good bit [...]

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Thoughts whilst on post-Christmas tour.

January 2, 2007

My second-through-eighth-day of Christmas trip this winter: Jacksonville to Charleston to see my old college roommate, his wife and their kids; to Anderson, SC to feast with a friend on leave from Iraq; to Greer, SC to have breakfast with my best friend Chip; to Raleigh to visit Aabrock and Nikita; to Charlottesville to hang [...]

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