Garrett M. Vonk http://blog.garrettvonk.com Since 1981. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:37:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en Blog Attrition http://blog.garrettvonk.com/2008/06/blog-attrition/ http://blog.garrettvonk.com/2008/06/blog-attrition/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:07:58 +0000 Garrett Meta Friends http://blog.garrettvonk.com/2008/06/blog-attrition/ Wow, two recent blog closings in just a few months’ time. I’d like to take a moment to thank Joseph and Rusty for their years of great blogging at Monotonous.net and RadicalGeorgiaModerate.org.

And no, I’m not closing my blog down, even though I’m not posting lately. I’m just a lazy blogger.

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Wow. I just got an email from iRobot pitching their Pool Robot, Verro, and I was suddenly reminded of my childhood fear of automatic pool cleaning devices. You want to talk irrational and consuming fears? If I was in a pool and one of these suction cleaner things was on, you could find me on the opposite end of said pool, eying it suspiciously. It had nothing to do with any real fear of drowning or being hurt; I had the full gamut of swim lessons and was completely comfortable in the water. There was just something about these roving plastic machines that scared the shit out of me.

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  • Target: Women…Yogurt Edition
    Yogurt… the official food of women.
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  • Controlling Spending is the Key to Building Wealth
    “Americans today don’t have a problem with debt. They have a problem with out-of-control spending. Debt is simply the result. The truth is, you can’t out-earn dumb spending.”
    (tags: money reading)
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    Uploaded 27th April, 2008 to Flickr

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    Uploaded 26th April, 2008 to Flickr

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  • Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
    (tags: toread lifehacks Wired)
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  • Pulp Fiction, as performed by the King’s Men
    HAS HE THE SEMBLANCE OF A HARLOT???
    (tags: shakespeare movies funny)
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    Memorable things in Ireland

    • The Guinness Storehouse tour in Dublin
    • Doolin
    • Galway
    • The Burren, and the rest of Connemara
    • The St. Patrick’s Day Parade, where we learned that the Auburn Marching Band, too, plays Glory, Glory.

    Memorable things in London

    • Doing the most touristy thing we could think of and boarding a double-decker tour bus.
    • Seeing Wicked on the West End.
    • Seeing Dennis and Mrs. Kucinich, also attending Wicked, in the lobby. Not making any Munchkin jokes, either.
    • The London Eye
    • Grabbing old-timey guns at the Tower of London
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  • Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes | Life, Tutorials
    (tags: design reference typography tips)
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