Category: real life
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RIP Geocities
Today, Geocities, one of the earliest free web hosting companies, is shutting down. SAD FACE. I joined Geocities way back when it was called Geopages. This was in 1995, when it was organized into “neighbourhoods” (this was pre-Google, so the web had to be organized into hierarchies of links or you couldn’t find anything), and…
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I Never Fart
I promised fart talk, and apparently today is TMI Thursday, so here we go. I don’t fart. People don’t believe me when I tell them this, but it’s true. I’ll qualify by saying that of course a little one slips once in a while, like if I laugh too hard after eating a tub of…
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Book Review: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven tells three interwoven true stories: the history of the Mormon faith, the current life of Mormon fundamentalists, and the 1984 murders of an innocent woman and her baby daughter at the hands of brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, two such fundamentalists. The implication is that the Lafferty murders were not…
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