Official Urban Golf Constitution

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Urban Golf, as played in Rochester Minnesota, has seen a steady growth in the last couple months.  With growth, comes input from many sources.  Today, I have decided to form the Urban Golf Coalition of Rochester Minnesota.  You’re either with us, or you’re against us.  The UGCRM will seek to demonstrate consistency in the rules [...]

My Favorite Blog Posts

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It’s been 52 days since I started this blog.  Having successfully written 45 blogs, I think I should look back and pick out some of my favorite posts in case you might have missed them.  These aren’t my most viewed, most popular, or most controversial, these are just my personal favorites. Piracy Didn’t Kill The Music [...]

Why Twitter Will Rule The World

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Categorized Under: Friends, Life
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Twitter isn’t new by any means.  It’s new in the sense that it’s finally branching out from just the “in the know” people, to mainstream online users.  MySpace is bloated with spam, and runs like crap.  Facebook is cool, but the applications drive me crazy. The whole point of these web sites is to find out [...]

Why The Federal Reserve Sucks

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Categorized Under: Life
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– The Federal Reserve is a private bank. – The Federal Reserve has never been audited. – The Federal Reserve prints money out of thin air. – The Federal Reserve destroys your savings. – The Federal Reserve uses your savings to bail out corporations. – The Federal Reserve caused the financial crises. Every dollar The Federal [...]

When Bad Packaging Strikes

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Categorized Under: Humor, Life
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Now, I would never be confused with an environmentalist, but this is a little crazy. I recently ordered some cabling from Circuit City, and also Sweetwater.  When I saw the massive Circuity City box on my doorstep, I thought someone had made a mistake and sent me the wrong stuff. I decided to open the box [...]

Ding Dong Ditch Fail

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Categorized Under: Humor, Life
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Today, while hopelessly trying to reformat my PC, I was alarmed by the urgent ringing of my doorbell.  It was one of those doorbell rings that only friends and family do, where they push it so rapidly the chime starts to give out under the stress. So I threw on some pants (so I didn’t have [...]

How To Be a Complete Tool Bag

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Categorized Under: Humor, Life, Music, Religion
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So what is a “tool bag”?  In order to define a tool bag, we must first define a “douche bag”, and from there I will explain the difference between the two. A douche bag is the scientific name for people who show up in public wearing wife-beaters or oversized jeans. They can also be found wearing [...]

Storm In A Teacup

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Categorized Under: Life, Web Design, Work
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While working on one of his inventions, a colleague asked Thomas Edison why most of his inventions failed.  Thomas Edison replied something along the lines of, “None of my inventions have failed, I’ve just proven hundreds of methods that don’t work.”  I love this quote.  If Edison had quit working on his inventions when one [...]

10 Recent Movies That Will Change Your Life

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Categorized Under: Life, Movies
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Okay, well maybe these movies won’t change your life, but these are 10 movies that I think everyone should see.  I’ve seen a number of “Top 10″ movie lists, so I decided to compile my own, with my own theme.  I went for the “life changing” theme.  These are 10 recent movies (released after 2000) [...]

Explorations in Lateral Thinking

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Categorized Under: Life, Misc
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Since I was pretty young I’ve always trained my brain to think “outside the box”, also known as lateral thinking.  Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.  Lateral thinking can be used to help in solving problems but [...]