Patrick Havens on October 16th, 2008

When one wants a cartoon that can make you think, laugh and then tease you with more humor when you hover over the comic and get “punch line” of sorts, then you read XKCD, the cartoon for geeks.  In it you may be given a math problem that if solved answers how to deal with [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 15th, 2008

This is a tough question…  A person works hard to get their small business going and just when it looks “profitable” it looks like they’ll get taxed more.  Well a plumber decided to confront Obama about this… to a very informative answer.
Note: I am biased for Obama because of intelligent answers such as this…
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Patrick Havens on October 10th, 2008

With few exceptions, there’s really no reason to venture any further east than Papillion, Nebraska, because the best beers in the nation – maybe the world — are made in Colorado, California, Alaska, Oregon and rest of the West.
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On the other hand, California turned in a typically magnificent performance. Breweries like Stone, Sierra Nevada, Anderson [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 9th, 2008

He has it up on iTunes, and now here is a music video up on YouTube. Here it is, a funny parody of T.I.’s chart-topping single, “Whatever You Like.” You know I’ll be buying this new album.
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Whatever You Like

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Patrick Havens on October 8th, 2008

I thought this was appropriate to show how the poor dollar feels falling as fast as it has.

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Patrick Havens on October 4th, 2008

For the past three (or is four days?) this sites SQL server was down.  And it wasn’t just, “damn I need to give that a kick and a reboot” down.  It wasn’t there.  I found a post where they noted that they where having problems Thursday (started Wed) so I just put in a ticket, [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 28th, 2008

These look like videos from a number of years… But some amazing examples of people who perhaps should be removed from the gene pool.

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Patrick Havens on September 27th, 2008

I loved Sin City & 300, I can’t imagine anyone that didn’t.  I’m not sure if I feel the urge for The Spirit.
I’m not sure I get a clearer understanding of The Spirit from this new trailer, but I’ll be damned if there aren’t more quotes perfect for any occasion. As you probably know, it’s [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 27th, 2008

I saw this, for sale, at ThinkGeek and I almost hit buy immediately. But my son is 7. We don’t havea Wii, so he doesn’t know Mario Brothers… let alone old school 8 bit Mario Bros.  So what do you think…  his room has rental white painted walls.  Would be one way [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 26th, 2008

It gets better… that’s all I can say.

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