Patrick Havens on June 27th, 2008

I ran across the above “motivational Poster” and I was struck with this.  There are so many bad steriotypes out there about Americans as it is.  Laziness didn’t used to be one of them.  In fact we used to be scorned because we didn’t have patience and we’d rush to get something done.  But lately [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 18th, 2008

Given the money a woman’s beauty can shine.  In the below pictures that where emailed too me, a number of women were offered and given an extreme makeover.  In some cases I can tell the change was really minor, and just cleaning up.  But some surprised me, and made me wonder what all was done.

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I’ve been hosting with Dreamhost for a good long while, and they have been doing their bit to be a green host for a while (meaning this blog is sorta green if not in content).
Heck here is how Dreamhost put it:
DreamHost is carbon neutral. We’ve calculated the impact of everything that DreamHost uses and leaves [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 21st, 2008

Playing video games for a few years now I have played with a large variety of people from kids in their teens too grandparents in their 50’s and 60’s. The main constant is the relationships that are created in playing multiplayer games. I can count on one hand the number of anti-social people [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 20th, 2008

I am wondering how much is too much…

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Patrick Havens on April 7th, 2008

The President of the United States doesn’t actually get paid a lot.  Most of their wealth is put in a trust while president and they make most their money afterwards.  The office was made more as a servant of the people thing.  But that said… even I had to laugh at the information below.
A Prostitute [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 23rd, 2008

NPR had a review and interview with Benjamin Skinner and author who decided to go out and get first hand experience on what had been rumored….
Day to Day, March 11, 2008 · With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 8th, 2008

I read the below article and I cringed. Child Protective Services where created after many calls for someone to “think of the children.” But as more stupid laws, and more people wanting to give their job meaning… The CPS agency became more of a club for kids to use to terrorize parents or nosy [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 4th, 2008

A great write up about how men and women communicate

I came across this great write-up about male/female communications that had me going, “YES! This is exactly how it is.” An article written in plain English that looks like something a master in psychology might of explained to a ghost writer.
As good as the write up [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 2nd, 2008

I found below interesting. I knew some of it… but in a few cases I was surprised at the answers.

Some colors become huge successes early on and then fade off into obscurity… while other colors go the distance and become international icons. Here we look at 11 of the great color legends… Stop Sign Red, [...]

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