I was having a little ’80’s flash back last night when I heard this song from The Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way.

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Week 3 of the NFL season was a good one overall for me, for my beloved Forty-Niners and the NFL.
For me, I spent a glorius Sunday day in the Dude Shack watching up to 5 games at a time.  In my pick-em pool, I ended up 10-6 and tied with four others for 1st place.  [...]

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One of my all time favorite college bands from UCSC! Camper Van Beethoveen with Take the Skinheads Bowling.

Story time…..
Reminds me of the time a group of skinheads came to a kegger party The Laurel Project (my house) was throwing back in November 1986. Near the end of the night, I caught a skater [...]

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Bananadoo with fellow Gnome

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Just got back from Toyota Santa Cruz where my better half just purchased a 2009 Bronze Toyota Prius.  We had been on the waiting list since June 28th when I bought the new Banana Tacoma Truck (oh, you didn’t know it is a Banana Truck?!?).  We will be picking up the hybrid car on [...]

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One of my many hobbies – or is it just a quirk? – is that I like to identify locations in movies and televisions. Basically, while I am watching movies and or television, I try to identify the location that they are shooting in and then list in my head where has it been [...]

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Scalability and stability in Second Life are huge issues.  Why can we not get more people on at one time?  And while many promises have been made over the last few years in in virtually every infrastructure-related announcement from Linden Lab, many of my clients and friends indicate that they’re finding the progress to be [...]

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Ask A Ninja sent me The Ninja Handbook (I was very honored) and let me tell you, this is a GREAT handbook. I will be ordering a few copies for my friends as Christmas gifts this year. So if you receive one from me, well I guess you know I consider you a friend.  [...]

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I should call my week 2, Weak 2.  Man, I sucked.  I ended up 6-9 in my picks and lost in Fantasy Football.  Blah.
Knowing that I would be out of the loop due to being away for the weekend, I was not surprised how poorly I did but it is still a poor performance.  Oh [...]

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I had a few inquiries about my picks for week two, so here they are in bold.  I was torn about the New England / NY Jets game and picked Seattle to beat my beloved 49ers.  I feel strong on Kansas City beating Oakland due to the lack of harmony (again) with the Raiders. Disclaimer:  [...]

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My fantasy football team had a good week, posting a victory despite the poor performance of Carson Palmer and T.J. Houshmandzadeh. In the 10 team league, I will be ranked 3rd after week 1. My top players were Chicago’s Matt Forte and Buffalo’s Marshawn Lynch.
In my pick-em league, I ended up [...]

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I ordered my copy of Spore today after forgetting to order it last week. Then a couple of friends called today to brag. I am looking forward to playing the much hyped game so I checked out Spore Creator and had some fun this afternoon. One of the cool features it the [...]

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Here are my notes from Wednesday, Sept 3rd Meet-Up. Disclaimer – these are my notes, so please do not think the speakers actually said or claimed anything I wrote down.
Santa Cruz New Technology Meet Up
September 3, 2008
Message from Doug Erickson -

Agenda
Silicon Valley Meet Up next Tuesday
House Keeping

Sponsor – Soquel Group

Local [...]

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When I posted the Palin video yesterday, the hits on this site was amazing with over 1000 hits. So in salute to that here is more from Jon Stewart on the reason why the Republicans holding were their convention in Minnesota. Hint: Bathroom jokes coming..

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In honor of Chris Matthews – the lads from Ireland with Kite – live audio from Sydney with video clips.

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