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2008 In Review

A lot of people dismiss New Year’s celebrations. “It’s just another day,” they say, and that’s true. However life is just like good project management, it requires firm starts and deadlines. Otherwise you’ll never know when you’re finished or need to move on to the next phase in life. Reviewing is [...]

Stay Awake

Some people may vote for their party. Others may vote their conscience, but those truly living the esoteric lifestyle vote their conscious.

Shout Out For John Murphy in the 16th

This is sandblade’s first endorsement. I heartily endorse John Murphy for the 16th Congressional District. As an independent he has absolutely no chance. Plus being anti-corporation won’t help him either. Sure he’s crazy, but he’s my brand of crazy. Murphy’s stand on immigration, healthcare, our wars, and terrorism is spot [...]

All Good Things…

…must come to an end, at least that’s how the saying goes. For five years Team CSC has gone from a second rate team to one of the most successful teams in the pro peloton. What has always made CSC so remarkable was not that they had a few super stars, but that [...]

Mini Me

So I’ve been living with the Dell Mini 9 for about two weeks now, and I have to say I’m more than pleased with it. It’s actually turned into a really useful tool. I primarily use it for three things, web browsing, cli terminal, and remote desktop.

There are a lot of [...]

My 2 Cents on 700 Billion

So if you’re like me you’re probably not sure if you should buy that macbook or if you should liquidate all your assets and buy some farmland and live off the grid. A friend of mine asked if I thought we were going to go into a depression or not. And I think [...]

Sigg Sigg Sputnik

I used to like Sigg products. I have their aluminum box which is a good lunch box, and I use a Sigg bottle for my white gas camp stove. However I can’t abide by the recent trend of everyone drinking out of these fancy pants Sigg bottles. Of course the BPA plastic [...]

The Never-Ending Sun Chip

I never could get into the idea of the everlasting gobstopper, why would anyone want a jawbreaker that never melted, ugh. However what I would want is a never ending bag of sun chips. Picture a bag, where when you reached in there was always another delicious Sun Chip. How much would [...]

Five Conversation Killers

“Who’s your favorite Jonas brother?” “I still think Ron Paul has a chance” “So does anyone know what a collateralized debt obligation is?” “I think Highlander 2 was still the best one in the trilogy” “I’m having this problem [...]

Netbook Hook

I’ve been following the netbook revolution, and I’ve been very tempted to get one. The first EEE PC’s looked promising but useless. The dinky 7″ screen and micro keyboard seemed only useful for kids and perhaps hobbits with perfect eyesight. Plus, as useful as Linux is in the server closet, it’s useless [...]