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Is this a good thing?
This just in from the “Should This Make Us Feel Better about the $$$ We Just Shelled Out for That New PC?” department: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, has announced that anyone buying a new computer with Vista as the OS can downgrade it to XP for free if they don’t like Vista. Now that’s what
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A poodle runs through it
I was thinking of Norman MacLean’s book A River Runs Through It the other day, and the last line, “I am haunted by waters.” I am haunted by poodles.
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El Prieto 2008 or how I nearly shattered my kneecap, broke my ankle, killed my iPod and cut off my finger in one day
Greetings! It was quite a weekend, this weekend just past. Actually, it was just a hell of a day. It started early with the 15th annual running of Chuck’s El Prieto Handicap. This was a downhill year, which means a good part of the course (a lot of which was single track trail) was, well,
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Running (okay, and drinking) in wine country
We took this past weekend off (no work! only one computer!) and drove up to Solvang for the second annual Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon, which is fast becoming a personal favorite of mine. That’s despite the utter lack of organization in the registration process and finish line. Last year we thought they needed
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Ostrich Land!
We spent the weekend in Solvang and ran the Santa Barbara Wine Country half Marathon. More on that later – the really BIG event of the weekend was our visit to Ostrich Land in Buellton! You pay $4.00 to get in the door and look at the ostriches and emus but for only ONE dollar
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