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It comes out earlier every year…

I complained about this last year, but feel justified again this year.
Every year Halloween decorations come down and the Christmas decorations go up. Every year. This has been happening since at least the 1960s when they made fun of it in Christmas specials.
People don’t like it. Interestingly enough, there’s enough who do respond to it [...]

11Nov2007 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Ice Cream

Everyone crows about the end of Daylight Saving Time, “you get to sleep another hour!” I dunno if this started when i became a mother and when the baby cries, you HAVE to get up, but right now, when I wake up and it’s (according to my internal clock) after 6am, I get up. No [...]

4Nov2007 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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I don’t like monkeys.

It’s hard being a geek when you don’t like monkeys. You’re supposed to get behind the whole zombie/robot/pirate/ninja/monkeys thing whole heartedly. Some people (especially the pirate and ninja fans) choose one group over the rest, but yeah, it’s a pretty standard list of “cool geeky shit.”
Problem is, I don’t like monkeys. They fling poo and [...]

28Oct2007 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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“Open this, please.”

That is going to be my new favorite phrase.
I am sick of the packaging in that hard plastic wrapping. Again, just like DRM controls on digital media, they are punishing the law-abiding citizens in order to stymie the crooks. I have been cut by that dreadful plastic, taken precious moments of my time, [...]

25Sep2007 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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