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I’m not sure if I’m alone on this, but I really enjoy the Geico caveman ads. My favorite is the one where the caveman is on the people mover at the airport. You most likely have seen it:

Well, now there’s a companion website: The Caveman’s Crib. If you like the commercials, you’ll like this site. [...]

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Yesterday I was listening to Opie and Anthony, and they were debating a hypothetical. The question: If you could bring someone from hundreds of years ago to the present, what invention or technological advancement would they be most amazed by?
Anthony talked about the airplane. The thought that we now can travel thousands of miles in [...]

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I’m sorry. I just had to.
If you’ve got a blog or any kind of web site, chances are you’d like people to visit, right? And to do that, it sure helps to get some love from Google. I’m just going to go through some tips that have helped me out a LOT.
1. Use TITLE tags
This [...]

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Regular readers of this site (and people that just stumble in once and are observant) will notice that I use Yahoo ads. I do this mainly to offset the expense of hosting this and multiple sites. I’m not getting rich by any standard, but I’m able to pay for the hosting.
You may or may not [...]

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Splurge. What a weird sounding and looking word.
On Tuesday night I was at home looking at my darts. They were in a sad state. After being thrown into walls, wooden cabinets, and hard floors, the tips were completely shot to hell.
I remembered that I’d seen a little dart store down the street, so I decided [...]

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This morning I received an email that was NEVER supposed to come to me. The sender was VERY embarrassed. In the interest of discretion, I’m not going to say who it was or what it was about, but it just made me think…..this must be something that’s happened to everyone at least once. I’m sure [...]

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Here it is:
Name all five of the monster-themed cereals of the 70s from General Mills. Most people can name three. Few can name four. But no one I know can name all five. It is VERY hard.
Difficulty: Do NOT look the answer up online!

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While I haven’t seen most of these movies, I wanted to post the nominees here. Since it’s “Breaking News,” it gives me an opportunity to do a make-up post for yesterday with little effort on my part.
Best Picture
The Departed
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
My Pick: Little Miss Sunshine.
I really liked that, though I also [...]

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While I don’t have one topic to write about, I’m just going to randomly list some thoughts on this weekend. This won’t really be interesting, I assure you, but otherwise it will be two days without posting. That’s no good.
saturday
One word: Ikea.
Until now, I’ve resisted any suggestion to visit the ikea megastore in Stoughton. But [...]

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When I got home from work yesterday I started thinking about the daily encounters I have with people that could best be described as peripheral acquaintances. These are usually people who are one step above strangers. They are strangers that you recognize.
In my day-to-day routine, I often am on auto pilot when interacting with my [...]

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