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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

53 Items About 53

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Once again, it is my birthday. 53 , for those counting. And once again, I accumulated 53 bits of trivia, knowledge, and random occurrences i...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Reston, according to The Onion

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Last week's edition of satire site The Onion featured an article with a Reston, VA dateline, " Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wr...
Monday, April 22, 2024

The Xbox 360 still works, eventually

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Getting back to the raison d'être of this blog, I tried firing up my Xbox 360. (The older Pixel I was using for mobile gaming isn't ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

52 Bits of Trivia for Age 52

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As is my wont, here are the 52 pieces of trivia that I used to respond to Facebook birthday well wishers (granted, mostly from wikipedia and...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

"Flight of the Valkyrie," by Charles Coombs (Boys' Life, July 1962)

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I was originally going to post this to an aviation forum as a story identification question, since I only remembered some details from when ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

A Personal Progression of COVID Masks as Revealed by Car Archaeology

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This weekend, I needed an extra N95 mask from my car and couldn't find one. So I decided to go through the COVID supplies in my car (tru...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Halloween Costume Build 2022: Banana Cop & Human Target

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Since I broke the seal with my blog entry yesterday, I figured I might as well pare down the blog backlog (backblog?) and keep the streak go...
Monday, August 28, 2023

The Mullet Is Back

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I was deep down a Wikipedia rabbit hole when, whimmed , I popped over to the Mullet (haircut) article to see which photos were being used t...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

My First Banana Bread

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I don't bake much (though I do roast a fair bit), but I had a few bananas on the edge so I decided to make banana bread. The recipe I us...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

#51FactsAbout51: The Return of Birthday Factoids

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Today's my 51st birthday. (Which doesn't seem right, but the math checks out.) A few years ago, I started responding to Facebook bir...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

Halloween 2020 Costume: Herndon Station Metro Pylon

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I've been wanting to make a DC Metro station name pylon costume for a while, and figured that this was my last Halloween to do one as a ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

This Is What I Look Like Now: 10 Years in Driver's Licenses

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My birthday is tomorrow, and thanks to coronavirus, it's going to be damn uneventful. I doubt I'll even do birthday trivia responses...

Reston Quasi-Quarantine Walkabout, 3/22/20

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This is mostly just a reminder to my future self that in the Spring of 2020 we were in the middle of dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus p...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Requiem for My 25-Year-Old Rollerblades

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I hadn't used my Rollerblades in a few years when I dusted them off on Memorial Day 2019. I was a few miles in on my preferred W&OD ...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Jan. 11, 2000 -- My Calendar, AOL Time Warner Merger, a Redesign, and a Wrapup

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January 11, 2000:  Well, this is it -- we've reached the end of the line: This is last day of screenshots I have of the AOL.com home pag...
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Reston, VA, United States
"...the Recording Angel, making occasional adjustments in the direction of the interrogation..." I'm a guy living in Northern Virginia. I try to think about online communities and social media. (I'll let you know when I get it figured out.)
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