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September 15, 2011
Outriggers is in southeast Houston, just over the bridge from the touristy Kemah. Located beneath that same bridge at the water’s edge with power lines crossing nearby, the bar does a huge business on Tuesday evenings with wait times as much as an hour. The reason? The two dollar tacos, fish or shrimp, grilled or blackened.
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September 14, 2011
Ah, blogging!
The SSID of my personal WiFi hot spot is a type of rare fruit, broadcast is turned off, and the WPA2 passphrase is a complete sentence including punctuation and proper capitalization from one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s books.
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September 13, 2011
That’s the goal.
But, like many who teach these real short, intense seminars, we both have really big egos - what, who me? - and we both also love to be the unquestioned center of attention.
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September 12, 2011
… are in the computer you are looking at right now?
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September 10, 2011
Here are some gun-blog links of fairly long standing. Some are updated daily, some weekly, but all are worth regular visits.
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September 8, 2011
There are many, sometimes conflicting, King Arthur stories.
Mine is true and accurate, of course.
Words MatterPost
September 7, 2011
"Dear airlines: 'Duration' is not how much time is left in the flight. Get a dictionary and look up 'remainder.'"
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September 7, 2011
It’s about life.
They learn consequences. They learn to like winning. They learn that losing isn’t death.