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Jenny and Jai
Last weekend, we found out that two friends of ours — mothers of our kids’ classmates — were involved in a domestic dispute that left the two of them in the hospital in critical condition from multiple gunshot wounds. Full news reports here and here. What happened was horrid and devastating and both women not…
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To fob or not to fob
So, I lost the key to our car. It’s kind of a long story…basically this last week sucked and that was just yet another thing to add to the crapheap.
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Use Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Content
I wrote a thing, and then I wrote about the thing I wrote. Use Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Content
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Keep your damn guns. Just stop using them to shoot people.
I’ll make a confession. I’m pretty anti-gun. I watched G.I. Joe and other violent TV shows as a kid and I’ve spent hours playing violent first person shooters, but I’ve never been in the military and guns in real life terrify me. I can honestly say that I have never touched a gun, never wanted…
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Songhoy Blues
This came in the Noisetrade email today. Garage Blues from Mali that’s pretty freaking incredible. Check it.
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The Sansa treatment
Trigger warning: This post talks a lot about the sexual assault that happens, frequently, on Game of Thrones. If these topics are personally distressing to you, please don’t read this post. TL:DR; What happens to Sansa is horrible no matter who it happens to. This is my first post ever about Game of Thrones and it’s…
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How to create an iPhone ringtone in 2 minutes
I used to have a dumb phone. It was one of those LG deals with a slide-out keyboard that made it okay for texting. I was super-excited to finally get an iPhone and jump into the 20th Century with everyone else, but found it more difficult to get custom ringtones and sounds on my iPhone…
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How fast your server is really does make a difference
If you follow me on twitter, you may have seen me tweet this: Just moved my site and OH HOLY CHRIST THIS @bluehost VPS IS FAST! cc @MikeHansenMe — @[email protected] (@jazzs3quence) January 26, 2015 Here’s how that came to be. I wrote a post last week. You may have seen it. It was about gender…
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A Formal Request for More Female Creatures in Magic: the Gathering
Hey Wizards of the Coast. I have a request. Let’s see more female creatures, yeah? Depictions of women in Magic are not entirely uncommon. It’s often enough that a deck will have at least a couple. And yet, when I think about creatures — specifically non-human creatures — almost always they are shown as masculine.…
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30 Most Frequently Played Songs of 2014
It’s the time of year when everyone is making end-of-year lists of various things. I decided to make a list of the top songs I’ve listened to in 2014. Now a few things went into this and there should be some things stated up front. First — I almost always listen to music on random.…