Archive for February, 2008

Books by the foot

Posted: Friday, February 29th, 2008 comments: 0
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Books by the foot

This just seems wrong on many levels.

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Geography of Bliss Review

Posted: Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 comments: 0
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Geography of Bliss Review

Here is a quick review I did for the book Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner.  I really enjoyed it, you should check it out.

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Post about Tinnitus

Posted: Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 comments: 0
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Post about Tinnitus

Here is a post on my new blog about the problem I’m having with Tinnitus.  Let me know if anyone else is having this problem.

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The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner - Review

Posted: Friday, February 22nd, 2008 comments: 2
Posted in Books, Entertainment, Travel
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner - Review

After spending over a decade as a foreign corespondent for National Public Radio, Eric Weiner took on the task of finding out where people are happiest, and more importantly, why.  So Eric spent months studying the people in 10 different countries of varying degrees of happiness.  The end results is an incredibly interesting book not [...]

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Mickey Rourke may be the next Marlon Brando after all

Posted: Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 comments: 0
Posted in Entertainment, Movies
Mickey Rourke may be the next Marlon Brando after all

Mickey Rourke has always admired Marlon Brando.  And they seem to have a few things in common; Brando and Rourke were/are notoriously difficult to work with, both had an interest in sexually controversial films, and they are both known for being more famous for being who they were than they were for their acting.  Brando [...]

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Firefox 3 home button

Posted: Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 comments: 2
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Firefox 3 home button

I just had a WTF moment.  The Firefox 3 Beta 3 has no home button.  After some research I see I’m not alone in this thought.  Worst Firefox update…ever!

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Truth and Consequence by Keith Olbermann - Review

Posted: Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 comments: 0
Posted in Books, Entertainment, Politics
Truth and Consequence by Keith Olbermann - Review

I watch two political shows daily.  The first of course is The Daily Show with John Stewart, where I find the coverage to be more fair and balanced than Fox News.  And I watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.  Olbermann, for those who do not know, is a liberal nightmare for the Bush administration, [...]

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Aspirin and Tinnitus

Posted: Monday, February 11th, 2008 comments: 2
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Aspirin and Tinnitus

For the past few mornings I have been waking up to the sound of a smoke detector going off.  It comes on slowly until I wake up  realizing that an alarm has gone off, but something isn’t quite right as I move around.  The noise doesn’t change.  It doesn’t get more or less quiet as [...]

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Welcome to Filthy Lucre

Posted: Monday, February 11th, 2008 comments: 2
Posted in Blogging, Health, Personal
Welcome to Filthy Lucre

Welcome to my newest blog incarnation.  The last time I made a major change to my blog was November of 06, so I thought it was time for an upgrade.  It was a difficult decision to change the domain, but I thought this name was much cooler, and shorter.  You may notice that OneBlogTooMany.com is [...]

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Vegas.com shows some good customer service

Posted: Monday, February 11th, 2008 comments: 0
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Vegas.com shows some good customer service

I go to Vegas often, and when I do I usually book through Vegas.com.  I booked a trip a couple weeks ago for this next weekend.  Recently the Monte Carlo hotel caught fire.  It happens to have been the place I was scheduled to stay.  I watched the fire on television and heard that the [...]

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