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Why I want to take a break from online dating...
I've been trying to meet women online for nearly 3 years in some form. In that time, I've gotten a grand total of 3 dates, none of which resulted in a second date. So I'm thinking it's time to give...
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So this is what a weekend is like..
I've been looking forward to this weekend for the last couple weeks. Not because I had any big plans, but rather because I didn't.See, the last few weekends I haven't had much time to spend at Casa De...
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So you think I can dance? Not so much...
A few weeks ago, I got into my mind the brilliant idea that I would take up swing dancing. Back 10 years ago when swing had it's brief revival, I got into the music, and I would still find myself...
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madanthony's continued adventures in swing dancing...
So last week I started swing dancing lessons, and they weren't quite what I hoped for. There was the fact that there were 3 guys and one girl (who was with a guy). And there was the fact that I, well,...
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The power of negative thinking...
We had a presentation at our "all hands" meeting at work today about how to deal with holiday stress, given by a psychologist. It did include a lot of good concrete advice for dealing with stuff - take...
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Car talk...
I have a problem with my truck. It works perfectly fine.See, I'm a bit of a car nut. When I was a little kid, I played with matchbox cars all the time, could pretty much identify any car on the road,...
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I wonder if manufacturers and stores will ever figure out that guys buy...
My mom is a member of Vocalpoint, a social networking community run by Proctor and Gamble. She gets all kinds of neat stuff from them - from stacks of coupons for nearly- free Kashi cereal to a set of...
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Scenes from work, I've heard that before edition...
employee: Hey, thanks for fixing my secretary's computer. She was really happy when you left.mad anthony: I'm used to women being happy when I leave.
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Scenes from work, in some places edition...
coworker1: We could reduce a lot of viruses and malware problems if we prevented end-users from being able to install software.coworker2: that would never fly. Faculty will complain that we're...
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Sick of being sick...
So about 2 weeks ago, I woke up feeling like crap. Well, more like crap than normal for a Monday morning. Sore throat, nasal drip, congestion, running/stuffy nose, ect.I dealt with this the way I...
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Pay your bills, deadbeat, or why I'd like to kick strategic defaulters in the...
I was glad to see that I'm not the only person who had a negative reaction to this WSJ article about fun with strategic defaults - which pretty much boils down to profiles of people who stopped paying...
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A tax credit for everyone except me...
I was reading the auction listings today in the newspaper, which is at the end of the real estate section. So I happened to see an ad for a new homebuilder mentioning the tax credit for existing...
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Back in NJ, and I only got pulled over once...
So I'm up in NJ for the holidays, spending the next few days with the parents celebrating Christmas. I drove up today - it was a fairly uneventful trip, except for hitting some traffic near Harrisburg...
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We can never repay the debt we owe our parents. So how hard should we try?
I'm up in NJ for Christmas, spending a few days with the parents. Since I work for a college, every year I have the same dilemma - how much time should I spend there? The paradox is that as the reasons...
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A half-decade of madanthony, in pictures
So back in 2004, I had a family member take a picture of me at Christmastime while I was up for Christmas break. A few months later, I made a concious decision to start losing weight and taking better...
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New Year's resolutions, 2010...
Well, I do this every year - make a list of the things that I'm going to try to do this year. I end up sticking with the couple I would have done anyway, and failing at the rest. But what are holidays...
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Business models that puzzle me... GPS companies...
On New Year's Day, I went on a hike with an old college roommate and a bunch of his friends. Afterwords, we went out to grab something to eat. Since I had my Tom-Tom, and drive a bright yellow truck,...
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Back to school...
When you work for a college like I do, the start of the semester means thousands of students flooding the school, professors coming back to their offices after weeks away, and a flurry of effort to...
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In defense of bottom feeding...
I had mentioned the show Pawn Stars a few days ago to a coworker, and he grumbled something about how he hated the store owners on the show because they usually make lowball offers to people selling...
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Musings from the snowpocalyse..
So except for about an hour spent shoveling my walkway and clearing the two feet of snow off the top of the heat pump in the hopes of keeping my electric bill below what my car payments used to be, I...
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