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August 23rd, 2010

Late comedian George Carlin shares his thoughts on religion in the video below.  Ignore the Portuguese subtitles and animation. -Nick

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July 30th, 2010

In my next life as a history teacher, I already have one lesson plan figured out.  And with oral presentations from the students, it could probably be extended to take up a few weeks of class time.  The gameplan is to use We Didn’t Start the Fire as a 4-minute overview of 20th century history. [...]

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Woot.com, the famous one-deal-a-day site, was bought by Amazon this week.  So they made a video explaining the sell-out in a very non-sell-out kind of way. I thought the video was pretty great.  And love the Zappos shout-out in there too. Maybe someday I can sell my company and make a monkey puppet rap music [...]

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June 21st, 2010

Trapeze school!  I mean I won’t be joining the circus anytime soon, but it was still pretty sweet.  If you’re in the area, check out Trapeze Arts in Oakland for a unique and high-flying experience.  I kind of had a hard time trusting my knees to hold me on the bar, but it worked out [...]

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June 18th, 2010

I enjoyed this one. An Energy-Independent Future www.thedailyshow.com Talk is cheap. If we were serious, we would have taken action. -Nick

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May 17th, 2010

Is this for reals? OK I kind of want to try now. -Nick

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