Tag: writing
member name: Greg Schiller
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July 21, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Sorry, I am late and lean with today's update. I just got off a conference call with Gather Central, where I had a sneak peek at the new format you will see tomorrow. I . . .
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July 02, 2007 05:30 PM EDT --
Reposted for Good Humor Monday
Trapped in the kitchen of a run down relative's house, I daydreamed myself free. They were my ex's family, hockey people; the kind of dullards who . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Obviously the Humor Gang has recovered from the long July 4th weekend. (For those living at latitudes and longitudes not tormented by American electoral politics, there is less of an excuse, for instance . . .
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July 14, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
The happiest man in the world is a pink little guy I used to care for at the Faribault State Hospital in Minnesota. "The Colonel" was born with severe Down's Syndrome, yet he enjoyed . . .
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November 02, 2009 12:03 AM EST --
Friday evening at diner, my wife looked up from her plate and said, “Honey, let's go to IKEA tomorrow.”
Her suggestion landed like a bomb just south of the salad bowl, one that ticked while . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
After four hours of touring the flat expanses of Eastern North Dakota, I told my buddy I'd seen empty parking lots with more scenery.
At least parking lots have interesting stuff like white . . .
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I don't believe in "Global Warming".
No, not at all.
I've read some interesting studies about carbon forcing and others that suggest the whole thing is overblown, but at least . . .
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November 06, 2007 07:29 PM EST --
Last Saturday, a Chevy Tahoe named “Boss” scored a $2 million prize by winning the DARPA “urban challenge”. Pretty good for a car without a driver.
The DARPA . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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January 28, 2008 06:25 AM EST --
I bought something the other day I shouldn't have. It was a little thing, a memory chip for my camera, but it came in a large clam-shell package. I needed the chip, but I swore I would . . .
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March 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Bud asked Irene, "If gambling is so fun, how come no one here is smiling?"
She didn't have an answer for that, neither did she have an excuse for dragging him into Ceasar's Palace. . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
In January of 1976, Jimmy Carter smiled his way toward the presidency, I worked third shift in a steel foundry, a communist army occupied Saigon and the coldest winter in decades gripped the Twin Cities. . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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June 30, 2008 06:23 AM EDT --
Yesterday, I broke new ground for workers rights.
It occurred near the coffee machine where I did a little dance with a new employee. I was so preoccupied with the "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" postings . . .
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July 14, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
This afternoon, the missus and I endured an usually long line at the coffee shop.
Our cashier, a fresh young man with crisp tattoos and silver piercings, pecked warily at the register. He seemed skittish . . .
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February 27, 2007 04:00 PM EST --
Most nights, they slept on silk over stone. Silk spoke of power and affluence; the stone, a reminder of the hard ground they would sleep on when fate tore these things away. They did this to honor tradition, . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:16 AM EDT --
Critique Welcome
A short story told in dialogue:
I need to be with her when she is put down.
Of course, but let me warn you that death does not always come peacefully . . .
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