• Posted by Tim Jarrett
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1000 Limericks on the Roof

doveman: best limerick ever, originally on Zoilus, previously on Greg Clow. Let’s get this on as many music related blogs as possible: There was a composer named Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
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On being from Bad News, VA

Daily Press: Hit rapper 50 Cent says ‘Bad News, VA’ isn’t a dis. Heh. Oh yeah it is. But 50’s new song “Ski Mask Way” is hardly the first time my birth town Newport News has been given a bad rap. Not even 30 years after the town’s original founding (before its 1956 merger with [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
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Drowning in the sea of RSS

43 Folders: Custom feed refreshing in NetNewsWire. Many thanks to Merlin Mann for this commonsense advice about managing the timesink that NetNewsWire can become—particularly when you’re trying to manage 343 feeds. With his advice as a starting point, I set the default refresh rate to every four hours, and changed the custom refresh property on [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
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Permasnow

I busted my butt for a few hours yesterday, between shoveling our walks and blowing our driveway clear (and then reshoveling the walks with the rest of the snow that fell). This morning there was a fresh half-inch everywhere. The snow really never stopped falling yesterday; fortunately it was far enough above freezing in the [...]