i·me·michael

Ok, so I didn’t make the top 50, but at $2,338,886.00 I’m damn expensive. So how much are you worth?

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Anyone else besides me ever notice that Ace Frehley looks a lot like Pennywise?

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Via News of the Weird - estimated accidents in the home according to an annual report from Britain’s Department of Trade and Industry, and detailed in a June issue of New Scientist

36 people were sent to the hospital for injuries associated with teapot covers
approx. 165 for injuries from placemats
330 from toilet paper holders
and approx. 13,000 [...]

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I didn’t think it had been that long since I last cleaned my bathroom, but it must be longer than I thought, because there were bugs hanging around the toilet having a pool party. They were using my towels and floating around on my rubber duck. They’d converted my q-tips into tiny tiki torches and [...]

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ascii and maybe I’ll tell ya.

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What’s the matter, did all the jingle writers die or something?
Every day I see/hear another car commercial featuring a song from my youth. Is my generation so out of ideas that they can’t even write a jingle anymore? Do they have to take the music that I grew up on, which still means something to [...]

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A clip from a recently recieved email from my soon to be ex ISP states:
Dear Verizon Online Customer:
If you are sending email using an email address other than one provided by Verizon Online, this message affects you. Effective, August 8, 2001, you will no longer be able to send email from any email address [...]

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A moving documentary on PBS. Geisha - a look inside the little-understood world of the Japanese geisha. Women trained to be the perfect companion for men. Wonderfully filmed with great music, and just fascinating. An interesting fact is that at one time there were eighty thousand trained geishas. There are now fewer than a thousand.

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An explanation.
Initially Media Temple began receiving reports of minor disk corruption Thursday evening (failed email, a missing file here and there). Our staff began taking immediate corrective actions to repair the disk, and thus discovered that a single drive on the RAID array had failed without proper alerts or notifications. Without downtime we immediately replaced [...]

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k10k has gone to camp for the summer.
“…and this one time, at web camp…”

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