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Friends-Locked

This is officially friends-locked, as of 2/12/2007.

If you think I'm of interest, friend me. I have a notice set up. If not, then that's fine too.

I may friend you back. No offense is meant if I don't.
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Stolen from yellowitchgrl.

Tell me things.

What is my best characteristic? My worst? What do I need to work on? What's something you've always wanted to tell me?

Or tell me a secret. Really, this is for anything you like.

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"There’s an existential condition, a loneliness, we fight against all our lives. On occasion, when we read a book or see a movie or piece of art or have an epiphany, we come face to face with that. And it’s hard, painful, and necessary. You don’t have to live there, but you have to tear down all the nuggets and get to the truth. We can’t shop it away or blog it away or create crazy elaborate constructions to try and avoid that truth. And it’s really hard, but it’s what it means to be human."
-- Libba Bray
The Interview
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the iPad

From http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/28…:

"Steve Jobs very explicitly placed the iPad in the category class between the phone and notebook, and it very nicely splits the difference between the two. And that's precisely why I'm a bit disappointed by it -- it doesn't share enough of the features of either one of those two devices to actually make it useful to me."

Exactly. Yes yes yes.

But it's still cool. And has a crappy name.
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Neti Pot

So I've been using a Neti Pot for a couple of weeks now. (If you don't know, it's a small plastic container that you fill with a mixture of water and saline solution for rinsing your nose/sinuses.)

At first, it stung quite a bit, but when I finally picked a warm enough water temperature and used it for a couple of days, I didn't even notice the salty sensation. I've had a terrible sinus infection for a while, and by day three of use it seemed to be my only relief.

Seriously, get one. They're about $10 (CVS), and even if you don't need/want to use it often, have it laying around the next time you have a cold. They're incredible relieving.