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I’m back!

Sorry for the quietness around here lately… I had to take a few days off to move, but now we are getting all settled in at the new place and things are starting to return to normal. BTW Brett Favre through in the towel this morning… Nothing like quitting a 17 year career after throwing […]

Missing ND Lottery Ticket Claimed

Looks like the ticket was turned in, but the winners chose to remain anonymous. A Bismarck man and woman stepped up to the counter at the North Dakota Lottery office on Friday to claim their Powerball prize. Finally. It had been nearly a month since they’d purchased the ticket at a local gas station.After taxes, […]

Just Not Worth The Money

I was just reading an article on lasik eye surgery and I thought to myself, maybe I should have this done now that I can afford it. Then I thought, nope its not worth it. Wearing contacts is such a minor annoyance to me, that the cost of removing that annoyance from my life does […]

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due…

Sometimes with the amount of volume of “stuff” that crosses my desk I forget where I seen something when I post it and forget to give props back to the original author, or in this case the guy that showed me the content… At any rate, my friend Rob over at Stuffleufagus was the one […]

Great Cubicle Fun!

This has to be one of the best cubicle pranks I have seen to date: Technorati Tags: video, cubicle, prank, humor

Verizon to offer Unlimited Plans

Verizon announced that they are going to offer unlimited plans to their users starting February 19th (tomorrow). I always wondered why this wasn’t done years ago. This could be a major influence in areas like ours with only 2 real cel phone competitors. If one offers unlimited minutes and the other does not and you […]

Bad Idea

Whoever thought this was a good idea?

HDMI Cables for Cheap

If anyone has bought a big screen or high definition TV lately and did not buy an HDMI cable to go with it because of the price, you are in luck now! On Amazon, you can get 6 foot HDMI cables for under $3 each! This is the only way to enjoy high-def TV! You […]

North Dakota’s Last Lynching

In the early morning hours of January 29, 1931, a mob broke into the small stone jail at Schafer, North Dakota, and seized Charles Bannon. The mob hanged Bannon from a nearby bridge. It was North Dakota’s last lynching. Bannon, who was 22 years old, had spent only a few days in the Schafer jail […]

Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful…

Yesterday I enjoyed the 40-ish degree weather outside and took care of some outside tasks for most of the afternoon, knowing that the temperature was going to fall in the next couple of days. Yeah, I just love this state 🙁 Technorati Tags: ND, temperature