Comedian George Carlin passed away yesterday at the age of 71.
Many probably recall his “Seven Dirty Words” bit — about the seven words you can never say on television and radio.
@JSwesey on Twitter today had these seven words for Carlin: brilliant, honest, funny, human, irreverent, bald, legendary.
As a teenager in the ‘70s, I listened [...]

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Regular reader and all around good guy Matt Pellerin pointed out to me today that the new blog theme I installed over the weekend is rendering the blog header differently in Internet Explorer 6 than it is in IE7 or Firefox.
You should see this:

But if you use IE6, you see this:

Apparently, IE6 renders the CSS [...]

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First time I’ve seen gas at $4.00/gal in the East Valley.
OK, technically it’s not $4. But it’s close enough.
Saw it at $4.01 at the Basha’s on the corner of Elliot and Higley in Gilbert. Yesterday it was $3.94.
Could have broken the $75 mark if I’d waited until tomorrow to fill up…
Sigh.
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Jamie Geiger at the Real Estate Cactus tagged me to play in the latest meme running around the real estate blog community.
What’s a meme? Think a list of questions, usually somewhat personal, that propagate “virally” across the net. 
These things are sort of goofy. But I have to admit, I enjoy reading them as they are a [...]

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“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”
         — Norman Schwarzkopf
“The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.”
         — Thucydides
 

Decoration Day
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest
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