Tag: random musings
member name: Ron Hall
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April 14, 2006 07:35 PM EDT --
The wallpaper was entertaining. Jack could just as happily have gone and looked at the pattern on the china, or gone out back in the dark and rummaged through the pebbles on the ground. But he was where . . .
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May 11, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
You hear people talking about being a card-carrying whatever. As I see it, this can mean two things. We subscribe to some things wholeheartedly, and some of our attachments find documentation in . . .
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October 25, 2006 09:12 AM EDT --
Let's suppose someone has invented the fast-forward button for each person's experience. At any time, you can skip forward to a future time - a couple minutes, a couple days, a year. . . .
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January 28, 2007 01:44 PM EST --
When I was a teen rocker, I took an interest in jazz and asked several aficionados to explain it to me so I could better appreciate it. I got the same unhelpful answer four times in a row from . . .
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March 31, 2006 04:43 PM EST --
We woke on Wednesday to the racket of our building's ancient, smoke-belching backup generator. This meant there would be two lights on in each hallway, and in the stairwells. One unreliable elevator . . .
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August 22, 2006 06:10 PM EDT --
These go round and round in my head, and I'd dearly like to make any one of them happen. I'm also pretty sure there's no way I'll get the opportunity, so I'm just putting them out there . . .
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October 16, 2006 10:13 PM EDT --
It's so very Buck-Rogers these days, and we think nothing of it. I know we don't have any flying cars yet (and if homeland security is more than just an ad campaign, we will never have flying . . .
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November 22, 2006 04:28 PM EST --
I've been on Gather for about 16 months now, and for the first 8 months I posted pretty much every day. Ever since the beginning I kept an Excel spreadsheet showing who commented on which of . . .
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December 04, 2006 05:59 PM EST --
One way I can quickly check to see if there's someone new to respond to is write down the number of comments on my most recent posts. Then I go back and check to see if the comment count is . . .
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March 05, 2006 06:35 PM EST --
I grew up in a rather narrow canyon, with the mountains rising high enough for the sun to set at about 4 p.m. (2 p.m. in the winter). There were many beautiful things to look at, so I'm . . .
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April 08, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
Platitude n. - A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. See also "cliche".
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Janie and . . .
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May 22, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
Once more, it's hard to call these things interesting when I'm talking about myself, but that's the name of the group, so . . .
1) The only time I get to read books anymore is when I go to . . .
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June 08, 2006 07:20 PM EDT --
From: Ron Hall
To: the entire company (some 400 persons)
Subject: Staplers
In brief - use the right brand of staples in your stapler; It really helps.
Back when I worked in construction, all . . .
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June 19, 2006 10:03 PM EDT --
As I sit here at my computer, with the balcony sliding-door open wide, I look at my nasturtiums blooming and I lift my gaze to the streets below.
I wonder at the turns of fate that landed me in such . . .
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August 06, 2006 11:05 PM EDT --
The door is open; the AC is off. It's 80 degrees out, or so says the gauge and that's fine. There's something real in the slightly sticky overused air on the East side of the metro tonight. . . .
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October 02, 2006 07:36 PM EDT --
Is there anything more conducive to meditation than staring into the depths of a campfire?
Sitting by the edge of a lake
On a crisp fall evening
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October 20, 2006 08:22 PM EDT --
When I say Sid was a big kid, I'm not so sure that's exactly correct. When he transferred in from LA, they told the teachers he was 16, but yeah, right. The big part was a given, but he always . . .
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February 16, 2007 05:47 PM EST --
The dumpsters were crammed full when I went to take down the recycling tonight.
Let’s see, there was a large television, a stereo, lots of clothing in reasonably good shape – a bed. . . .
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February 19, 2007 09:09 PM EST --
Sometimes, when I hit rock bottom – and I still do – I think maybe writing about it will give it that attribute they call “redeeming moral value”.
I’m not saying . . .
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April 07, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
Me In Your Eyes
("Me In Your Eyes" was originally written in the mid-80s under the title "Fourth of July". I enjoyed playing it with my friends Ted Yoder and Burle. . . .
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