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		<title>Random Acts of Twitterage #Several</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still playing catch-up with just about everything, so here are some one-liners with silver linings: I double-checked my Gmail spam folder for false positives (which I should do more often). Google&#8217;s text link at the top goes to a recipe for Spam Fajitas. Bike Gangs are so passe. Segway Gangs are the new hotness in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still playing catch-up with just about everything, so here are some one-liners with silver linings:</p>
<p>I double-checked my Gmail spam folder for false positives (which I should do more often). Google&#8217;s text link at the top goes to a recipe for Spam Fajitas.</p>
<p>Bike Gangs are so passe. Segway Gangs are the new hotness in California.</p>
<p>Remember, you can&#8217;t be punched or kicked over the Internet. <em>Yet.</em> Microsoft is working on it, so it won&#8217;t work until Version 3.1</p>
<p><strong>Wendell&#8217;s Law of Perception</strong><br />
We all construct our own reality. Some of us just use better raw materials.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/081017.html">This</a> reminded me of my own wedding. 3 out of 4 of my &#8220;groomsmen&#8221; were co-workers, but then I was laid off two weeks before the wedding. Then one of the groomsmen was laid off a week later. Somehow I kept the wedding party together, or else I definitely would&#8217;ve had the Guy Who Fixed My Transmission IN a Tuxedo. Still, all my suddenly-former-co-workers who were NOT part of the wedding party were no shows for the wedding.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a Mac, I&#8217;m a PC&#8230; A PC-13 to be more precise. Brief, non-frontal nudity, mild violence and no more than 2 uses of the F-word.</p>
<p>Everytime I see Thomson Seedless Grapes I think of Warren Zevon&#8217;s &#8220;Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner&#8221;. Is that wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Wendell&#8217;s Law of Progressive Education</strong><br />
&#8220;When you teach them to question authority, you usually become the first authority they question&#8221;</p>
<p>A sharp wit can be a deadly weapon, but works best if the victim realizes he/she&#8217;s being slashed.</p>
<p>Comcast Cares.™ But do they ever really tell us WHAT Comcast Cares ABOUT?<br />
<img src="http://wendellme.oneswellfoop.net/files/2008/12/cocmastic-313x47.gif" alt="it&#039;s cocmastic!" width="313" height="47" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-617" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been a couponer since they were made from bearskin. Much harder to clip back then.</p>
<p>Why is it that every time I hear about the Tampa Bay team with the recent name change, I think of them as the &#8220;You-Can-Call-Me-Rays&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>Only the Name Has Been Changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 07:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the foop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to protect myself. I had received certain legal advice (not from here, not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that) that if I continued to label myself as WendellWit, I may be legally required to deliver measurable quantities of Wit. Now true Wit is a rare commodity, more valuable than Humor, Laughs, The Funny, Irony, Satire [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;to protect myself. I had received certain legal advice (not from <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/">here</a>, not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that) that if I continued to label myself as WendellWit, I may be legally required to deliver measurable quantities of Wit. Now true Wit is a rare commodity, more valuable than Humor, Laughs, The Funny, Irony, Satire or even The Wry (which it is often mistaken for), yet not appreciated as much as it should be. I have often aspired to Wit, but have rarely achieved it in my writing &#8211; it&#8217;s not easy, and the pressure to achieve it has made me question myself when all I wanted to do was go for the funny. And at times when I wished to be genuinely serious, the Wit Expectation made it harder to be TAKEN seriously (&#8220;Is he being, like, really really subtle?&#8221;). As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, my original blog was OneSwellFoop.com, a domain I lost (along with most of the original contents) when Real Life interfered big-time with my Virtual Life during the bad old days of 2002. I do now possess a handful of whimsical little domain names (including OneSwellFoop.NET) which I intend to be doing various whimsical little things with, but first, I really really reeeally need to clean things up under the hood here. If any of my Cool Web Friends ever took a good look at my CSS&#8230; NO! Don&#8217;t go there, please! I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised that this change has not broken most of the old links to individual posts and/or pages, for which I can only thank the wizards behind WordPress, allowing me to cross off one item from a lengthy ToDo list without actually doing anything. But stay tuned. You are gonna hear from me. And if it&#8217;s not all going to be here, I&#8217;ll be pointing you to wherever it is.</p>
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