Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Holiday Colors
Even the backyard vegetables are getting into the spirit. Here is the last of the green bell peppers showing it’s Christmas colors.
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Winter? What Winter?
Despite one or two rainy weekends we haven’t had much rain this winter. I am beginning to think that global warming means that certain areas are experiencing extreme winter the rest of us are just looking wistfully at the sky waiting for any kind of snow or rain cloud. So while I’ve been enjoying the…
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Ode to Trader Joes
I was having a particularly bad day last week. I had to cater to some high maintenance clients. I was returning to the office after my third hour long trip when I spotted something in the horizon. It was the grocery store oasis of Trader Joe’s. Not living near a Trader Joe’s I had forgotten…
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Strangest Christmas Albums Ever
Wow, Bizarre Records has compiled a list of the strangest Christmas albulms of all time. Some of my favorites include the Disco Christmas, Six Million Dollar Man Christmas, and the Christmas in the Stars with the cast of Star Wars. The Star Wars Christmas albulm has the smash hit “What do you Get a Wookie…
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Falling Off the Ol Writing Everyday Wagon
So it looks like I have neglected my poor site for a few days. But I do have a valid excuse first I was sick with the dreaded stomach flu of doom and then my job was actually having me work. But I’m feeling much better now so I will try to be more dilligent…
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Holiday Excuse Generator
Personally, I love holiday parties. But if your just not feeling up to the holiday festivities Enlighten Holiday Excuse Generator has created a humorous but effective excuse generator to get you out of the dreaded holiday parties.
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I did it!
It’s the last day of NaBloPoMo and I have manged to post something for everyday this month. It was fun the last few days were the hardest because my job actually expected me to work for a change. Which limits my blogging time. I’m going to keep trying to post every weekday.
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Bulb Project 2007 1 month
A month ago I started my first attempt at forcing bulbs. I bought Paperwhite bulbs at the local hardware store and carefully placed them in a vase of pepples and water. I then placed it on a sunny windowsill. Now a month later, it’s getting so tall and pretty. It’s even starting to flower. So…
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Marketing to the “Weaker Sex” aka Advertising 60’s
The Daily Mail has posted some archaic ads from the 60’s and 50’s representing women as hopeless, fragile humans. There is even an ad where the husband is spanking his wife for buying the wrong coffe and there is another where they are justifying homicide because his wife didn’t use a pitney bowels stamp machine…
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Babe the Blue Ox Loses His Head
If you have ever gone to the Redwood you have probably passed by the famous Klamath Paul Bunyon and Blue Ox statues. Last year we posed by these big guys on our way up to the Oregon border. I was suprised to read that poor ol Blue has lost his head due to heavy rain…
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