Came across another strange old book (

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And now for today’s Spanish lesson:
canalla : stinker
vago : lazybones
goteo : leakage
oleina : olein
los juegos olímpicos : the Olympic Games
adelantarse a : pre-empt
perdedor : loser
seña : beck
Beck : Beck
extraño : weird
queso : cheese

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Canker sores can really spoil a good meal, you know it?

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Time for … Crack the EBCDIC Binary! Here’s your supercool host, Norm Fitzwanger!
“Hello hello hello! Welcome to Crack the EBCDIC Binary! Today’s puzzle is yummy! And I’ll bet you’re just dyin’ to sink your teeth into it, so here it is! Interpreted as an EBCDIC character string, what does the following 6-byte 360 word represent?”
10010101 […]

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I was out doing some more shelf reading this morning (I’m in the tiresome process of trying to automate this old library and shelf reading is an essential task). I’m in the Dewey collection. Most of you who have attended college and/or are regular patrons of your local library know that most libraries classify using […]

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Back when Ari and I lived in Albuquerque we had a conversation about the beauty of the Spanish language. We were driving along Lomas Blvd. when a delivery truck for Bueno burritos passed us. It occured to me just how much better Bueno sounded than Good, even though it’s the same word, only in Spanish. […]

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“If this don’t make your booty move your booty must be dead.”
I’ve heard it a hundred times and it gets better every time.

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I officially nearly busted a gut this afternoon. I got an email from Ari directing me to The Complete Bushisms. I think my favorite (but gosh there are so many, do I have to choose??) is:
“This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty […]

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Is it possible that Kevin Smith will ever cease to amaze me? I don’t think so. Not in a million years.
I just saw Dogma this past weekend and am only now coming out of the reflective state it put me in. This is a bold movie and I don’t think anyone else could have handled […]

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Went looking for that Tom Robbins fan site a couple days ago. I had first visited it way back in ‘96 or ‘97 and remember being freaked out that the person running the site could identify my ip address. Ok so I was still learning back then, gimme a break.
The site is pretty goofy, just […]

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