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Sean Braisted suggests a solution to Juvenile Court Clerk Vic Lineweaver’s file loss problems that beat his barcode solution all to heck:

Vic Lineweaver is having a bit of trouble keeping track of those Juvenile Court files and has suggested a barcoding system to help him do this. Via Jim Grinstead:

It is a simple matter of arithmetic that change may be costly to the man who has something; it cannot be so to the man who has nothing. There is always, accordingly, a high correlation between conservatism and personal well-being.

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Being self-aware is an odd, disconcerting thing.

I know more folks who AREN’T self-aware than I know of those who are. The way we view ourselves and how others view us are usually two different things. Then again, we go through processes of when we see things clearly and it hits us like a sack of quarters upside the head.

When these moments happen, there isn’t usually a refund.

Dear Weather:

It has come to my attention that we need to review the directions.

If selections are: wind, rain, sleet, snow, thunder, lightning.

Then: choose one from column A and one from column B and proceed.

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Dear online news outlets:

I hate video. Stop it.

At least put a transcript of whatever it is on there.

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Dear certain athletic coach:

This is getting old and we are running o

This morning I visited The Happiness Project (the site referenced yesterday.) The post for today is entitled Try to do one nagging task each day, or better yet, avoid having a nagging task. I tend to let tasks pile up in a big way, so upon reading that post I decided to stop everything (i.e. surfing and blogging) until I'd completed a task. It was to simply be cleaning out the lizard cage, but my