Category: Daily Life
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I have a lot of trouble parting with some things…
This Jurassic Park themed bath pack, for example, was a graduation gift from a friend of mine. A high school graduation gift. Notice that it’s still fully intact. Yes, it was kind of a gag gift, but I’ve still attached a lot of meaning to it. And I’m not quite ready to get rid of…
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Once upon a time I did this model UN thing…
It was my third trip to Canada and first to Montreal. (The other two were visits to Toronto.) The McGill Model UN was pretty awesome. I met a bunch of people there, and now I’m wondering if I’ve run across any of them without knowing since I’ve been down here in DC. Wish I could…
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More classic finds…
See the full gallery on Posterous Two trading cards from the early 90s: a pack of Desert Storm trading cards (from Topps) featuring this “dashing” pic of then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney… and a Garbage Pail Kids card (I’ve got a lot of these somewhere). There are also packs of art trading/collector’s cards featuring…
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Artifacts of days gone by…
Yeah, that’s a bunch of more than ten year old, 8 hour, VHS tapes. And they’re all full of random TV show episodes from about 1998. I was toying with the idea of converting them into a digital format to check out the old commercials and whatnot, but after watching stuff yesterday from another tape,…