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Category Archives: Personal
Outlook 2010 Social Connector
I’m putting this in the journal just in case a year from now this works out. I could totally see us doing this with some services at my department: I’m happy to announce that a new member has joined the Outlook platform family. The new arrival has a long and formal name known as Microsoft Outlook [...]
Clearwater High School 20 Year Class Reunion
What was on my mind 20 years ago? I thought about 2010, the movie, and space travel, getting through college, and getting a good job. Now that it is 2010, we don’t live in space or even travel in flying-cars (they’re working on it), but I graduated college, and got a good job. The year 2010 [...]
Siems Obituaries
I don’t mean to be morbid, but I wanted to keep these online as part of my memories. Werner and Dianne were my dad and mom. Ruth was Werner’s sister, my aunt. WERNER ARTHUR SIEMS, 76, of Clearwater, Florida, died Wednesday, July 21, 2004, at Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor, Florida. He was born in Evansville, Ind., [...]
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New Project: teamsiems tweets
If you look at my Projects page you’ll see I added the teamsiems tweets archive. It’s a pretty nice, simple way to archive tweets. In fact it’s a whole new instance of WordPress 3; I’m starting to like pre-fab UI.
Memorial Day Memphis Style
This is going to be a social media experiment. I want to share my experience as I cook ribs, and maybe get some feedback along the way. I’ll update this post along the way. It’s Memorial Day weekend and I want to try a new rib rub, Meathead’s Memphis Dust Rub Recipe. I already made [...]
History Repeats Itself: An intriguing glimpse into the past of an obscure philosopher
Like so many times before at the dinner table, my wife brings up an intriguing subject, the quote, “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” I asked if she knew who is credited with saying it. We all struggled for an answer. I think I said that it was someone in the 20th [...]
Game Break Is A Bust
Well, it looks like Texas Game Break is a bust. Their Facebook was last updated on March 1 and today is supposed to be the second day of the Break – and nothing. By contrast, ZFW Summer Sizzle has been going strong every other year since 2005. I made a video of the 2005 players. [...]
Texas Reds Steak and Grape Festival 2010
It seems like each year about this time my mouth starts watering for steak and wine. Actually, I seem to yearn for them earlier and earlier each year. Last years’ Steak & Grape was good but very crowded. This year, the Texas Steak and Grape Festival celebrates it 4th anniversary, June 18-19. They also have [...]
Meaning of Malamanteau
If enough people use a fake word does that make it real? Today, this xkcd.com comic created an explosion of traffic (and controversy) on search engines and Wikipedia. Malamanteau is a combination of two words malapropism and portmanteau. These two are real words that have real meanings and the meanings are easily available on Wikipedia. Source: Malamanteau : Meaning [...]
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