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Today is Monday. It is also Valentine’s Day, which means the universe either really hates or totally adores single people. I’m undecided, but I’m pretty sure I’m off the hook, either way. Married people celebrate Valentine’s Day differently than other Facebook relationship statuses. We don’t go in for all the lovey-dovey stuff, choosing instead to quietly affirm our affections in private, more intimate...
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It’s recently been brought to my attention that my schedule for posting Snowflakes In Autumn might be ill-advised. At twenty-five chapters in length, posting one chapter a week will take just over two years – and that’s a mighty long time. So, I may rework the schedule yet again and try to squeeze in more chapters each week, but I worry that the ocean of text in each post will scare the more jellyheaded and...
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There are many things in this world that want our souls, from demonic beasties prowling the nightmares of legend, all the way up the celestial ladder to the divine and back down again to the terrible pits of devils and fiends. Always the same, but the names change: God and Jesus. Satan and the Anti-Christ. Facebook and Apple… … Lately, there’s been a lot of talk burning through the fiber optic capillaries of the...
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I’ve spent my overabundance of free time the past couple of days trying to figure out Twitter. I’ve written about this before, and maybe I’m just too old or uncool or whatever, but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I know it’s useful for quick status updates about what you’re doing in the moment, and I used it myself for just that purpose when the family headed down Disney World way. I...
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It’s only September, and all around me people are already sneezing and sniffling and coughing. The piggy flu is the latest terror sweeping through the homes and upper respiratory tracts of young and old alike, and it has recently huffed and puffed and blown my sister’s house down. So far, three out of five members of her household have succumbed to the siren’s oink of H1N1 (so renamed by the media at the behest of the pork...
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Kristian Bland
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Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
