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Help me out?

I got $50 in iTunes gift cards for the Holidays. Got any iPhone apps (no games), albums, audiobooks or other iTunes Store content to recommend to me?

Dec 31st

Twenty Quick-Hit Resolution List

I have never done this in the past, but my first resolution should explain why I am doing it now: Set more definite long-term goals, establish a plan to reach those goals, set checkpoint goals along the way, and organize my approach to each (especially those set forth below); Use my mathematics degree: Tutor higher level mathematics with a local college; Read more books, fewer sports magazines....

Dec 31st

Fair Enough

Me: So what have you been up to?
Cousin: Nothing, really.
Me: Girlfriend?
Cousin: Naw.
Me: Job?
Cousin: Nope.
Me: School?
Cousin: Not anymore.
Me: Ah. So ... nothing. Really.
Cousin: I play a lot of XBox.

Dec 31st

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Internet Travel Crushes Of 2009 →

(via missexpatria) Let’s start with Paul Brady. He works for Oyster, coincidentally my Company Crush of 2009. This means his job is to stay in hotels, take pictures of them and review them. I know. He’s also amusing and loves crab cakes. As I recently proclaimed to him on his Tumblr, I want to have 10,000 of his travel babies. One day, when Oyster decides to start reviewing hotels in Europe, and...

Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

63

I just added it up: I am related by blood or marriage to 63 people who live in Missouri. Note, I am counting my nephew Sam - who will be born before the close of January- because he will no doubt be my absolute favorite; that is, if we can have favorites among those we love. Add to these 63 my friends from high school, undergrad, law school, and life otherwise, and it is hard to imagine how I live...

Dec 31st

Awwwwwww →

The Travel Channel keeps showing ads for this website. Good for them, I say.

Dec 31st

soy: Laundry Room by The Avett Brothers Stop...

Dec 31st

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Cards closing in on agreement with Holliday →

I am fine with this. Happy even. The fact of the matter is that this team is going to have to spend money to make money in the coming years. Pujols is required to pack the seats and sell the merch, and overt measures are necessary to re-sign Pujols. Right? brighteryellow: Okay.

Dec 31st