whataslacker: a blog about nothing much.
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A Sci-fi Whirlwind of a Weekend in LA
A few years ago one of my best friends and I had a whirlwind vacation out to Los Angeles. I had just returned from a family vacation to southern Germany and the very next weekend I am back on a plane to LA for the weekend. Yes, you heard me right, I said for the…
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Has Big Bang Theory Lost Its Bang
I think the post writer’s strike slump that seems to plague all of television these days has finally hit my favorite sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. The last two episodes where Sheldon’s twin sister visits and Leonard’s birthday party were just lacking that extra spark of geekiness I have come to love since this show…
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Fontier(s) Will Scare Your Bloody Pants Off
Frontier(s) is a horror film coming out of France (seems like all of the really good scary films these days are foreign). I am telling you just the trailer will scare the pants off of you. If you like Hostel (the first film not the sequel) or SAW (any of them) you are bound to…
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Big Bottoms Good for More Than Just a Spinal Tap Song
Mom always told me that people that had diabetes like her were shaped like her with thin legs and rounder in the middle. Turns out she might actually be right. Scientists are now saying that the fat found around the hips and thighs may actually protect you against getting the disease. So it turns out…
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Need More Business Cards Time to Reorder
Well I have finally given away the last of my business cards. I had some made up last year for my website over at Vista Print. Since they are completely gone now it is time to head back over to their website and reorder some more. The site is so easy to use and you…
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I Want It Wednesday: Pleo the Robotic Dino
New feature for me. While I could fill this blog with a daily I want it post I think I will stick to just Wednesdays (mostly). I cannot help it if I am overcome with the feeling of ‘I has to have this’ therefore making me post on other days to, but I will try…
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I Wanna BB Gun
I may have mentioned this before; as a kid I always wanted an airgun, well we never called them that. To us they were simply BB guns and I wanted one in the worst way. I grew up in a family full of hunters and maybe I wanted to be like my Dad after all…
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High Cost of Oil Takes Its Toll on My Toys
I noticed the scale of action figures seems to be going back down in size. Instead of all the hulking, big seven inch pieces of plastic we are once again seeing smaller three inch scale figures in the toy stores. Since plastic is basically a petroleum based product do you think the trend in smaller…
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Viva Las Vegas and the Traveling Golfer
This is a really weird coincidence that golf has come up in my conversations about four times in the past week. So it only seems fitting that I bring it up now. I am not a golfer. If I were I would have had a free day of golf at a local course. That was…
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The Terrible Cost of Just Going to Work
While I am bitching about gas prices I might as well keep going. I am really starting to wonder how I am even going to be able to keep my job with the rising prices of gas. I travel sixty plus miles each way to work. Money-wise that works out to $20 bucks a day…
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Gas Prices, Car Loans and the Economy
Holy crap have you folks driving your SUVs noticed the price of gas per gallon lately? Don’t you realize you are going through it twice as fast, or faster, than the rest of us? It just might be time to dump the gas guzzler and get into a smaller vehicle or a hybrid. Okay, so…
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Cats and Learned Behavior
Not all cats are scardey cats. At least not when they start out. Our big boy Boris never was overly afraid of things like trucks driving by or even the vacuum cleaner running. He would just lie there looking around like he was saying, ‘what the heck?’ Yet he never got up to run and…
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