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Misc

Human Target Reboot

by 53X11 on February 23, 2010

On the day when there are stories everywhere (NY Times story here) about a mint 1938 Action Comics #1 (the one which introduced Superman) selling for $1 million dollars, I thought some readers may also be interested in a piece I found at Popmatters about the reboot of the 70’s comic Human Target (i.e. Christopher [...]

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The Buick Questor

by 53X11 on January 24, 2010

I saw a ad for the Buick Questor in 1983 and have thought it was cool every sense. It had a voice activated telephone, navigation, lazer key’s, wireless gargage door control, and numerous other things that we think are cool today. The thing had 14 computers on it, heck that is more then how many [...]

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Classic Albums that ruined music

by 53X11 on January 17, 2010

Spike has a piece up about the 10 top classic albums (compilations as albums don’t really exisist now) that accidental ruined music. I definately agree with #1. Full post here.

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Hey all – Quick update

by 53X11 on January 17, 2010

Well my return to “regular blogging” has not been as successful as I would have hoped. Over the last six weeks or so I have fought a terrible cold and exhaustion while working WAY too much. The good news is I believe God is opening a door for the work situation to [...]

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Amazing Video

by 53X11 on January 8, 2010

This guy does this with a nail gun, I could not get CLOSE to this with a paint brush.

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Smack that dog up

by 53X11 on December 23, 2009

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Missing Brands in 2010

by 53X11 on December 20, 2009

CNN Money has a nice piece discussing eight brands that disappeared in 2009 (or that their 2010 demise was announced in 2009) that they will miss. Though I will not miss Home Depot’s EXPO or Pontaic or Saturn or Max Factor, like them I will miss Circuit City retail stores, and the legacy of [...]

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Just say NO to Valet!!

by 53X11 on December 16, 2009

Found this video on a Fox affiliate in St Louis (news story here) and was blown away by what valet’s were doing to peoples cars in the basement garage of the Hyatt in St Louis. Full video valet here.

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Yes I am alive

by 53X11 on November 13, 2009

Yeah yeah I know I said I was going to get back to regular blogging about a month ago, but work has been crazy. Hopefully next week it will happen. Over the weekend I plan to get a few posts in regardless.

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Disgusting Pepsi Flavors

by 53X11 on October 6, 2009

Oobject has a poll going about the 13th most disgusting flavors of Pepsi ever. Personally I liked Clear Pepsi (ALOT) and Pepsi Summer Blend. I even tried the Holiday Spice Pepsi once and it was not terrible. Bottom line, give this poll a look but I personally disagree with some the [...]

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All The Single Ladies – Football Style

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

WOW – That is all I can say…WOW
I still will not watch Glee though…just not my kind of show…but this is F U N N Y !

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Defensive Medicine

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

[H/T to Overlawyered.com for this one]
The Happy Hospitalist has a nice post (and graphic) up explaining why defensive medicine is practiced, the cost of it and the results of this practice.

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Devotion pays off – in all things

by 53X11 on September 29, 2009

First of all, I don’t play guitar. So, don’t start emailing / commenting about which guitar is better, etc. Moving on, Reuters has a very interesting story up about the story of Paul Reed Smith guitars. The piece discusses how PRS guitars are expanding in a bad economy, how their [...]

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Old and New

by 53X11 on September 27, 2009

Well after over 8 years of running the team-swap a website and 5 years of being the primary blogger at swapblog I have decided it was time for something new.  So I have taken down both the website and the blog and decided to start a new blog – Frankly Speaking.    This change has [...]

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