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- December 16th, 2009
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Billy Mays Versus Bluto From Popeye.
Did you ever notice how much the late Billy Mays looked like Bluto from Popeye? Yeah, me neither.
- December 15th, 2009
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Trivial Knowledge Tuesday: Sexy Japanese Female Assassins, Australia, and the Mona Lisa.
Damn it, I said sexy FEMALE ninja assassins! Ahoy-hoy! Welcome to Trivia Tuesday, which is a weekly blog post where we see how far the rabbit hole of knowledge really goes. I can’t help but be s…
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Meta-Monday: Blog Checkup Plus Mini-Rant On Dictionaries.
Okay! I’ve been doing this daily-themed blogging thing for nearly 4 days and, well, it’s pretty intense. Here’s the numbers rundown thus far. Days missed: One (Sci-Fry Fiday) Excuse…
- December 14th, 2009
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Zombie Kitteh Wantz To Nom Yer Brains T-Shirt.
He’s a kitten! He’s dead! He’s irresistible! Also, he doesn’t want to outright ask for your brains, but maybe, if you had some you weren’t using (zing!), he could haul th…
- December 13th, 2009
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The Saturday Review: The Jell-O Shot.
The Thing: The Jell-O Shot The Circumstances: I’ve returned home now after having been pretty charming (we don’t like to say the “drunk” word) three times in the same day, at…
- December 11th, 2009
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T-Shirt Thursday: I Play Video Games Like Russians Write Novels.
Yeah, yeah. I know it’s late. But it’s probably Thursday somewhere, he says with a sly grin and a wink that sends it over the top, from suave to creepy. Click the picture to buy the shirt…
- December 9th, 2009
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I Need Some Blogging Discipline.
So, here’s the thing. Lately I have been playing it fast and loose with this blog o’ mine and I’ve now decided that I need some discipline in my writing schedule. I’m Twitterin…
- December 5th, 2009
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- December 2nd, 2009
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Most Ferocious Beast Ever To Impersonate Churchill.
Awww. Mrs. HokeBlarg tells me that I look exactly the same when I’m sleeping. Which explains why I wake up with dry-tongue every morning. HahahahahahaSNORT! Excuse me.
- December 1st, 2009
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The Case of the Breakfast Horn and Literal Graffiti.
Yesterday, while on our way to pick up Mickey — a sweet, lovable, furry ball of snorting, licking merriment (seen here) that we are currently dogsitting — the wife and I stopped by a gas s…
- November 29th, 2009
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I Earn My Intestinal Discomfort.
There are foods that I eat that are not what most people would call normal. These are foods not from this land, foods that might make your average Caucasian wither with disgust or distaste. Their labe…
- November 27th, 2009
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A Little Holiday Decorating.
We bought a new tree this year to celebrate the birth of Jaaaaaay-sus. Mrs. Hokeblarg got to choose the color and I got to choose the tree-topper. “Victory shall be Christmas!”
- November 15th, 2009
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Inchworm Video & UNHOLY BEETLE OF DOOM! (oom…oom…oom)
I’m taking a break from the usual postings of geekery and humor to post a few pictures and a video of the wife and I playing with an inchworm we found outside. Forgive the mouth breathing and w…
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A Brief And Nerdy Musical Interlude From Tripod.
In my last post I extorted humor from the masses in exchange for Google Wave Invites, which are the Wonka’s Golden Tickets of the geek world right now. Among the awesome hilarity posted, this je…
- November 14th, 2009
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I’ve Got Google Wave Invitations To Give Away…
But I’m not just going to give them away. Oh, no. I had to do some things I’m not too proud of to get my original invite, so here’s what I’m going to do. The first SEVEN commen…
- November 13th, 2009
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Reservoir Dogs/Ninja Turtles Mashup.
Somewhere, there is a Venn diagram depicting an interest in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and an interest in Reservoir Dogs, both classics in their own way. Smack in the overlap you’ll find this…
- November 10th, 2009
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The Grapple is the Best Video Game Invention in Forever.
Games have certainly come a long way, haven’t they? I can remember when I’d spend a quiet night with friends, playing a good natured game of Halo. This week, I spent a few hours playing Sa…
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An Introduction to Tilt-Shift Photography.
I’ve been enamored with the whole tilt-shift photography thing lately. Tilt-shift photography, in case you didn’t know, is where photographs are taken with a special lens called (you guess…
- November 9th, 2009
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New T-Shirts.
Check out the brand new ChrisHokeBlog.com T-Shirt Store! Sort by: date created | popularity Showing 1 - 12 of 12 products. "Buddha Mind a…
- November 5th, 2009
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Adventures In Comment Spam With My Robot Pal.
I don’t know exactly what’s going on with my spam lately, but these guys are getting pretty good. I’ve got the Akismet Spam-Destroyer 9000 hooked up to the ol’ blog here, but I…
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Remember, Remember.
Just in case you don’t have time to properly celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, here are the best parts of one of my favorite movies. Happy Fifth of November.
- October 31st, 2009
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The Simpsons Rocked My Childhood.
As Halloween approaches, my mind becomes filled with memories of the holiday as a kid. Visions of free candy, pumpkin carving, haunted houses, Christian protests, and potentially razor-blade laden car…
- October 27th, 2009
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On Arses and A Minimalist Nativity Set.
I’m an effing exercise in aesthetic inconsistency: I love design that’s super-busy and forces me to take it in just a little at a time (which, I believe, is what she said) while I’m…
- October 25th, 2009
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The Beauty of Twitter.
The beauty of Twitter is that it can connect you with other people, ideas, and media from across the globe, all happening in real-time. The lame part about Twitter is that it will connect you with peo…
- October 20th, 2009
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- October 9th, 2009
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Zenbe and Me.
I recently wrote an article for Email Service Guide about Zenbe, an online service that integrates and consolidates webmail, social networking, calendar, lists, and also Shareflow, which is a new co…
- October 6th, 2009
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Study About Gun Violence Reveals Startling New Facts.
According to a study done at New Scientist (noobs!), people who carry guns around are more likely to be shot than people who are unarmed. I’ve got a problem with this study. What about the peopl…
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- October 2nd, 2009
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Google Wave Me, Please, Thanks.
The following are the things I’ll do for a Google Wave invite. 1) I’ll tell you how great you look in those pants. Alternately, if you’re not wearing any pants, I’ll tell you h…
- October 1st, 2009
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The Upright Bass and Other Torture Devices.
There comes a point when you’re learning how to do something, usually pretty early along, and you encounter a “master” in that particular field. Perhaps you’re a ten-year-old k…
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At Least Three Dimensions of Excitement.
There is a new Resident Evil movie in the works (RE: Afterlife) and, like everything that’s coming out these days, it’s in 3D. Flying mustachibats couldn’t keep me from seeing it. S…
- September 25th, 2009
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Better Safe Than Sorry.
And that girl named Stacy Griffith? That was ME. No, that’s not right. I simply love the way this was crafted, though… heehee… (From Cory Doctorow via Wil Wheaton.)
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Last Night I Dined in Hell.
Last night I had the least enjoyable tacos of my life at my favorite taco place in the whole world. Let me start off by saying that I’m a little bit of a taco snob, and constantly on the search…
- September 21st, 2009
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Post Of The Living Dead.
The wife and I have a soft spot in our brains for zombies. We’ll see almost literally anything in the theaters featuring the undead hordes and owns a bevy of zombie and zombie-related DVDs. I…
- September 17th, 2009
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From China With Love.
I’ve got a friend who shall not be named Speedicut, who’s currently bumming his way around China. China, as you might know, is a really enormous country where there is a large Asian popula…
- September 9th, 2009
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Upright, Out of Sight, Baby.
There are lulls, sometimes. I’m currently in one, musically, I think. The number of gigs that I play monthly has dropped off a bit and I’m seeking some new opportunities, which may or may…
- September 7th, 2009
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The joys of being a 30-something single British female in New York - September 5th, 2009
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The Android and The Human
As I delve deeper into research for the novel that I’m working on, I keep stumbling across thing like this: A speech/essay given by one of my heroes, Philip K. Dick, on humans, androids, and the…
- September 3rd, 2009
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A Little Bundle Of Joy.
I’m not against having children. Quite the opposite is true, in fact. I’m delighted with the notion that, someday, in the not-too-distant future, the wife and I will have a little bundle o…
- September 2nd, 2009
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Blog Post: Dancers, Parasites, and Beer.
Just returned from Crescent City (yesterday), near the California/Oregon border, where the band played a fan’s birthday party. Very nice, great food, great people who love blues and country and…
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The Cold, Wet, and Naked Truth.
“I woke up, last night, cold, wet and naked.” Speedicut told me. “You don’t say.” I remarked, taking a sip of my tea. Some people might be shocked by a comment like this,…
