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  • Happy New Years!

    Happy New Years! I celebrated New Years Eve by getting fairly drunk. By fairly drunk, I mean I managed to almost finish a box of 12 Smirnof Ice all by myself. I say almost since I'm such a nice guy, I shared a few. The scene of my drunken silliness w...

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  • Merry Christmas

    So today is Christmas Day. Got some nifty presents, clothes, and my fair share of chocolate. In a little bit I'll be sitting down with the family for a nice big Christmas feast. Much turkey to be had, plus all the fixins.I've got some non-Christmas s...

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  • Christmas Party Fun

    Last night was the Christmas party for my work, which was quite a blast. A bunch of people from work, their significant others, plus various other guests. Luckily, I wasn't the only one there who only knew the people I worked with, as several of my c...

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  • Blogger Meetup

    Last night after work I hightailed it over to the Ceilis Irish Pub on Smithe for the "Meetup of Meetups". It was a gathering of several meetup groups, including Third Thursday Vancouver and ( from what I remember ) the local sales and real estate age...

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  • Contract Work Is Awesome

    So I recently found out something pretty cool about doing contract work. Short version: business expenses.Long version: there are a lot of things that I get to write off as business expenses. Since I work for a company that makes comics doing web des...

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  • Sometimes...

    Now, I'm a big reader of webcomics. I've got several in my RSS feeds, from all over the board. Questionable Content, Shortpacked, xkcd, Penny Arcade and a few others. But I don't want to talk about those other webcomics.Today, I'd like to talk about ...

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  • South By South West

    So, South By South West (SxSW) is coming up again. For those of you not in the know, SxSW is a new media conference held in Austin, Texas. It's one of the biggest events of the year in the blogging/Twitter world. I saw the coverage from last year, an...

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  • Sean Loves His Job

    So a week ago I started work at a new job. I started on Monday, and was given a small project to work on. This was partially to see if I liked working there and they liked me, but it was also to see if I knew what the hell I was doing. Thankfully, I ...

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  • New (Free) Pet!

    So today some lady comes in and leaves a tank in the livestock area of the Petcetera where I work. Inside this tank is some mulch, some twigs, and a fake rock. After taking into the back, I discover that inside the rock ( it was fake, hollow, and bro...

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  • Scotiabank Fraud Emails

    I've gotten several emails in the past few days claiming to be from Scotia Bank. They all claim to be part of a new campaign against online fraud with a reward of $5000 'bonus' for answering just 5 survey questions. They all point to a website that a...

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