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My wife & girlfriend — Country music takes a few jabs at Kanye

My wife (Carrie Underwood) co-hosted the 43rd annual CMA awards tonight, and my girlfriend (Taylor Swift) won ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR. This is a huge deal because Entertainer of the Year is usually a boys club deal with usually most of the nominees being men as well as the winner:
1967 Eddy Arnold
1968 Glen Campbell
1969 Johnny [...]

What gift really mattered to you? Help out by sharing your story!

My friend Alison showed me this link to the Second Harvest Food Bank blog post, which asks readers “What was a gift that you received that really mattered to you?”
For every comment/story shared, the Second Harvest Food Band CEO Kathy Jackson will donate $10 to the “Share Your Story” 2009 Holiday Food and Fund Drive. [...]

Did you know that you can swim with Beluga Whales??

Vivian knows that I love beluga whales (they’re just so cute) so she sent me this article from the San Francisco Chronicle.
By the way, “beluga” is derived from the Russian word meaning “white”. ..fitting yes?
Time to start saving up!!

When to go
The beluga-viewing season in Churchill runs from mid-July to mid-August.
Getting there
Winnipeg is the jumping-off point [...]

YouTube is costing Google $1.5 million a day

This may be old news to some, but I just finished reading an article in an old Newsweek which says that due to the size of YouTube and the number of uploads it has to handle each day, it is losing approximately $1.5 million a day.
According to the article, Google is trying to decrease the [...]

UP! Balloon Boy rats his parents out!! Ahahah!

Can’t control what your kids say hahahahha

Global Seed Vault — Oh, just in case doomsday occurs in 2012

So, after watching the History Channel at the hotel on Friday night in San Diego after a long day of work, my coworkers and I learned about December 21, 2012, which is sometimes referred to as Doomsday, and is the day that the “Long Count” Mayan calendar ends. Some believe that on this day, there will be [...]

If you live in the Bay Area, you should know about Jonestown

You should know about Jonestown because a bulk of the events happened here in San Francisco about three decades ago.
I just watched a documentary film called Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple. I first learned about this historical event after reading the second book in the Tales of the City series by Armistead [...]

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