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Chocolate Covered Peeps

March 29, 2010
By LHP

Chocolate Covered Peeps are turning up everywhere (google ‘em) and I just want to point out that CCPs have been a tradition hereabouts for about a decade. I’m a terrible monetizer.
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Grim Work

December 30, 2009
By LHP

Robespierre, a frequent contributor at Fodor’s Travel Talk Forums online, suddenly stopped posting to the boards in July of last year. NPR’s All Things Considered did an essay on why he stopped and the reactions of his fellow forum posters. Robespierre died. People he knew online — friends and acquaintances — knew only that...
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If Conrad Deletes This

June 15, 2009
By LHP

Hey Man. I’m a little sore that my comment to your Germs post didn’t make it through moderation. Sure it was rambling and not entirely relevant, but I thought the link to Dan Graham’s documentary Rock My Religion was mostly on target since it examines, among other things, the same era (although it does...
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IHWE Competition!

August 25, 2006
By LHP

Wily Kenyans… We live in the age of plastic doodads and gadgets. Face it, you probably don’t have a single wooden item anywhere on your desk top right now. And, we think that’s a shame. Safaripod!
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Hardwood Electrics

August 17, 2006
By LHP

Inching forward.
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Vandegrift

November 20, 2003
By LHP

Yesterday the USS Vandegrift became the first US Navy ship to visit Vietnam since the Vietnam War. I cut my left thumb with a pneumatic grinder on the upper level (port side) of the Vandegrift‘s engine room when I worked on the ship as an apprentice pipefitter in the early 1990s. We had finished...
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Occupational Hazards in the Front Office

July 29, 2003
By LHP

Coal miners in dungarees and sweaty tees get black lung. Coal miners’ bosses, in their white collar shirts and freshly pressed ties, get bobble eye (and eventually glaucoma and blindness).
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