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A handy guide to pronouncing Texas city names

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Everything’s bigger in Texas, it’s true.  But, did you know that sometimes things are a bit more confusing, too?  For instance, there are quite a few places in this great state that might give pause to ‘foreigners’ when it comes to pronouncing their names.  But don’t fret, ‘pardner’!  Just follow this handy pronounciation guide, and you’ll be talkin’ like a Texan in no time!

Dallas – DAL-us (okay, that one was easy!)

Sachse – SAX-ey

Montague – mon-TAYGH

Lewisville – LEWIS-ville (no French allowed)

Bowie – BOO-eee (like Jim & knife, not David)

Fort Worth – COW-town

Coppell – COP-pell

Arlington More >

Did you know the site icon is called the "Mean little ball of rage?" Did you know this site HAD an icon?

A year of various rage

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Today marks the one year anniversary of this website, and I thought I’d mark the occasion by sharing a few things I’ve learned, and to recap some popular posts, and personal favorites.

Did you know the site icon is called the "Mean little ball of rage?" Did you know this site HAD an icon?

Things I’ve learned over the last year of blogging:

  • WordPress is easy to manage, but not so easy to set up.
  • Never, ever use Yahoo! webhosting.  Ever.
  • The people that care about Tekken 6 are not necessarily the people that will care about anything else on this website.
  • The need for new content on a regular More >
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DVR by the numbers: How much does owning a DVR really cost?

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Between my Western Digital external hard drive failing right outside of warranty, my frustration with TiVo’s decade-old interface, and service provider DVRs coming-up short, I’ve been thinking a lot about the personal TV choices available to me. And when I think about something a lot, it frequently leads to charts. Especially when money is involved.

So, during the process of sorting-out if I’m going to keep TiVo or ditch it for Moxi, or even a Vista CableCard Home Theater PC, I ran some numbers and came to some interesting conclusions. I compared the overall cost of ownership of different More >

Weekly Twitter Recap 2009-02-01

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  • Mango chutney candles? Paula Deen must be stopped. http://twitpic.com/17mrl #
  • Trust Me bled into pilot episode of Saving Grace. Holly Hunter naked looks like one of those hairless cats. #
  • The Closer was solid as always. Trust Me was good, will stay in regular DVR rotation. Will give Saving Grace a chance, hairless cat & all. #
  • I have a fictional character following my tweets. Why does this feel more unnerving than it should? #
  • I didn’t know Majel Barret-Roddenberry died in December! The computer of the Enterprise now has no voice. :( http://tinyurl.com/agxun9 #
  • As much as I’m against the More >

Weekly Twitter Recap

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  • The United States of Tara is an excellent show…enough to make me want to keep my subscription to Showtime after trial runs out. #
  • I’ve liked every new show I’ve watched this week, so I’m very hopeful for Trust Me. The writers’ strike must’ve been good for creativity. #

All a-twitter

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So, as much as I loathe the idea of twitter, I think my lack of updates since Christmas sort of speak for themselves. Randomragenet is now online at twitter and twittling away. Is that what it’s called? Twittling?

In the meantime, my TiVo is down, but I have FiOS…having FiOS makes me very happy, but not having TiVo makes me feel like doing the angry dance:

Christmas demands from a would-be dictator

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If I were in charge of everything (and I should be), these are the rules that I would impose upon this joyous season that is upon us:

  • No retail store shall display nor market Christmas decorations or so-called “seasonal merchandise” until the week of Thanksgiving.
  • No Christmas music shall be publicly exhibited except between Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) and December 26th annually.  During those sanctioned times, public exhibition shall be proportionally limited to a to-be-determined ratio of Christmas to non-Christmas music, increasing in amount until the week of Christmas, when More >
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