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: Your opinion on these three things ... … might just show your age, or at least hint at your generation: Shooting vertical video. …
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: Do you have a problem? I saw this on the Internet and fully endorse it … even if I don’t, you know, …
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: Good news from my hometown I ran past the Michigan Central Train Station during the Detroit marathon, many moons ago, and it …
: Lame It’s amusing and infuriating to me how bad job-search agents are. Does anyone get a legitimate …
: Taking Down Bowser In college, I spent far too much time playing Nintendo games and not nearly enough studying. One of …
: [Insert punchline] I was playing around at a business card website the other day, and after creating a sample card the …
: 1989 WMU Football Coulda Been Apropos of nothing, I found this ticket stub from the Sept. 2 1989 Western Michigan vs. Temple game …
: 30 Years Later, Baseball Card Collection Still Treasured Shortly before Thanksgiving I was re-reading* Peter Walsh’s book “It’s All Too …
: My Favorite Author Dies David Halberstam was killed Monday morning in San Francisco and I’m more than a little bummed. …
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