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The Homepage of Erik Mitchell, a Web Developer in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hot Damn!

Water of life, if you please.

Lost Norwegian

17 May came and went and I didn’t even notice.

Weasel Words

Interesting part of the Wikipedia quality process: Avoid Weasel Words.

Interesting because “weasel words” are essentially one of the most commonly used rhetorical devices used by the cable news media. I don’t think they call them weasel words though…

The boob on the edge of town

This is just a disgusting editorial, in light of reality.

Summer Driving Season

I’m getting pretty accustomed to watching the price of gasoline ratchet up this time of year, as I start to ride my bike to work regularly past the Moto-mart and note the price of a gallon of regular.

The story is the same every year — it’s the onset of the Summer Driving Season. Oddly enough, there’s no entry at Wikipedia on the Summer Driving Season. I’ve exhausted my appetite for research on the subject — does anyone have any hard data demonstrating that this thing actually exists, or do we all just take it on blind faith?

I’d love to see a graph showing gallons consumed at the pump — week by week over a course of years. Anyone have a link handy?

Just about lost the tip of my left thumb to the fixie

Gotta be careful these days…

79 percent of Americans missing the point entirely

From the Onion. Pretty good.

Errands

Dog food and cat littler, yee-haw!

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