Alma by Rodrigo Blaas

This five-minute animated short is clever, cute and creepy. It is perfect for the holiday season and definitely worth watching.[1]
Makes me wonder what I could have created had I continued enrolling in 3D animation classes after high school.

[1]: If you are not …

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In Between Dings

I left a warmer climate on an empty stomach – anxious and eager – and touched down in Denver only to sit on the runway like a lazy model until close to 8:30.
After snow delay number one, I quickly ate half of a red-white-and-yellow sacked dinner, re-packing the …

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Seniõr Sprite

[Business-related] road trip! /
During our three-hour route to Brownwood, TX, my superior and I stopped at McDonald’s to have lunch. Under normal conditions, fast food is never a consideration; on the way to Brownwood, it’s the only consideration.
Tangent: …

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Soft-Core Sounds

It’s difficult to take the operators on the other end of a customer service call seriously when between the two, three, sometimes four outsourced representatives are tunes reminiscent of late-night shows that funded sub-par acting and weak screenwriting with the …

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Call Waiting Policy

You just received ten digits and her name, either on a piece of paper, your hand, a napkin, or the post-1999 method – directly into your phone.
The known: You are going to call. The unknown: Everything else.
How long dost thou wait to call? Two weeks? Three days? Four …

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Weak Ends

I love Sunday’s, but the day after is usually not on my list of favorites. You know going in [to the weekend] that Monday is going to suck.
Some Mondays are a little less painful than others. Usually due to the kind conversations some Sunday evenings can bring.
When …

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Whistle While You Work

But, please, keep it to yourself. I’m not a white cartooned female and you don’t have an adjective for a name, stand fewer than four feet tall, or carry a pick axe.
It’s bad office etiquette to implant (through whistling) late 80s songs into someone’s head …

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Worst Acting Job Ever

I woke up this morning after a horrible dream…I was in someone’s wallet!
After a movie-filled weekend, I’ve seen a fair share of crap. I went in expecting them to be crap though. I mean, if I can honestly say that my favorite from the bunch is Knowing, then what …

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Texas Dresscode

Everyone that lives in Austin claims that it is non-representative of the rest of the lone star state. That may be partially true, but not completely.
For instance, if you were to randomly sample a set of twelve people’s conversations, I guarantee at least …

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Chopped Chit Chat

If your WPM is fewer than, or equal to, your grandfather’s age on your fifth birthday, then please take typing lessons.
I’m not referring to shorthand or txt lessons…no, I’m talking about cue, double you, e, are, tea, why (skills). Especially if you plan to use …

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Wait Four Months

Doing it in a line sucks, but doing it out of line can suck just as bad. I’m talking of course, about waiting.
I do it quite often when I write, but that is because an elipsis sometimes make the word right after so much more…meaningful.
I forgot how much I enjoy …

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Recycling Bender

Austin is such a progressive area when it comes to being Earth-conscious. I’ve changed a lot of my habits when it comes to recycling. I recycle everything. Hell, I even got made fun of the other day at work for drinking out of a mason’s jar (actually, it was a …

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Plain White Paste

Plain old Colgate in a tube…ah, the good ol’ days. The .1 ounce blob I put on my toothbrush this morning brought me back.
I remembered standing barefoot on a Smurf blue tiled floor, in front of a white porcelain sink (aka – G.I. Joe’s ocean), barely being able …

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I Love These Eight Es

1. Eggs
Breakfast [food] for any meal is thoroughly enjoyable; however, one of my favorite snack foods is a hard-boiled egg with salt and/or ranch dressing.
2. Exiting
Either I’ve done my job for the day, or I’m on an important errand, or even leaving on a jetplane. …

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Never Bike Faster Than Your Guardian Angel Can Fly

I don’t.
Instead of sitting here trying to think of a clever title, I’m just going to write what I remember happening between a PT Cruiser and my Fuji Roubaix Pro…
On the evening of July 21, 2009, I was coasting the last 100’ of a 20 mile bike ride (that I do …

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I Missed A Lot

This weekend was supposed to be an awesome time with family, but Mother Nature had to come along and change that.
I made it from AUS to ORD almost incident-free. There was about a twenty-minute delay at takeoff due to the weather surrounding the Chicago area. The pilot …

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Accident-LOL

Boisterous laughter heard between nine and five from the face in front of the monitor is 99% of the time related to something unrelated to work. For this reason, it is not healthy job etiquette to engage in such activities [while at work] especially if you have three to …

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