Brent’s Thoughts

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Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.

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We're all Gamblers...

...on some level or the other. I was driving in to work today and just randomly started thinking about what insurance truly is. Insurance is a bet, placed by you, that you will get sick. You are literally putting money down, against yourself, that you…

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The Path of the Righteous

This post is passworded to avoid airing people's dirty laundry on the web. Tasha, Jeremiah's wife, called me and said that they were getting a divorce. She said they had been split up since November, which was when she found out that Jeremiah had cheated…

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For love or money

My final dream is to possess enough wealth that I could provide for my family and friends for the rest of our lives. For the most part where people live is based on their need to be employed and make money to support themselves. In…

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Doggy Dreams

Last night Pico woke up screaming like someone had broken his leg. I picked him up and woke him up and settled him down, but it seemed so funny that I had to save my dog from having a doggy nightmare. :) Then I realized…

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He did it all for the Nookie

Apparently, in an attempt to match Paris Hilton on pure Popularity whoring, Fred Durst has gotten his cell phone hacked too. This time the hacker took a 3 minute (man soooooo sad) video of him having sex with a random chick. "Don't worry honey.... I'll…

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No news is bad news

Does it disturb anyone else that, while we have one and half wars going on, a president who is out trying to "mend fences" and failing and several places in California failing off into the ocean, that the top two news stories this morning were:…

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Since he isn't here to defend himself

I thought I would *direct slam* Frank J. Miles since he never bothers to read any of this stuff. So, check out Frank's pic and new hair cut over here http://www.deaton.com/aboutus.aspx Hey man, that isn't much of a power tie....

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Time off

Stacey was in the hospital again on Friday and Saturday, but got a lot better by Sat afternoon and everyone came over to the house and spent the night. They left Sunday morning and P headed to Morgantown too, so that left me pretty much…

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Paris Hilton's Phone Hacked

You make the call on if it is some kinda publicity stunt or if it is real. Paris's Hitlon's Sidekick (remember all her stupid commericals?) has been hacked and all the personal information that they has copied out of it. It includes several pictures of…

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Take Three?

Still kicking around the possiblities of what I should use and what I shouldn't. How about this? It is what is linked to off of the new brentnorris.net homepage.