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yacs
name: dan
golo url: yacs.golo.com
born: 1966
gender: male
city: raleigh, nc
golo member since: August 1, 2007
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favorite music: all forms of rock, some pop, some classical, the occasional bit of bluegrass, and the wiggles
favorite movies: too many to list
favorite hobbies: writing, reading
favorite restaurants: stromboli's
favorite vacation spots: wdw
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No no no no. Sorry! My wife also likes Manhattans, bourbon and high end tequila straight. So, I was not demeaning your tastes in alcohol. I seem to like more traditional beers, where she and you like the newer more, I don't know, avant garde? Non-traditional anyway.
I have many brew friends that thoroughly enjoy the beers you mentioned, but I haven't quite cultivated the taste for. In fact, I am running out of my IPA and I'm going to get another batch going tomorrow. ;^)
GOLO member since September 19, 2008
August 27, 2009 9:55 a.m.
Yeah, you don't see softballs tossed like that one every day . . .
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
August 28, 2009 6:35 p.m.
This guy is from my hometown in West Virginia.
It'll blow your hair back...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
September 2, 2009 9:45 p.m.
GOLO member since August 28, 2008
September 3, 2009 11:11 a.m.
You GO, Dan!
Terri
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September 3, 2009 11:39 a.m.
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September 3, 2009 9:19 p.m.
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September 4, 2009 10:48 p.m.
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September 6, 2009 6:44 p.m.
GOLO member since July 3, 2007
September 8, 2009 8:43 a.m.
Looks like I got me a J O B
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
September 16, 2009 6:10 p.m.
Many to be worked out...I got the verbal at a lunch meeting yesterday. It's a start-up company right now. Still gathering staff and I will be marketing to start then moving into project management for a civil engineering and construction management company. They're working for WMBE status for state and federal jobs.
If Big Brother is going to force me to play by his rules I'm going to play the game better than him. The CEO is a Columbian woman so she's got a double whammy effect. DOT is begging her to get fully staffed because they are having difficulty getting minority status firms to satisfy requirements for federal funding.
For the civil & highway-heavy field, it's this sort of "outside chance" or none at all.
I truly believe things will never be like they "used to be" again. Not necessarily bad by any means but there's going to be a whole new set of learning curves to flatten out.
I'll catch up more later - take care.
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
September 16, 2009 11:32 p.m.
Down the Memory Hole...as part of my work at MiniTrue I personally revised that story, doubleplus good.
Ignorance is Strength, brother....
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
September 18, 2009 8:41 a.m.
It all started with "my hovercraft is full of eels . . ."
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October 8, 2009 7:46 a.m.
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October 8, 2009 8:42 a.m.
Where no Python has gone before...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
October 8, 2009 8:47 a.m.
If not, who's gonna pay the bar tab?
Big Holler to my niller...fo realer...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
October 28, 2009 10:33 a.m.
Beth
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October 30, 2009 12:09 a.m.
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October 30, 2009 8:21 a.m.
/* bump stumble bump */
/* giggle */
/* knock, knock, knock */
Trick or treat!
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October 31, 2009 10:23 p.m.
Thought ya might find it interesting - I popped a hasty reply to one of your emails - they deserve more time than I have right now so look for more to follow.
Back to Southport tomorrow and once again next week to finish the project.
C U L8R...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 2, 2009 7:46 p.m.
That was the reference. Let's see how long it takes before we see stories of the USS New York being 'haunted' from the reused metals.
Tabloids love this stuff. :-)
GOLO member since July 15, 2007
November 5, 2009 5:17 p.m.
Dude man HEY!
I'm going to do the reply email eventually - still kinda busy but that "link" should give you something of interest to read and you might see why I try to always put "liberal" in quotation marks....it's like "air quotes" when people use their fingers to make quote marks as they say words they don't really believe.
Go read that essay - it's doubleplus good and it's written to other writers. You'll dig it the most daddy-o!
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November 11, 2009 10:04 p.m.
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November 12, 2009 10:07 p.m.
says the Chris Moore fan, LOLzers...
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 17, 2009 9:52 p.m.
My work is done here...which way is the sunset?
GOLO member since May 15, 2009
November 17, 2009 11:08 p.m.
I have to admit, when she resigned, I winced and bought in to the conventional wisdom that she was toast. But as time has gone on, I've recognized the wisdom of the move.
Something like 40 frivolous ethics complaints had been filed against her. She had shelled out a half million dollars in legal fees defending them. If she had stayed governor, it only would have continued. She would have left office broke and wounded.
She would not have been able to write a book, and go on tour. She would have had little to no contact with the lower 48 states. She would have abdicated her position as a mover in the GOP.
Now she is on every TV in the country, her book is in every bookstore in the country. Her face is everywhere. Instead of losing her position, she is gathering power.
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
November 18, 2009 8:33 a.m.
I have to admit, there are things about her that give me pause. But one thing is clear - she is certainly the only person who truly means it when they say they want to cut gov't spending. And she is almost certainly the only republican front-runner who absolutely would do it.
Personally, that's good enough for me.
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
November 18, 2009 8:37 a.m.
FYI - I don't have disdain for middle of the road people. Have disdain for people who CLAIM to be middle of the road and then spout ridiculous democrat talking points as "fact".
If someone is genuinely open minded about an issue, I always try to steer them down the right path. But I have less respect for those clearly just claiming to be open minded than I do for honest to God open liberals.
(And for the record, just TRY to get most of the golo liberals to admit they a liberals. They'll claim to be "moderate", or "fiscally conservative but socially liberal", or a "Goldwater republican" or a "McCain supporter until he picked Palin".)
I'm a conservative. I have my ideas and they are welcome to come and try to take me on. But the fact that almost everything they say is a lie should tell you who we are dealing with.
Off to work.
Ta.
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
November 18, 2009 9:20 a.m.
As for the whole "moderate" and "reaching across the aisle" thing, let me ask you this question:
If we do not demand that politicians be guided by principles, then what do you think will guide them?
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
November 18, 2009 4:50 p.m.
Oh, it is. But that doesn't mean I have to leave you there.
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
November 18, 2009 5:26 p.m.
If principles do not guide politicians, SELF INTEREST will.
That's why I want principled leadership - not squishy, rudderless moderates.
GOLO member since July 17, 2007
November 18, 2009 6:08 p.m.
hehehe, yes, yes indeed.
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November 21, 2009 9:47 a.m.
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