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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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Overheard on a local radio station:

This commercial-free hour is brought to you by (company name).

It is not really free of commercials, now, is it? It might just be me, but that statement seems ludicrous. Isn’t mentioning the hour’s sponsor a type of commercial?

I love to see how people play with words and meaning—especially in media [...]

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

This statement from e.e. cummings goes up as one of my favorite of all time. Laughter is a great medicine, as every copy of Reader’s Digest will tell you.

You may have noticed that as you browse here on fautrever.com various sayings or jokes appear in the [...]

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Mark Twain said:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

That sums up my outlook on life, and I am living [...]

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. —Anna Quindlen

What is success to you? I often think about how lucky I am to be living my dreams. Some days I have to pinch [...]

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“There is no use in trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

I have to catch myself when saying [...]

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Amazingly, Erin and I have just passed a big milestone: one year of full-time RV travel. It’s been a fun adventure, and we hope to continue for at least one more year. Next summer, we plan on driving to Alaska, so if the RV wants to fall apart after that it would be great timing.

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Everyone needs a social life, right? I signed up for a MySpace account earlier this year, but never updated it or customized it much. To be honest, I probably was just too busy. But, it also wasn’t inviting, compelling, or easy to use, so that contributed to my mostly ignoring it besides putting up two [...]

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Since we were just in San Antonio, Texas as part of our “Travel Adventures”, I thought I would share this classic pun with you.

“A tourist couple decides to eat in a café along the Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio as they finish up a day of people-watching and shopping. They order brisket and potatoes, and [...]

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One nice thing about having a MacBook Pro, or any Intel-based Mac computer for that matter, is the ability to run multiple operating systems. Using the amazingly wonderful Parallels virtualization software I currently run Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu-flavored Linux (all at the same time).

Last night I loaded the latest Ubuntu release and was [...]

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