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The April 5th Storm of Greensboro, NC

April 5, 2011 By brandonpierce Leave a Comment

The images above are from the thunder storm that whipped through the Triad on April 5th, around 2:30am. More than 30,000 homes lost power from this one. There was a tornado warning… Apparently, the city of Greensboro has removed the storm sirens. I guess everyone is assumed to have their TVs on 24/7. We were [...]

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Email Etiquette: Best Practices

February 20, 2010 By brandonpierce Leave a Comment

Dear Readers – I’m posting this discussion in the hopes of engendering a conversation concerning the best practices for Email Etiquette. Miss Manners didn’t cover this in her helpful little book, so we’re forced, to a certain degree, to make this up as we go along. I am preoccupied with that area of Email Etiquette [...]

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Sci-Fi Dark Ages

December 22, 2009 By brandonpierce Leave a Comment

In our sci-fi accelerated society of pocket computers, women that vote, gays that marry, it seems off putting to say the least that we have such a Dark Ages rule requiring belief in the Almighty lingering in as many as 7 of our states’ constitutions…

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iPhone & the world of Tomorrow, Today!

December 1, 2009 By brandonpierce Leave a Comment

So I finally got an iPhone. It took two years for me to decide. In that time a lot has changed. iPhone has evolved, and so too has the world around it. “A computer in my pocket.” That’s been the best description of the iPhone I’ve ever heard. And now that I have one, it [...]

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My familiar, my Tiamat, my cat…

October 9, 2009 By brandonpierce 2 Comments

This is the hardest post I’ve ever written. My cat of the past 10 years, Tiamat, passed away yesterday. He was the smartest cat I’ve ever met. He was my first cat. Tiatmat was a heavy set fellow, alright, he was overweight. But he seemed quite comfortable in it, and wore it well. He was [...]

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The Kindle… O_o

August 10, 2009 By brandonpierce Leave a Comment

In my humble opinion: The Kindle is grossly overpriced and their digital books are overpriced as well. I can buy a netbook for the cost of a Kindle, and the netbook contains much more processing potential and power. With the advent of new, cheaper to produce technologies am I really so out of line to [...]

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Interactive Marketing: District-9

June 4, 2009 By brandonpierce Leave a Comment

Twitter Stream: > Beware of non-humans escaped from District 9. Call 866-666-6001 (toll free) to report them to MNU. via @MultiNationalU > Great/hilarious marketing ad in the LA weekly for District 9 flick. Which looks great btw. http://twitpic.com/6mnmi via @surfindolphin7 > District-9 –> http://www.d-9.com/ Looks like a badass documentary on the aliens that landed in [...]

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The President came to Greensboro, it cost Greensboro a lot of money to have him…

December 2, 2008 By brandonpierce Leave a Comment

Bush came to Greensboro to honor a local volunteer and mentoring program today. Which was very nice of him to do. However, I couldn’t help but notice how many police had to be involved for Bush’s visit. That’s a lot of tax payer dollars at work. Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to fly a group [...]

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