Author: Rory

It turns out that San Francisco’s Chinatown is set in the 1980s. Sour Nerds!

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Don’t worry, it’s just a name. Death Valley is actually not a valley.

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Having made my fortune in Las Vegas, we’re heading back to California via Death Valley.

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My career as a professional gambler has begun.

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Playing in the snow in Arizona, about to go see the Grand Canyon.

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On the way to the Hoover dam to visit Megatron.

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Just met Gary Busey’s property manager. Nice guy.

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Hospitals terrify me beyond what can be expressed in 140 characters.

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If anyone was waiting for the follow-up to the puzzle I posted last week, note that Joe has posted a solution in the comments of that entry.

My little experiment worked yesterday. As soon as I saw an xkcd cartoon claim that the phrase “died in a haberdashery accident” gave no results I was compelled to create a post with that name. Unsurprisingly, I’m now (as of the time of writing) the number one result for that phrase. I’ve had several hundred hits to that small and rather pointless post in the last twelve hours (the logs are compacted daily so I didn’t bother to look farther back to the previous twelve hours the post was up).