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Silver Quarter

Dec

2006

A strange thing happened- I was putting my spare change in my change jar, and noticed that one of the coins made a funny clanging noise. I found the quarter that sounded different and noticed that it didn’t have the copper ridge on it. Anyway, I looked it up and found out that it was ...

Save me Spider-man!

Dec

2006

1228060946.jpg Originally uploaded by mattlary. Calin put a spider-man action figure in my stocking for Christmas, so I staged a scene with him and Mary Jane at work- This will surely help me climb the corporate ladder!

spam spam spam

Dec

2006

I’ve been having some issues with spam comments, but I’ve had some mechanisms in place to shield everyone from them. I started by just moderating every comment that came through, and then I added the image verification to help filter out more. The image verification wasn’t working at all for some reason, so I’ve replaced ...

Blog Software Stuff

Dec

2006

I spent more time tweaking the blog software; I got the counter working, and I was able to tweak the date displays and some other things. This stuff probably doesn’t matter to anyone, but I wanted to mention it because I felt accomplished For those who read who care about blogging software, WordPress rocks- check ...

New Theme

Dec

2006

I’ve missed the connections theme, so it’s back.� Let me know if you like it (or dislike it).

Maybe this isn’t a drill after all… 4

Dec

2006

1215061251 Originally uploaded by mattlary. Just a little midday excitement; turns out someone left a plate in the microwave for too long and it caught on fire. All is well now.

Wisdom Teeth

Dec

2006

I got my wisdom teeth out Friday- I wrote a very long graphic post about it, but I didn’t post it because I’m sure nobody wants that much information. So to make a long story short; it was pretty rough because I had a deeply impacted tooth that needed to be dug/drilled/squeezed/cut out. The other ...