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6/30/01 a work of fiction

Incredible. It’s the last day of June, and Minnesota has failed to pass a tax bill and seven spending bills.1 What this means is that, unless something miraculous happens tomorrow, the state of Minnesota will shut down for the first time in its history.
Incredible. It’s the last day of June, and Minnesota’s legislators managed [...]

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6/28/01 my 26th

Today, June 28th, is the birthday of (among others):

Mel Brooks
John Cusack
Gilda Radner
Jason L. Gohlke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Henry VIII of England

A journey into the eerie shadows of coincidence: Rod Serling entered the Twilight Zone, uh, died the exact day I was born—June 28, 1975.
I myself am spending the day in the city of my birth.1
1 “Ah, I see,” [...]

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6/27/01 faux temporal paradox

Oooh, boy. Mr. Nice dances [and for some reason, I laugh]. Courtesy (?) of memepool.
On a site like this [www.gohlkusmaximus.com], the dates on which I update the site tend to lose meaning as time passes. That is, as our distance increases from the creation date of any given entry, so does the relevance of the [...]

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6/26/01 never mind

What makes today today? Today is yesterday already.

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Filed under General on June 26, 2001, 'never mind' has comments numbering merely 0.
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6/22/01 what?

Spotted on the bumper of a Chevrolet Celebrity in downtown Minneapolis: “Every day of my life forces me to add to the number of people who can kiss my ass.”
I kid you not.

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6/21/01 two firsts today:

I donated blood for the first time in my life.
I fainted for the first time in my life.

Fainting is a frightening phenomenon. Right after donating, I felt basically okay. I sat up, stood up, walked about 12 feet, grabbed a bottle of water, a packet of cookies, and a Coke. I sat down and rested [...]

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6/20/01 pirated sites

Hmm, how’d that happen: The web sites of Shasta (soft drink manufacturer) and Furby (crappy toy) bear a strange but undeniable resemblance to each other.
This is not to say they don’t both suck.
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Broadband rocks.
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No real movement yet on a state budget. But I did get an email from the Guv today. [...]

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