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  • Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)

    Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)

    The last update to this was on May 24, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President…

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  • Hotels for Disney 2009

    Hotels for Disney 2009

    So, we are getting ready for our 2nd trip to Disney World with Indy. He has spring break from April 3 to April 11. We are thinking of being at Disney from April 5 (Sunday) through April 11 (Saturday). This time we are thinking of trying a hotel out of the park. I’m finding that…

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  • Infocus X1 Settings

    Infocus X1 Settings

    I was rereading this post: Xbox 360 infocus X1, how to get HDTV [Text View] – AVS Forum I am trying these settings for movies: Contrast 65Brightness 45R 74G 77B 74 I think I likie.

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  • On Buddhism For Me

    On Buddhism For Me

    The goal of the teachings of Buddhism is to become less ATTACHED to things that are IMPERMANENT. Move toward love, happiness and compassion. Move away from suffering. Everything that goes up comes down. Everything that lives dies. Everything that succeeds fails. You get what you give. The one desire you want to commit to is…

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  • From some economist on the radio

    From some economist on the radio

    Action without information is fanatical.Information without action is frustration.

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  • From a guy who lost…

    From a guy who lost…

    I don’t mind losing as much as I mind the other guy winning.

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  • A Really Great Guy I Met This Week

    A Really Great Guy I Met This Week

    I was down in Columbus Ohio for the Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference. It’s a great conference that I totally love being at. One of the people I met was John Tuggle. This is his site:Online Guitar Lessons, Slide Guitar Blues Lessons | Learning Guitar Now He sells blues guitar lesson dvd’s and downloads. He…

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  • T. Boone Pickens at the National Press Club

    T. Boone Pickens at the National Press Club

    I couldn’t rip myself away from the screen as I watched T. Boone Pickens at the National Press Club. Here are some quotes from that speech that stood out to me: I don’t care who you meet, you’ll never meet someone who’s drilled more dry holes than me. Anything is better than foreign oil for…

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  • On a Marines T-shirt

    On a Marines T-shirt

    Pain is weakness leaving the body.

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  • Old Trail School – Headmaster: John Farber

    Old Trail School – Headmaster: John Farber

    Involvement in extra curriculars is a leading indicator of success after high school.

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  • Quotes From Joe Biden

    Quotes From Joe Biden

    “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your books and I’ll tell you what you value.” “The measure of success is not how many times you get knocked down, it’s how quick you get up.”

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  • Me and Joe Biden at the Football Hall of Fame Rally

    Me and Joe Biden at the Football Hall of Fame Rally

    Joe Biden Football Hall of Fame Rally, originally uploaded by Sage Lewis. This is a crowning day of glory for me. This is the first picture I have ever had of me and a major political figure. Thanks Joe! You can see all of the pictures I took at the event here.

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  • Rsync Problems

    Rsync Problems

    For the life of me, I couldn’t get files to transfer from an XP laptop to a FreeNas samba server. This was why: rsync Linux Commands: Remote file copy (Synchronize file trees) a trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine foo into the…

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  • Tips On Getting Involved in Community Development Online

    Tips On Getting Involved in Community Development Online

    This is a post specifically for people who attended my Community class at Small Business Marketing Unleashed in Columbus Ohio. But if you haven’t come to the class, you might find this useful too. Here are my tips for getting involved in online communities. You have to participate to make it a success. You can’t…

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  • Robert Giroux “highbrow publisher” Obituary

    Robert Giroux “highbrow publisher” Obituary

    This is from The Week (September 19, 2008):“What’s publishing all about?” he once asked. “If it isn’t about what you like and believe in, you might as well manufacture sausages.”

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  • Andrew Bacevich – The Limits of Power

    Andrew Bacevich – The Limits of Power

    This is from The Week (September 19, 2008):Bacevich argues that a generation-plus of profligacy at home is feeding reckless U.S. militarism abroad, and that neither trend is sustainable. “Tacitly, at least, the American people are complicit” in the wreckage created by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he says, because preserving the “American way of ife”…

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  • Rocky is in search of her favorite pediatrician

    Rocky is in search of her favorite pediatrician

    First, if you have never checked out Rocky’s blog, I highly recommend it. It’s the way you always wanted your blogs to be written. It’s concise, funny and clever. But she is in search of her favorite pediatrician, Dr. Paula Sabella, MD. She has a post about it here: Vicarious Rocky: Dear Dr. Paula Sabella,…

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  • Encoding DVD’s To Put On My Hard Drive

    Encoding DVD’s To Put On My Hard Drive

    I have a small computer that I would like to play movies on. However, it doesn’t have a dvd player. So, now I’m venturing into the dark world of cracking dvd’s with Decrypting software and then re-encoding the movies to fit the various formats I’m interested in using. Right now I’m testing this:DVD Decrypter You…

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  • Google Apps Test

    Google Apps Test

    I’ve been playing around with Google Apps on SageRock.org to see if it might, someday be something for our main site. The thing I’m working on now is getting the MX records setup for Google Apps in my dns records. (My dns records are on 000domains.com. All of the changes are happening within their dns…

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  • .htaccess Regular Expressions Rewriting Glossary

    .htaccess Regular Expressions Rewriting Glossary

    I am teaching a class tomorrow on SEO Tech Tips. Part of the class is .htaccess rewriting. I think one of the hardest parts of this is knowing what all the different codes stand for in what is called Regular Expressions. I won’t list them all. But I do want to put the most common…

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  • Installing A Sump Pump

    Installing A Sump Pump

    I had a ton of water in my basement. A friend and I installed a sump pump. This is how we did it. YouTube – Installing A Sump Pump

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  • SES Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Training In Chicago June 4, 2008

    SES Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Training In Chicago June 4, 2008

    If you are going to be in Chicago this week, come check out:Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Training Workshops – Chicago, IL – June 4, 2008 I’m teaching a class called:Tech Pitfalls That Will Derail Your SEO Watch this video to learn more about the workshops and my class:

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  • Checking out the CreamAid Widget

    Checking out the CreamAid Widget

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  • Things To Do This Summer

    Things To Do This Summer

    Rocky was talking about all the cool things we need to do this summer. Here’s the list so far: Cedar Point Amusement Park, The Roller Coaster Capital of the World! – Opens May 10 Geauga Lake’s Wildwater Kingdom- Northeast Ohio’s Premier Waterpark Kings Island | Official Home Page We have a year pass for all…

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  • Think Global, Act Local Training Class at SES Chicago

    Think Global, Act Local Training Class at SES Chicago

    Local search is on-fire hot! By catering to a local audience you can significantly increase your sales and your conversion rate. But creating local search campaigns isn’t as simple as just mirroring your national paid search campaign. Come to the Think Global, Act Local Training Class at SES Chicago to learn hands-on, how-to techniques and…

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  • Trying a New Diet

    Trying a New Diet

    So I’ve been told and consequently been reading about the causes of cancer. If you are interested in the research, check out these articles: Check out this article on the causes of cancer put out by the AICR: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/six-good-eating-habits-help/story.aspx?guid=%7BAE0DF295-2B39-4AA2-B634-B57F5CCE0E45%7D This is a similar article, based on the same survey, talking about how people think the…

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  • Post-it Notes + Fan = Good Times!

    Post-it Notes + Fan = Good Times!

    This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands.

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  • Some Fresh Jesus Spam

    Some Fresh Jesus Spam

    I just got a huge forward that was too good to not reply to. It was about a Stamp the was supposedly a Christmas Muslim stamp. It was all about how much we should hate Muslims and how they should basically get the hell away from our Christmas. So, I spammed the group right back.…

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  • A Voicemail From My Friend Jamie

    A Voicemail From My Friend Jamie

    So, would you ever think, your voicemail could become part of the social media world? Well now it has: Voicemail You'll LoveShare this … Powered by ScribeFire.

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  • On Communication

    On Communication

    Here’s a video I just did on communication. It deals with the three aspects of communicating. Check it out. I think you’ll dig it. Powered by ScribeFire.

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  • Internship at SageRock

    Internship at SageRock

    Hey everybody, We are looking to fill an internship role here at SageRock. This would be for help in our internal marketing and sales department. We are looking for someone in the Northeast Ohio area currently in college that would like to be an intern in the sales and marketing arena. If this sounds like…

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