And for those outraged that the low-rated Doonesbury survived while Boondocks didn’t, we made the decision to drop Boondocks because we did not want to keep publishing a comic that we regularly needed to censor. During the past year, Boondocks was substituted a number of times because it was deemed inappropriate for a family newspaper. And not just this family newspaper. Editors across the country were making the same decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, editors across the country who were scared of their own shadow.<\/p>\n
(Hey, it works!)
\nNow I’m blogging from the couch in the living room. Look Ma, no wires!
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Just to show that my geekery is unmatched around our house (well, it’s only me and Melissa), I unwired myself and took this thing to the kitchen, had Melissa load her favorite baking Web site and printed out a recipe from across the apartment. Way cool.
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First rule of laptopery: the keyboard is your friend. The touchpad has personal space issues and wants you to stop poking it all the time.<\/p>\n
OK now this is way cool: my optical mouse works fine when moving across the fabric of the couch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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