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UPDATE: Aegir lasted just over 6 days before retiring to Valhalla. I’m going to stick to mammals for the time being 
I bought a goldfish today. He’s a juvenile black moor and about 1.5″ long. I’ve named him Aegir after the Norse god of the sea. Aegir is said to have maintained a distillery for the gods and had a bit of a drinking problem. He would get raging drunk and cause storms on the high seas, often killing sailors in the process. My fish version of him seems to be much more calm. He continues my recent pet naming convention and joins my retarded cat, Freyja.
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They weren’t nearly as impressed as I expected they would be. In fact, their reactions often left me feeling a bit like an outsider, creating an awkward silence as if I’d joined a conversation to which I was not welcome. It couldn’t be that I wasn’t invited though. They asked me what I was [...]
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It’s been 13 years since I first loaded up AOL 1.5 and connected to the internet. It blows my mind when I think about how much has changed. Though I’m a net veteran, I’ve been reluctant to jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. At first I resented the socialization of the web, but the technology [...]