The Connection

My first word was “car”… Seriously. It’s why I’ve always called my Grandma “Gar”. My Mom has always worked in car dealerships, and has slowly worked her way up from receptionist, car biller, manager, and so on. She’s almost always driven a demo for as long as I can remember. (And for those of you unfamiliar, that’s a car you get to drive through the dealership.) So I’ve always been able to ride in nice, nearly new, cars.

My Dad was a mechanic for 30+ years, and still fixes his own cars to this day. He’s taught me nearly everything I know about engines, suspension, brakes, transmissions, etc, etc. He’s also passed on his love for fast cars to me. There’s no sound more pleasing than a well tuned engine with an exhaust that says “GRRR I’m so angry about being an engine!”

Then comes my buddy Eric. Him and I met in 6th grade, and we both bleed music and motor oil. We used to just draw cars all hour long in class. Now he has a big angry V8 Thunderbird, and I have the Japanese four door Diamante hidden jet engine, crouching independent suspension.

All in all, my life wouldn’t be what it is without cars. I now watch the show “Top Gear” religiously. It’s four blokes from the UK who love cars, and love doing crazy stuff with them! check it out at http://TopGear.com

Please leave some comments about your experiences with cars!

Thanks for Reading,
Josh.

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Hey hey loyal readers! I’ve been test running a new show format on Facebook. Thus far the response has been fantastic. So I’ll be starting off the new year with weekly episodes. The new format consists of three to four news topics, then a music section to end the show. I already have a few friends who I’m enlisting to do some side stories, and you should let me know if you’d be interested. The new show has almost no editing, and it’s intended to come off as simple and to the point.

The new show should launch on the first Tuesday of January. I hope you give this new idea a look, and tell me what you think.

Thanks for reading,
Joshua Duffy

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So I recently purchased a little toy for myself. As you can guess it’s the Eee 900 Netbook. I’ve wanted one ever since Asus announced them, I think just over year ago actually. Now I by no means got the highest of the high end, and according to me, if you get one of those fully loaded, XP-running, Netbooks, you’re totally defeating the purpose. I think the whole point of owning one of these systems is to just have a little Linux-running lappy, that you can throw in your book bag, or even a purse, and take everywhere with you.

I personally think the Eee 900 is a perfect example of a proper netbook. It has a 4Gb SSD and 512Mb with an SDHC card slot for expansion. It’s really all you need to just surf the web and edit documents and such. Of course some would argue that the down-sized keyboard isn’t suitable for typing long essays and blog posts, but it works perfectly for me. Being as I’m typing this post on my Eee.

So as you can probably guess I’ve drank the netbook Kool-Aid, and you’d be right. But it tastes so good. I think it’s sugar free too. =)

Thanks for reading,
Joshua Duffy

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So I’ve gotten a few emails from some friends, mainly Jeff, about doing another post about how things are for me, personally. I figured it’d been awhile, so enjoy this ever-so-juicy blog post

Ok, so last time I checked, my birthday was on August 17th. I turned 16. There wasn’t a lack of presents, that’s for sure, but I’d rather not get materialistic! Exactly one month and a day after my birfday I became a licensed driver, bitches. Then on September 30th I got my car! It’s a 1995, fully loaded, Mitsubishi Diamanté!

I lovers my car! It has more features, doo-dads, and options than most of the cars my Mom drives home! And all of the one’s she drives are NEW! Anyways, enough about the car. If you want to know more, just email me: joshuaduffy@me.com

My love life is still, and will probably remain nearly non-existent. And to be completely honest, I have no problem with that. All I want after the craziness that was my “summer of failed love” is to mend my broken bridges, and build new ones!

And I have made a lot of great friends over the past few months!

-Mckenzie is one of the greatest girls I’ve ever met! She’s fracking hilarious and, like myself, has a terrible texting addiction. I probably send 500+ texts to her every week!

-Then there’s the ever dull, yet extremely hilarious Cody. Cody seems to live his life the mantra “I hate people”, and he’s hilarious. As you can tell, I respect a great sense of humor!

-I also text my friend Teresa rather frequently. Teresa is my polar opposite when it comes to interests. I’m into computers, weird music, “hippie” beverages, and other “city slicker” stuff. Teresa goes hunting almost every weekend, and loves trucks, and country music. Get my point!

-Then there’s Zach. Zach is practically my twin when it comes to interests! We both adore a small, not too popular, company named Apple Inc. Also Zach and I are both total twitter addicts!

-Which brings me to Jeff. Jeff moved far, far, away. Mr. Nilges is now a proud resident of the Spud State, Idaho. Jeff and I keep in contract through, of course, twitter, facebook, texting, etc. In a rather strange way it feels like he never left, but mentally I have to remind myself that he’s 1000+ miles away!

-Finally, there’s Ashley. Ya’ll remember my posts from awhile back about Ashley! Well she’s doing good. She’s employed, doing well in school, and still as weird as ever! I may not talk to her all the time anymore, but we keep in contact for the most part. And by no means am I still angry at her!

Overall the last few months have been rather interesting. Just yesterday I got my first call back from one of the several places I applied for a job at, and I’m doing awesome in school! All-in-all I’m doing good!

Thanks for reading,

Joshua Duffy

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Hey Keith!

That moose stew sure does sound tasty! I think I’d eat it while loading my semi-automatic assault rifle that I use for hunting the evil witches from Kenya that want to cast spells on the Alaskan pipelines. Or I could have Sarah’s “fired” chef cook it for me, and eat it while flying in Sarah’s old private jet that I have to use to get to that tiny island in the middle of nowhere because she said “thanks, but no thanks” to that bridge.

Overall Aunt Sarah’s Moose Stew is one of the most HONEST products I’ve heard of in awhile, just like Auntie Sarah herself.

And just like Auntie Sarah always says,”Have some Moose Stew and you’ll be able to see moose as far away as Russia through the scope of your semi-automatic assault rifle!”

Oh Aunt Sarah!

- Josh from Minnesota.

P.S: You’re my role model! I mean Keith, not Auntie Sarah!

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I made a long awaited fashion endeavor today. I gotz a cardigan. I love it.

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If you don’t think this is funny, perhaps you need a blood test to check for an irony deficiency.

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1. Picture Quality

2. Cost

3. Size

4. Connectivity

Finding a balance between those four will result in the perfect HDTV for you.

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Once again proving that, politics aside, Obama’s campaign has harnessed the power of the internet better than any other political campaign in history.

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