Daily One Inch Button #235 - Be proactive

Be proactive.

Maybe that should be your thing for the year 2009.

I'm going to work on being proactive.

Are you?

It's serious stuff. You can get so much more pleasure out of your life if you go out and do things instead of waiting for them to happen to you.

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Daily One Inch Button #234 - Notorious BIG

Biggie, Biggie, can't you see?

Sometimes your words do in fact hypnotize me.

I really did love your flashy ways.

That's why we were so broke, yet you were paid.

You left us far too soon.

I have a feeling you would have loved "Gnarls Biggie", too.

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Daily One Inch Button #233 - Happy 2009

It's a pretty straightforward message.

Have a happy 2009.

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Daily One Inch Button - Six for $3 48 Hour Deal

You know how it works.

Six buttons for three dollars.

Make sure you comment on which buttons you want somewhere in your order. :)

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Daily One Inch Button #232 - Robert Johnson

Many consider him to be the grandfather of rock 'n' roll.

He wrote an amazing song called Crossroad, which is in fact a tale of how he got to be such a great musician.

It is said that he met the devil at the crossroads near where he lived, and he traded his soul in exchange for a finely tuned guitar and the ability to play the best blues that anyone had ever heard.

Did that really happen? Listen to the song and judge for yourself.

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Daily One Inch Button #231 - I Heart Dictionaries

I love them.

I really do. I mean, where else are you going to find so many words?

That probably sounds just a little bit silly. Obviously, words are going to be found in a dictionary.

The Arabic dictionaries that were compiled between the 8th and 14th centuries were the first to actually be in alphabetical order. How did people find words until then?

Samuel Johnson took only nine years to compile a dictionary, a feat for which he was mighty proud.

Show your dictionary love today and get this button. Get a dozen, while you're at it.

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Daily One Inch Button #230 - Furious Sharks

Look at those sharks. Don't they look angry?

Well, you'd be pretty angry if you were the subject of de-finning. I just made that up. People actually remove shark fins because it is considered a delicacy.

Shark Fin Frontier is a great look at this trend, and what is causing it.

Do the sharks a favor and don't eat shark fin soup. Otherwise, you can look forward to some pretty furious sharks coming after you.

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Daily One Inch Button #229 - Pass the Sufganiyos / Sufganiyot

Some people call them jelly donuts.

Some people call them jelly doughnuts.

Yet other people, particularly this time of the year, call them sufganiyos. Sufganiyot, if you pronounce it just a bit differently.

They're delicious, regardless of their name.

Sufganiyos by any other name enrich the festival of lights, too.

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Daily One Inch Button - Four for Two

It's back! The first forty-eight hour deal. Aren't you just tremendously excited? I know that I am. Here's the deal. You tell us what four buttons you want, and it will cost you only $2 instead of $4. Sound good? Great!

Let's get this thing started. Make sure you comment on which buttons you want somewhere in your order. :)

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Daily One Inch Button #228 - Owen Hart

Owen Hart.

When I was a kid, I used to love watching wrestling. I will admit that I never really enjoyed wrestling in the 1990s as much as I did in the mid 1980s but it still struck a chord with me when Owen Hart tragically died due to a mechanical failure shortly before a wrestling match.

This tribute video has a good sense of reviewing his magnificent career.

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Daily One Inch Button # 227 - Arrrrrrrgyle!

I think I first thought of making this button when I was on the ride Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyland.

I probably first thought of the joke when I was a teenager.

Oh, come on. You love it.

If you really want, I can mix up the colors of the argyle for you. That's just how much I care. just mention what colors you'd like in the comment area when you order.

Yarr?

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Daily One Inch Button #226 - Richard Burns

Richard Burns died at the tender young age of thirty-four from a brain tumour and left so many fans devastated that many memorial videos were created.

The band Travis dedicated the album The Boy With No Name in his memory.

He actually started driving at the age of eight in the field near his family's home. From the age of thirteen he knew that he wanted to be a race car driver and so he did everything in his power to become one. He was superb, and he will be missed.

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Daily One Inch Button # 225 - Tea for Me

It's tea for me - and you?

There are thousands upon thousands of variations of tea.

In today's turbulent economic times, tea also makes sense. Ounce for ounce, it's consistently more affordable than coffee - even if you get Republic of Tea brand tea or get it from a local tea shop. Don't let the price per pound scare you because you only need to get a quarter pound at a time and then you use only a teaspoon - where the name of that spoon originated - at a time.

Tea?

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Daily One Inch Button - Sushi Sale

It's back! People loved this sale and I just had to bring it back.

For our next 48 hour deal, we are offering all of our sushi buttons - that means 11 buttons - for five dollars.

I'm pretty sure you won't find a better deal than that anywhere right now - particularly for sushi buttons as awesome as these. You can see all of the sushi buttons by clicking on the sushi category below or to the right.

Sushi for breakfast? Might be pushing it. Remember, the deal expires at midnight EST on Sunday, December 07, 2008.

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Daily One Inch Button # 224 - Phil Hartman

We never wanted to say goodbye to you, Phil, especially not so soon. You may remember him as Troy McClure, who sold absolutely everything on The Simpsons. I was quite fond of everything he did on SNL including this sketch as a cowboy with Dana Carvey and Woody Harrelson.

He was taken so early and we didn't really get the chance to appreciate him to the fullest extent. Who knows what might have been? He certainly would have made the last eight years a lot funnier.

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Daily One Inch Button #223 - Vampire Bear and Shrimpy Lunchee

This one time, Vampire Bear and Shrimpy went out to a restaurant, and they got themselves a fine meal. Apparently the papparazi must have been there because recently, this image of them dining together was discovered. I guess they won't mind being on a button like this since they were okay with their being on buttons for the Learn How to Read Hebrew with Vampire Bear button series.

Shrimpy looks awfully adorable as he goes for a drink there. You don't see such good friendship like this every day.

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Daily One Inch Button #222 - Corvette Stingray

She was, in fact, quite a fast car. Look no further than this video of the 1974 4 speed Stingray for your source of speed inspiration this morning.

In an age of people trying to green (well, a lot more when the price of gas is high - note the absence of people buying SUVs in that heinous period of time when gas was in the high 3s in some parts of the country and nearly 5 in others) the Corvette Stingray is not popular amongst people who are interested in economics.

Still makes for quite a ride.

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Daily One Inch Button #221 - Pushiest Time

Don't you know it's a season of love? That's why people will shove you out of the way if you are standing in between their chances of getting *insert popular toy here*. In an age when people are hired with a "hulking frame" and yet are trampled to death for want of a good bargain, you really have to wonder about the sense of priorities.

Of course I know the love is there. But why shove a guy just to get a copy of Rock Band?

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Daily One Inch Button - Sushi Sale 48 Hour Deal

We love sushi. I had some for dinner last night.

For our next 48 hour deal, we are offering all of our sushi buttons - that means 11 buttons - for five dollars.

I'm pretty sure you won't find a better deal than that anywhere right now - particularly for sushi buttons as awesome as these. You can see all of the sushi buttons by clicking on the sushi category below or to the right.

Sushi for breakfast? Might be pushing it. Remember, the deal expires at midnight EST on Sunday, December 07, 2008.

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Daily One Inch Button #220 - Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor. One of the best comedians this country has ever known, bar none, hands down - and a terrible loss when he passed away at the still relatively young age of sixty-five. (Sixty-five is the new fifty!) He made a great appearance on Sesame Street. He was also hilarious in the third Superman movie.

Of course, he also allegedly gave really good advice to Eddie Murphy about dealing with criticism from Bill Cosby. I don't need to go into detail about that, do I?

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Daily One Inch Button #219 - I Quit! (Smoking)

A little over four years ago, I quit. I couldn't keep going on the way I was going, smoking anywhere between half a pack of cigarettes and a full pack a day. Not only was it affecting my health, but it was affecting my wallet as well.

I quit.

If you quit, too, this is just the thing to wear.

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Daily One Inch Button #218 - Sarah Palin

It's hard to believe, but for a good number of months there was a good strong belief in this country that Sarah Palin would make a good vice president, as well as president should anything have happened to the presumed president.

I think it's funny that a poll taken at one point suggested that people would have rather had Tina Fey as vice president than Sarah Palin. Of course, we all know how polls can go one way or another and don't necessarily show any really useful information.

Sarah Palin in 2012? That would be amusing, if not for the possibility of a larger landslide for the incumbent president.

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Daily One Inch Button - It's On My Blog

Sometimes I think people don't even know how to properly communicate anymore; I mean, they hardly sit down for a cup of coffee with a friend, and so much is just put into writing personal blogs. Then I think that maybe I'm just projecting a little bit and I'm the only person who is like that.

Then reality sets in and I realize that it's probably somewhere in between those two worlds. There are still conversations over coffee, of course. Just look at any good local coffee shop and see what non-real estate transactions are going on.

It's on my blog. :)

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