Daily One Inch Button #247 - I Voted For The President

It's true.

I did indeed vote for the current president.

I haven't been able to say that in 12 years.

How about you?

I'm quite pleased with the way the election turned out - but I'm sure you could tell that if you look at all of our buttons during the campaign season.

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Daily One Inch Button #245 - A Poem A Day

Sometimes it is the smallest things that can keep a person happy.

I was most pleased the other day when I managed to remember this poem by Edna St. Vincent Mallay:

Safe upon the solid stone the ugly houses stand
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand

They say that it is good to have a few poems memorized. One of my grade school teachers challeneged me to memorize The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

I still haven't managed to get that one down.

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Daily One Inch Button #243 - Ask Me What I'm Reading

Go ahead.

Ask away.

I don't mind if you look over my shoulder, actually.

I don't even mind if you are very curious about my Kindle.

It's pretty neat.

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Daily One Inch Button #241 - Do Not Disturb

It's pretty to the point.

If I'm reading a book, I don't want to be bothered unless there is some kind of fire / nuclear holocaust situation that might require me to be relocated to a different building / nuclear bomb shelter.

Then, of course, I can continue the reading.

Would you expect anything less?

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Daily One Inch Button #239 - References

I know people who, for the most part, quote movies they have seen and don't say much else.

I'd like to meet someone who quotes dialogue that hasn't yet been written.

That would be pretty clever.

Do you know anyone like that?

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Daily One Inch Button #237 - End it with him

Sometimes that's all you have to do. Just end it with him.

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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 #233 - Happy 2009

It's a pretty straightforward message.

Have a happy 2009.

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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 # 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 # 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 #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 #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 - 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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Daily One Inch Button - Retail Therapy

Retail therapy, they call it.

You'd think, given the economy of today, that people just wouldn't be able to afford it, and for some people it is the case. (Now is as good a time as any to remind you that you can have this or any of our other buttons for only a buck!)

The therapy, it is nice.

Plus, you get some pretty stuff afterwards.

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Daily One Inch Button - Exterminate

They have menaced just about every single Doctor in the Doctor Who series and will probably continue to do so until the end of time.

Who are they? Well, they are the Daleks, of course. Their catch phrase was "Exterminate!" and if you look carefully at the button, it is actually in the shape of a Dalek.

You can wear this button to frighten all of your non-Doctor Who knowledgeable friends, or impress the friends that are fans.

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Daily One Inch Button - Thank a Veteran Today

Whether or not you support any number of conflicts in which the United States is presently involved, you should take a minute today to properly thank a veteran.

Without the tireless work of the individuals serving the various branches of the United States military, the United States would undoubtedly not exist as it does today.

So take a minute out of your busy day and thank a veteran today.

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Daily One Inch Button - Yes We Can

Yes, we can.

Yes, we can elect a president that will bring real change to this country.

Whether we have elected him based on the principle of Barack Buyology or based on the ideals upon which our democracy was founded, or a mix of the two, we have elected him.

We know that Barack turned the world blue. The support of the world is with our president-elect.

Yes, we can.

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Daily One Inch Button - The Internet Makes Me Feel Ill-Informed

Please note that all orders placed on Tuesday and Wednesday will be shipped on Thursday due to the Jewish holidays of Simchas Torah and Shemini Atzeres.

This is an absolute truth. Have you ever heard the expression, "The more I learn, the more I realize how little I actually know?" This is particularly more true in the past quarter century as computer technology has advanced and people have made the spread of knowledge so incredibly easy. There are hundreds of thousands of fields of study about which I am completely ignorant, and about which I will be forever ignorant because one cannot possibly learn everything there is to learn in one lifetime.

One can only do ones best and focus on things that really are interesting - but that is, of course, subjective.

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Daily One Inch Button - How about that economy?

Please note that all orders placed today will not be shipped until tomorrow, October 16.

It's hitting us from every angle.

Homeowners are being forced to give up their houses that they have owned for decades.

People are being downsized and rightsized and wrongsized, left and right.

When are we going to see some change?

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