inCommunicado - eric eggertson

Kelley turned 21 the day we first went out.  I showed up at The Ubyssey production night to take her out for a hamburger at 2 a.m.  Her ex-boyfriend tagged along.  It was her birthday, and (after we dumped Glen) I kissed her on the back doorstep of the house where she was staying on […]

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Gak.  Somebody in Massachussets scored 830 in a Scrabble game (best score ever).  He pwned his opponent, who only got 490.

I think I’ve been within several touchdowns of 490 in my day, but the years of study that would get me above that number is mind boggling.
Kelley has been playing Scrabble against the computer for […]

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Anyone who had their e-mail to my Canada.com address returned undelivered, please send again to  eggertson (at) canada.com,  or to  eggertson (at) gmail.com.
Canada.com cancels free e-mail accounts for anyone who doesn’t visit their site regularly, so I got turfed.
For $10 a year, they now promise not to cancel my account if I don’t log on […]

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New additions to my podcast subscriptions this week:

Diggnation - I heard you’re not hip if you’re not tuned in, so watch for me to be much hipper next week…
The M Show - John Wall’s weekly 10 minutes of news, talk and information, with a tech bent.APM - The Story - Dick Gordon’s public radio show […]

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Work continues on my new PR blog. Yesterday my chosen task was to do some key word analysis of Mutually Inclusive PR, which I’ll apply to the new blog.
Search Engine Optimization has grown into a very profitable industry, with most of the practitioners running successful blogs of their own. Heck, some of them have entire […]

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I’m working on changes to the blog.  In preparing a new blogger photo, I took some self-portraits.
The first photo gives me that Stephen King pseudo-serial-killer look.  I’m leaning toward one of the other ones.
Choose Eric’s New Look!

1)  Stephen King / Serial Killer

2)  Mysterious Stranger

3)  Blue-eyed Civil Servant
I still have time to reshoot, but I’m definitely […]

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I’m working on moving this blog over to WordPress sometime this month, and will let everyone know how to subscribe or visit the new address.
I’ll also be renaming the blog, not because Mutually Inclusive PR is a terrible name.  It just sounds a bit too goody-goody.  I’ve been singing Kumbaya under this name for a […]

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The house next door moves closer to completion. As the stucco guy worked, I caught the hidden message.

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One of my classmates was the valedictorian for our high school.  But sometime between our grad banquet and the commencement ceremony on the last day of school, he ran into some trouble.
The incoming class president had based his election campaign on insulting our grade as degenerate, beer-swilling losers.  As punishment, he was driven up […]

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While my daughter’s graduation ceremony was wrapping up last weekend, another ceremony was taking place for some family friends.
They were listening to the eulogy for their son, stabbed to death at an unauthorized but organized camping bash by current and former students of a Regina high school.
Misha was 19. As he was being fatally stabbed, […]

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My daughter Jessica graduated from high school this weekend.
She’s never been too big on ceremony, but this was different. Decked out in cap and gown for the grad ceremony, and in formal dress for the banquet, Jessie  was in her element.
Jessie plans to work in the film industry, and she got the chance to do […]

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