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Patrick Havens on May 22nd, 2008

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Patrick Havens on April 21st, 2008

Playing video games for a few years now I have played with a large variety of people from kids in their teens too grandparents in their 50’s and 60’s. The main constant is the relationships that are created in playing multiplayer games. I can count on one hand the number of anti-social people [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 4th, 2008

A great write up about how men and women communicate

I came across this great write-up about male/female communications that had me going, “YES! This is exactly how it is.” An article written in plain English that looks like something a master in psychology might of explained to a ghost writer.
As good as the write up [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 2nd, 2008

I found below interesting. I knew some of it… but in a few cases I was surprised at the answers.

Some colors become huge successes early on and then fade off into obscurity… while other colors go the distance and become international icons. Here we look at 11 of the great color legends… Stop Sign Red, [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 6th, 2007

I blog occasionally at A little bit of vino… rating random bottles of wine I’ve been given or can afford to buy. And so it was with interest I ran across a post in which a number of $12 wines where reviewed. Below is an excerpt… I strongly suggest you read the [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 9th, 2007

“Bootylicious” was dominating the airwaves , Rush Hour 2 was battling American Pie 2 for box office (if not artistic) greatness and the US was more concerned about stem cells than homeland security. It was August in 2001, and just because the Internet bubble had already burst, the internet itself was still going strong. With [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 10th, 2007

I read a lot, and I’ve always found it hard to explain how I sort of skim the books, reading the whole thing, but at the same time not feeling like I am. People pay a lot of money to “learn how to speed read” and my answer is always, don’t let it stress [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 1st, 2007

I recently posted about how they found 237 reasons to have sex.  And I still think that’s an arbitrary number.  So today when I read this, I thought that it was interesting…
Tyler Cowen quotes from a new study testing the relationship between grades and delayed sexual activity. Last December I passed a paper along to [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 31st, 2007

I’ve been hearing about this all day. Researchers from the University of Texas first asked more than 400 people to list their reasons for having sex, and then asking more than 1,500 others to rate how important each reason was to them. Although it was a fairly homogenous sample of students at the University [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 10th, 2007

Now I’m not being defeatist but no matter how much I’ve worked out my whole childhood/life, I’ve never had muscle definition.  I may of been able to leg press 750 lbs comfortably, and bench twice my own weight easily.  But the muscle tone never showed.  I’m one of those stringy guys who didn’t look as [...]

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