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100 Push Up Challenge :: Week 1 Recap

Last week the gauntlet was thrown down and I challenged all of you to join my friend Ryan and I in completing the 100 Push Up Challenge.
To stimulate the competition, I sweetened the pot by offering $25 cash and a variety of t-shirts to anyone that was willing to write a post about taking the [...]

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Q&A Round 3 :: The Answers

Steve@Free iPods asks:
Will you sell me your blog for $100 ?
Derek: Nope…but you do raise an interesting question. Would I ever sell my blog? This blog would be hard to sell with my name as the domain and all, but I would certainly consider selling one of my other [...]

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100 Push Up Challenge :: Join Me And Win

While my day was wasting away at the office, one of my good friends sent me an email about a site that was getting a lot of attention from an article on digg (via lifehacker) called one hundred push ups.
About a month ago I remember seeing this site and thinking that it sounded like a [...]

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Q&A Round 3 :: The Questions

The Q&A sessions that I have featured here seem to have been a big hit so I will now be featuring one each month. With the last session taking place on the 2nd Friday of the month, I figured it would be good to stay consistent.
You can ask anything that you like and I [...]

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Do Lefties Have Reason To Rejoice?

A few months back we discussed a number of reasons it sucks to be left handed, including things such as:

Left-handed guitars are difficult to find.
Have you ever gone shopping for a left-handed baseball mitt?
Do you remember those small, crappy desks in school?
Smudging everything that you write.
Where are the lefty scissors?

Well, all of you right-handed snobs [...]

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