tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85120102011-04-21T19:54:42.469-05:00- and other things from inside Bryan's head -Wray Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06689090508545931291noreply@blogger.comBlogger2701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512010.post-1162003332463827162006-10-27T21:34:00.000-05:002006-10-27T21:42:12.483-05:00

http://wraygun.wordpress.comI copied all of the posts over tonight, but none of the pictures came along, so... it will be a slowish transition... But new posts will go there, and comments (if any!) should probably go there, too...

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... before going to this website or you might end up getting stuck there.But, either way, you should go. And you should have your sound turned on first.

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Yup, it's that time again!The first clean draft of Act 1 of A Diamond in Snow is complete! Anne, Mom, and now Sarah and I have been working through it over the last few months, and I think it's no great boast to say that it's the best thing I've ever written (and due in no small part to Anne, Mom, and Sarah's help)!If you've been waiting for something substantial to dig into at the Coerablog, or

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It's a question people ask me often, because they're polite, and because my job is still relatively new, and because I don't do enough other interesting things to make smalltalk easy.Usually I say that it's okay, or even good, and sometimes it really is. But for every good or okay day, there's another that's very frustrating. It's frustrating because there's so much to do, in so many different

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Most people who even occasionally read this blog already know that Kim and I have been engaged for three and a half years. That's a pretty long engagement!Well, Kim and I are finally getting married! We're eloping to Savannah in the first half of November for a weekend packed with an intimate ceremony, fabulous dinners, and several nights at a really snazzy hotel. So, there should be some

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...he invites you back into the shop to touch up the tattoo, not because it really needs it, but because he thinks it could look better, and he likes doing work he's proud of. And he doesn't charge you for it.

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Torture Bill States Non-Allegiance To Bush Is Terrorism - includes (purported?) text from the bill.

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So I just finished watching all three Star Wars movies. Not the new ones - the originals. Not the new originals - the original originals. Kim talked me into buying another copy of Star Wars when we saw them reasonably priced at Costco - I had thought I might buy them again someday anyway, since the full-screen versions I had had not been panned-and-scanned very well at all. Since this latest

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...that I think came from reading Accelerando before bedtime. I'm especially sure about this one, because it featured a lobster!And where the last dream might have seemed to have an interesting plot curve, this one actually had narration!Of course, I don't remember the narration any more, but it was somewhere between the opening scences of a Twilight Zone episode, and the beginning of Sky

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...reading too much science fiction at night before bed when you wake up in that half-dreaming, half-lucid craze worried about all the cycles your AIs missed while your laptop was turned off at night. And when the word "instantiation" broken-records through your mind all day like that snippet of a song that you can't seem to stop humming. And I should really tell you about the crazy dream about

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Here's one final shot of my tattoo, taken by Mom Labor day weekend. The angel has finished peeling now, and her wings and bodice are just a little bit lighter, but unless you come out to Georgia to visit, this is probably the best shot you'll see... ;)And here's Jenny again. She really doesn't like baths.

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Time again for another shameless plug of my Coerablog!If any of you haven't dug into the Coerablog because it's too daunting (I've heard that a few times), but you're interested in the overarching mythology of the storyline and how it flagrantly borrows from real-world mythology, you might be interested in reading this five- or six-page write-up I just finished on the mythology surrounding

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Or maybe I should say that sometimes I'm not silly.For the last few weeks I've been complaining to Kim that my steering wheel wobbles when I drive, and that the car is pulling harder and harder to the left. Well, only a few days ago, I put my keen powers of deduction to work on the problem, and actually looked at the tires. One of them was quite flat. I put air in it.Everything seems to be

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I don't have a mutant bug after all. Huzzah! I just have a healthy population of Red-headed Bush Crickets.And, Anne - have you never seen The Secret of NIMH? It had one of the biggest impacts on me of any animated movie I watched as a kid, but I don't think it was ever one of our favorites. I have it on DVD, if you want to borrow it.

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Today was one of the first reasonable days for yardwork we've had in a few month - I don't think it was up much past 80 degrees, and with a bottle of gatorade at hand, you can really get something done. One of the things I did was take pictures! :)Around the HouseThat patch in the front has really filled in, hasn't it? You should've seen it before I mowed it - the rest of the yard is manageable

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...It's because I spend most of my relaxing time worth mentioning working on A Diamond in Snow for the little accountability seminar that Mom and Anne have been running for me. The fifth week just started, but we're only a dozen+ pages into the story, so it's not too late for anyone else to join in, if they'd like!Kim and I still do watch movies every few weekends, of course. We saw Talladega

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I'm not sure how many will think this is gross, and how many funny (like me), but this is what happens to the T-shirts I wear for the first few nights after I get the tattoo. No matter how I fall asleep, I always wake up on my back, it seems. I just wish I could remember to wear rattier shirts to bed.

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Again, I'm really happy with the job the tattoo artist, Rob Thomas, did. The angle on the angel is a little funny, but Kim and I will take another picture of both when they're healed up in a few weeks.

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I can't tell you how happy I am with how this turned out.

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Jill said she really wanted pictures, but I didn't know what to give her pictures of. The only things I can take pictures of from the last post are holes in the ground, so that's what I did.Check it out!! I almost cut the cable line when I was digging out this monster. That would have stunk!In this picture, you get not only a back-filled hole, but also the newly discovered stump! Yay - digging

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A few people have mentioned that I've been slack in my blogging, and I've found that I cannot disagree.Let me say first of all, that due to 1 parts of it being hot and 2 parts of me just being a slacker, that I haven't done much in the way of yardwork lately. I know that the flora and fawna around my house were something of a hallmark in this blog for awhile. Truth be told, when I was cleaning

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I was going through my camera yesterday and realizing that I hadn't cleaned it out in quite a while, but I also haven't posted any pictures recently. So here's a handful.Isn't Jenny cute?I took this out-of-focus picture of my new blackberry to prove to Jill just how cool it is. This is the front page of my Coerablog, surfable (and updatable!) from the blackberry. Doesn't that image look cool!

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This is some amazing art:http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index.html

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Matthew 23 seems to be a popular stone to throw at Catholics (or Anglicans for that matter). Here's the salient part (a very big part) of it:1: Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples,2: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat;3: so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice.4: They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear

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When I'm at work, I'm an exceptionally productive person. I trust my own judgement in that, but I have a feeling that all of my managers after Barnes & Noble would agree (I was not a productive salesman!). Around the house, when it comes to chores, I'm reasonably reliable. The trash will go out, if not immediately. The dishes do get cleaned, if not that night. The lawn will get mowed (so I

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...I started my new job with Mori Luggage!Unlike nearly every other job I can remember, my first day wasn't filled with jitters and trepidation. I think this is going to be great!

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When you study a martial art, a sport, or a musical instrument, the majority of your study is repetitive practice. Sure, you may learn a new kata or a new kick, but then you practice it over and over and over, and you keep practicing the old one. You may learn a new play or strategy, but you don't continue to spend hours on the layups and free throws. You may learn a new sonata, but you still

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Today I thought, I suppose a mall-based custom bra retail chain could be rather profitable. People pay plenty for custom coffee, and women (generally) are more quality conscious in their clothing than men - they will pay $200 for shoes or purse, if they're good enough. Why not a bra? With Oprah et al. telling women that the vast majority of them don't wear the correct size bra, getting even

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Todd and Cindy gave me Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman for my birthday.It was high on my list of desirable books, and I was very excited to get it, and continued to be excited to read it.In brief, the author (who is a highly-respected scholar among academic biblical historians - he's come recommended from a variety of sources in the past, including The Teaching Company (who produces those

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I tend to believe that pet peeves are indicative of a superiority complex. That's why I try to limit myself to 20 or 30 of them. :)

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...here.I don't know why I frequently end up at Catholic-themed blogs - perhaps because the heavy Platonic influences in Catholicism instill a propensity for theological and moral inquiry?Dunno. But I like it. I've been commenting quite a bit in the discussion thread following the morality of homosexual marriage, but the majority of his posts are worth a read. The author promotes healthy, open

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Hypothesis: Valid, non-trivial theories that seem to depend on highly-technical arguments can be expressed in simpler, broader strokes from within the proper framework.This is a hypothesis instead of a theory, because I can't offer any kind of proof, only examples.Ex. 1: The Monty Hall Paradox (Perhaps some people think the argument for this is not very technical - I would argue that this is

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...witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!"Err... if by "battle station" I meant the new and improved Coerablog, and by "fully armed" I meant, umm, that all the posts and images are moved over there and it's all set up and ready for traffic. Let me know what you think. I hope it's more useable.

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Coerablog is being relocated to http://coera.wordpress.com/.Wordpress offers free blogging with "categories", which eliminate the need for the clumsy dating system I've devised for blogger, and the interface seems much more manageable and useable, but I can't customize the template, so my fancy UI on blogspot is for nought. Alas.I won't be tearing down the old site until I'm sure I like the new

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No, this isn't another post bragging about my computer.On Friday I got a call from John Mori of Mori's Luggage (one of the several places I'd applied after learning my days at Netifice were numbered.) This was the job I was terrifically excited about - I thought I was very well suited for it, it was right in the direction I'd been hoping to go from Vans, and it was slightly less of a drive than

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Okay, that sounds really pretentious, but that's not how I mean it. You see, I have a new computer! Big deal, you might say, but this is my first new computer since I was 18! That's not to say that I've had the same computer for the last 12 years, but every machine I've had since the one I bought with Aunt Lucille's college money has been a hand-me-down, bought for a couple hundred or pulled

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...this is an astounding piece of video editing.

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People tell me that God is infinite. Infinite in power, scope, beauty, presence - many different things. When I was younger, I heard it in church; I don't think the idea is biblical so much as Platonic, but appears to be a fairly universal belief within Christianity. I still hear it, from Christianity and Judaism and New Age religions, and I understand it to be a tenet of mono- and

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I used a mailbox example in a previous post - I had said that even though the mailbox was a tool, we need to treat it with an appropriate amount of respect. The last few days, I've had reason to think further on this ideaWhen my philosophy professor was teaching me about Heidegger yesterday (through the convenience of my car's CD player), he talked for a few minutes about the "World as Equipment

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Is anyone having standardized test flashbacks?Remember those questions:Music:Note ; Literature: ...Anyone, anyone? Anyone who said "word" gets a gold star!And the answer to the titular question?I say it's "Judaism:Christianity".Christianity is a cult of Judaism, or a theological and philosophical child and purported successor. Christianity replaces Judaism as a new paradigm, but Judaism is

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When it comes to the government and secrets, I'm of the "You show me yours and I'll show you mine" philosophy. It's not really reciprocal when our secrets, whatever they may be (For example, I might tell someone over the phone, in confidence, that I don't care for macaroni and cheese or baseball - they would retort that such a stance is quite unAmerican, and now the NSA knows the whole thing),

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As I recall, Bush styled himself as the CEO president when was running back in 2000. He would run the country as a business, cutting out the fat in our bureacracies, and give us a leaner, meaner, better-performing government.One of the hallmarks of modern businesses is the desire, or even need for growth. Not the size of the building, or the number of employees - I don't think Bush intended to

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I've been listening to my philosophy cd's again. The professor today mentioned Nietzsche in passing (the professors and I covered Nietzsche in depth several disks back, so it's okay that it was only a passing mention), and in particularly he spoke about Nietzsche's presponse to Nazism and fascism in the form of a criticism of the Idol State and the Mass Man.That got me thinking about Nationalism

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You know those little paper cards you get from subways or bus systems with the magstripe on them? They can't be too expensive to produce, or the MTA's couldn't afford to use them.What if credit card companies gave you a couple dozen of those each month, maybe in a little tear-out booklet? Each would be numbered differently and be good for only one use, but they'd be tied back to your card so

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Let's see...In no particular order:Last Sunday I cut down the leaning bush-tree in our front yard. It was attracting bees and causing me to have to make funny patterns to mow the yard, but otherwise the services it provided were all negative. ;) (I don't have a good picture of it because it wasn't picture-worthy, but it's the bushy-looking thing which is to the right of the box in this picture

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...and I like this picture. I think it's funny.

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So, what happens now? Thousands of Dentists across the country just pack up shop?

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If anyone feels like going through Cheating Life (because it's finished, a complete story, and you may even have read it before), or the rough draft of the first act of A Diamond in Snow (because you haven't read it, or because the subject matter of Cheating Life isn't really your cup of tea)*, I couldn't imagine a better birthday present**.*I know that this can be a very difficult undertaking,

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Given the current debate over the Christian underpinnings of our nation, I'm surprised I never heard of the Treaty with Tripoli before. Or perhaps I did hear of it and simply forgot. Plausible.If you follow the link to the text of the treaty, look for article 11. That is the section that rates the most discussion.It reads:Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in

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In addition to celebrating Kim's birthday (which is a fun and festive occassion in its own right), we went to see Rent at the fabulous Fox theater, and The Breakup at the better-than-mediocre Regal theater.Rent was somewhat of a disappointment, and we were disappointed about that. Kim is a bit of a theater person, so we try to go to a show every few years or so, at the very least. This

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Here is another hole I've created recently. This one actually took a long time to make (5-6 hours over 3 weekends) but very little time to repair. While I was making the hole, I managed to find, chop up, and remove the very nasty stump, which is labelled in the picture, and which was right in the middle of where Kim's garden is going to go. But now it's over in the wood pile.Also, you may

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Above is a hasty, messy Photoshop mockup of an idea I had last night. The purpose of the bug collector is chiefly to remove bugs from the house (spiders, wasps, beetles, or whatever other crawly things you may have that you are not too interested in handling, but don't want to kill). It could also be used to capture bugs for study, feeding pets, feeding younger siblings, drowning in the toilet,

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I've been considering eMusic membership for some time. It's a music download site, but unlike all of its serious competitors, it doesn't load the music down with DRM. That means you can play the music on an iPod, on a Dell Music player, on your computer - on anything that can play MP3's. Of course, you can always burn the music to a CD, too. It's also cheap. For $10 a month (the cost of one

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I stumbled across this little web game whilst reading the comments on the Dilbert Blog today. It's a clever idea, both as a game and as marketing for the author's book, and it seems to require only minimal involvement (certainly less time than I spend checking the news at CNN every morning.I signed up, and if any of you do, too, my nation is The Principate of Potentol.

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I wish there was a church for people like me. I don't mean that I wish I had a credo or someone to expound on how I should act or what I should believe (though I feel there are plenty of people with adequate authority to present compelling suggestions!). I miss the fellowship of having regular acquaintances and even friends in whose presence I could relax in the belief that we share similar

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I haven't had a watch for the longest time. Who needs one, when your cell phone, computer, microwave, car, and just about everything else already keeps time for you? However, I've been keeping an eye out for something really special... something that shows the moon cycles, or has a horizon with sun and moon keeping time above it, or something like that. I can't honestly say why I would want my

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Reddit suggested a link similar to this one last week.From the article:In using the rhythm method, couples avoid pregnancy by refraining from sex during a woman’s fertile period. Perfect adherents claim it is over 90% effective – i.e. one couple in 10 will conceive in an average year. But, typically speaking, effectiveness is estimated at closer to 75%.Now Bovens suggests that for those concerned

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Warning!This post could be considered gross, crass, or uncouth. If you are unsettled by things of a bodily nature, skip to some movie reviews down below. Otherwise, read on.I hate it when I get those little spots on the inside lip of your nose - zits, pimples, blemishes, arbitrary oil reservoirs - call them what you will. The skin there is so tight that any little irritation is a big

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Since Kim and I have been dreadfully slack in our cinema consumption so far this year, we decided to catch up on three (3 (III (11(binary)))) of this weekend's top showings. In order, they were:Mission: Impossible: 3Though it stars the recently publically outrageous Tom Cruise, the bold use of multiple colons in the title offsets any prejudice. This movie was, in my opinion, the best Mission:

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I haven't really kept up with all of the science experiments a scientician like myself should be doing, especially after the success of my first confirmation experimentBut I now have begun a new experiment, and while it doesn't involve alcohol, it involves human testing and possible physical danger, which is almost as good.Hypothesis:Exposing myself to a sufficient number of mosquito bites will

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This is my new Tattoo Template:Ha ha! It's not its fault it's fat. It's mine! Or, not fat, but Buddha-esque. It's not the way I'd most like to be like the Buddha, but it's the easiest.This is the tattoo I drew directly onto the template. I colored like I was a tattoo artist - heavy, long lines, and no erasing. (Okay, just a little erasing). Not like I was a good tattoo artist, mind you,

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Sometimes when I go to the store with Kim I feel inclined to Try New Things. This last trip I was in a bit of a whimsical mood, so I put a New Thing in the cart when she wasn't looking (though she found it later and just gave me an odd look).I didn't know what Navy Beans were, or how the tasted (thus it is really a New Thing), but I figured somebody must buy them, or they wouldn't be at the

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About a month and a half ago we learned that my company, Netifice, was purchasing its largest competitor. This was considered to be pretty good news all around, and a very shrewd move on the part of our CEO (especially since MegaPath was about 50% larger than Netifice).There was some concern, since Netifice already had large offices in Costa Mesa, Atlanta, and Seattle, and smaller nodes

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I've been listening to The Teaching Company's Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition on the way to work again. Yeah, I know it sounds kind of dry. Sometimes it is, but usually its really interesting, and it makes 45 minutes go by faster than any DJ's can manage it.So, I think I'm interested in Spinoza. I hear he's near-impenetrable, though. Does anyone know anything about him?

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Kim and I bought a couple of videos recently. Then we watched them. And now I think I might discuss them. In a one-sided kind of way.We bought Aeon Flux first, so I made sure we watched it first, too, since I thought Kim might otherwise find a way to keep it several items down in the list for awhile. I was of course interested in the film way back when it was in the theater, because it's just

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Kim and I watched to movies in the theater this weekend.American Dreamz - Imagine American Pie, but replace the funny, raunchy sex comedy with social-political commentary sauced with a comic sensibility somewhere between A Mighty Wind and your high school's senior play. I imagine that Kim and I had rented the DVD instead, and think that's just about right.Friends with Money - Clearly meant to be

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...have now been added to the right-nav. Hoorah for Ta-da Lists!

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Last night I had a dream. I dreamt I accidentally put on Grandpa Bob's glasses instead of my own, and the next thing I knew, I was the President of the United States. (I never knew it was so easy - I didn't even have to spend time campaigning!) Perhaps it would better to say I was the Emperor/Augustus of the United States - in my dream I had a rubber stamp Congress and the mandate of the

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Here are a few more blossoms from around the yard that we can claim no credit for, but we enjoy seeing them for the few years they will survive without encouragement.And, Look! The Japanese Maples are taking color again.

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Kim and I did not celebrate Jesus' second birthday in a traditional way (though we did eat candy and dye eggs) - we went to the theaters and watched movies! We haven't seen many movies in the theaters lately, so we were both fairly excited.First we saw V is for Vendetta. Given its [R] rating and the penchant for gore and disturb-your-audience-oneupmanship that seems to run around Hollywood

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I read this aricle long ago and found it quite funny, but I lost the link. Here it is again. Yay!From the Article (for lack of a better snippet):Of course, no real deconstruction would be like this. I only used a single paragraph and avoided literary jargon. All of the words will be found in a typical abridged dictionary and were used with their conventional meanings. I also wrote entirely in

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It's not short, but it is concise. This is a very interesting read. I suspect Todd, in particular would like it, though I'm not mindreader and could be wrong.

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I think the ampersand is especially cool in this font:&It's a little funny-looking as an ampersand, but it's quite cool as a product of its lineage.The ampersand, it turns out, is a short-hand version for (a conjunction of) the latin "Et".Can you see it? Isn't that cool, or am I weird? (Or Both!)

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There's been some speculation lately that time travel may indeed be possible to some degree or another, and that within our own lifetimes, people, not just particles, would be able to travel as well.Of course the problem with time travel is the grandfather paradox. Could you go back in time and kill your own grandfather before your parents were born? If so, then you would have never existed,

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It's now officially spring, which unofficially means I have to get cracking or the yard will swallow the house inside of a month.I had a load of things I wanted to do this weekend, not in the least mow down the foot-high weeds springing up in our yard. Why scientists can't engineer a strain of weed to look like grass, I don't know. But weeds will spring up to knee-high in just about a week

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From the article:What is the Significance and Why Is It Important to Bring These Facts to Light?Based on my understanding of the connections and equipment at issue, it appears the NSA is capable of conducting what amounts to vacuum-cleaner surveillance of all the data crossing the Internet -- whether that be peoples' e-mail, Web surfing or any other data.

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From the article:In peacocks, however, the males are the pretty ones. In humans, somehow this is reversed: women are the pretty ones, and men are all astonishingly ugly. In most species, the females are the replicators, and must be sensible about camouflage and the like, and so can't afford to be showy, but even if most of the males die because of their hampering plumage, this doesn't matter,

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I've decided to start doing what a lot of people do with their blogs - post links to interesting things I've read. But I'll try to preface my posts with "Link" so you can avoid reading such posts, if you're so inclined.From the article:Sometime this spring, the Supreme Court will hand down its decision in the case of Hudson v. Michigan. At issue is whether or not police who used an illegal "

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Kim took them while Lizzie was here visiting on her vacation, but I don't think she'll mind if I post a few.They went to Rock City and Ruby Falls together.They took Jenny on walks.Lizzie partied into the late hours of the night.But still had to wake up the next morning.They went to the Georgia Aquarium, and saw the whale sharks.And they spent some time just hanging out around the house and

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Todd IM'd me while I was at work today and reminded me that we'd been friends for almost 10 years now. That is, 10 years ago today, I was in Wales, and we met pretty much after after I got back.As happy as I am to have been friends with Todd for 10 years (I am), thinking about Wales made me a bit melancholy - not just for missing the country that immediately and ever since felt like home to me,

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Beware, all ye who enter! In a short time, you shall be inundated with aerial and cloud photography. I shall not spare you this time.As you may or may not know, I was awarded a trip out to California by Netifice (my employer) for service, good behavior, and keeping my nose clean. They put Kim and I up in a very fancy hotel for a few days, and allowed us to extend the trip a bit more so we

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Since it was so pleasant outside (and since I'm a procrastinator and putting off patching the two spots in the ceiling), I did the better part of my household work outside this weekend. There was a big, droopy, prickly bush that stuck out in the middle of the yard and needed to be hacked down to a stump, so I had at it.While I was out there, I realized that not only was it pleasant, it was

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So I thought, the other day, that this might be a good band name:The Trojan WhoresNote: I did not say a good name for a band, just a good band name.Note 2: I freely offer up this name to any band desperate enough for a name that it would use this one.Update: Apparently I was right: it is a good band name.

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So, mention the Devil and he'll find you, right?This morning no amount of banging on the key would allow it to turn, and I had to give up on being any kind of on-time to work and call AAA.They sent out a locksmith, who fixed the problem for a reasonable sum of $150. I learned a little more about how locks work (locksmithing seems like it might be a pretty good profession; if this internet thing

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Since I'm trying to get back into the habit of doing something to improve or maintain the house every weekend, this weekend I chose to fix a leaky shower knob and "accidentally break" the shower-head (that is, I took out the restricter that makes a shower into a dribble).Actually, despite my call to Dad for advice in the midst of a family breakfast, it went reasonably well. I was able to jimmy a

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...but this could turn out to be the best videogame ever made:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=sporeWarning: this is a link to a 35 minute video demonstration of a game that hasn't even been finished yet. But if you like games, you should watch it.

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Since I like to pretend we're Welsh.

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I'd recommend Eight Below. It's in theaters now. Sure, it's a kids' movie, but it's a good one, not full of fart jokes or gross-out humor. The characters are honest and have reasonable emotions. The dogs' stories are personable, but not outlandish. There's drama and comedy suitable for all ages. Kim and I both think you should go see it.I'd also recommend Rent. It was in theaters for some

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So here's the problem:Nasty, huh?And here's the cause of the problem:This is the toilet in our upstairs bathroom. According to the fellow who came out on behalf of the homeowner's warranty company, a broken flange under the toilet was leaking into the space above the first story ceiling. Broken flanges are the result of unusual wear and tear (than why would it be usual to expect this to be the

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If there's one thing I am (not, according to the following link), I'm a follower! My DNA report

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When I was first looking into Lulu.com as a place to self-publish, I thought I'd buy a book from the site to check on the quality. I came across The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect when I was looking for something in the same sort of area as my story, a genre which I like to congratulate myself into believing is "speculative fiction".My recommendation of this book is strongly positive and

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I failed my second CCNP test in a row today. I wasn't too happy about it.Unlike last time, I studied very hard for this test. Unlike any of the tests before this, I felt like I actually understood and knew the material very well. Unlike the test before, I had the right book for this test. Just like the test before, I was not at all prepared for the material covered on the test. I would

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I came across this link on reddit today:http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~slocks/buckner/no.htmlI felt like I had a lot in common with the author. We both left Christianity after extensive reading of the Bible (actually, because of extensive reading of the Bible). I went through a lot of the same emotions he describes at this site. Most of my objections to fundamental Christianity are listed

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(Crossposted with CoeraBlog)Hurray! I've finally finished with the face-lift/restructuring of the CoeraBlog. I'm hoping the final result will be something a little more approachable and interesting. Though the face-lift is finished, I'm very interested in any suggestions, comments, or questions about ways to make it more accessible or better, or about any of the stories. Very interested.

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I was talking with a friend at work about religion this evening. I was mostly listening, actually - I think I'm learning how to listen more than talk, a skill of which I was (am) sorely in need. But I still haven't learned how to totally concentrate on what people are saying instead of thinking my own thoughts.I care a lot about what people think about me. I think a lot about it. I talk about

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Though it wasn't anything like Anne's wonderland, we had a little fairydust of our own:

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The winter Olympics kicked off yesterday, and I am very excited. As much as I don't like watching football, basketball, baseball, etc, I do like the Olympics. To a large degree, I don't think it's the sports involved - I'll watch basketball and baseball during the summer Olympics. I think part of my excitement has to do with the fact that the whole series goes so quickly - I can follow the

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I just got back from a quickie trip to Orange County, courtesy of Netifice (the company I work for). They sent me out there to "finish training" Robert, a west-cost Netificer who had been out in Atlanta a few weeks earlier to learn how to do Activations. That's what they told me, anyway - actually, I was out there to receive an award for good service, which means Kim and I will be going on a

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(This is basically a cross-post with the CoerablogIf you stop by the Coerablog, you'll see that it has undergone a dramatic re-visualization.There were two reasons for this:1) I wanted to make it prettier. I always thought the old design was a bit of an eyesore, but it was unique, which was enough for me at the moment.2) I wanted to make it more user-friendly and comprehensible. I've begun to

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