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Today's another anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Time to reflect on war ( Read more... )

What have people come to? People are beating each other up to get an XBox 360. A GAMING CONSOLE! It means that we're now a bunch of spoiled idiots running around in a blind frenzy over the latest and greatest games. I mean, first that stampede in Pennsylvania over $50 laptops (they were used; a school was selling them), now some crazy stuff over ( Read more... )

The Hound - by Robert Francis

Life the Hound
Equivocal
Comes at a bound
Either to rend me
Or to befriend me.
I cnnot tell
The hound's intent
Till he has sprung
At my bare hand
With teeth or tongue.
Meanwhile I stand
And wait the event.

In other words, life is stressful at the moment.

The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy ( Read more... )

From Popular Science Magazine, September 2005 issue, page 112 ( Read more... )

So, after years of complaining to my parents about slow internet, and them yelling at me to get off every time they needed to make a phone call, we finally got DSL! The joy of everyone being able to surf the 'net while talking on the phone cannot be expressed in words in this journal. I did all of the networking and configuring to get this up and ( Read more... )

May you never die in your lifetime

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-cows2aug02,0,6563166.storyRead more... )

"It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing ( Read more... )