i've fallen behind in my lj. i have some things to say that fell off my mind.

At any rate, I've been offered and have accepted a job administering Linux boxen at Tybrin Corp. at Eglin AFB. It's three hours west of Tallahassee and 45 minutes or so east of Pensacola. I'm boxing things up for the move; I start on 28 March, but I won't move over there ( Read more... )

memegack!

I am so enraged! jeffthewookiee told me that tomalynne told whitesilk and shadowjade that they saw me talking to springdove and talking crap about jdbailey. What a crock!

What sucks is that everybody has asked why I'm leaving the trekkie fandom but the answer is simple: Some of you know who you are and why I'm leaving FOREVAR.

Oh and I am so going to kick springdove out of the house. They wore my ( Read more... )

Foreign language pledges irk student

Anti-linguists rejoice

Tonight I have stubbed four of the five toes on my left foot.

Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacyI knew about John Gilmore and his attempt to either fly without an ID, or actually see the law that requires him to show it. What I didn't know, which this article fills in, is John Gilmore's history in computers and the Internet ( Read more... )

Uganda: Condoms Outshine Abstinence in Aids Battle - Researchers

Compare/contrast Uganda AIDS Prevention Success Being Undermined by Infuriated UN Condom-Pushers. Discussed here, found by hymnialifesite is written from a conservative standpoint which values abstinence and marital faithfulness and kinda hates condoms (at least for public health purposes ( Read more... )

we're all glad you're here.

"Happy birthday..." -- Disney's Robin Hood

the kyoto protocol comes into effect today. lots of countries but not the US have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

apropos to that - an article about the consensus that the earth is getting warmer, and the reason is people. in the conservative circles where my parents run everyone says there is no such consensus, and that ( Read more... )

it's all crazy. three days have gone by without my consent or approval. they didn't ask me! how mean. so now i need to leave to go to atlanta tomorrow, but it's way too late to get an early start and i wasn't ready to go anyway. it's very cool, i'm going to meet my mission year people, but i told one of my people in atlanta i'd do some computer ( Read more... )

i just read 1984. yes that's correct i did not read it in high school. perhaps because my english teachers liked socialism more than Orwell. :) liberal conspiracy theories aside - it screwed me up. then i listened to darlene zschech + choir + brass + band sing worship songs. and i started to think maybe orwell hated christianity or religion in ( Read more... )