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Cheese and Ketchup Sandwich
I just realized I haven't written here in a long while. This was not planned ( Read more... ) -
Skyrim and the Ring of Power
Since the Winter holidays, I've been playing Skyrim with some absurd frequency. It's an amazing, immersive game that does the whole "D&D" thing so well it makes Diablo look like Rogue. This whole time, I've only played the one character I started with. As he's started to edge up toward level 50, he's begun to top out on some of his most used skills ( Read more... ) -
All Gung Ho and Nowhere to Go
This essay by Forbes contributor Thomas J. Basile is delightful on several levels, not the least of which is his bitter moaning about the impotence of the Republican party. Once you get past the reframing front-loaded into the first half of the article, there are some pretty bald observations of how the GOP have defeated themselves, or at least ( Read more... ) -
Technology be shakin' the house
After several years as a loyal HTC phone user, I made the jump this morning to a Motorola phone: the RAZR M ( Read more... ) -
Sticking to my guns
It's human nature to seek to prevent calamity. When children die, we ask, "How could that have been prevented?" Sometimes, the result is legislation that circumscribes danger. Other times, we make cultural adjustments to save lives ( Read more... ) -
buildup to disappointment
Three weeks of discussion, negotiation, and planning, leading up to a complete phone system install tomorrow was scuttled at 4pm today. We discovered our new system won't handle incoming calls as well as our ten year old system. I grant that our particular use of the phones may be unorthodox, but it never occurred to me that it would simply be ( Read more... ) -
My wife... wants me to pick up the dry cleaning
I haven't had anything to say about the recent "find" of a Coptic papyrus in which Jesus refers to "my wife".
My disinterest stems from a sense of having already approached and dealt with the issues of marriage and Jesus. While the Gospels (as we know them) do not confirm or deny that Jesus was married, there are a number of hints that he was. The ( Read more... ) -
My buildings
My latest obsession doesn't have anything to do with writing. While I still read lots of politics and history stuff, I've found a new hobby that has kept me interested and entertained for far longer than I originally anticipated. My latest timewaster is the creation of dozens of 3D computer models of buildings in another town.
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That itch I couldn't scratch
This is a very niche post about finding astrology programs for my Android phone. If you don't have Android and/or don't care about astrology, you will miss nothing by skipping this post. Thanks for visiting, anyway. Catch you on the flipside.
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trailing disaster
All day long, I've been abruptly, and repeatedly distracted by the vision of watching an SUV careen past oncoming traffic and hit a house. Because that's the first thing I saw this morning, and nothing else that happened today came close to the psychic mind blow of watching an SUV run into a house.
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