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Superbowl XLII - 4th quarter was not the time to try to be funny, even online
While I could have self-invited myself last minute style to a couple of different superbowl parties (that I had been non-committal to) instead I chose to stay home. But not entirely alone: through the wonder of Instant Messaging I've made a very good friend online who happens to be a big Patriots fan. And... even through the filter of a text only ( Read more... ) -
C.S. Lewis
I don't really have any new or really grand thoughts about C.S. Lewis for anyone who's read more than the Chronicles of Narnia, but... it turns out that many people haven't even done that, they've just seen the first big budget movie (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe ( Read more... ) -
Bush: our worst president ever. Evah!
Thats all. Soooo much more that could be said, maybe will get said in response if anyone happens to comment, but really the only thing to say is that for all of his own mistakes Jimmy Carter was a genius and saint by comparison. -
Boats
Not everything I write is going to be a reminiscence of the 70's, but I'm on "B (for Boats)" and by far my favorite boat was of course the one we had when I was a kid. It was perfect: Just large enough to hold two adults and 3 to 5 kids, but small enough that you only needed one adult to get it back on the trailer at the boat launch, the Evinrude ( Read more... ) -
Aardvark
Aardvark Technical Services -
Waaaaayyy way back, in the late 70's and very early 80's the first commercial bought computer that I had (Ok, back then I was still in grade school/middle school so actually it was my Dad that "had" it) was an OSI C4P. It still used the same trusty 8-bit 6502 processor that our KIM-1 had had (The KIM-1 being a whole ( Read more... ) -
Finding Wisdom - and MAYBE listening to it.
File this under: Let's check back later and see if it stuck...
Regarding stressing out by taking on too much (and thus being the last one to leave from work too many times) ...
"Just because you can do something (or do it better than others) doesn't mean that you have to do it."
- Author: Myself (who just figured this out, probably after being told ( Read more... ) -
High Voltage Confusion 2008 at the Troy Marriot January 18-20 was...
Fun! Great!
Lots to write about but way too tired for details right now... -
Politically, the worst thing that could have happened to Obama, did:
Kerry endorsed him.
But worse than that... Obama actually let Kerry be his warm-up act for a speech in South Carolina!
I used to hink that good intentions and good policy ideas, or at least much better than the terrible policies of Bush would be enough to win, but not after Kerry.
And until just now, I thought that Obama had the good intentions, the ( Read more... ) -
New Years Resolutions for 2008, more or less
New Years Resolutions for 2008, more or less
Talk less, Say more
Eat less, Exercise more
Worry less, Accomplish more
Write more (to talk less)
Sleep more, (to Yawn less)
Listen more, argue less
Watch less (TV), Walk more
Play more, Fret Less
Judge less, Befriend more
also
"Waste" time staying in touch with old friends, reaching out to make new -
Introducing me, to you, the reader of this blag.
Being a "computer guy" does not (entirely) define me, but yes, superficially it does serve as a quick two word shorthand considering it's paid the rent for over two decades. But that's just a starting point ( Read more... )