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I will be gutting this site soon (purgatory.org).

It’s 12 years of randomness that is weed choked and stale, so it’s time to do a few new things.

I’m currently futzing with some the new ideas, but suffice to say most of the current content will be going into the .tar ( Read more... )

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I no longer have a fresh water fish tank in operation. Yesterday my friend D met me at the new house and after unloading stuff from my car, we came back to the soon-to-be-old-house and broke down the tank. Two five gallon buckets of water; two pots of gravel; one ( Read more... )

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There was news I wanted to post I couldn’t post, so everything went a bit quiet over the last three weeks. Here’s the quick update though: my last day at my current gig is next Friday. I gave notice last Tuesday and want to finish up what I’m working on so they’re ( Read more... )

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Last night watching the closing moments of the debate I noticed how differently each candidate held themself.  Not just the fact that McCain has some creapy cro-magnum stoop going, but when the respective wives came on stage, the way the each candidate greeted his ( Read more... )

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My mini’s HD is finally dying.  I have managed to get the box booted and ever so slowly am transferring off the two files I want to keep and my iTunes settings.

Hopefully by tomorrow it will be a happier machine.

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I typed this in response to  my father forwarding me his source on the ACORN voter registration news pieces.  The source he forwarded to me had this at the very end of the message “Paid for byMcCain-Palin 2008″

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So, I did a bit of research on Acorn and cries of ( Read more... )

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I’m in heavy debate with my father regarding his party choice for this election.

He has admitted he is only voting based which candidate he thinks supports his 2nd amendment views (I need to debunk his current opinions on Obama, but the FactCheck.org folks have most ( Read more... )

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I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond this weekend because I need a new steel thermos.  When I asked one of the late-teens/early twenty-somethings working there where I might find them, he responded with “What’s a thermos?”

If he went to school he ate school lunches I bet.

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Every liberal minded person I know took the time to seriously argue politics with one person they know is voting conservatively (and thus for McCain/Palin)?

What if we all had the goal of converting just one person away from the hysteria of the Rambling Religious ( Read more... )