I really don't have anything significant to write about, but I didn't want my most recent post on LJ to have the subject of "Now, who the hell is Chris Dodd?" forever ( Read more... )

85% Chris Dodd
84% Bill Richardson
83% Hillary Clinton
81% Barack Obama
81% John Edwards
70% Mike Gravel
68% Joe Biden
64% Dennis Kucinich
58% Rudy Giuliani
49% John McCain
40% Mike Huckabee
39% Tom Tancredo
37% Mitt Romney
30% Fred Thompson
29% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Thanks to SarahHazelnut


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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of my 18th birthday. On the eve of this momentous occasion I was driving in my truck and listening to Sirius channel 14, Classic Vinyl, when Neil Young's Sugar Mountain came on. Now, this song made me feel sort of old when I first really listened to it in college when I was merely nineteen. The experience of the ( Read more... )

Thanks to gravenimages and beckersunc

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The South

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Currently, The Late Show is having "Ventriloquist Week". Last night David Letterman said that Willie Tyler and Lester would be appearing. He then listed the ventriloquist teams that would be on each night for the rest of the week. "However," he said, "Not appearing will be Carl Rove and George W. Bush." Heh, heh ( Read more... )

I saw this test somewhere and I was in the mood to click on little dots...

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||| 30% Stability |||||||||||| 50% Orderliness |||||||||| 36% Accommodation |||||||||||| 43% Interdependence |||||||||||| 43% Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 63% Mystical |||||| 23% Artistic |||||| ( Read more... )

“The true critical thinker accepts what few people ever accept -- that one cannot routinely trust perceptions and memories.” --James Alcock, “The Belief Engine”

The above quote led me in a roundabout way to the following article, which I found very interesting and relevant to the questions I am experiencing in my life at this moment. Leave a comment

...well, and I'm still alive. My estimate on the height of the tree I took out was pretty accurate, I thought 35-40 feet and it was actually 36 and 1/2 feet, but I was way off when it came to the actual size of it. The biggest limb may have weighted 350 pounds and I just never would have thought it from just looking at it from the ground ( Read more... )

I just bought my very first chainsaw this afternoon. I've always kind of wanted one, but it had come to the point where I had no choice. Five or six or seven years ago, I had made an attempt to remove one of the smaller White Oaks from my yard. I got most of it down with hand saws, but reached a point about 10 feet up where I needed a chainsaw to ( Read more... )