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A Clever Line
that I wrote just to get out of my head, but will emphatically not be using in any wedding in May.
"Like the sick and the poor, the married will always be among us."
Bad godhi, no mead. -
Waxing Philosophical
At the end of all knowledge, all seeking, one can only surrender and become who one was meant to be. One cannot, ultimately, hide from oneself, and no matter how much training, no matter how much doctrine, and no matter what false trails and blind alleys you walk down, finally there is only the fire in the tanden, and the stillness of the mind, and ( Read more... ) -
Word of the Year
Oh brother. CNN reports that the word of year is "subprime." This follows NPR reporting the other day that the Word of the Year was "locavore", which itself followed another outlet (I forget and don't much care which) declaring the Word of the Year to be "w00t ( Read more... ) -
Better Than Letting Diebold Choose Your Candidate
By way of filkertom, these are the candidates that the computer has selected for me.
77% Bill Richardson
74% Mike Gravel
69% Chris Dodd
68% John Edwards
67% Barack Obama
64% Joe Biden
64% Dennis Kucinich
62% Hillary Clinton
49% Rudy Giuliani
46% Ron Paul
44% John McCain
43% Mitt Romney
40% Mike Huckabee
38% Tom Tancredo
36% Fred Thompson
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Meditation for Concentration
Daniel Goleman in the Edge Questionaire talks about test results with Tibetan monks. Very interesting stuff.
Although the experts' average boost in gamma was around 100 percent, two lamas were "outliers": their gamma levels leapt 700 to 800 percent. -
Welcome to 2008
For my first official act of the New Year, I've cancelled my typepad account. I had initially thought to put up a blog there about religion, but ran out of time over the summer and never really got back to it. I then thought that I might put up a blog on privacy and freedom issues, but I figured I could just as easily do that over here, and save ( Read more... ) -
Finally.
We have real internet at home again.
I'm not even going to try going back and reading the year's worth of posts that I have mostly missed.
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Thank you, Mr. Gates
For making a version of Windows so bad I had to switch.
Dateline - July 15th, 2007For a very long time now I've been a theoretical supporter of the open source community. I've even used some open source software, most notably Notepad++, FileZilla, and FireFox. But I've never been ready to fully accept the gospel of GPL. Yes, I've been a Windows ( Read more... ) -
Site Notes and Coming Attractions
From Out of the CircleIt appears that my domain redirect was successful, and now www.mbhubbard.com does in fact point to Out of the Circle ( Read more... ) -
A Fine First Outing About Building a Fine First Outing
From Out of the CircleI once saw a sign posted outside an encampment at an SCA event that read “Only Pennsic is worth the hassle that only Pennsic is.” Here in the Pagan world, the same can be said of almost any gathering or festival put on for the Pagan community. Anyone who has tried to organize such and undertaking knows the difficulty involved ( Read more... )