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The Last Time You See Someone
I had no idea that the last KPLUG meeting we had in December was the last time I’d see Bruce “Renigaid” Kingsland. The membership knew he was battling cancer, and had been for a while. It sounded like things were looking up. Obviously, they took a turn for the worst. While I wasn’t particularly close…
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We Won!
We were the home team today. Watching 6 and 7 year olds play basketball was less painful than watching our President jibber-jabber on TV.
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QotD: In-Flight Entertainment
How do you pass the time during a flight? What do you bring in your carry-on? I either listen to podcasts that I have downloaded to my Nokia phone or I watch videos I have downloaded from online and encoded to the 3GP format for use on a Nokia N93. I wrote a procedure for…
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Which Hero Are You?
If you’re a big fan of the show Heroes, take the quiz and find out which hero you are. For me, it was a bit of a shock: You are like Sylar Be careful, for your ability to absorb others energy may come with a terrible price. And always remember, however powerful you may be…
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Why I Can Never Go To Bed Early
Yesterday, I lucked out and got to sleep in until 9am IN MY OWN BED. Both children cooperated with this somehow. I’m sure it will never happen again. Meanwhile, tonight, I had plans to be done a little earlier than now. However, a little thing called an Internet outage on my cable modem caused me…
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Why Today’s Kids Suck At Math
Anyone with kids in primary school should watch this. It explains the wacky crap that our schools are teaching kids with respect to multiplication and division. At the moment, I’m happy that Jaden can do 2 digit addition in his head. Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth I am reminded of the Tom Lehrer song called…
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Finger Paint
Or, in Gracie’s case, hand paints.
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My Experience With ATF
No, I’ve never been visited by the fine folks who work for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. However, I have experiences with each of these things. Alcohol: Well, let’s just say this problem plagued both sides of my family, i.e. there were people on both sides of the family with issues. I don’t recall my mother…
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As Much Skating As Jaden Can
Which consisted of a lot of this.
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How I Rate Music
One of the things I am doing right now is trying to rate all of the music I have sucked into iTunes from my CD collection. The main reason: I want to be able to make playlists based on my ratings. However, I have a couple thousand tracks and, quite frankly, I don’t want to…