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Chey’s Computer Kata
So we watched this movie, Equilibrium. First off, don’t bother watching it if you’ve already seen The Matrix and Minority Report. It tried to be as cool as The Matrix, but just didn’t make it. Anyway, in Equilibrium there is this Gun Kata that these super-cops do (they’re called Clerics). Looks like a tai-chi kinda…
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“All we like sheep. . . .”
“It’s a perilous thing, to be leaderless and obedient at once.” This is a quote from The Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin, JR. In it he refers to sheep. Wangerin writes allegory, so it would not be farfetched to take oneself as the sheep. I feel like the sheep sometimes. Except, being the big…
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The Day of the Lord
So, God’s a funny guy. Just this morning, I was thinking over my life, which is in a bit of a shambles now, and I thought, “You know, I haven’t read anything in the Bible recently that I would want to share with anyone (don’t ask me what I’ve read AT ALL, recently). Why am…
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Venting (&^$%#@!!!) about a web host company.
Venting. Launching a web site really should be a simple matter. I’ve deployed hundreds of web sites over the last few years. Most of the time, it is a simple matter of backing up some files, uploading some new files, and occassionally making a DNS change so that a domain name actually points to said…
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Yooper Cooler
Mike Stafford (schooling up at Lake Superior State Univ. in Sault Ste. Marie) sent this photo. Thought it was funny, so I’m posting it. I grew up in the U.P., for those who didn’t know.
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“Everybody get together, try to love one another, right now”
“If church is run as a business or corporation, it ceases to be a family. But if church truly is a family, we not only will support one another, we will confront one another. Otherwise, there is little accountability.” -Glenn Kaiser For those who don’t know, Glenn Kaiser is the main talker from the Rez…
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Just Watched Punch-Drunk Love
Chey and I just finished watching Punch-Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson. In it, Adam Sandler plays an unstable businessman, Barry, who falls in love
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More good news!
“Sometimes, particularly in older people, symptoms of shingles persist long after the rash is healed. In these cases, facial paralysis, headache, and persistent pain can be the aftermath. Possibly because the nerve cells conveying pain sensations are hardest hit, or are exquisitely sensitized by the virus attack, pain is the principal persistent complication of shingles.…
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Plug for Mr. Tufte
“One visionary day….the insights of this class lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual displays.”WIRED “The Leonardo da Vinci of data.”THE NEW YORK TIMES Tufte has courses coming up in Dearborn, MI in mid-April. I attended one of his courses in Chicago about a year and a half ago.…
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She’s got the Mange!
So, I have this rash (kindly refrain from taking that any further, it’s a teeny tiny spot), but we don’t have any insurance right now and not a lot of disposable income (certainly not disposable on dumb old doctors). Anyway, So I go on-line to see what dread disease I might have. The problem with…