Monday, August 21st, 2006
This is Emperor Julian talking about the Christians (i.e. "Atheists")
Atheism [i.e. Christian Faith] has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar and ...
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
It is a rare day that I don't look at the back of the person's car who just cut me off, or ran a red light in front of me, or ran over a pedestrian, and it doesn't have a Florida license plate stuck on there somewhere. I'm not even ...
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
And Universal Pictures' "Miami Vice," the top film last weekend, took a steep fall in its second weekend. The film dropped an estimated 62% to $9.7 million. The film, which cost an estimated $135 million to make, has returned $45.7 million thus far. Universal is a unit of General Electric ...
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Saturday, August 5th, 2006
So... I'm reading a couple of books for my Masters Degree and they both have those magazine-style text boxes in them. You know, the ones that help you when you are skimming through the magazine... they kinda higlight important points and are maybe a different color? However, in these books, ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
The big roadblock to progress on my goal to re-read all the SJC books has been Plutarch. I really liked him when I was at St. John's, but it turns out that they picked most of the good stuff. He just keeps writing about a bunch of "great" people that ...
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
My Highschool was on the corner of Overhill and Dale.
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
I really like Michael Crichton's books, but every single movie made from his books are horrible (Jurassic Park was alright as a movie, but having read the book, I expected much more. Every other movie has caused me physical pain.) John Grisham's books are alright, but the movies made from ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Apparently a Gull was killed by a sandcrab...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Just a few thoughts from my half week in Michigan for LT and MJ's wedding:
For those of you that weren't able to be there, it was frickin' awesome.
I got to go on a tour of the Ford Rouge Plant. It was very interesting to see all the history in that ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
There are a few things that flock does that are un-mac(or maybe just Apple)-like.
In Safari, if I click on the icon in the dock, Safari either brings a browser window to the front, pulls one out of the dock (if there is one minimized) or opens a new one if ...
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
So this picture is called "DSC00042.JPG" My camera went up to DSC09999.JPG and then the next picture was "DSC00001.JPG"
What? Huh?
technorati tags:weird, sonyBlogged with Flock
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
What is the point of even letting me download for OS X something called "Real Player" or "Window Media Player" from your respective sites when 9 times out of 10 they do not play Real or Windows media?
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Saturday, May 27th, 2006
...ok... I WAS supposed to read Christian Reflections... (and I was supposed to buy it... but there was one other book I had a hard time finding) Luckily for me I went ahead and bought The Leadership Challenge a book I will most certainly never read.
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
How come I can run for 45 minutes and almost 4 miles on an elliptical machine and never feel winded, but when I run about 100 feet out to the mail box and back, it takes me 30 seconds to get back to breathing normally again?
and what does "how come" ...
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
So I left for work at 12:30... completely oblivious that it was not 11:30.
"But Dwight," you say, "It isn't fall-forward or spring-back time even in the least!"
"Au contraire," I might say, if I knew what it meant if it applied in this situation.
"You, my good sir, are correct." ...
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Roles:
Ungracious Catholic in Chocolat
Johan Tetzel (Indulgence Salesman) in Luther
he is also in The DaVinci Code
Any other anti Roman Catholic roles?
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
I think my IT department fixed registration, so if you haven't been able to comment because you haven't been able to register, you should now. I sent out a few already to people who have told me they were unable to comment.
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
Through a careful and scientific study of My Favorite Pictures that Other People Took page at flickr... I've discovered that while green may be my favorite color, I like the combination of orange and blue... and I really like orange and really like blue... in photographs. Ok, so I'm still ...
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
The Time Is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wired News Report 12:45 PM Apr, 04, 2006
Where New York Times columnist David Pogue latched onto this fascinating factoid, there's no telling. But as randomly useless bits of trivia go, this is definitely worth noting.
Pogue writes: Late tonight -- specifically, 123 seconds ...
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Say you buy a trash can that says it is 40 Liters. You might think that if you bought 42 Liter trash sacks, you would be set. Apparently, though, 42 Liter trash sacks are smaller than 40 Liter trash cans.
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