tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37982302011-04-21T20:36:02.996-06:00Now with more angst!Curthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14424542385492141696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3798230.post-63168747464800701512007-05-04T00:12:00.000-06:002007-05-04T01:09:27.053-06:00

Ronco need not apply.Anyone who has spent time around me (or endured it, as the case may be), probably knows that I have a thing for arcade games. If you were to suggest that it was in fact more of an obsession, I would be hard pressed to come up with an articulate counter to that proposition. My age certainly has some bearing on the development of that obsession, as arcades truly hit the big

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... or, The Roomba Report.There were some curious folks over at chez Cafe-Nation , wondering about the effetiveness of a certain circular vacuuming device. I threw in my 2 cents on the topic explaining that I had all but given up on the technology of vacuums and was regressing into pre-carpet technology as a defense against destroying more household appliances. Not too long after that, the wife

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"They went on forever. They... When I... We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had these little fluffy clouds in them. And they were long, and clear, and there were lots of stars at night. And when it would rain, they would all turn – they were beautiful, the most beautiful skies, as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would

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Yes they're futuristic plansMove out west and buy some desert landsOr maybe up north just past AlaskaYou know nothing of this if they ask-ya- Clutch "Escape From the Prison Planet"Amusing that I should find this song in heavy rotation of late as the new contenders in the "Where the hell are we moving next" contest are vetted. Ann made the trek to Anchorage solo, as the airfare was just to

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Truly bizzare logic from The Govenator .I have always been a little mystified by one recurring event in professional sports - And that is the sillyness and bullheadedness that surrounds the intersection of Professional Football. To want a franchise in this city is to wish certain failure. If there is a bright center of the football universe, Los Angeles, California is the point furthest from it.

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The question has been raised recently via e-mail: "how you livin?"A fair question, one that can be answered in both short or long form responses.You may in fact be surprised that I have decided to go for the long form.First the big news - My sentence has apparently been reduced - and I will be released from the confines of Gallup, NM sometime in the very near future. Depending on where the new

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...well at least one of you did.Having been born and raised in Pittsburgh, it is not surprising that I have had certain relationships with many of the local Sporting Franchises. In the 70's when most of the the Golden Triangle was obsessing over the establishment of Dynasty, I was more taken by the Pirates - I even was fortunate enough to attend a game of the World Series in '79. Alas, baseball

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Well, at least I did get to feel a part of it.I'm sitting back in the great expanse many of you know as the Southwest. 12 hours + of travel time from NYC just behind me, and the last week still spinning in my noggin. Things to pass on to you dear readers...The SetupThe 5+ years here in gallup have caused certain sensitivities to develop. Most of them can be sated a thousand times over in a place

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What they don't want you to hear.Not so long ago an obscure DJ, using the handle DJ Dangermouse made a splash with his very inventive remix album "The Grey Album" , that was an inventive fusion of The Beatles White Albumn, and Jay-Z's Black Album. Thanks to the viral nature of the net, and a bevy of P2P enthusiasts, the eventual cease-and desist was utterly useless in preventing the distribution

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...but without all the little pieces of food in my beard.At least, that's what I'm expecting from this post, as it has been far too long since my last visit to this confessional. I won't apologize, since I'm really not sorry. It's not that I had nothing to say, rather I had no desire to say it. SO with that, on with the show.It's funny that the post that immediately preceded thyis one was a rant

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But still, this really has to nauseate you. ANYONE who would see the stones on tour in this day and age, had better be:1. Signifigantly older than me.2. Feeling bummed about missing them on tour EVERY previous chance they may have had.3. Recovering from blunt force head trauma.Seriously, the corporate whoring is just pathetic. I can understand guys like Moby, who used the licensing of his Play

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Well Dave beat me to it, but I had a post bubbling up for the last few weeks about the Tour dee France, and reading his has given me a starting point.First congratulations go to Armstrong for the previously unthinkable 7th Tour victory. Regardless of his status as a cancer survivor, 7 Victories in the most grueling Bicycle race in the world is no mean feat. Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian

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CLICK

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A good friend wrote to discuss my take on Revenge of the Sith. Mostly to say he was at first surprised, but then wound up agreeing with a lot of what I said. He also poised certain possibilities as to why we had become so disenchanted. Were these three films so much worse than the first three, or did we simply remember them as better due to where we were in life (young) when we first viewed them?

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Well, you're all bright kids so I'll assume you figured out the anagram part of this post. That along with yesterday's post give you a very clear idea about how this final installment of the "Star Wars Saga". I'm going to warn you right now, I'm about to talk about Star Wars a great deal. Please bear in mind that, though there once was a time when I pretty much lived/breathed/ate Star Wars, that

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...in honor of this being my 101st post.Thanks for suffering through another long hiatus of yours truly at the keyboard. I'm back now, and totally revamped with some hype new bling and all the hot moves the kids are talking about.Yeah.Time for a random bulleted list of shit. I know you love it, because bulleted lists are easier to find new ideas, as opposed to those meandering paragraphs your

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I was not down with the old school. I can remember hearing Sugarhill Gang's "Rappers Delight", and finding it amusing, but there was definitely no desire to investigate further. RUN DMC was sitting in the boom boxes of more than a few of my friends, and while "King of Rock" was another one that caught my attention - it wasn't enough to drive me digging into the rap scene. 1987 was the year that

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Or so I have said this little phrase to explain away just about any behaviour veiwed as strange, unpleasant, or just plain silly. That said, the notion does hold true. Everyone truly does need a hobby. To not find some sort of passtime to engage your free time is a sad existance indeed. My own personal experience with hobbies is that many are simply dabblings, others are heartfelt attempts at

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There are some people that know this subject matter far better than me, so I most assuredly do not write the following as anything other than an interested party. Growing up, there were pretty much 3 flavors of comic books I get a hold of easily; Marvel, DC, and "Kid comics" which was pretty much everything not in the first two groups. Being a creature possessing a modicum of intelligence, it is

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I have not had a very clear idea with which to start a post in quite some time. However, since it has been longer than I would like, I shall take the shitty local paper type route and just throw a bulleted list of stuff at you and hope that it makes you feel better for having read it. - The notion that our federal government may need to step into the fray that is "Steroid Use in Baseball" is

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Well those crazy kids over in Vatican City have finally made it clear as to why we are suffering from AIDS to this very day - They call it an '"immunodeficiency" of moral values' . Please, can someone who had been to church for something other than a wedding or a funeral in the last 10 years what the fuck that is supposed to mean? OK, truth told, I know what they are driving at, but honestly I

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I've had at my disposal now, for most of my adult life at any rate, the ability to recall incredibly stupid shit. Trivia doesn't even begin to cover it. We're talking about the trivia about the triva kinda stuff here. The type of meta data processing that google would kill for. And it amuses, and annoys me to no end. Don't get me wrong, the look on the face of the guy who asks you, "What was

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Actually, it was a phone call, and truth be told it was a former President. It was also a tape recording. Still the phone rang last night, and since the caller ID showed no info, we let the machine pick up. Lo and behold, none other than Bill Clinton telling us about how close the election was here in NM in 2000. Gore won by 366 votes. The amusing thing was We had already been to the polls. But

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So I had the good fortune to realize that New Mexico is one in a growing list of states where voting early is easy as pie. As a result Ann and I jaunted down to the County Courthouse and cast our ballots. I'm happy to not have to brave the crowds on tuesday, and there will be crowds. The activity was pretty steady today, and I've been told it's been like that since they started taking early votes

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It's been a hell of a week for Apple. They've announced the Limited Edition U2 iPod. They've announced a Photo/Music iPod. And now...This Damn, I'm not getting a thing done today am I?

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The 60's had Lenny Bruce. The 70's had Richard Pryor. The 80's had Bill Hicks. That you never heard of him, or heard his material is not surprising. I certainly never was concious of seeing his material when he was alive and kicking. Of course in an age when MTV was beating us over the head with a never ending supply of Carrot Tops, and Richard Jenni wannabe's, it would have been quite easy to

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I'm not usually one to steal from another's blog , but this is too good to pass up, I never thought I'd have anything good to say abbout former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, but compared to Scott McClellan, Ari was a wise old sage. The fact that he bailed from the white house well in advance of the election is more proof of that. Reading the exchanges between McClellan and the folks

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Douglas Adams suggested that the proof of the decline of mankind was the fact that Toothpicks have instructions written on the box. I'm sure that there is some sort of National Science Foundation grant I could scam using that as a jumping off point, but somehow, this thing seems to proove his point even better - plus it glows, there's got to be an NSF grant to be found where glowing things are in

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For those of you who have any sort of interest in Mass Media, you have no doubt, been aware of the Sinclair Broadcasting Group, and their plan to air an Anti-Kerry documentary - COMMERCIAL FREE - on their stations. They claim that it is newsworthy, but anyone with a bit more sense than a bowl of butterscotch pudding can see through that one. Now this is where I usually go off on a rant about

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ADVICE FOR THE NEW HOME OWNER Ahh! To experience the catharsis that is LOWES or HOME DEPOT. To savor an unexpected trip to the local hardware store. To find oneself strained and sore from moving paint rollers across nearly every paintable surfrace one can find. And let us not forget. The promise that lies within the confines of one's WORKSHOP. See, the thing of it is, Aside from turning

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NUTS TO THAT I was gonna try and write some witty bit about my conference in Atlanta, but I realize that this keyboard is only functional as such in the most primative of ways. Guess it'll have to wait until I get home or get more patience.

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STUPIDER AND STUPIDER One read of this was all it took to get my blood pressure spiking.... Understand that DWI is a HUGE issue in this state. Gallup, in fact is currently trying to figure out how to curtail early morning alcohol sales (and i'm mean 7:00am, not 2:00am). Of couse should that happen, I expect to see more stories about people killing themselves by drinking bottles of Listerine (no

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IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE BAD INTERVIEW THIS YEAR... Tell me again why this man almost won the popular vote?

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Well, I'm home from work, trying to shake off the last of the nastyness that is welling in my tummy. I think this is the first time I have taken consecutive sick days in years. Thought that this would be a good time to actually add some content to my woefully lacking blog, since things have been way too busy on campus this semester for me to really make regular posts. The distance ed classes are

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FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY!!!!! Well all in all, an interesting week, though not for all the right reasons. Ran around campus, as well as the trip south to Zuni to finalize our distance education "smart classrooms" which for better or worse go live this semester. Things were a bit squirly, as you might expect when dealing with large telcos, who work on their own damn flavor of deadlines. Still we're

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New Year, New (lack of) Direction I've decided that this blog is going free form. No purpose. No Agenda. Just me spouting off randomly. Enjoy ;-)

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Obligatory layout update comment.

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Hi. It's me again. Been awhile, I know. But I'm still here and everything is OK on my end. Still I feel bad, neglegting you like this, but I've been doing some thinking. I've tried a few things with this blog, to varying degrees of success by my standards, and I'm trying to figure out exactly what I want to do with it in the future. When I'm in a "groove" writing entries in this blog comes

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NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES This makes me want to scream. Should anyone with a right-leaning, Bush supporting agenda, happen to come across this, I would like you to help me with something. Could you please explain the ever-widening gap that exists between the Words of this administration, and their actions? To paint critics of what I like to call the Iraq Fiasco, as unpatriotic Americans, while

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SHHHHHHHHHHHH When even the spooks think you are going overboard, maybe you need to re-evaluate your methodology. Personally I have oft believed that the fact that there are official documents, that are decades old, that can still only be disseminated after having most of their relevant content covered up with copious amounts of black ink - is a troublesome thing. It fails to instill faith in my

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PITY I am not someone to throw a lot of pity around. Mainly because I like to believe that most people are ultimately responsible for their actions, and thus responsible for the consequences of their actions. There are of course exceptions, and This, could almost be one. Now anyone who knows me, comes to realize that there are a host of reasons that I dislike the current President and his

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REALITY CHECK Those who know me, understand a certain fascination with the sport of football. So while I passed up most of the MNF Tampa-Indianapolis game, it should come as no shock that I had it on iin the background and managed to see the last 6 min. of regulation and overtime. It was pretty amazing. This morning I follow up on ESPN.com, and come accross this:. Several of the Bucs

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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST..... You hear a lot about outsourcing these days, generally the out means out of the country. For a quick reality check - read this. Essentially that cash cow, pride of the US, information age crap is already passe - at least if you are a US citizen with aspirations of entering a high tech field. Best to go establish citizenship in India, or China maybe, and set your

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LAND OF THE OSTRICHES You can try and pretend that everything is normal. That things are going great. That for all it's flaws, that our government is here to help us. Then you read this, and you realize what a massive crock of shit those thoughts are. All I can say is that anyone who believes that giving our government any more power than they have already taken from us is beyond stupid.

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HMMMMMMMMM...... I wonder why they care so much? It's a nice concept the National do-not-call registry. I like it. I signed up 2 days after it went on-line. But what we really need legislatively speaking is for our peronal information to stay with the companies we do business with, and not used as an other means of revenue generation for said companies. If you can't stay profitable within your

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LOOKING BACK AT THE PRESENT I was reading this, when it occured to me - how will our essential rolling over for the Bush administration be viewed by future generations? Considering the powderpuff treatment Brit Hume gave him over at FOX, I'm sure people will wonder what mass hallucination we were all functioning under.

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Not much to say right now, other than the new Blogger is getting under my skin, with its annoying posting, but not publishing when i post and publish. I hear lots of others mention things like this from time to time, so I guess it was just my turn to slog through this....

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IT'S REVIVAL TIME Ever get the feeling that the Prez really missed his true calling by heading of to the Ivy Leauge, Mucking about with numerous failed buisinesses (not to mention the Texas Rangers Professional Baseball Team), and the whole political career thing? The more I think about it, the more I realize what George was best cut out for. He would make a real folksy Evangelist. I'm serious

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It's 1:02am in New York City, as I write this. September 12. Just another day. 11 is still lingering here though on the Westrn fringe. I've dona an admirable job of avoiding the main topic of the day, like a seasoned boxer ducking a clumsy jab. That's not to say that I didn't remember. I remember most days. For me it will always be the begining of a very dark time. When F.D.R.'s admonision that "

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I went the whole moth of july without a post - what a slacker I be. Things have been busy, in that caouldn't tell you what I did exactly, but there must have been a lot of it to do, sort of way. I spent the Forth of July in Vegas, and having now engaged in Independance day activities in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas NV, I'm gonna have to say that each are unique, but Vegas was less crowded.

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This one's for Joe, "Cheap-Labor Conservatives", I think I'll be working it into my conversation a bit more regularly. Seriously, I'll tray and post actual content soon....

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EAST COAST HOLIDAY Been a while dear readers, but my absence has been for all the right reasons - rest relaxation, and family fun on the beach. Ann and I headed to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Avon on Hatteras Island to be exact. Much fun was had, and so now should you be willing, you can hear all the gory details of the journey. Sat. June 14 - The traditional start to most flights from

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THE DEATH OF THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY One of the coolest cultural icons in my backyard will soon be no more. Soon Route 666, which runs north from Gallup to Shiprock, will be renamed Route 491. I think it's sad really. I guess it's because I'm not one for numerology or biblical superstition, that I attach no real meaning to the number. I enjoy the designation, because I know that there are others all

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I AM NOT A CONTRACTOR Not that anyone has ever mistaken me for one, but I had a brillliantly orchestrated reminder of that fact on the final day of May. See we have this really kick ass stove. Truly I am excited about how swank this thing is. Problem one presented itself when the happy delivery man plugged the stove in only to find out that the happy 240v outlet was not so happy after all.

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JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PARANOID... Nice to Know that i am not the only one around facing up to potential work related blunders. Dave was all a tizzy yesterday due to the double whammy of a performance review, and getting to deal with a client on the matter of a mucked up job. Both apparently went well, though I suspect he'd tell me that the raise was nothing too impressive. I'm in line for a raise

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TYING UP LOOSE ENDS My excuse for a post full of randomness. We are officially in the planning stages of a major kitchen remodel, which seems like a real nice way of celebrating our first year as homeowners. I'm lucky enough to work at a school with an Applied Tech Program, and the department chair happens to be a cabinetmaker. So Here's what we have planned so far.... Cabinets - Maple,

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CONTRADICTIONS Regular readors of this blogspace have no doubt realized that I have developed a certain kind of relationship with my place of residence. That is to say that I don't have much good to say about it. Here's the thing. No matter how much I bitch about it, it still has one thing going for it. I LIVE HERE. This is my not so subtle way of indicating to those of you with the ability to

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A FEAST FOR THE EYES... Took a little extra time on lunch to day to buy this and this. You see, it's officially the planning stages of the Kitchen makeover, whicih will be the most dramatic project ANn and I have undertaken since moving in almost a year ago. It will be July before things start looking really scary, but in the meantime, we figured, 0% financing for a year, plus a bit of a sale

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MORE LAPSES IN REGULARITY And, no that has nothing to do woth my intake of bran. April, quite frankly, has been flying by and I am quite excited to see it heading into my rearview. Got some things accomplished: 1. - Finally painted the living/dining room - and you can tell that I have watched too much Home and Garden TV with Ann, because I ws not put off by the notion of doing a faux finish--

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GO FLY A KITE THIS is why you have to love New Mexico. Fortunately I'm in the NW corner of the state, and all I had to deal with weather-wise yesterday was snow. This place is like a test bed for the Armageddon.

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UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB Sorry for the long pause in my ramblings oh faithful reader(s?), but alas April has brought showers of a different sort, a flurry of activity revolving around taxes, annual reports, family visitations, and other things that are directly related to me not writing anything of any import here. Let's go for the big round-up type of post here, just so you know where I am ok? Swell.

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BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID Why Citizens should always be vigilant about the actions of it's govenrment. This is the stuff that keeps me from sleeping soundly some nights.

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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE More of the "f you are not with us, you are against us" crapola, this time aimed at techies who actually think that a citizens right to privacy is something to care about. The whole article is worth a read. But the stunner is the "man in the street" portion where we discover that people really are as dumb as you give them credit for.

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING As if I weren't irritated enough about our information police. And no, I'm not really surprised. I have been blathering on about things like this well before 9/11, but now with a populace that seems to think that the protection of freedom requires the relinqueshment of it, that feels it's better to "feel" safe than to "be" free, that thinks that in order to show support

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WIN SOME, LOSE SOME According to this, our loss is Great Britain's Gain. I only wish we could have saddled them with this putz who has more lives than a back alley feline.

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CHECKS AND BALANCES I watched a fair amount of "Shock and Awe" from my hotel room last week. Between that and Basketball there was really not much else to choose from, and I really have no emotional attachment to hoops, one way or the other. It looks like the media casualties are strating to mount. Peter Arnette (Pulitzer Winner, former CNN correspondant, accused by the former Bush

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LOOK TO THE LEFT I have a few links there that are not plugs for my blogging cohorts. 3 links actually. I look at a lot of sites on a regular basis, but these are three that I reccomend for various reasons. Slashdot, is really the first NewsBlog I ever read. It has numerous editors, and submittors come from long time users to "anonymous cowards", with news from a techie perspective (or geegy

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TACTICAL ERROR Well I think this sums it up. The republican led senate, has refused to slash the tax cut in President Bush's budget, pretty much making insane defecits an inevitability. When re-election time comes around I feel that it will be deja vu all over again for the Bush camp. Does the phrase "It's the economy stupid!" ring a bell? Bush Senior came off of massive approval ratings from

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FLASHY I figured you did not come here for an update on bombs and missiles, so I'll give you something a little more on the light and fluffy side..... I've been entertaining myself with a few very flash heavy sites of late, one I've mentioned here before, but maybe you don't compulsively return to these types of sites looking for updates like I do, maybe you have better things to do with your

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RANDOMNESS Another weekend of internet overload, followed by a monday of catching up with the sites I don't read on weekends. Here, for your viewing pleasure are some of the highlights: Japanese fashion. Um, sorta makes me pine for the days of airbrushing album covers on Jean Jackets - well then again maby not. More evidence that american journalism is part of the problem. Seems that more

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MORE BLOGGERS You may or may not notice some likes on the side there... I added another one - well worth your time if rational thought makes you feel better about your humanity. Some particularly good insight into the origins of French Toast as well.

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FEELIN' OH SO MANLY Drove to Albuquerque on saturday, and since it did not involve going to the airport, I must have been shopping. Ann pulled a fast one on me by sneaking a detour to a fabric store before we hit our primary destination. Now I have a seriously high tolerance for hanging around in stores that most men would cringe at. I can shoe shop withe the heartiest of fetishists, I can hang

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MORE EVIDENCE I've been telling people that we are in the decline of our civilization for a long time. I secretly hope that I'm wrong. I've been proven wrong plenty of times, so I have stake in being right about this one. Sadly, of late, people have been giving me way too much ammunition for my argument though. Not so surprisingly the ammunition has come in the form of e-mail. Now I'm not

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SENSE OF IMPENDING DOOM The Department of Education will be able to Fund the PT3 grant I'm working on through its' conclusion in May/June 2004 - whoopee. Now I just have to pray that we somehow, someway find the ability to make the Grant work as originally proposed (very unlikly), or to get them to approve some rather signifigant changes to the plan (not quite so unlikely as the other). Either

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E-MAIL THIS! Which was a phrase I uttered on numerous occasions to a good friend of mine before I was infected by the internet. It was always accompanied by the single digit salute. Of course I have since embraced the net, or rather become completely immersed in it. I recall this little footnote, because I had the pleasant surprise of an unexpected e-mail from this same friend yesterday. It's

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RENDERING I've had the pleasure of working with video again, taking me back to my undergrad roots - only now it's all digital. The project specifically is a 3 hour video put together some time ago by high school students from the Zuni Publo, about 30 miles south of Gallup. The real pain was getting in all the video from VHS into my PC. Much trial and error was had, but I finally completed that

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STILL ALIVE Once again I have become distracted from my blogging duties. I even had a concerned e-mail from someone wondering if I had given it up. Such is not the case. I simply was up to my eyeballs in Smart Classroom Installations and other assorted nonsense. I also had the joy of starting out last tuesday at 3:30 in the am, taking Ann to the airport so she could go to Philly and Visit her

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WE HATE IT WHEN OUR FRIENDS BECOME SUCCESSFUL I will occasionally occupy my time with the pastime of Googling, which for those of you unfamiliar with the pursuit involves you searching Google with the name of an old friend, relative, potential date, or some random asshat you work with, and really want the full skinny on. I was searching the name of an old roomate of mine - one I lived with for 3

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WORST CASE SCENARIO Well in a week or two I will know what the status of a certain Dept. of Education grant is for 2003. Thing is, This grant pays the bulk of my salary right now, so I am more than a little concerned about what happens to my job should the grant funding go into the tank a year earlier than anticipated. Seems that G.W.B, our pres. Is all about the state block grants. His man in

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JUST SAY NO* *unless you are the U.S. military, in which case it's all good. An interesting article on WIRED today about the military use of speed, for pilots. That's speed as in amphetamines. Did the Chiefs of staff never watch "Family Ties"? Did they not watch as Alex P. Keaton went from peppy to phsychotic in the span of a single "very special" episode? It reminds me of something a good

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BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS From: "Mr. Chan Fung" To: curtconnolly@yahoo.com Subject: Private Business Proposal! Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:53:01 FROM THE DESK OF: MR. CHAN FUNG CHINATRUST COMMERCIAL BANK. NAN KAN BRANCH, TAIWAN REPUBLIC OF CHINA I am Mr. CHAN FUNG, Bank Manager of Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Nan Kan branch, Taiwan, R.O.C. I have urgent and very confidential business

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BOUNCING BLOG TO BLOG I was in the midst of my morning ritual, checking out updates (or lack therof) on Dave's blog. He hadn't put anything new up so I decided, as I oft do, to jump over to some of the other blogs he links to. I have never met the authors. If Ruddy B reccomends them though, I figure that's all the endorsment I need. So I head over to the Feralboy blog, and he in turn has a link

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SUPERSIZE MY JUSTICE PLEASE When you are quite sure that everyone in a position of power has had their brain slowly melted down into some gelatinous mess, something can come along and give you hope. I would have to say that fat people everywhere should now realize, that McDonalds provides a product, and for some more than others, that product can have a negative effecct on their waistline. But

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OPINIONS AND SPHINCTERS Blah. That is how I woulod describe the last week. Overall low energy, both physical and mental. I hate weeks like that, feels like I'm dragging my ass through molasses. Any way, not a lot has been going on in my personal life lately, so I have been watching a lot of TV and surfing the net even more that the usual. SO with that in mind here are my opinions on some of the

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MORE FREE TIME That is what the Steelers have given me. Seriously, I will catch the Conference Championship games, and the super bowl, but a signifigant amount of time that I usually waste following the Steelers, is now readliy available to waste on other things. Decisions decisions..... Still, for as messed up as the NFL season was this past year, the Black and Gold did a fine job of keeping

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INFOBANALITY I went through the roof yesterday. Not in the literal, get yourself to the hospital sense, but the more common for me - Distressed at the decline of society fashion most of you are familiar with. This is what set me off. I was watching 24 on FOX, which I now realize is about the only broadcast show i watch with any regularity anymore. I get FOX off of my sattelite dish, as east

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YOU'VE BEEN WAITING Or so I like to pretend. You have been coming back to the site, and seeing no tasty morsels, have become so saddend. Not to fear though as I Have returned from weeks of ambling and will now give you the skinny on certain hapenings. Episode I - The journey eastward. - Actually it was North Eastward, but forgive me the trifles. Week one of my fantastic winter respite tok ANn

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GOING POSTAL I tell you what, I really don't want to hears those chumps at the post office bitch about their budget shortfalls for at least a year. I think I have almost singlehandedly put them into the black with all of the shipping I have been doing over the last few weeks. I always use priority, (because in my mind, getting out of Gallup as quickly as ppossible is exactly that, a priority),

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CHRISTMAS IS COMING Yeah, it's been coming up on me soooo fast. Spent all of Saturday with Ann cleaning and decorating the house for her office party., all went well, and it was nice to have people in the house enjoying themselves. I've been shopping my butt off online as well, pretty much everything is taken care of except for one very special gift that will have to purchased once I get to

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PLUG IT IN PLUG IT IN Youu need Flash to Watch this. If that means using someone elses computer to view it, then do so. It's just that important!

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GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP Every now and then a pointless award seems not so pointless. Case in Point: Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year I mean professional athletes really are crappy role models for the most part. We hear about the sacrifice, the years of practice, playing through the pain, all those cliches. Hell, if I were making the base salary for any of the major professional sports I

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WINTER Yep. It's here all right. Ann popped into the computer room saturday night to let me know that we were getting legitimate snowfall. I broke from my shenanigans for a moment to verify the report and indeed a couple of inches were in place already. I made a crack about the population's inability to cope with something as basic as precipitation, stating that most everyone in Gallup was at

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ELWYN AVENUE That would be the street my parents' house sat on. 213 Elwyn Ave. to be precise. I spent my first 20+ years in that house. I moved out of it for good in 1992 when I rented my first apartment. In 1993 my folks sold it and moved to Las Vegas (god bless my cool parents for picking such a sweet locale for retirement). Strangely in the time since they sold it I have gone back to the old

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COMPULSION Nobody likes to admidt that they are not in total control of their actions. On some level it is an admission of a lack of mental strength. At worst it is an implication that the CIA's mind control beam is way ahead of schedule. I usually don't have what I would call terrible lapses of self control, but last night was something special. Ann had headed off to do her circuit training,

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MORE TIME OFFLINE Another week with nary a post. My apologies to you all. A short work week, combined with last minute notification of paperwork due post haste conspired to keep me away from the blog. Also the asshats at MSN have been running me in loops to get my DSL back on at the homestead. I think they get one more chance, and then I will bite the bullet and go to another ISP, even though I

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RETURN FROM EXILE What a brutal week. Sunday morning got up early, hit the road for Albuquerque, wandered into the airport, got my boarding pass, made it through security, and all I had to do was - remove my shoes, my belt, my jacket, oh and my dignity as a human being too, but that was easy. say around slurping Quizno's soup for a half hour and then finally was airborne for the trip to Florida.

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UG! That pretty much sums up how I'm feeling today. Very much like being asked to perform intricate physical feats while on a mild dose of horse tranquilizer. It's not really all that bad, but My mood is certainly on the side of sour, so the combination is a poor one. Particulary since it's friday. I should be all hippity hoppity, weekend's on its way, and instead I'm morbidly obsessing with

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JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING ABOUT THE FUTURE

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| /\/\ s0 l33t Being stuck in the middle of nowhere, or a bit west of nowhere depending on your perspective, leaves you with a limited number of options when it comes to spending free time. I ejoy the outdoors, but I hate the cold. The bike is pretty much done for the year, and I don't see any icelimbing or winter camping in my future. In my mind, winter and camping are mutually exclisive terms.

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ADULT LEARNERS I like to think that most people fit the definition of "Life Long Learners", that is they are always expanding their knowledge and understanding of various topics of interest, be it for personal or proffessional gain. Then there are ADULT LEARNERS. This is, in my opinion, Colleges answer to "Special Class" as a group these are some of the most infuriating, whiny, demanding group

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