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Monthly Archive for May, 2007

Studying Netherlands

Somehow during the course of this morning when I was trying to find the difference between ‘alsjullieblieft‘ and ‘alstublieft‘, I ran across an old blog called Downwind of Amsterdam. This guy from the states lived in Naarden, just east of Amsterdam, for a little over a year for work. He gets a bike and extensively […]

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LIT3

I had this incredibly long, drawn out dream last night that my hometown was basically hit by LIT3 during a storm. I was up visiting, we drove back in to town and saw an old house engulfed in flames. We were wondering where the fire department was, went over the hill and saw several more […]

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HB 1815

Well, House Bill 1815 which clarifies it’s legal to transport a handgun in a vehicle for protection without a CHL (provided you’re legal and not a thug, and the gun is hidden), is on its way to Perry. Senate Bill 534, which would have allowed CHL holders to transport and store handguns in their vehicles […]

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Long distance

PBS/KLRU was piping in a lot of BBC content tonight. One show about Queen Elizabeth II and her travels to the different Commonwealth Nations; one about Walter Cronkite revisiting Europe to see what effects both American and British journalism had on each respective country after WWII; and one about the first trans-atlantic telegraphy cables laid […]

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Sick

After waking up and coughing so hard it made me throw up (eww) for the third time in eighteen hours, I headed back to the doctor. At first he didn’t think there was much we could do about it other than load up on anti-oxidants, then he examined me and changed his mind. He didn’t […]

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Allergic?

The good news is, Friday night I was playing Wii with friends until 3 AM. Saturday I went to a wedding reception, met new people, was surrounded by many [taken] attractive girls, had a good amount of fun. The bad news is, I have reason to believe I’m allergic to cigarette smoke. I was almost […]

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I hate SATA

Fuck me, have I bitched today at how much I hate fiddly SATA cable connectors and having to talk somebody step-by-step over the phone about how to repair a server?

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Small change, big difference

Best quote of the day, from an article about artificial sweetners: “Just because a synthesized molecule is similar to a natural sugar molecule doesn’t make it safe. Just a one- or two-atom change makes a big difference when ingesting water versus hydrogen peroxide, beer versus wood alcohol, or carbon dioxide versus carbon monoxide.”

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Ham quote

The second best quote of the day was from a conversation I copied on 40 meters at lunch today: “I had to go patch the water line running to my cabin. It’s really rocky here so I can’t bury it, and the coyotes like to chew holes in it every year or two. That’s done, […]

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West Texas photos

pictures – Guadalupe Mountain National Park, including Guadalupe Peak pictures – McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, TX pictures – Marfa Lights, Marfa, TX pictures – Motel Bien Venido, Alpine, TX The new hotness is a roadtrip to Cabo San Lucas in Baja California Sur, Mexico. So now I need to learn Spanish, particularly such phrases […]

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