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Steampunk

My fascination with this “playground of anachronism” started when I was looking for a shirt with wings on it on ThinkGeek.com. I found one that said “Steampunk Angel” with really cool mechanical wings complete with a pressure gauge. Not wanting to purposefully invite abuse to myself by either having an insult printed on my chest [...]

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I like flowcharts

Well, as long as I’m not being graded on them. There is something about being able to get an answer through a series of yes or no questions.   I like making things simple, especially lately.  You can even throw a maybe in there occasionally.   I like testing for infinite loops too.  There’s something [...]

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What do you want to do when you die? ;)

I was just posting on a MacRumors forum about what I would want on my tombstone (the brick, not the pizza) when I died, and it got me to thinking.  (Yes, we geeks talk about all sorts of fun and uplifting things.) Strange though it may be, some people actually enjoy wandering through graveyards (I like [...]

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What would you do? (moral question and slight rant)

I just noticed that my favorite soy protein company is promoting Dr. Christiane Northrup’s book “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom.”  Revival Soy is a company promoted by Pat Robertson (CBN and The 700 Club) and has been mentioned on his show and his web site probably hundreds of times.  My issue is that Dr. Northrup’s favorite [...]

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be transformed

Don’t copy the behavior of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.  -Romans 12:2

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The Place of Nothingness

I have wasted these times in my life so often, by not listening. I am also reminded of Psalm 23:2, “He makes me lie down in green pastures…”  I remember a preacher saying once that shepherds will sometimes break the leg of a sheep if it keeps running off.  In this passage, it’s very possible [...]

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my favorite commercial

This just makes me feel good, so I figured I’d stick it here.

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finding consciousness, waking up

Consciousness can be elusive.  I have to push back intense feelings of regret as I think of all the years I have been sleeping through my life.  But here I am, awake finally (I hope), and desperately trying to maintain that state.  Desperation sounds drastically emotional, but that is where I am at this point, [...]

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software as a service!

Two Days of Random Hacks of Kindness Hacking Kicks off in Washington, D.C. Geeks to the rescue!  I love it! Lessons… Yes, real help will come to real people, but something else to be learned from this is that because of the terrible tragedies that spark events like this, technology will be advanced.  ”At a [...]

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to see our existence and tweak it

Only a few short months ago, I thought that people wrote – magazine articles, books, even blogs – because they had something to say, something that they felt was important enough or original enough that others needed or wanted to be a part of it. I am realizing, as I read more and as I [...]

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