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The guys I work with are big nerds. We’re all sitting in a big room fixing machines all day. We talk back and forth while we work. Sometimes, we say some stupid things to break the monotony.
Sometimes we watch TV together after work. While Heroes was on last season, my favorite […]

I’m pretty strong, but I’ve got a neck injury I just can’t shake. It’s worse in the mornings, as soon as I peel myself out of bed. I’m stiff all the way to work. I can’t look over my right shoulder. I’ve found that, if I bother to, I can check […]

I spent the day helping Rachel start landscaping in our front yard today. I chopped some things down, she planted some things, and the dog managed to dig, just not in the right places. This was the first nicely warm day of the year.
After visiting the local mexican restaurant this evening, Rachel decided […]

Tonight, for the first time ever, I watched the entire four hours of The Oscars. I’m not an award show fan. I should have been content with skimming a list of winners tomorrow morning, but my wife has never seen The Oscars at all (because in the UK the show starts at 1 […]

It feels like something out of a book.
I’ve been reading about the Church of Scientology and their now-sworn enemy, Anonymous. Anon has pledged to destroy the Church of Scientology because, as they see it, it needs to be done. Anon’s last message is a call to action. “Be very wary of the […]

There’s a dull ache in my head from studying. I’m scheduling myself to take my long-overdue Apple Certified Machintosh Technician exams. There are two exams, the Apple Macintosh Hardware Exam and the Mac OS X Service and Support Exam.
I’ve been going through the online training, and it’s nice to see on paper lots […]

An Associated Press article this evening told the story of Utah’s $227 million renovation of the capital building. Apparently $227 million buys flat-screen televisions, wireless internet, and the finest, state of the art, dead mormon insulation. (That’s not insulation from dead mormons, but insulation made from dead mormons.)
Around 167,000 people in Utah are […]

I’m finally reading the highly recommended Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.   While I’m sure there will be loads to say about the book, I’m only 15 pages in, so I can’t speak intelligently about how well it makes its argument about media’s effect on […]