tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54882792011-08-02T12:32:38.424-04:00Just my random thoughts, gaming, music, politics, sci-fi, and what all elsedavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-19137108161142730862011-07-06T01:38:00.000-04:002011-07-06T01:38:38.238-04:00

 Of all the cemetery pictures I have taken this summer session, I think this is my favorite.

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Anyone who knows me, knows that I am heavily involved in the evolution/ID-creationism debates online. Even though I am no scientist, rather instead a budding historian, I am staunchly on the evolution side of the debate. However, this being said, I enjoy the back and forth discussion over evidence and have found it possible to agree to disagree peacefully with people on the other side of the

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Sine qua non. Translated from Latin it means “without which, not.” In colloquial English it means deal breaker. In my recent job search, my own sine qua non, was that I would be able to go to school while working. I have succeeded in this quest, and am now working and going to school full time again. Granted with the inclusion of my Sine qua non, my job search took longer, but in the end, I got

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Last weekend was a good time, I took my daughter to the renaissance festival. Normally when I go to faire, I hang out with my friends at the White Heart or the Dragon inn. However since I had my daughter with me, I did not want to do that since she would have been bored out of her skull, and besides it would not have been fair to her. So while I did pop in to the taverns from time to time to

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I am pleased. I put together my new telescope today, and after some trouble figuring out how to work the equatorial mount, went viewing the stars tonight. My list of objects viewed is as follows:The MoonJupiterThe Pleiades (M 45)AldebaranVegaAltairThe only problem was that the light pollution of the harvest moon, and the lights were I live, made viewing difficult. However viewing should be

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Was just told in my Greek art and archeology class that the midterm will be pushed back to Friday. Well, good, except that I already have a midterm on Friday ten minutes after my Greek art and Archeology class is complete. This is just lovely, really I mean it. I swear by the time Friday evening comes round I will be drooling mess, ugh so not looking forward to it. At least Crisy has promised me

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Sigh, I really should be taking notes for the class I am sitting in. However we are discussing the trades in the book I just spent the last few days reading, digesting, and re-reading, I think I have a pretty good handle on this particular subject. Was talking with my wife, Crisy, and half seriously suggested that once we finish our degrees that we sell our house and move to the Canadian Maritime

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Well, I think I am finally getting the hang of this full time classes thing. Before when I was at HCC I was only taking two classes. This made it easy to focus on one class or the other. Now however that I am full time, I have to spread my focus out over four classes. I am getting a handle on it but the transition has been difficult.So, now I sit waiting for my Physical Geography class to start,

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So I invested in a Asus Eee PC netbook for taking notes, and writing at school. Because well, sometimes even I cannot read my own hand writing. I have used it for two different class periods so far and it has been a godsend. Although I am still getting used to its smaller keyboard, so I am making more typos than usual, but at least I can read what I am writing!Speaking of writing, I am writing a

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I have been back in school now for almost a month now and am very busy. I am definitely working harder than I ever did at HCC but it is worth it. For the first time in about ten years I feel that I am going somewhere with my life and it is good.

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Gah, getting used to a daylight schedule again kind of really sucks. Especially after ten years of working nights. I am not really sleeping well at night as I feel I should be up and about doing things, and I am dragging during the day as I really should be sleeping. Then again however, that’s how I was before I was working nights. I guess I can’t win for losing.Speaking of sleeping at night, I

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updated links, it has been a while since I have used this space.

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I think having this blog will be useful now, giving the direction my life has taken. On 11/25 I was notified that I was being laid off of my job. My official last day at the office was today, Merry Christmas.All things considered though I think that this is a positive thing. I had been basically stagnating at work for about ten years or so. I hadn't been happy in about six years, and had not

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Been slacking on my promise to write something everyday, meh. Anyhow, the semester is over, and my overall GPA is a 3.5. I got an A in the lecture portion of the astronomy class which honestly surprised me, but I’m not complaining. This lowers my overall GPA from a 3.86 to a 3.85 and after discussions with Crisy and Mom I have decided not to retake the lab. Instead I will be focusing on

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Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

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Well, it's certainly been awhile in updating this blog. I am really going to attempt to update more often, as writing something everyday will probably help me become a better writer. So, what has been going on in my life? Well for starters, I just finished another semester at school, I took Astronomy and it associated lab course. It looks like I will be getting a B in the lecture portion of the

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As you have probably seen I am working on a new assignment, accent color. I go in for the critique tonight of my vertical landscape assignment I will post how that goes as well as the edited pictures from the critique

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well it looks like this blog has been revived, because apparently I am now photobloging posting pictures I am taking for assigments on a digital photo class

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 more playing around

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 just playing with picasa

davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-1149760037121687252006-06-08T05:45:00.000-04:002006-06-08T05:47:17.123-04:00

Well here we go let's see if this works

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Is our political climate anagolous enough to the late republic so much that a modern day Caesar might cross the Rubicon (or the Potomac as the case may be,) and declare themselves first citizen?

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Well, ya know I really should update this thing since I have it. So much to write about since the last time I have updated this blog, ugh. Well to start out with, Crisy’s mother passed away this past November of lung cancer. She had gone to the hospital to treat what she believed to be a concussion, and found that she had lung cancer, which had spread to her brain and elsewhere. Then three

davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-1121232489648212452005-07-13T01:26:00.000-04:002005-07-13T01:28:09.653-04:00

What Common Breed of Dog Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

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Well, the past weekend was an eventful weekend. The family, including jasmine went down to my parent’s house in Charlotte NC for the fourth of July. We left Friday afternoon, and arrived stupidly early in the morning on Saturday. The traffic on the way south was absolutely horrific. I have never seen traffic that bad on the trip south. It was definitely holiday weekend traffic. Crisy and I hit

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Well, the fourth of july postings will come in several different parts as it was an eventful weekend. first part is coming right up

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I have added to good blogs that I usually read, Michael Totten, and the Buzz Machine. Check them out.

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from the desk of dick durbin

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heh

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"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--Of cabbages--and kings--And why the sea is boiling hot--And whether pigs have wings.” -Lewis CarrollWell, took little Morgaine to the doctor today, and she was not happy about it. As soon as we walked from the waiting room into the back and she saw the scale, she was very unhappy. I guess

davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-1119409229725338232005-06-21T22:59:00.000-04:002005-06-21T23:03:11.426-04:00

"Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago, And it's gone right to my head. Wherever I may roam, On land or sea or foam. You will always hear me singing this song: Show me the way to go home." -Irving King 1925

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The upgrade was successfull. Doom 3 now runs like a dream, and my heat worries were unfounded. Now the fun part of loading all of my programs back onto my comp after the fresh install of Windows XP.

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In this day and age, does this quote have any meaning:"Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by That here, obedient to their laws, we lie" -Simonides of Ceos

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tired, but my new video card comes today!

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Yeah Annie, you’re probably right. The trouble is getting time to do it. Oh well, learn as I go I guess. By the way, I noticed looking through the template of my Blog, that there is a font called “Trebuchet.” Nice, a font named after medieval siege weaponry. Any way off to bed.

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At three fifteen in the morning, cinnamon and brown sugar pop tarts are the food of the gods.

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Well, it’s upgrade time again for the home machine. My new video card, EVGA 6800gt, should be here tomorrow. What had originally turned out to be just a video card swap out has turned into a major production. First I found that the reason my first 6800gt was not working was due to the fact that my 300-watt power supply was just not strong enough to handle the card, and in the process of

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Still more house keeping. I really should learn more HTML so I can edit this thing more thoroughly .

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More changes. this place looks much more spiffy than it did way back in aught three...

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Well, time to dust this thing off. I have been very busy with work, school, and hey, I just plain forgot to update this thing. Well I’m back, and it’s good to be here.

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Last night my co-workers and I had a send off for one of our teammates that is leaving for greener pastures. We went to Night shift, a strip club in Baltimore, and a good time was had by all. (I know, I know, I’m married. However, I went with my wife’s permission and blessing, without it I would not have gone, period. Some things to me are more important than a good time.) I don’t go to strip

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It’s funny how life changes. Three weeks ago, the latest round of sonograms for my wife’s pregnancy revealed that we would be having a baby daughter. That, after hearing my daughters heartbeat for the first time was the two of the most magical things I have experienced, ever. Within the fuss and worry of our first child, I have found a strange serenity, a peace I have never known. Eight years

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Cool, I have comments working now.

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Oh! one quick thing. If you are a stratgey gamer, check out Rise of Nations. It rocks.

davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-1058350553644575792003-07-16T06:15:00.000-04:002003-07-16T06:15:53.693-04:00

Yea! my first real post of substance With the exceptions of a few close friends and family, I really don't discuss politics anymore. The reason? Simple, it's the current " if you're not with us you're against us" mindset that both major political parties are engaged in. Neither party wants to comprimise anymore, or when a comprimise is being discussed it is, more often than not, double-speak

davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-1058329564600120392003-07-16T00:26:00.000-04:002003-07-16T00:26:04.660-04:00

Well, I'm still learing this so please be patient.

davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-1055885561945935372003-06-17T17:32:00.000-04:002003-06-17T17:32:41.990-04:00

ack... I will figure this out eventually.

davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380349241602215635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488279.post-1055884711844124752003-06-17T17:18:00.000-04:002003-06-17T17:18:31.890-04:00

Please allow me to introduce myself, my nom de plum is Kid Target. I’m a 28 year old college student, husband, and father to be. I have always felt that personal web pages/blogs were shrines to personal vanity; after all, what is the purpose of them really besides, screaming “hey pay attention to me”? However, since I am posting this, I will admit to being a touch vain, because I now have a

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