Recent Posts
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My trip to Hawaii!
So below is a rather long blow by blow of my recent trip to Hawaii. This is the first trip I’ve really ever taken with someone else. It was a blast, and Hawaii is such a great place. I ate great food, swam with sea turtles (twice), had a little too much to drink, saw [...]
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Death of the Retail Stores.
I like a bargain as much as the next person, so when I saw that Borders was going out of business I had to go. But sadly, I was very disappointed.
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Have scientists found alien life? Well, no.
Late last Friday night, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center published a paper in the Journal of Cosmology. He claimed to have found evidence of extraterrestrial bacteria, sealed in rare carbon rich meteorites. I read a few of the different stories posted on various news site around the web, and I skimmed the actual paper (which is [...]
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Childish Things.
1 Corinthians 13:11 – “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Yeah, not so much. So yesterday in Costco, Anna and I came across a display model of the Jumbo Fun [...]
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Reflection on a Tragedy.
I haven’t really talked about the shooting that happened in Tucson a little over a week ago. I wasn’t in Tucson when the shooting happened and didn’t even find out about the shooting until a day later. However, since returning to Tucson last week I’ve been unable to escape the frenzy associated with this story.
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Anime: What I Watched Last Year.
It is no secret that I enjoy watching anime. Some of my favorites include Neon Genesis Evangelion, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop. Unfortunately my lifestyle has not allowed me much time to keep up on the newest titles. Before 2010, the newest shows I had seen were Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop Phantom, and Ghost in the [...]
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Home sweet home.
The past few months have been quite busy in an desperately hectic sort of way. Despite these stresses, I have had a little time to do some work on my new home. The picture below shows the (nearly completed) library. There used to be a hole in the wall (large enough to walk through) behind [...]
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Ohio, house, and more.
My flight from Ohio finally arrived in Tucson early Monday afternoon. Bad weather and mechanical delays made me miss a connecting flight in Denver. Fortunately, I was able to bully the airline into giving us a free hotel room (which had been promised to us in Cleveland). It took several hours, but eventually everything worked [...]
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Where are you on Google Maps?
Every time Google updates the images in their Google Maps or Google Street View, I set out trying to locate where I was at the time the images were taken. I have this ritual of checking the various places I’ve lived, worked, went to school, my friends’ houses, and establishments I frequent. I noticed today [...]
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How I shook hands with Rob Zombie.
On October 2nd, I went to see Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie with Rachel and some of her friends. I had the luxury of being driven to the show (although I didn’t fit too comfortably in the back of her Honda Civic… damn you Honda). Rachel’s boyfriend made fun of my iPhone, only to become [...]
