Thursday, December 22 2005, 12:31 pm
I talked to a friend of mine who is pursuing a graduate degree in computer science at this university. I think he may be the first graduate of this university to be in a graduate program in computers.
categorized as life of donzilla
Thursday, December 22 2005, 11:46 am
Last night I had a dream about school and I hated it. TSG and I got pda'd for touching hands. On a couch in a new coffee shop.
Then I had a dream about a fast food chili place where subsequent customers dipped their faces in the same trough of chili to feed. It was gross, but Steve-O was there.
Then I had a dream about a fast food chili place where subsequent customers dipped their faces in the same trough of chili to feed. It was gross, but Steve-O was there.
categorized as life of donzilla
Thursday, December 22 2005, 11:26 am
Climb up mountain.
Snowboard down.
Paradise.
I'd like to do that.
Seven Summits?
This is Fr. A's brother...
Snowboard down.
Paradise.
I'd like to do that.
Seven Summits?
This is Fr. A's brother...
categorized as life of donzilla
Thursday, December 22 2005, 11:14 am
Why hasn't there been a large public outcry to eliminate porn on the internet?
categorized as life of donzilla
Thursday, December 22 2005, 11:09 am
Back at work again, this time after 8am mass (more sanity-conducive). The dark circles under the eyes are creeping back, and not seeing very much of my family yet over this Christmas "break" is nagging at my conscience. But what can I do, I'm a driven man. Driving toward my goals -- which are in sight and accomplished but for the hard work. Which I happily plunge in to. So, back to work...
categorized as life of donzilla
Wednesday, December 21 2005, 2:23 pm
My room is a messy splurge of computer parts, some humming and electrified, some dead and dormant, dirty clothes, cd's, and other piles of stuff. Tea looms dangerously close to the edge of a rickety collapsible table, hovering a meter above a humming hard drive. My brain is in shambles too, surviving the aftermath of finals week, a long long semester, and a few lifetimes' worth of sleep dep. I read Slaughterhouse Five in it's entirety today, in the last few hours, when I was supposed to be going to work. Now I'm late even for my planned late-time at work, but it's alright. It's vacation, supposedly. Maybe I can still get close to an eight hour day in.
categorized as life of donzilla
Wednesday, December 21 2005, 9:38 am
Perhaps the New York City subway stike will serve as a wake up call to Americans that will go something like this.
"Unions? We still have those? Why? Let's shut 'em down!"
"Unions? We still have those? Why? Let's shut 'em down!"
categorized as life of donzilla
Wednesday, December 21 2005, 9:35 am
insurance, greed, and community
Insurance has replaced communal good-will.
Instead of the community coming together to provide for a member who has been struck ill or been injured, people now rely on impersonal assistance, assistance that they have paid for by paying into an insurance policy.
And this whole system is setup to circumvent natural human generosity and charity so that someone may profit exorbitantly off of it.
What if someone ran an insurance company that paid everyone back the part of their premiums that hadn't been used at the end of the year (or two)? Or just created a communal pool of money that only needed to be paid into (equally, by everyone) when it dipped below a certain value?
Greed has replaced good common sense, and a whole host of other virtues in our society today.
Instead of the community coming together to provide for a member who has been struck ill or been injured, people now rely on impersonal assistance, assistance that they have paid for by paying into an insurance policy.
And this whole system is setup to circumvent natural human generosity and charity so that someone may profit exorbitantly off of it.
What if someone ran an insurance company that paid everyone back the part of their premiums that hadn't been used at the end of the year (or two)? Or just created a communal pool of money that only needed to be paid into (equally, by everyone) when it dipped below a certain value?
Greed has replaced good common sense, and a whole host of other virtues in our society today.
categorized as life of donzilla
Tuesday, December 20 2005, 11:02 pm
Ahh! It's late! But I'm working from home, so maybe I'll go in late tomorrow. YEAH, that sounds like a good plan...
categorized as life of donzilla
Tuesday, December 20 2005, 10:29 pm
I want to fisk this article, but maybe I'll do it tomorrow.
categorized as life of donzilla
Tuesday, December 20 2005, 10:28 pm
I know I'm really blogging again when the home page only shows blogs from the last week. And I'm REALLY blogging when it's only a day or two worth.
categorized as meta-blogging
Tuesday, December 20 2005, 10:27 pm
- Of course, that doesn't mean that the theory doesn't refute whatever criticisms the intelligent design crowd brought against it.
- It's just that science and religion, by definition, do not play on the same field. Science plays with material causes and empirical truths and theories; religion deals primarily with metaphysics and beyond.
Of course, religion has a trickle-down effect for those who are able to understand less and would rather believe more. That is, you can believe more than you have to within religion. People do this all the time: they believe - or 'take on faith' - what they could understand with their own reason. This is fine, but it does not actually limit religion in any way.
- It's just that science and religion, by definition, do not play on the same field. Science plays with material causes and empirical truths and theories; religion deals primarily with metaphysics and beyond.
Of course, religion has a trickle-down effect for those who are able to understand less and would rather believe more. That is, you can believe more than you have to within religion. People do this all the time: they believe - or 'take on faith' - what they could understand with their own reason. This is fine, but it does not actually limit religion in any way.
categorized as life of donzilla
Tuesday, December 20 2005, 10:14 pm
Among other things, he said intelligent design “violates the centuries-old ground rules of science by invoking and permitting supernatural causation”; it relies on “flawed and illogical” arguments; and its attacks on evolution “have been refuted by the scientific community.”
Aristotleanist refutation:
In the realm of western "science," all one studies is material cause. The existence of God and His role in creation is a completely seperate metaphysical question that this "science," as it defines itself, has no role in determining higher causes.
Science, then, by definition, can't conclude that God (a) does not exist, or (b) that He does not choose to work through natural selection and some form of evolution.
In the realm of western "science," all one studies is material cause. The existence of God and His role in creation is a completely seperate metaphysical question that this "science," as it defines itself, has no role in determining higher causes.
Science, then, by definition, can't conclude that God (a) does not exist, or (b) that He does not choose to work through natural selection and some form of evolution.
categorized as life of donzilla
Tuesday, December 20 2005, 9:48 pm
When people ask why I recently left The Wall Street Journal to join the Marines, I usually have a short answer.
You gotta read this article.
categorized as life of donzilla
Tuesday, December 20 2005, 4:53 pm
So when is our society going to, en masse, rebel against advertisements?
categorized as life of donzilla
Tuesday. December 20 2005. 3:26 pm
meta-bloggins
So I didn't like the double-colons between the date thingies, but I do like the day-of-the-week. And I realize that I don't use most of those categories over there --> so maybe I will axe some of them. I should really just set down a week to hash out the rest of the blog software and get it done, but of course, time is short.
categorized as meta-blogging
Tuesday :: December 20 2005 :: 3.18 pm
no longer the king?
Is Spybot S&D no longer the king of anti-spyware?
So says AdwareReport, as so-called "vertical search engine" of anti-spyware software. They also review firewalls there. Seems like a cool site.
So says AdwareReport, as so-called "vertical search engine" of anti-spyware software. They also review firewalls there. Seems like a cool site.
categorized as tech
Tuesday :: December 20 2005 :: 10.25 am
Made some two-second blog changes. I'm tempted to switch over to my WordPress blog server, and sellout on my own blogging software for the time being. We'll see, I guess.
categorized as meta-blogging
December 20, 2005, 11.15 am
Lots of thoughts, little time to blog. Working full-time in the office this week. Went to bed at 8pm last night. More later!
Merry Christmas!
Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year! YES! Then the days start get longer. YES!
Merry Christmas!
Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year! YES! Then the days start get longer. YES!
categorized as life of donzilla
December 19, 2005, 1.29 am
You know what I want to do? Build a Stealth Car. You know, with all the funky angles, make it out of wood, the radar-absorbent paint: the works.
And then cruise calmly past the CHP, smiling slyly, as they frantically TRY to clock you with their lastest TWIN LASER radar gadjets.
Wow, I need to go to bed!
And then cruise calmly past the CHP, smiling slyly, as they frantically TRY to clock you with their lastest TWIN LASER radar gadjets.
Wow, I need to go to bed!
categorized as life of donzilla
December 19, 2005, 12.16 am
Note: Cheesy Pop in Korean is just the same as Cheesy Pop in English. Except that the language does have some crazy tonal characteristics...
categorized as music
December 19, 2005, 12.14 am
Text-messaging TSG like a fiend...
She hopped over to Bakersfield (ugh! Bakersfield!) to see an old friend with a new bebe...
She hopped over to Bakersfield (ugh! Bakersfield!) to see an old friend with a new bebe...
categorized as life of donzilla
December 19, 2005, 12.13 am
Listening to a Republic of Korea radio broadcast via ShoutCast...
categorized as music
December 18, 2005, 11.48 pm
Made it up the coast in (almost) record time, stopping in SLO to see the brother and sister-in-law in their new (soon to be old) digs.
Heavy rain along the route prompted huge electric signs to display dire warnings about the slippery-ness of the roadway. A half-dozen scattered accidents confirmed not only this, but also the sheer inability of Californians to drive in rain.
We listened to The Decemberists, The Rolling Stones, watched A Hard Day's Night, and then listened to Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue Vol. II while shooting through San Jose.
Heavy rain along the route prompted huge electric signs to display dire warnings about the slippery-ness of the roadway. A half-dozen scattered accidents confirmed not only this, but also the sheer inability of Californians to drive in rain.
We listened to The Decemberists, The Rolling Stones, watched A Hard Day's Night, and then listened to Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue Vol. II while shooting through San Jose.
categorized as life of donzilla
December 18, 2005, 1.43 am
I guess I have that itchy unrest that I sometimes get before I travel. Except now I just want to get it over with and get back, which I don't believe I've ever felt before on a trip and certainly is no way to treat possible adventures.
I take that back about never feeling it before. Childhood excursions with the fam, anyone? As Bill Bryson says, "I fondly remember..."
Eddyways, perhaps I'm still up because I slept in today.
Last night we jammed in Ojai, at Crashbox's pad, where we played every friday nightlast TWO semesters ago...
Had some good sounding tunes, but I want to start making a set list, and/or writing down what we play so that we can introduce new things and work on specifics.
Time to turn out the bug light and go to bed.
I take that back about never feeling it before. Childhood excursions with the fam, anyone? As Bill Bryson says, "I fondly remember..."
Eddyways, perhaps I'm still up because I slept in today.
Last night we jammed in Ojai, at Crashbox's pad, where we played every friday night
Had some good sounding tunes, but I want to start making a set list, and/or writing down what we play so that we can introduce new things and work on specifics.
Time to turn out the bug light and go to bed.
categorized as life of donzilla
December 18, 2005, 1.17 am
This dude's back in town. And I agree with him on another point. I think we all should look twice at whatever we buy. Most of that crap you (a) don't need or (b) can make yourself. (and so speaks a hypocrite, but still)
categorized as life of donzilla
December 17, 2005, 11.56 pm
I'm packing to go North for a week: San Fran area. The predominant item I am packing? Pants with the seam ripped, the middle seam. From hacky-sacking.
Perhaps I need to stop eating so many fatty foods. And get more exercise.
Also, d'y'all 'member when Seldom went to da trailer park? Check out the blog mini-series here, The Trailer Park Years.
If it wasn't past my bedtime, I'd write a song about it.
Perhaps I need to stop eating so many fatty foods. And get more exercise.
Also, d'y'all 'member when Seldom went to da trailer park? Check out the blog mini-series here, The Trailer Park Years.
If it wasn't past my bedtime, I'd write a song about it.
categorized as life of donzilla
December 17, 2005, 7.21 pm
unrelated snippet
Oh, and when a teenager-to-twenty-something says "party," they mean DRINK.
categorized as life of donzilla
December 17, 2005, 4.49 pm
I'm itching to get on in my life... so I'm working on my thesis.
I'm switching from the Summa Theologica to the Summa Contra Gentiles in my primary working-from sources because I like the layout better (no crazy objectors), and because sometimes I feel like a Gentile...
I'm switching from the Summa Theologica to the Summa Contra Gentiles in my primary working-from sources because I like the layout better (no crazy objectors), and because sometimes I feel like a Gentile...
categorized as life of donzilla
December 17, 2005, 4.39 pm
thoughts on skool
Class Summary 2005
Lab Fascinating to listen to prof
Math Fascinating to listen to prof, otherwise waste of time
Sem Amazing class. Mostly important authors, incredible tutor.
Phil Absolute waste of time. Book could be read in 1/4 the time and understood better.
Theo Important topic, but utterly annoying way of discussing it.
Lab Fascinating to listen to prof
Math Fascinating to listen to prof, otherwise waste of time
Sem Amazing class. Mostly important authors, incredible tutor.
Phil Absolute waste of time. Book could be read in 1/4 the time and understood better.
Theo Important topic, but utterly annoying way of discussing it.
I think Steve-O and I should start a frat next year/semester...
And I'm going to start posting ficticious signs about student government meetings...
And I'm going to start posting ficticious signs about student government meetings...
categorized as life of donzilla
December 16, 2005, 11.58 am
I finished this semester of school at 10:30am, half an hour ago.
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December 15, 2005, 10.28 pm
I know these things are silly but... Anything but studying, right? right? Aaaaah!!!
Your results:
You are Green Lantern
Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...
You are Green Lantern
| Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.  |
Besides, its The Prophet's fault.
categorized as life of donzilla
December 15, 2005, 4.53 pm
speedy gonzales
TSG (on phone to fam): And Don had to get new running shoes because his old ones caught on fire...
(pause)
TSG (mirth): No! Not WHILE he was running!
(pause)
TSG (mirth): No! Not WHILE he was running!
categorized as life of donzilla
December 15, 2005, 2.01 pm
I finally got the computer that drives the, hrumph, analogue electromagnetic music server, so that's all back up for the last day-and-a-half of finals week. I guess it will be flatlining over most of Christmas break, but then hopefully we will get some more people involved and give them room for their own, um, creative, output.
categorized as life of donzilla
December 15, 2005, 1.58 pm
And there are still about $75 worth of books from Angelus Press that I desire to add to my library...
categorized as life of donzilla
December 15, 2005, 1.42 pm
Well 2 3 finals down and 2 1 to go...
I feel the weight lifting...
I feel like I did before the plunge into finals week, and it's amazing how good it was and how good it will be at noon tomorrow. I just wish this was my LAST semester of college ever, instead of it being the penultimate one.
I feel the weight lifting...
I feel like I did before the plunge into finals week, and it's amazing how good it was and how good it will be at noon tomorrow. I just wish this was my LAST semester of college ever, instead of it being the penultimate one.
categorized as life of donzilla
December 13, 2005, 5.18 am
Do you know what I want for Christmas? Now ya do...
categorized as life of donzilla
December 13, 2005, 4.52 am
"It is the heartfelt wish of the Holy See delegation that support be given to the activities and practices of rural populations (in which the importance of the family cannot be overstressed).
"They constitute the basic economic foundation for most developing countries..."
On this note, he called for the upcoming U.N. conference on agrarian reform and rural development, due to be held in Brazil in March 2006, to "give 'voice' and support to those people who daily practice small-scale agriculture."
"They constitute the basic economic foundation for most developing countries..."
On this note, he called for the upcoming U.N. conference on agrarian reform and rural development, due to be held in Brazil in March 2006, to "give 'voice' and support to those people who daily practice small-scale agriculture."
categorized as farming
December 13, 2005, 4.46 am
Since I discovered the ease of WordPress (over on my new *nix server) I have been hosting a few blogs at UnZilla.com. So my blog software development is definately on the back-burner. But contact me if you want a WordPress Blog (on Unzilla or your own domain) complete with easy picture uploading and hosting. We can work something out - I'm trying to get tons of people paying tiny bits of money individually so collectively it will pay the whole thing off.
categorized as meta-blogging
December 13, 2005, 4.43 am
And did I mention how much I like this guy's blog?
categorized as meta-blogging
December 13, 2005, 4.42 am
It's finals week folks...
Again the corpus of various blogging posts have drifted by me, calling out "post me, post me," and I have turned nary an idle brain wave more toward them... And thus they remain unposted.
This finals week was scheduled to be a record easy one for me: no math exam, and theology already out of the way, so just a cake - oral - seminar final and a lab test and a philosophy test. However, I forgot to factor in the whole teaching-people business. Which is why I am still up at quarter to four am. Sigh...
Again the corpus of various blogging posts have drifted by me, calling out "post me, post me," and I have turned nary an idle brain wave more toward them... And thus they remain unposted.
This finals week was scheduled to be a record easy one for me: no math exam, and theology already out of the way, so just a cake - oral - seminar final and a lab test and a philosophy test. However, I forgot to factor in the whole teaching-people business. Which is why I am still up at quarter to four am. Sigh...
categorized as life of donzilla
December 8, 2005, 1.33 pm
So let me get this straight...
We restrict all commercial agricultural exports and imports, demand that farmers support local cities and populations (and vice versa) and thereby eradicate trucking/shipping costs and oil consumption. People eat healthier, more local, etc.
Excess agricultural products are purchased by the government using monetary aid funds and money currenty given to farmers as subsidies and then shipped to third world countries where they are given directly to starving people for free.
Eventually specialty items are re-introduced as imports, when American farmers demonstrate that they cannot or do not want to produce those products.
This would fix the following problems:
(1) import products driving American farmers out of business
(2) farmers' lives being ruined by unpredictable fluctuations in the markets of countries on the other side of the world
(3) other countries peoples being ruined by import of American surplus
(4) money wasted in the form of subsidies
Obviously cost of food would initially rise. However, farming could become more decentralized, reversing trends in the last eighty years. Food could become less processed before entering the home, which could regain its status as a center of production as well as a center of consumption. Less prepared foods and more work done in the home has significant advantages across the board.
What else?
This prompted by an article in the paper (L.A. Times?) about Honduran and American (Sacramento) farmers both suffering. Dec. 4th paper, I believe.
We restrict all commercial agricultural exports and imports, demand that farmers support local cities and populations (and vice versa) and thereby eradicate trucking/shipping costs and oil consumption. People eat healthier, more local, etc.
Excess agricultural products are purchased by the government using monetary aid funds and money currenty given to farmers as subsidies and then shipped to third world countries where they are given directly to starving people for free.
Eventually specialty items are re-introduced as imports, when American farmers demonstrate that they cannot or do not want to produce those products.
This would fix the following problems:
(1) import products driving American farmers out of business
(2) farmers' lives being ruined by unpredictable fluctuations in the markets of countries on the other side of the world
(3) other countries peoples being ruined by import of American surplus
(4) money wasted in the form of subsidies
Obviously cost of food would initially rise. However, farming could become more decentralized, reversing trends in the last eighty years. Food could become less processed before entering the home, which could regain its status as a center of production as well as a center of consumption. Less prepared foods and more work done in the home has significant advantages across the board.
What else?
This prompted by an article in the paper (L.A. Times?) about Honduran and American (Sacramento) farmers both suffering. Dec. 4th paper, I believe.
categorized as farming
Commentary ::
joe(a)t-tine.com
dmoose.blogspot.com
It's all about the bloody politicans. Bloody pirates. Except that they're hurting themselves. *shakes head*
Dmoose
December 8, 2005, 4.20 pm
joe(a)t-tine.com
dmoose.blogspot.com
It's all about the bloody politicans. Bloody pirates. Except that they're hurting themselves. *shakes head*
Dmoose
December 8, 2005, 12.19 pm
I'm still alive! I had a bunch of things that I wrote (and meant to post) over the last week, but I never got around to it. Since I've been fighting this cold/virus/evil thingie I've been on more of a subsistence existence. However, now I feel like I've shaken off the worst part of it.
We have a day off today because it is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, and the Pope has also granted a plenary indulgence attached to some activities today.
More later.
We have a day off today because it is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, and the Pope has also granted a plenary indulgence attached to some activities today.
More later.
categorized as life of donzilla
November 29, 2005, 12.29 am
We made it safely back to SoCal from our Thanksgiving! trip. Unfortunately, I got sicker and now have a sinus-dealie head cold thing, and I'm coughing too. Eddyways...
It's cold, bone cold, with that piercing chill that only comes from desert mountain air.
Only eight days of school left till finals.
Our trip down here on the 101 yesterday was marked by an unusually high number of wrecked vehicles - some resting on their roofs (rooves?) - strewn on the side of the road. Periodically there was traffic, mostly seemingly due to these violent accidents, but overall the trip was not bad...
I can't wait to be done with this semester, and school in general. I feel like my life is being held in stasis much of the time here, but I sure do like being with TSG, just about anywhere.
I drove a friend down to the wrecking yard today, so that he could pay the tow truck and storage place and get his totalled car to the junkyard for permanent disposal. I tried to take a few pictures of the car, but they didn't come out too well...
My friend had hit a gravel patch, skidded out, and went off a cliff. Sixty feet and several rolls later he and his four occupants came to a rest - all of them amazingly unscathed. They clambered out and up the cliff.
I passed by a few minutes later, and saw two CHP cars with lights on... two of my friends standing there, their car conspiciously absent.
More later...
It's cold, bone cold, with that piercing chill that only comes from desert mountain air.
Only eight days of school left till finals.
Our trip down here on the 101 yesterday was marked by an unusually high number of wrecked vehicles - some resting on their roofs (rooves?) - strewn on the side of the road. Periodically there was traffic, mostly seemingly due to these violent accidents, but overall the trip was not bad...
I can't wait to be done with this semester, and school in general. I feel like my life is being held in stasis much of the time here, but I sure do like being with TSG, just about anywhere.
I drove a friend down to the wrecking yard today, so that he could pay the tow truck and storage place and get his totalled car to the junkyard for permanent disposal. I tried to take a few pictures of the car, but they didn't come out too well...
My friend had hit a gravel patch, skidded out, and went off a cliff. Sixty feet and several rolls later he and his four occupants came to a rest - all of them amazingly unscathed. They clambered out and up the cliff.
I passed by a few minutes later, and saw two CHP cars with lights on... two of my friends standing there, their car conspiciously absent.
More later...
categorized as life of donzilla
Commentary ::
mlah(a)redpin.com
mlah.us
lucky. car accidents can change everything in a flash.
mlah
November 30, 2005, 8.43 pm
mlah(a)redpin.com
mlah.us
lucky. car accidents can change everything in a flash.
mlah
November 24, 2005, 3.15 pm
TSG and I are on our way up to my folks home, outside San Francisco.
This last strech of school stretched me pretty thin; I needed this break about three weeks ago.
Only nine class days left when we get back, and then it's finals and the end of the semester.
I feel slightly sick, and I slept for the first hour of the road trip, but it will be a good weekend. A small, family thanksgiving dinner is planned for tonight, and then maybe some good talk, a small glass of scotch, and an early bedtime. Maybe it will be cold enough to have a fire inside.
Then perhaps a day or two of sleeping in, a few hours of work on a laptop or two, and some thesis work.
We've been reading Bill Bryson (The Lost Continent) on the way up, out loud.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
This last strech of school stretched me pretty thin; I needed this break about three weeks ago.
Only nine class days left when we get back, and then it's finals and the end of the semester.
I feel slightly sick, and I slept for the first hour of the road trip, but it will be a good weekend. A small, family thanksgiving dinner is planned for tonight, and then maybe some good talk, a small glass of scotch, and an early bedtime. Maybe it will be cold enough to have a fire inside.
Then perhaps a day or two of sleeping in, a few hours of work on a laptop or two, and some thesis work.
We've been reading Bill Bryson (The Lost Continent) on the way up, out loud.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
categorized as life of donzilla
November 22, 2005, 12.01 pm
And this fellow is having the time of his life down in Peru...
categorized as on the road
November 22, 2005, 11.37 am
I haven't read this yet, and I forget where I first heard of it, but it looks to be good.
Borsodi: Flight from the City
Borsodi: Flight from the City
categorized as farming
November 22, 2005, 11.31 am
20050924-sat
I am heavily weighed upon by the words of other men. Of what value is the entire corpus of human thought, if it not be easily integrated into one's own soul? Perhaps understanding should not come easily, if it is of things deep and complex, and yet – perhaps it should.
(thoughts as I carry my greatly-book-laden backpack to the office)
I am heavily weighed upon by the words of other men. Of what value is the entire corpus of human thought, if it not be easily integrated into one's own soul? Perhaps understanding should not come easily, if it is of things deep and complex, and yet – perhaps it should.
(thoughts as I carry my greatly-book-laden backpack to the office)
...snippet from my thesis notes...
categorized as life of donzilla
November 19, 2005, 5.51 pm
The agricultural school dean was interviewing a freshman. "Why have
you chosen this career?" he asked.
"I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father,"
replied the freshman.
The dean was impressed. "Your father made a million dollars in
farming?"
"No," the student said. "But he always dreamed of it."
you chosen this career?" he asked.
"I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father,"
replied the freshman.
The dean was impressed. "Your father made a million dollars in
farming?"
"No," the student said. "But he always dreamed of it."
...my older brother emailed this to me...
categorized as farming
November 19, 2005, 3.40 pm
We saw the Johnny Cash movie last night, I Walk the Line, and I recommend it to everybody, even my Mother.
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November 18, 2005, 7.20 pm
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Commentary ::
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
well done donal, love the beginning, can't wait to read how you develop it. hopefully i will still be in state to sit at your long in coming defense : )
anna
November 20, 2005, 1.37 am
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
well done donal, love the beginning, can't wait to read how you develop it. hopefully i will still be in state to sit at your long in coming defense : )
anna
November 16, 2005, 10.16 pm
I had a dream.
Set in San Francisco, the Random Englishman and I toured a combination of a fairgrounds, an old museum, and a work-working craft shop.
Later on, That Special Girl and I stopped to pickup this other girl, some kind of troubled, twice-removed, long-lost cousin.
She was the kind of girl who was perpetually miserable because she was always trying to make herself happy by doing things that obviously made her still more miserable. We asked her if we could do anything to help her, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She clutched her cigarette. She stubbed it out, brought a crumpled pack from her purse or pocket; drew another smoke out; held it up to her streaked face, lit it.
She sobbed, just once, composed herself.
"Just achieve your dreams," she said, her voice cracking, "and that will give me hope."
Set in San Francisco, the Random Englishman and I toured a combination of a fairgrounds, an old museum, and a work-working craft shop.
Later on, That Special Girl and I stopped to pickup this other girl, some kind of troubled, twice-removed, long-lost cousin.
She was the kind of girl who was perpetually miserable because she was always trying to make herself happy by doing things that obviously made her still more miserable. We asked her if we could do anything to help her, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She clutched her cigarette. She stubbed it out, brought a crumpled pack from her purse or pocket; drew another smoke out; held it up to her streaked face, lit it.
She sobbed, just once, composed herself.
"Just achieve your dreams," she said, her voice cracking, "and that will give me hope."
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November 16, 2005, 10.08 pm
The college dean thinks my thesis proposal has a thesis in it. Now, I must get my advisor to (a) be my advisor, and (b) agree.
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November 16, 2005, 1.18 pm
Anyone else up for a class action lawsuit against Cingular for the way they've used and abused their AT&T customers?
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Commentary ::
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
do you mean with the whole vm switchover-supposed-improvement-but-now-worse part?
if so i agree that was mysteriously, unnecessarily bastardly, but i still love roll over minutes...they have served me well. no lawsuits, let us reason together as men... : )
still want to climb with you, some day, somewhere...
love to you and your lady...
anna
Mostly the fact former AT&T customers have to switch over to a new plan and a new billing system and new equipment and none of it matches the old stuff or prices... I would think that they could match price and service or something...
Dz
November 18, 2005, 1.55 am
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
do you mean with the whole vm switchover-supposed-improvement-but-now-worse part?
if so i agree that was mysteriously, unnecessarily bastardly, but i still love roll over minutes...they have served me well. no lawsuits, let us reason together as men... : )
still want to climb with you, some day, somewhere...
love to you and your lady...
anna
November 19, 2005, 5.43 pm
Mostly the fact former AT&T customers have to switch over to a new plan and a new billing system and new equipment and none of it matches the old stuff or prices... I would think that they could match price and service or something...
Dz
November 16, 2005, 12.51 pm
Peruvian/Bolivian Adventures of one of our own...
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November 16, 2005, 12.33 pm
Marx would be spectacular if he wasn't anti-religion.
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November 11, 2005, 11.13 pm
What a week, man!
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patrick.j.carter(a)gmail.com
Hey Don. I will be down around the new moon (today's is full). I'm going up when I'm down to see your brother and sister in law. Let me know if you're interested. I hope we have a chance to chill when I'm down, I'll probably stay a night in St. B's for old times sake.
pc
Check your email! Glad you'll be up when you're down!
Dz
November 16, 2005, 12.33 am
patrick.j.carter(a)gmail.com
Hey Don. I will be down around the new moon (today's is full). I'm going up when I'm down to see your brother and sister in law. Let me know if you're interested. I hope we have a chance to chill when I'm down, I'll probably stay a night in St. B's for old times sake.
pc
November 16, 2005, 12.29 pm
Check your email! Glad you'll be up when you're down!
Dz
November 10, 2005, 1.50 pm
The mountain is not tame when you cross it.
Nay, the only change is in you.
You have become wilder.
Nay, the only change is in you.
You have become wilder.
Veinte-tres mas o menos... Cinco mas o menos...
1. Go into your archives.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Post the fifth sentence (or closest to it).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five other people to do the same thing.
tagged by Pilgrim
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November 10, 2005, 11.00 am
Don't get me started on this.
Well, I started getting started, but then I erased all of it, because it's so obvious.
You can't really reduce gun violence by legislation. That's a myth. Look at the numbers of violent crimes committed with LEGAL handguns, you DOLTS! This bill is NOT going to reduce illegal possesion of firearms, it is going to increase it. Neither will it decrease violent crime. End of story.
Make owning guns MORE legal, and you might begin to reduce gun-associated crime. Stop companies from flooding the ILLEGAL market with cheap junk guns and you might have made a start. Prevent children in ghettos from having guns. But don't take away guns from those who legally own them, and from those who are responsible citizens. Nanny-state politics. England here we come. Bah!!
Well, I started getting started, but then I erased all of it, because it's so obvious.
You can't really reduce gun violence by legislation. That's a myth. Look at the numbers of violent crimes committed with LEGAL handguns, you DOLTS! This bill is NOT going to reduce illegal possesion of firearms, it is going to increase it. Neither will it decrease violent crime. End of story.
Make owning guns MORE legal, and you might begin to reduce gun-associated crime. Stop companies from flooding the ILLEGAL market with cheap junk guns and you might have made a start. Prevent children in ghettos from having guns. But don't take away guns from those who legally own them, and from those who are responsible citizens. Nanny-state politics. England here we come. Bah!!
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November 10, 2005, 1.26 am
These election results do not make me happy. Friggin' Californians. Acting contrary to reason yet again.
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Commentary ::
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
they would make me not happy as much too if he wasn't such a joke of a governor in the first place. fame and money are no substitute for the prudential experience McClintock had to offer.
he dug his own grave, with the GOP's wiling help; i'm not too sad to let him lie there.
but then again, the unions have bankrupted themselves to see this defeat through, so that's not quite as much of a loss as it may seem, with another election cycle just 6 months away.
damn, how hard these years have made me : )
but 73 should have passed regardless, that i agree is uber lame and inexcuseable - even for California.
anna
November 10, 2005, 3.26 am
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
they would make me not happy as much too if he wasn't such a joke of a governor in the first place. fame and money are no substitute for the prudential experience McClintock had to offer.
he dug his own grave, with the GOP's wiling help; i'm not too sad to let him lie there.
but then again, the unions have bankrupted themselves to see this defeat through, so that's not quite as much of a loss as it may seem, with another election cycle just 6 months away.
damn, how hard these years have made me : )
but 73 should have passed regardless, that i agree is uber lame and inexcuseable - even for California.
anna
November 10, 2005, 12.54 am
Fingers hurt when typing right now, after a night of 'binge' guitar playing. Haven't played in a while, but CrashBox and I tore up the fretboards while TSG and the girl she is babysitting had a "girls' night."
Mate, TJ's salami and Dubliner cheese, out to dinner pizza and Harp, more song and a teeny little nip of Jack Daniels to soothe the aching throat before bed, and it's back to work tomorrow morning and ... thesis.
Ahh, life ... is good.
Mate, TJ's salami and Dubliner cheese, out to dinner pizza and Harp, more song and a teeny little nip of Jack Daniels to soothe the aching throat before bed, and it's back to work tomorrow morning and ... thesis.
Ahh, life ... is good.
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November 9, 2005, 9.57 pm
Over at CrashBox's singing and playing some tunes. Just took a break and went out for pizza et beer at Gorgio's in Ojai. Having some good times; meant to do it last night, but got too tired from too many nights of too little sleep for too long. More later.
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November 7, 2005, 5.06 pm
The clock in the bathroom read 3:4 a few minutes ago. I think the coffee this morning did something to my brain because I felt funny all day. However, things are good.
TSG is house-sitting (and taking care of a daughter-left-behind-while-the-parents-are-on-vacation), so we are over there eating and taking care of homework and such.
All day saturday was spent down at the tack house, working on a minivan with ReductioAdAbsurbam. The owner of the car? His girlfriend, or more unfortunately, his girlfriend's father. He had backed the car into a guard rail pole, yada yada. There, now the whole internet knows. Eddyways, as I was saying, we spent all day saturday working on the dent: pounding, pushing, pulling, prodding... We used a slide hammer to get most of it out, and blocks of wood and a heavy hammer. I still would like to obtain a dead-blow hammer - the kind filled with lead shot. After we got the dent sufficiently out, we sanded the heck out of it by hand, and with a motorized sander and then a belt sander. Next we used a ball pein hammer and put the dent back in to the point where we could bondo it. After three layers of bondo and much sanding, spraying, and so forth, we finally had a finished product, after about ten or twelve hours of work. Whew.
Meanwhile, in the classic November football "Turkey Bowl", our friends were throwing touchdown passes and breaking the noses of their other friends. Good times.
TSG is house-sitting (and taking care of a daughter-left-behind-while-the-parents-are-on-vacation), so we are over there eating and taking care of homework and such.
All day saturday was spent down at the tack house, working on a minivan with ReductioAdAbsurbam. The owner of the car? His girlfriend, or more unfortunately, his girlfriend's father. He had backed the car into a guard rail pole, yada yada. There, now the whole internet knows. Eddyways, as I was saying, we spent all day saturday working on the dent: pounding, pushing, pulling, prodding... We used a slide hammer to get most of it out, and blocks of wood and a heavy hammer. I still would like to obtain a dead-blow hammer - the kind filled with lead shot. After we got the dent sufficiently out, we sanded the heck out of it by hand, and with a motorized sander and then a belt sander. Next we used a ball pein hammer and put the dent back in to the point where we could bondo it. After three layers of bondo and much sanding, spraying, and so forth, we finally had a finished product, after about ten or twelve hours of work. Whew.
Meanwhile, in the classic November football "Turkey Bowl", our friends were throwing touchdown passes and breaking the noses of their other friends. Good times.
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Commentary ::
eltorpemuchacho.blogspot.com
As a complete non sequitur, why don't you come visit? It's nearly summer.
thelastgentleman
I should, man! How's South America treating you?!
Dz
November 8, 2005, 3.59 pm
eltorpemuchacho.blogspot.com
As a complete non sequitur, why don't you come visit? It's nearly summer.
thelastgentleman
November 10, 2005, 11.08 am
I should, man! How's South America treating you?!
Dz
November 3, 2005, 1.57 pm
How is it November already??!
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eric(a)straightwhiteguy.com
http://www.straightwhiteguy.com
.. I don't know man, but it's 80 degrees here in TN... if it keeps this up, we'll have mosquitoes the size of badgers next year... and trust me, that ain't a good thing...
Eric
November 8, 2005, 8.11 pm
eric(a)straightwhiteguy.com
http://www.straightwhiteguy.com
.. I don't know man, but it's 80 degrees here in TN... if it keeps this up, we'll have mosquitoes the size of badgers next year... and trust me, that ain't a good thing...
Eric
November 3, 2005, 1.57 pm
Whew. Just finished a massive tech support fest, sometimes with seven vpn windows open and three people on various phones.
But I got everything done, and I have class in five, so that's where I'm headed.
To find out the results of my Molly G final, where I took too much time and confused myself on two questions, but pretty much had everything else right... Oh, the shame. She'll have some words to say about that, I reckon.
Huck Finn seminar tonight at the F's house. With Knob Creek.
Thesis proposal still continues to tread water, barely. Gotta haul that thing to land and give it CPR.
But I got everything done, and I have class in five, so that's where I'm headed.
To find out the results of my Molly G final, where I took too much time and confused myself on two questions, but pretty much had everything else right... Oh, the shame. She'll have some words to say about that, I reckon.
Huck Finn seminar tonight at the F's house. With Knob Creek.
Thesis proposal still continues to tread water, barely. Gotta haul that thing to land and give it CPR.
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November 1, 2005, 9.15 am
TSG has jury duty this morning, so we got up and got bagels and headed to the VC Hall of Justice.
I'm sitting outside in a little park-like thing on a bench made of recycled plastic. The wireless connections here are security-enabled and I don't really think that I should crack into them, so I'm on the internet via my motorola v220 and a data-cable. The service is purportedly slower than the GC83 card I was using (which is on the EDGE network), but I find the reception/signal to be far more consistent with this device...
Anyways, we have big plans today: visiting the Cingular store, picking up a bicycle tire patch kit, and maybe some new running shoes. While I'm waiting for the morning's various civic duties to terminate, I will be working on some computer work and then some thesis work.
Maybe I'll even post some pictures from Florida later - my new old phone (I was given it second-hand) has a little camera in it...
I'm sitting outside in a little park-like thing on a bench made of recycled plastic. The wireless connections here are security-enabled and I don't really think that I should crack into them, so I'm on the internet via my motorola v220 and a data-cable. The service is purportedly slower than the GC83 card I was using (which is on the EDGE network), but I find the reception/signal to be far more consistent with this device...
Anyways, we have big plans today: visiting the Cingular store, picking up a bicycle tire patch kit, and maybe some new running shoes. While I'm waiting for the morning's various civic duties to terminate, I will be working on some computer work and then some thesis work.
Maybe I'll even post some pictures from Florida later - my new old phone (I was given it second-hand) has a little camera in it...
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Commentary ::
"anyways" is not a word. anyway is.
where should i send your camera and your hat!?!
Willie is taking a lot of computer classes and is in love with your camera, he is getting really good with all that computer jazz! the sister is throwing up a lot, but is well! Tony is getting taller and taller and still can't talk to girls properly. parents are the same: crazy catholic and loveable!
how are you doing? and all the people i still know at TAC?
November 1, 2005, 2.50 pm
"anyways" is not a word. anyway is.
where should i send your camera and your hat!?!
Willie is taking a lot of computer classes and is in love with your camera, he is getting really good with all that computer jazz! the sister is throwing up a lot, but is well! Tony is getting taller and taller and still can't talk to girls properly. parents are the same: crazy catholic and loveable!
how are you doing? and all the people i still know at TAC?
October 31, 2005, 5.42 pm
School, work, thesis, etc...
On the bright side, we have a day off tomorrow, on which to play catch up...
On the bright side, we have a day off tomorrow, on which to play catch up...
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October 28, 2005, 12.13 am
I can already see the antitrust clouds forming on the horizon...
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October 23, 2005, 5.15 pm
Back safe and sound in California, after flying 4000 miles away from the path of the Dread Hurricane Sir Wilma. Why 4000 miles do you ask? Because, courtesy of Continental Airways, we circumscribed the continent by having a stop-over in the oh-so-not-logical city of Newark, New Jersey. We were going from Ft. Myers, FL to LAX. Anyways... Here we are back, ready to plummet right into another week of school.
Things are great, but tons and tons of work - both thesis, school, and computer - loom on the horizon.
Things are great, but tons and tons of work - both thesis, school, and computer - loom on the horizon.
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Commentary ::
pzelasko(a)hotmail.com
just wanted to drop by and say hi. i'm still reading.
prophet
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
twas good to see you donal, and though you have many more beautiful things to occupy your time i am
still
tagging
you
though obviously all else takes precedence...
and as my obnoxious southern campaign manager sez,
getter done!
anna
pzelasko(a)hotmail.com
AHHH! i think larry the cable guy should be shot for having git-r-done plastered over every toothpick, truck, and gas station in the south...
sorry. [slowly walking backward out of the room]
prophet
October 25, 2005, 10.00 pm
pzelasko(a)hotmail.com
just wanted to drop by and say hi. i'm still reading.
prophet
October 27, 2005, 12.51 am
abreiling(a)gmail.com
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
twas good to see you donal, and though you have many more beautiful things to occupy your time i am
still
tagging
you
though obviously all else takes precedence...
and as my obnoxious southern campaign manager sez,
getter done!
anna
October 27, 2005, 1.54 pm
pzelasko(a)hotmail.com
AHHH! i think larry the cable guy should be shot for having git-r-done plastered over every toothpick, truck, and gas station in the south...
sorry. [slowly walking backward out of the room]
prophet
October 21, 2005, 1.09 pm
So I'm in Florida with TSG, and we happen to be in the only county in Florida that has manadatory evacuations because of Hurricane Wilma. The campus of Ave Maria University, upon which we are staying, feels deserted. Everyone has fled, either because of the hurricane or because of fall break being this weekend. We are hanging on until the bitter end, or at least until our flight leaves from Ft. Myers tomorrow morning.
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mlah(a)redpin.com
mlah.us
you gotta be crappin me? you're in south florida? i'm in miami!
hwy 836, just south of the airport.!
mlah
Oh man, I didn't get your comment until today! We were drinking and partying it up at the local bowling alley in Naples, Florida, with all the locals who were not leaving because of Wilma. Good luck with her!
Dz
October 22, 2005, 12.41 pm
mlah(a)redpin.com
mlah.us
you gotta be crappin me? you're in south florida? i'm in miami!
hwy 836, just south of the airport.!
mlah
October 23, 2005, 5.03 pm
Oh man, I didn't get your comment until today! We were drinking and partying it up at the local bowling alley in Naples, Florida, with all the locals who were not leaving because of Wilma. Good luck with her!
Dz
October 17, 2005, 12.49 pm
Among other things, I'm flying to Florida today. I can' promise to keep you posted
(as I would have in the past), but I'll "see what I can do," to use that ambiguous and pernacious phrase...
(as I would have in the past), but I'll "see what I can do," to use that ambiguous and pernacious phrase...
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Commentary ::
Your dad says pernicious alot, too. i have it on my auto-text in my word processor now.
:)
etine
October 19, 2005, 11.37 am
Your dad says pernicious alot, too. i have it on my auto-text in my word processor now.
:)
etine
October 11, 2005, 11.39 pm
This evening...
- Went on another Extreme Rosary Walk
- Lit my running shoe on fire while at the
- Social Hour by the fire on the patio
- Went on another Extreme Rosary Walk
- Lit my running shoe on fire while at the
- Social Hour by the fire on the patio
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overlyconscious(a)hotmail.com
overlyconscious.blogspot.com
I miss the days of setting my shoes on fire. Ah, the days of yore...
overlyconscious
October 13, 2005, 2.05 pm
overlyconscious(a)hotmail.com
overlyconscious.blogspot.com
I miss the days of setting my shoes on fire. Ah, the days of yore...
overlyconscious
October 10, 2005, 2.23 pm
Monday, holiday, working, computer work, from my 'southern office'...
I just disabled the internet connectivity on a computer I was remote-desktop'd into so that I could run a program that required to be run without internet access... While I connected through an encrypted tunnel... I feel like a brain surgeon...
I just disabled the internet connectivity on a computer I was remote-desktop'd into so that I could run a program that required to be run without internet access... While I connected through an encrypted tunnel... I feel like a brain surgeon...
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October 7, 2005, 9.04 pm
...Thesis...
Looks like this has become a weekend-only, no-content blog!
Things are going well at school, but busy...
More later...
Looks like this has become a weekend-only, no-content blog!
Things are going well at school, but busy...
More later...
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September 24, 2005, 2.52 pm
So yesterday I had narrowed down my possible thesis topics to five choices; today I can only remember three of those five, so I guess I have narrowed them down even more.
The topic areas that I have are, in no particular order,
1) Calculus and the Mind of God
2) Essence, Existence, Name & Definition
3) Stewardship of the Land
I would really just like to do them all (a 20-page scholastic paper is really not that much work or that hard to do), but they want me to get an advisor, and follow deadlines, and string it out and stress about it...or something...
This should be fun, though...
The topic areas that I have are, in no particular order,
1) Calculus and the Mind of God
2) Essence, Existence, Name & Definition
3) Stewardship of the Land
I would really just like to do them all (a 20-page scholastic paper is really not that much work or that hard to do), but they want me to get an advisor, and follow deadlines, and string it out and stress about it...or something...
This should be fun, though...
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Commentary ::
zippitykdda(a)gmail.com
pivoprosim.blogspot.com
I would say you might not want to #3 as a thesis (too broad)... i think that #2 sounds the best, but then i don't know quite what you're thinking in #1
jedno
abreiling(a)gmail.com
http:www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
Stewardship of the Land!
Stewardship of the Land!
Stewardship of the Land!
but then, my original thesis plan had been to reconcile the eastern and western churches (talk about broad), so jedno is probably more trustworthy in her advisement...
and if you can believe it, i even had a plan to work calculus into what i finally wittled down to the whole unknowingly knowing God (approaching the infinite etc.) Smith wisely axed that ambition.
and also, my instinctual choice might just be hippie remnants...
anna
do the first one!
mlah(a)redpin.com
mlah.us
are you going to be posting the paper up? parts of it? so we can argue? maybe you could work a survey of views into your paper.
mlah
September 25, 2005, 2.41 pm
zippitykdda(a)gmail.com
pivoprosim.blogspot.com
I would say you might not want to #3 as a thesis (too broad)... i think that #2 sounds the best, but then i don't know quite what you're thinking in #1
jedno
September 26, 2005, 2.52 am
abreiling(a)gmail.com
http:www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
Stewardship of the Land!
Stewardship of the Land!
Stewardship of the Land!
but then, my original thesis plan had been to reconcile the eastern and western churches (talk about broad), so jedno is probably more trustworthy in her advisement...
and if you can believe it, i even had a plan to work calculus into what i finally wittled down to the whole unknowingly knowing God (approaching the infinite etc.) Smith wisely axed that ambition.
and also, my instinctual choice might just be hippie remnants...
anna
October 2, 2005, 6.27 am
do the first one!
October 4, 2005, 7.40 pm
mlah(a)redpin.com
mlah.us
are you going to be posting the paper up? parts of it? so we can argue? maybe you could work a survey of views into your paper.
mlah
September 17, 2005, 9.13 pm
Well, it's Thesis Proposal Weekend here at T.A.C. Woodsmoke tastes good in the air; the echos of the dancin' music float to my ears, and I sit on the patio of my dorm, listening to Townes Van Zandt.
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September 14, 2005, 3.42 pm
Went over to this guy's house last night, socialized... Goot times...
Party this weekend southwards, but - and this is a BIG BUT - thesis proposals are due on Monday. And I don't even have an advisor, or a topic area, or a thesis proposal, so... it looks like partying is out.
Party this weekend southwards, but - and this is a BIG BUT - thesis proposals are due on Monday. And I don't even have an advisor, or a topic area, or a thesis proposal, so... it looks like partying is out.
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Commentary ::
Which means you'll fix the car and let me borrow it?
Maedhros
September 14, 2005, 4.39 pm
Which means you'll fix the car and let me borrow it?
Maedhros
September 11, 2005, 4.36 pm
Wow, folks. Things are hectic, but great. Thesis proposals are due a week from tomorrow. I don't get on the internet much, and when I do it is business, business, business. Right now I'm at the Underground coffee shop in Ventura...
Don't forget that it is 9/11 today.
Don't forget that it is 9/11 today.
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aferrier(a)gmail.com
www.liverevolt.com/GC
How could I?
Austin
kronlokken(a)hotmail.com
www.livingintheflatlands.com
Don,
I do hope you find a thesis along the lines of what land usage has to do with the health of people and communities, as in Wendell Berry. I've been planning to read him. Now will. I have some authors to contribute. "Living the Good Life" by Helen and Scott Nearing, and several books by Gary Snyder, who is excellent on watersheds and the communities that live in them. Good luck! Connie
Connie Kronlokken
September 12, 2005, 2.21 am
aferrier(a)gmail.com
www.liverevolt.com/GC
How could I?
Austin
September 15, 2005, 8.53 am
kronlokken(a)hotmail.com
www.livingintheflatlands.com
Don,
I do hope you find a thesis along the lines of what land usage has to do with the health of people and communities, as in Wendell Berry. I've been planning to read him. Now will. I have some authors to contribute. "Living the Good Life" by Helen and Scott Nearing, and several books by Gary Snyder, who is excellent on watersheds and the communities that live in them. Good luck! Connie
Connie Kronlokken
September 5, 2005, 5.16 pm
She gives me a little understanding
In her special way,
And I just have to say
In my life, I love no other,
Because she's more than I deserve
And she gets me where I live,
I'll give her all I have to give
I'm talking about that,
humming-bird...
In her special way,
And I just have to say
In my life, I love no other,
Because she's more than I deserve
And she gets me where I live,
I'll give her all I have to give
I'm talking about that,
humming-bird...
- B.B. King, Hummingbird
categorized as music
September 3, 2005, 8.36 pm
Wow. A little inundated by the second week of school, but we all survived it.
E and I and Peter D- went out to sushi in celebration of making all of our classes. Peter had never been to sushi before, so we treated him to a Sunset Dragon and the Alaskan Rolls, and spicy tuna, and river eel, and a buncha other raw (and some cooked) goodness at Sushi Marina in Ventura.
I'm scrambling for a thesis topic. Still reading Adam Smith for seminar; I want to write up all his starting principle and then discuss if, how, and why I agree or disagree with them. I think a thesis topic that involves him and Thomas and possibly "The Philosopher" could come out of it: something about stewardship of the land...
E and I and Peter D- went out to sushi in celebration of making all of our classes. Peter had never been to sushi before, so we treated him to a Sunset Dragon and the Alaskan Rolls, and spicy tuna, and river eel, and a buncha other raw (and some cooked) goodness at Sushi Marina in Ventura.
I'm scrambling for a thesis topic. Still reading Adam Smith for seminar; I want to write up all his starting principle and then discuss if, how, and why I agree or disagree with them. I think a thesis topic that involves him and Thomas and possibly "The Philosopher" could come out of it: something about stewardship of the land...
categorized as life of donzilla
August 30, 2005, 9.37 am
Working outside of my new dorm, on the patio, where I get a reliable and consistent internet signal. In the time I've been out here, I've killed four yellow jackets, three by the Two-Cups Method (tm) and one by sealing a coke can with a piece of duct tape and then stomping it. I fed three of the dead ones to the ants. I think this campus has a wasp infestation.
categorized as life of donzilla
August 30, 2005, 9.13 am
Tuesday morning... I don't have class till the afternoon, so I may go back to my room and take a nap.
We've been getting up at 6:30am and going to 7am mass every morning, which works out swimmingly - as long as we actually get to bed by 10pm, which doesn't always happen...
This weekend I was down in San Diego for a wedding... It was almost a 24-hour trip; we left campus at 4:30am Saturday morning, and returned to campus
at 3am Sunday morning.
We are reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations for three seminars, and surprisingly, I find myself disagreeing with many if not most of his starting assumptions. Perhaps because I have been studying this guy's work lately.
We've been getting up at 6:30am and going to 7am mass every morning, which works out swimmingly - as long as we actually get to bed by 10pm, which doesn't always happen...
This weekend I was down in San Diego for a wedding... It was almost a 24-hour trip; we left campus at 4:30am Saturday morning, and returned to campus
at 3am Sunday morning.
We are reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations for three seminars, and surprisingly, I find myself disagreeing with many if not most of his starting assumptions. Perhaps because I have been studying this guy's work lately.
categorized as life of donzilla
August 27, 2005, 7.41 am
Driving down to San Diego for the wedding celebration of two friends...
I survived the first week of school; there is hope.
Now I just need to find a thesis topic and start churning it out.
I survived the first week of school; there is hope.
Now I just need to find a thesis topic and start churning it out.
categorized as life of donzilla
August 25, 2005, 9.01 am
Things are as hectic as ever.
This is Day 3 (or 4) of school, and feels... very strange.
I have decided to stop asking myself "what the heck am I doing here" and to focus instead on the job at hand.
I expect blogging shall be light while I get accustomed to a new schedule...
Been going to 7am mass, starting the day off right, and in bed in between 10-11pm.
Right now I'm finishing up War & Peace for tonight's seminar.
This is Day 3 (or 4) of school, and feels... very strange.
I have decided to stop asking myself "what the heck am I doing here" and to focus instead on the job at hand.
I expect blogging shall be light while I get accustomed to a new schedule...
Been going to 7am mass, starting the day off right, and in bed in between 10-11pm.
Right now I'm finishing up War & Peace for tonight's seminar.
categorized as life of donzilla
August 21, 2005, 10.58 pm
She made it down to my house just fine today. Tomorrow: school.
categorized as life of donzilla
Commentary ::
the fact that i know youre talking about a car warms my heart. saw a red volvo with fins today. thought of you.
marian
saw a red volvo with fins today. thought of you.
kimmy
August 22, 2005, 7.50 pm
the fact that i know youre talking about a car warms my heart. saw a red volvo with fins today. thought of you.
marian
August 22, 2005, 7.51 pm
saw a red volvo with fins today. thought of you.
kimmy
August 21, 2005, 1.59 pm
About this time I ask, "What about that intellectual pilot light (tm) that I was going to keep going over the summer?
And why does the summer seem like it lasted 6 months?
And why do I still have a year of college left, at my age? And WHY am I going back to finish it? And...AAAAAGGGHHHH.
This is why I stopped asking why a while ago, at least about these things...
I'll be at school, in class, tomorrow. In thiry-one hours.
And why does the summer seem like it lasted 6 months?
And why do I still have a year of college left, at my age? And WHY am I going back to finish it? And...AAAAAGGGHHHH.
This is why I stopped asking why a while ago, at least about these things...
I'll be at school, in class, tomorrow. In thiry-one hours.
categorized as life of donzilla
August 21, 2005, 1.49 pm
Beautiful day, sitting outside, completely wirelessly, with my Pete's coffee that I just made in kitchen... Neighbor's using all sorts of power tools to put a new roof on his house, by himself, a pointy, slanted one this time, because he had no end of problems with his flat one...
Doing some remote computer work, finally got The Office nearly up to 100% software license compliancy... Trying to figure out what I'm taking down to school, and how I'm going to deal with work while I'm there, and how I'm going to deal with being there at all...
Doing some remote computer work, finally got The Office nearly up to 100% software license compliancy... Trying to figure out what I'm taking down to school, and how I'm going to deal with work while I'm there, and how I'm going to deal with being there at all...
categorized as life of donzilla
August 20, 2005, 8.43 pm
Lil' brother headed off to school today. I'm gonna head down day after tomorrow. It's one of those transitional periods, where I just want to get on with it, move, you know, quit anticipating and start acting.
categorized as life of donzilla
August 18, 2005, 4.40 pm
I like doing random, spontaneous, but kind-hearted things. Like paying the bridge toll for the car behind you.
categorized as life of donzilla
Commentary ::
mlah(a)redpin.com
http://mlah.us
what comes around goes around.
you'll be rich for it someday. and i don't mean money.
mlah
August 18, 2005, 9.44 pm
mlah(a)redpin.com
http://mlah.us
what comes around goes around.
you'll be rich for it someday. and i don't mean money.
mlah
August 18, 2005, 2.52 pm
St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore, Md. USA – 1692
GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE & HASTE
& REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE IS IN SILENCE.
AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT SURRENDER,
BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH ALL PERSONS.
SPEAK YOUR TRUTH QUIETLY & CLEARLY;
& LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN THE DULL & IGNORANT.
THEY TOO HAVE THEIR STORY.
AVOID LOUD & AGGRESSIVE PERSONS,
THEY ARE A VEXATION TO THE SPIRIT.
IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS,
YOU MAY BECOME VAIN & BITTER;
FOR ALWAYS THERE WILL BE
GREATER & LESSER PERSONS THAN YOURSELF.
ENJOY YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AS WELL AS YOUR PLANS.
KEEP INTERESTED IN YOUR CAREER, HOWEVER HUMBLE,
IT IS A REAL POSSESSION IN THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF TIME.
EXERCISE CAUTION IN YOUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS
FOR THE WORLD IS FULL OF TRICKERY.
BUT LET THIS NOT BLIND YOU TO WHAT VIRTUE THERE IS.
MANY PERSONS STRIVE FOR HIGH IDEALS
& EVERYWHERE LIFE IS FULL OF HEROISM.
BE YOURSELF.
ESPECIALLY DO NOT FEIGN AFFECTION.
NEITHER BE CYNICAL ABOUT LOVE;
FOR IN THE FACE OF ALL ARIDITY & DISENCHANTMENT,
IT IS AS PERENNIAL AS THE GRASS
TAKE KINDLY THE COUNSEL OF THE YEARS,
GRACEFULLY SURRENDERING THE THINGS OF YOUTH.
NURTURE STRENGTH OF SPIRIT TO SHIELD YOU IN SUDDEN MISFORTUNE.
BUT DO NOT DISTRESS YOURSELF WITH IMAGININGS.
MANY FEARS ARE BORN OF FATIGUE & LONELINESS.
BEYOND A WHOLESOME DISCIPLINE
BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF.
YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE,
NO LESS THAN THE TREES & THE STARS:
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE.
AND WHETHER OR NOT IT IS CLEAR TO YOU,
THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD.
THEREFORE, BE AT PEACE WITH GOD
WHATEVER YOU PERCEIVE HIM TO BE.
AND WHATEVER YOUR LABOURS & ASPIRATIONS,
IN THE NOISY CONFUSION OF LIFE,
KEEP PEACE WITH YOUR SOUL.
WITH ALL ITS SHAM, DRUDGERY & BROKEN DREAMS
IT IS STILL A BEAUTIFUL WORLD.
BE CAREFUL. STRIVE TO BE HAPPY.
GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE & HASTE
& REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE IS IN SILENCE.
AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT SURRENDER,
BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH ALL PERSONS.
SPEAK YOUR TRUTH QUIETLY & CLEARLY;
& LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN THE DULL & IGNORANT.
THEY TOO HAVE THEIR STORY.
AVOID LOUD & AGGRESSIVE PERSONS,
THEY ARE A VEXATION TO THE SPIRIT.
IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS,
YOU MAY BECOME VAIN & BITTER;
FOR ALWAYS THERE WILL BE
GREATER & LESSER PERSONS THAN YOURSELF.
ENJOY YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AS WELL AS YOUR PLANS.
KEEP INTERESTED IN YOUR CAREER, HOWEVER HUMBLE,
IT IS A REAL POSSESSION IN THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF TIME.
EXERCISE CAUTION IN YOUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS
FOR THE WORLD IS FULL OF TRICKERY.
BUT LET THIS NOT BLIND YOU TO WHAT VIRTUE THERE IS.
MANY PERSONS STRIVE FOR HIGH IDEALS
& EVERYWHERE LIFE IS FULL OF HEROISM.
BE YOURSELF.
ESPECIALLY DO NOT FEIGN AFFECTION.
NEITHER BE CYNICAL ABOUT LOVE;
FOR IN THE FACE OF ALL ARIDITY & DISENCHANTMENT,
IT IS AS PERENNIAL AS THE GRASS
TAKE KINDLY THE COUNSEL OF THE YEARS,
GRACEFULLY SURRENDERING THE THINGS OF YOUTH.
NURTURE STRENGTH OF SPIRIT TO SHIELD YOU IN SUDDEN MISFORTUNE.
BUT DO NOT DISTRESS YOURSELF WITH IMAGININGS.
MANY FEARS ARE BORN OF FATIGUE & LONELINESS.
BEYOND A WHOLESOME DISCIPLINE
BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF.
YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE,
NO LESS THAN THE TREES & THE STARS:
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE.
AND WHETHER OR NOT IT IS CLEAR TO YOU,
THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD.
THEREFORE, BE AT PEACE WITH GOD
WHATEVER YOU PERCEIVE HIM TO BE.
AND WHATEVER YOUR LABOURS & ASPIRATIONS,
IN THE NOISY CONFUSION OF LIFE,
KEEP PEACE WITH YOUR SOUL.
WITH ALL ITS SHAM, DRUDGERY & BROKEN DREAMS
IT IS STILL A BEAUTIFUL WORLD.
BE CAREFUL. STRIVE TO BE HAPPY.
linkage: DESIDERADA
Commentary ::
fwp(a)eternityroad.info
http://www.eternityroad.info
Politicata
GO PLACIDLY AMONG THE LAWS AND RED TAPE AND RECOVER WHAT
privacy there may be in silence. As far as possible be in compliance with all zoning ordinances. Speak softly but firmly, even to the editors of village weeklies; they too have their readers. Avoid local environmental activists; they are vexations to the spirit.
If you logroll with others, you may become enmeshed, for always there will be both shorter and longer memories than yours. Annotate your memoranda as well as your dossiers. Keep interested in your legislative aides, however humble; they are a real asset in the shifting alliances of time.
Exercise prudence in securing your file and desk drawers, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what opportunity there is; many "good" leaks are possible, and everywhere life is full of "usually reliable sources."
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign liberalism. Neither be cynical about conservatism, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Fade gently over the years, gracefully surrendering the porkier subsidies.
Nurture savings to shield you from sudden electoral reversals, but do not overload yourself with "unallocated contingency funds." Many scandals are born of accelerating bank balances. Beyond a healthy nest egg, partake not from the
lobbyists.
You are a child of the Founding Fathers of Our Country, no less than the Proxmires and Kennedys; you have privileges to be here. And whether or not your security classification allows you to check for yourself, no doubt the Engine of State is chugging along as it should. Therefore, be at peace with the FBI, the CIA, the DIS, the DEA, and most especially the IRS, whatever you conceive Them to be, and whatever your ideology or special-interest group, in the noisy confusion of Special Investigating Committees keep faith with your lawyer and accountant. With all its Ruhollah Khomeinis, its Muammar Qaddafis and its Adnan Khashoggis, it is still a beautiful political system. Get elected. Get reelected. Don't get mad, get even.
(copyright (c) 1989 by Francis W. Porretto)
Francis W. Porretto
wow, that comment is off the hook... almost made me spew beer out my nose.
but just wanted to comment that i've always loved that, kept it posted on my door for about 5 years now...
hope school is going well, keep up the good responsible schedule : )
hope to see you in a few weeks, if you're up for a climbing camping weekend, have an excellent spot picked out...
love,
a
August 18, 2005, 6.09 pm
fwp(a)eternityroad.info
http://www.eternityroad.info
Politicata
GO PLACIDLY AMONG THE LAWS AND RED TAPE AND RECOVER WHAT
privacy there may be in silence. As far as possible be in compliance with all zoning ordinances. Speak softly but firmly, even to the editors of village weeklies; they too have their readers. Avoid local environmental activists; they are vexations to the spirit.
If you logroll with others, you may become enmeshed, for always there will be both shorter and longer memories than yours. Annotate your memoranda as well as your dossiers. Keep interested in your legislative aides, however humble; they are a real asset in the shifting alliances of time.
Exercise prudence in securing your file and desk drawers, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what opportunity there is; many "good" leaks are possible, and everywhere life is full of "usually reliable sources."
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign liberalism. Neither be cynical about conservatism, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Fade gently over the years, gracefully surrendering the porkier subsidies.
Nurture savings to shield you from sudden electoral reversals, but do not overload yourself with "unallocated contingency funds." Many scandals are born of accelerating bank balances. Beyond a healthy nest egg, partake not from the
lobbyists.
You are a child of the Founding Fathers of Our Country, no less than the Proxmires and Kennedys; you have privileges to be here. And whether or not your security classification allows you to check for yourself, no doubt the Engine of State is chugging along as it should. Therefore, be at peace with the FBI, the CIA, the DIS, the DEA, and most especially the IRS, whatever you conceive Them to be, and whatever your ideology or special-interest group, in the noisy confusion of Special Investigating Committees keep faith with your lawyer and accountant. With all its Ruhollah Khomeinis, its Muammar Qaddafis and its Adnan Khashoggis, it is still a beautiful political system. Get elected. Get reelected. Don't get mad, get even.
(copyright (c) 1989 by Francis W. Porretto)
Francis W. Porretto
August 26, 2005, 11.00 pm
wow, that comment is off the hook... almost made me spew beer out my nose.
but just wanted to comment that i've always loved that, kept it posted on my door for about 5 years now...
hope school is going well, keep up the good responsible schedule : )
hope to see you in a few weeks, if you're up for a climbing camping weekend, have an excellent spot picked out...
love,
a
Uhhh...there has been and is and will continue to be, but have you forgotten that the only thing americans care about is money? I hear those sites make bank...it's so sick.
Toque
Yes, but a LARGE PUBLIC OUTCRY can accomplish things. Fast. People seem to have lost a lot of faith in their own beliefs and actions and the consequences that their actions may have. People are afraid to speak out. Large corporations and monopolies have been busted up too, even though there was a ton of money behind them...
Dz