Category Archives: Rants

What really grinds my gears or signs that the world is coming to an end

Passion: The Intersection of Communication and Intent

The PNC[1] nominated Jason Santos as the next YMM[2] Associate Pastor. Last Tuesday (a week ago yesterday), Session allowed the nominee to proceed for a vote. Session wanted to hold the vote last Sunday (i.e. three days ago) because UPC … Continue reading

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Using My Photos

I’m currently getting ready to write a very sternly worded letter to a person who has, again, used by photos illegally. As I have stated numerous times (see here, here, here, here, and on practically all of my 14000 photos where it says "Some righ… Continue reading

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My Brief Thoughts on Northwest Flight 253

I’m going to keep this short, no more than 250 500 1000 words ((including quotes and footnotes)).

As you all know by now, there was an attempt to blow up another airplane. Although it was initially reported someone lighting off firecrackers, it… Continue reading

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More On Copyright

My cousin Amanda ((who is, incidentally, the sister of my cousin Nick)) wants to know:

I just finished a painting and I wanted to put it on Facebook, but I need to know about copyright stuff, if I put it on Facebook does that give the Facebook … Continue reading

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Not Art

Last October, when I was in Chicago, Kim and I ((Ben didn’t want to go)) went to the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Something struck me as interesting. While there were some amazing piece of work there, there were also lots of things that were not… Continue reading

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Seattle Refuses to Use Salt

…that’s the headline from today’s Seattle Times. After reading the article (well, the above the fold part at least) I can’t believe how idiotic the city is. This is really just precious:
To hear the city’s spin, Seattle’s road crews are making … Continue reading

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Free Speech

If you haven’t heard, there’s some shit hitting the fan at the University of Washington over an op-ed that ran in The Daily: Gay marriage? Let’s stop and think about this by John Fay.

At a rally today, people protested the publishing of the a… Continue reading

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An Open Letter to President Scoggins

Bill Scoggins, the President of the Colorado School of Mines, sent out the following email today:
Dear Mines Community:

I am pleased to report that Barack Obama’s campaign staff has rented Lockridge Arena in the Student Recreation Center for… Continue reading

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No Such Luck

Paying 5.4 cents per a gigabyte seems like it’s going to have to wait for another day. Dell canceled my order:

Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for your recent order.

We regret that, because of a pricing error, we have cancelled this order… Continue reading

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Why I Won’t See ‘Untraceable’ or What Code Doesn’t Do

The advertisements for ‘Untraceable’ are pretty exciting. Some sick schmuck kills his victims using a web site. The more people visit the site, the faster the victims die.

You may view "Untraceable," as I do, as a repugnant example of the voyeu… Continue reading

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