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coincidence is…

… well, you know the rest. 

This morning, while I was wandering around the ‘net during a brief break at work, I stumbled across the somewhat interesting news that Mars, the home of little green men, is actually undergoing its own version of "global warming" as…

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resquiat in pacem

As I promised a few days ago, this weblog will not be silent upon this, the "One Day of Blog Silence". Silence amounts to nothing more than surrender at best… consent/assent at the worst, and it is something I will not partake in this day. …

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say what?

I am a science fiction fan…  well, some would probably classify me under the heading of "junkie", but now we are fiddling with semantics, and that is never fun for anyone.  Any way you cut it, I enjoy science fiction – especially visual representations of it.  Unfortunately, the television channels…

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who knows what I broke?

  

So, apparently, my trackback spam catcher (tCode) does not get along very well with Linkfest Haven…  As such, tCode is currently disabled until such time as I can figure it out, and I have implemented a new spam-catcher that basically moderates all trackback pings that do not link to…

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eeny, meeny, and miney (moe missed the train)

Well, Chevrolet has taken an interesting tactic on releasing some of their concept cars… or, at least, tantalizing the American public with the examples of their concept cars, as is always the case with car companies.  I have never really understood that aspect of car construction – if…

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jack of all keys

A while ago, I wrote down the random idea of using nanotechnology to generate a "master key" to prevent you from having a massive pocket of jangling and annoying keys when you have as many as I do.  It would be able to take three-dimensional impressions of your keys and…

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signal update

So, as you may or may not be particularly aware, I do have a CafePress store online, mostly focusing on Serenity-related items, with a few exceptions.  My pride and joy of the store is the book I wrote – Everything I Need to

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well ain’t that odd

Turns out today was a bumper crop for interesting news…  First off, we have the distinct possibility of a second Earth having been found out in the nethers of space.  Granted, its description may not be the most promising thing in the world…

This new planet – known

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mirror image

So I recently filled a contact prescription I had laying around for the past six months or so…  Always meant to, just never bothered to sit down and do enough comparison shopping to come up with a  price I liked (I need toric lenses, and the brand my eye-doctor recommended…

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superballs

In this day and age, it is remarkably rare to find anyone with the spine necessary to stand up for what they believe in, despite the assaults of philistines, non-believers, and outright attackers.  Few people posses the gonads necessary to withstand the occasionally withering assault that can be levied against…

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a walkabout

… so to speak.  I finally got up off my lazy ass and took a short walking tour of the city in which I am currently residing…  just as well, considering that I will be moving out of it in a month or so.  Of course, my new camera accompanied me…

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I hate my apartment complex

  

Detecting a pattern in the title of these open trackback posts, I am.  Anywise, this post would have been up considerably sooner had my apartment complex’s network not crashed sometime last night…  That, in and of itself, would not have been so bad, except no one comes in to…

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and in the corner to my right…

Ok, as an exercise for the reader, I think it is time for a little comparing and contrasting.  The Clinton News Network was kind enough to publish two differing viewpoints on the recent Virginia Tech atrocity, as a kind of "both sides of the coin" exercise…  Maybe they…

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they come in batches

It seems as though when I find one piece of news on Firefly, I turn around and find another one.  Of course, I am not complaining by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, i just am vaguely amused by the coincidence, that is all. 

So, onto this particular piece…

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sailing the high …seas?

If I did not already know that my schedule would not allow me to partake, I would bloody well find the time and money to sneak my and Better Half’s way onboard the Browncoat Cruise coming up this December.  I confess that I am not terribly familiar with…

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this weblog will not be silent

So it seems as though some webloggers are attemtping to organize a One Day of Blog Silence in memory of the Virginia Tech shootings. 

See the title of this post if you could not already guess my reaction. 

First, silence implies consent and assent, and I…

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what could have happened…

… if just one student or teacher with the will to act had been armed today at Virginia Tech

What, was that not the question that flashed through your mind when you read about the 33 fatalities at that university?  Oh, wait, let me guess what you…

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well, i am official now

Initially, I said I was never going to do this.  However, after due consideration, I changed my mind.  I now have an official Concealed Weapon or Firearm License, legally issued by the State of Florida. 

Concealed Carry License

You will forgive me for fuzzing out the personal/revealing information, of course.  So…

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when astronomy goes horribly wrong

… You get asinine bumper stickers like this one: 

Keep the Earth clean.  It’s not Uranus! 

You know, God not sharing his Smite ability really feels like a monopoly to me… 

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buy a gun day

Considering the fact that the images and multimedia buried in this post took me over two hours to upload (thanks to a piss-poor network system in my apartment complex), you bloody well better enjoy it. 

As I have been mentioning, today is Buy a Gun Day…  Basically,…

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I hate taxes

  

Though I like trackbacks…  So, tell me, what do you have for this, the glorious day of Buy A Gun Day?  Unfortunately, I was unable to partake, at least in terms of artillery… but more on that later. 

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bloody taxes

Who would have thought that trying to give the government your money (or, rather, have the government steal your money) would be so difficult?  Last year, Better Half and I filed a joint return, which made sense, and still does, since we were married, and it tends to work better…

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freequotage

As a special treat for me being remiss in posting here (and because I am too lazy to write up an honestly long post on my own), I will provide you a few snippets out of Michael Z. Williamson’s Freehold that I found to be interesting while reading…

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a revelation

Proponents of "gun control" are insane. 

And before you accuse me of inflamatory comments, flaming, and all the rest, I mean that statement in all honesty.  To understand better what I am trying to say, we have to first establish a few ground rules for this post. …

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who’d'a thunk?

What with me being married and Better Half being 800 miles away (and soon to be a continent away), this video is more than a little poignant.  Granted, it covers a tried-and-true debate, but the presentation is novel, if nothing else. 

The best part of it, however,…

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where do I sign up?

At the behest of Ron, I went and secured myself a copy of Michael Z. Williamson’s Freehold, and have been hungrily paging through it… to the point of reading a hundred pages in my first hour.  When I like a book, I really like a book. …

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I almost forgot…

  

Here I promised that I would get this off on time, and then I almost forgot to actually post it.  Way to go, eh?  Regardless, Sundays do not seem to be the best days for these open trackback post thingies… any suggestions for better choices? 

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did I really miss anything?

Pelosi became yet another Democrat to violate the Logan Act, one of the least remembered and most abused laws on the books. 

Iran released the British hostages, calling it a "gift" to the Britons,…

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if the piece fits…

I grew up with LEGOs, and by "grew up", I mean I had a twin-mattress-sized drawer full of the colorful little plastic bricks for most of my childhood and teenagehood, right up until I went to college and my parents told me I had to either take them…

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worthy causes

Yes, I am still alive.  But in the interest of using what spare time I have to slightly more constructive purposes, I will keep this post relatively short and to the point.  Better Half directed me to the report that Tucumcari was seriously damaged during these past storms…

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where am I going?

  

Unfortunately, despite my recent spate of frenzied posting, you can expect it to take a serious downturn in frequency for the next few weeks.  In fact, expect nothing during the work-week, and little on the weekends…  I will do my best to keep the open trackback posts coming in…

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