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  • I may have to get a new keyboard

    Microsoft is finally coming out with a new natural keyboard. No release date or price, but one site is claiming next month and $55.

    I’ll be interested to see how this feels. I miss not having the function buttons on my regular natural keyboard, but the new wireless versions just don’t feel right. Looking forward to this one.

  • Upgrade

    I upgraded to MT 3.2 today. If anyone sees anything Wonky, let me know.

  • Best Hacker Films

    Interesting list. Anything that leads off with Hackers can’t be all bad.

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  • Edward Surovell hates Students

    Says Ann Arbor’s Sourvell, “Students are horrible, disgusting. Their rooms smell. They live together like rabbits in a warren. They eat and sleep together. They have beer fights, and they don’t make their beds.”

    What a brilliant business move in a town that is one quarter (that’s 25%, Mr. Surovell) students. It’s a good thing no students ever stay here, become community members, or buy houses.

    The most ironic part about this? If he’d replaced “students” with any other minority, the students couldn’t have gotten their poster board stapled to a stick fast enough. Hmm.. maybe he does know something about this community.

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  • Is it bad to lust after glasses?

    Because if it is, brother, call me bad.

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  • Back

    Sorry for the silence, we just got back from Saint Ignace, camping. An entire week with no computer, no phone, no TV. Just J–, books, and the dog. Aside from the rain, it was fabulous. Longer post to come, but we’re settling in for a recovery night.

  • New family member

    Posting has been light in, er.. light of the new family member we received this past week. (I even got scolded for not posting about it.)

    Meet Froggie.

    (Flickr set)

  • Detroit the most liberal town in US

    Of course, you’ll have to take their word for it; they don’t mention how they came up with that statement. I wonder if it could have anything to do with voting blocks. Hmm…

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  • Sick of wacky religions? Convert to the one true faith, Flying Spaghetti Monster-ism

    Kansas is set to approve an official science standard for their schools that includes the teaching of “Intelligent Design” and criticism of evolutional theories. (Yes, this is likely old news to you.)

    I really wanted to put a huge post up, but for now let’s leave this as a Damn It, Kansas moment.

    Damn it, Kansas, you’re screwing this up. No one wants hear your version of how science works. Faith is a personal, intimate experience; this is a self-serving, headline-grabbing, narrow-minded move. I believe in God, but that doesn’t change the fact that some things are measurable and true. Faith does not give you license to ignore reality.

    To all that right-leaning bloggers who are screaming for a fatwa against terrorism, try calling for the Christian leaders in this country to call for an end to the idiocy going on in Kansas. The whole world is not Christian; read the Bible and stop listening to some upwardly-mobile, hypocritical preacher.

    To all the left-leaning bloggers who are making insulting parodies of Christian dogma thinking you’re making a point to anyone but your personnel echo chamber, you’re only hurting your argument. Insulting people only makes them less likely to listen to you; this is doubly true for the zealous (think Mac zealots).

    This argument is taking attention away from other, real problems in schools throughout this country, mainly that they don’t teach, they indoctrinate. Make critcial thinkers, not kids who think only to be critical. THEN you can try and screw them up.

  • Barley Ale

    Must… find… supplier…

    Arrogant Bastard Ale

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