Yesterday was a lot of fun. We started with the SGI-USA Fortune District discussion meeting at Maria’s house where we talked about compassion and embracing our neighbors, and we heard an experience from Maria. Jeff announced that the 2006 Annual Study Guide is available online, by order, and at the community center bookstore. Then many […]
As a medieval living history re-enactor, I frequently get asked if I would like to actually live in the time period. My answer has always been a firm and resounding “Certainly not!” because I much prefer living in a time of flush toilets, hot running water, antibiotics, and with the availability of ice cream. Yes […]
It’s getting close to the anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States by a group of men, mostly from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who were outraged by the sexual liberty of women, gay marriage, birth control, and no-fault divorce. RenaRF has a great story about Fear, Real Fear vs. Manufactured Fear […]
Thanks to Bruce for posting this where it could be lifted. Cute little flash story about how to make the best of bad stuff dumped on you: http://upchucky.net/~upchucky/flash-fun/farmer-donkey.swf Reminds me of the rejoined we young airmen used to the over used military phrase “Shit rolls downhill” (which was meant to imply that we junior people […]
Before you start that spam-bot, before you hire someone to put your advert-flyer under my windshield wiper, before you send misleading links to your gambling/porn/drug business to my web log, before you send me an instant message; please try to think this through. Just think for a second what you would do if you were […]
Thank goodness for Mike Bombich and CarbonCopyCloner (CCC) for Mac OSX. I use CCC and an external, firewire drive to routinely backup my machines and I am very grateful for that habit today. We had a 20 second power hit at work and my G5’s main drive crashed… hard. Unable to repair disk using Disk […]
Wednesday (8/30): I slept through most of the Ted flight from Dulles to Las Vegas. If there is any difference between United and Ted, I missed it. Both airlines are horrible, both effectively have a lock on flights in and out of Dulles. Only difference I could see is that Ted is a much dumber […]
We are heading to Las Vegas to watch Mike and Joan tie the knot.
Saturday, Erci and I hosted our third annual men’s division Virginia West chapter meeting in our home. The chapter is a lot smaller now, as it has been split two years in a row because of growth in local Soka Gakkai membership numbers (woo hoo!). Yesterday we went up to Purceville for Potomac Chapter’s annual […]
Here is Jim’s first internet ad: I hope there are more soon, and that they attack the worst senator on several issues.
