December 19th thru January 24th

Monday December 19th, 2005

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Is it good? Nah. Is it inciteful? Naw. Was it fun? Yeah, I suppose so.

Kinda like the Blog!

Oh, but I get to say this:

Sunday January 1st, 2006

New Year's Resolutions? I suppose so. I want to get better organized. I want to exercise more (who doesn't) and read more. Less internet. Go ahead and laugh, but it's true. I'm going to try an experient: I'm going to raise my desk so that I can only work at it while standing. We'll see how that goes. I'm gointg to try and waste my time, when I feel like wasting it, with non-computer pursuits like Su Doku and scribbling. I have to train for the STP, which is in 6 months. I'm not sure what else. Maybe I'll blog more often, and then there's the podcasting... We'll see.

I hope everyone has an excellent new year.

I'm Standing Up
Well, I did it. I raised my desk and now I am standing at it, typing this as a kind of experiment. I wonder what my chiropractor would say? Seems to be okay so far. And the desk was due for a good dusting anyway, so there you go. I didn't go the gym, so that's off to a bad start, but hey, what're you going to do.

Ype, this is a damn boring entry. Want some controversy? Okay. Last year, starting in the summer or so, I found I was becomeing less patient with people-- usually, people whom I felt where taking me for granted. I used to always be so earnestly in need of approval, I would almost require that I be taken for granted. I don't think I really realized the ramifications of it at the time, or even that I sought approval so fervently. But then I stopped, and when people took me for granted, I got mad, and stayed mad, and now I am finding that I see it for what ti is a lot sooner, and my desire to give people the benefit of the doubt has seriously waned. So there you go. Reading back over it, it's less controversial than lame, but oh well. I just don't have the patience anymore. If someone wants to hold a grudge, so long, have a life

Tuesday January 3rd, 2006

It occurs to me that this my be the first time I ever mentioned Su Doku as a passion. Passion? Well, maybe not yet. I am working on it. Boy needs a hobby. I have started thoughts on making my own So Duko page here at bukkhead. Such larks!

Sunday January 8th, 2006

BLEH. I'm going to drink a slim fast now.

Holier Than Thou
I've been thinking about agnosticism a bunch. I consider myself an agnostic. That is, if forced to identify myself with a label, that's the one I would use, though it is a bit misleading, in as much as I don't know what context can exist where such a declaration is necesary for better communication. Anyway, I've been thinking how agnostic has come to mean "I don't know what I beleive," a kind of cop-out. But that's not what it means. Agnosticism means "I can't know what I beleive," to put it glibly, and is more a statement about epistimology than it is about faith. And I wonder sometimes if, Jesus was "invented" (by God or man, take your pick) as a sort of touch-stone for agnostics. "So you can't know what you beleive. Fine. don't think about the logic of belief, just think about this dude." Of course, the church says you have to "accept" Him...

I am reminded of Raymond Smullyan. He was talking about the Christian Scientists, who believe (among other things) that if one has perfect faith, one doesn't need medicine. He pointed out that if he was a Christian Scientist, he would need medicine, for being a flawed, imperfect human, he could never have perfect faith. That's more or less "accepting" that he can't, all by himself, attain perfection. Taking medicine is in this way an act of faith! As an agnostic, I beleive I can not know the perfect infinite mind of God, being, myself, imperfect and finite. That's sort of a way of "accpeting" the tenets of Christianity, isn't it? I accept that only God's perfect Son can get one into Heaven. Now what?

I mean, when you take away EVERYTHING "churchy" about faith, that is, if you take the religion out of faith, what's left? How about we reverse that? Let's take a religion, but remove everything that is 100% faith. What you have left is, in my opinion, the cause of all Evil.

Whoowee! Betcha THAT makes some folks mad!

Tuesday January 10th, 2006

Bowling started last night, for the last time, and I am sad to say, my team did pretty good, which means our handicaps will be lousy. But hey it was fun. We are the Smacktastic Trio again... we need a team logo. Hmmm... I had an idea for one once, but that was millenia ago. And my brain is old and calcified.

I fired up the World of Warcraft account a few days ago. I'd been thinking about it for a while, though long sessions will be impossible now that my desk has been raised to standing level. Still... Dakota is nearly lvl 51. But I don't think it will hold my interest more than a month. I have been too bored lately. WoW, and I picked up Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (tedious), Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (shallow) and Super Mario Strikers (simplistic). I've been doing the Su Doku like mad, and (don't tell anyone) working on Nobody's Savior again (the fantasy novel a friend and I started in college). And consuming the Terry Pratchett. All this is boring esoteric reportage, eh? My bad.

Did I Show You This Already?
Bored a while ago, I found a Photoshop project online for making a day-time scene into a rainy one. I was very unsataisfied with the turorial, so I started to fiddle with things myself, and made the following "haunted house" make-over:

(click on an image to see a larger view)

Tuesday January 24th, 2006

First Podcast