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2006 Goal Tracking

Learn to whistle loudly using my fingersI think I’m gonna just buy a whistle
Learn three five card tricksEh, don’t care about this so much anymore…
Learn five origami modelsCompleted - I’ve learned/relearned the crane, the flapping crane, the frog, the waterbomb and the iris.
Redecorate/organize my family room and den and spare [...]

What Kind of Reader Are You?

What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Literate Good Citizen

You read to inform or entertain yourself, but you’re not nerdy about it. You’ve read most major classics (in school) and you have a favorite genre or two.

Book Snob

Dedicated Reader

Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

Fad Reader

Non-Reader

…or videoblogs or vlogs. Whatever you want to call them, there are some really good ones out there. Here are two of my faves:

Geek Brief

Rocketboom
Check out more video podcasts at
podcastalley.com or any number of other sites. Post your faves in the comments.

Here’s an interesting article written in 1998 about some experiments done by one individual to help reduce traffic jams:

Traffic Wave Experiments
The basic idea is “ANTITRAFFIC DESTROYS TRAFFIC,” with antitraffic being empty space. Take a quick read and see if you can do your part to do away with traffic, or at least [...]

Congratulations to Ryle High School, my alma mater, on their win tonight! The Raider football team beat Henderson County 59-28 in the class AAAA semi-finals. They will face off against defending state champ Louisville Trinity next Thursday, Nov 30. This will be the first trip to the finals for the football [...]

Have a safe and joyous Thanksgiving everyone!

We Gather Together
We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
he chastens and hastens his will to make known;
the wicked oppressing now cease from distressing:
sing praise to his Name, he forgets not his own.
Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;
so from the [...]

After 10 years and three computers, my 17″ Dell CRT monitor finally gave out. It just so happened that this occurred while I was working on re-installing the drivers for my video card, so I was worried that I had messed up the card somehow. After some quick testing, I confirmed it [...]

Database of American Proprietary Eponyms
An eponym is a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name. Therefore, a proprietary eponym could be considered a brand name (trademark or service mark) which has fallen into general use.
Back in elementary school, I remember a lesson in which the teacher pointed out [...]

This is fast becoming one of my biggest pet peeves, mainly because I find myself falling into it more and more often, not because I don’t know how proper English, but because I’m being influence subconsciously by corporate America.
As most of the universe knows, You’ve Got Mail is the phrase uttered by AOL to [...]