I had some conversations with a coworker the other day about my graphic communications background (small as it may be) and we got to talking about Open Source alternatives. I really enjoy The GIMP as a free alternative for Photoshop. It lets me whip up simple icons, color correct photos, etc. I wondered aloud during […]

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I’ve been in a bit of a blogging lull lately… so I’m going to appeal to all of my friends that are also in blogging lulls to get thine buttocks back out there and put some new stuff up! We’re all busy. Life is hard, but blogging is fun. Get to it people! Don’t make […]

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Tuesday’s workout was just us Nidans again… Mike-san taught a good class using some interesting sparring combinations. I was having some trouble with a few of them, but by the end of the workout I had caught on to most of them. It was interesting, because about 1/3 of the way through the first class […]

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Thursday was a class chock full of white belts… eight of them to be exact. I had the urge to channel some of the latent energy floating around the universe and led the group through a warmup that consisted of 100 abdominal exercises (including modified leg raises courtesy of ) and 20 pushups. By this […]

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What Video Game Character Are You? (With Pictures!) MegamanYou’re Megaman! Take The Quiz Now! Quizzes by myYearbook.com

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Teddy loves the snow. He loves it so much that he often romps around in snowdrifts and tears around the yard like he is a puppy. Imagine my surprise tonight when I went to let him in and he was laying under the pine tree. “Oh crap! The dog has hurt himself!” I thought, as […]

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I’ve been down for the last few days with a sinus cold and pressure. Afrin Nasal Spray and Aleve Cold and Sinus is fantastic, and my voice returned this morning. If I am able to get out from under all the snow I’ll be back at work tomorrow.

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Late this weekend I got a bug in my butt to re-discover Linux. I had run Fedora Core 5 on my MythTV, but I had heard a lot about the Ubuntu distributions that are out and about right now. My upstairs Dell that I purchased in 2001, has been sitting mostly dormant since I got […]

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Teddy thought it would be a good idea to ingest an entire bottle of Tums, including the bottle. Strangely, he has exhibited no ill effects from this amount of Tums… it probably would’ve made me blow up by now. What will he chew up next?

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We started out the workout on Saturday with three sets of the seven black belt katas required for the Sandan test. After the last set, asked everyone to do the kata that they were working on for the test, of course mine was Sochin. It was very amazing how easily it came back to me… […]

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