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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:07:20 +0000Boxing AlcibiadesJust in case you remember what it was like to work on an Apple //ehttp://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)Blogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-6216777779142993838Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:46:00 +00002007-12-04T20:47:51.476-08:00And... We're Back!That was refreshing. And now for a nice cold drink of "let's see if Blogger's improved in the meantime."

Wordpress is handy, and has some nice customer support -- but I'm increasingly irked at the extensive lack of editability. We'll see how this goes.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2007/12/and-were-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)429tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-115023129273133638Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:40:00 +00002006-06-13T13:41:32.836-07:00This site is toast.
And will soon be demolished. Please update your links to

Happycrow's Eyeball Factory

at

http://www.happycrow.wordpress.com
http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/this-site-is-toast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-115012959490601867Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:25:00 +00002006-06-12T09:26:35.013-07:00Soliciting feedback on new site.Need to know if the basic idea works.

(I know, the top bar looks ass. I have no idea why the guy designing it liked that smudge effect.)http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/soliciting-feedback-on-new-site.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114986470529243932Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:48:00 +00002006-06-09T15:52:39.770-07:00Blog Port Has StartedI've just lost too many posts and post edits here, and am jumping ship to WordPress (and hopefully will stay linked up through the Sciolist group). This blog will be kept up for probably the next week or two, as I work out the kinks, and will then Michelangelo except for a forwarding page.

Here's the page, down to fine-tuning: Happycrow's Eyeball Factoryhttp://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-port-has-started.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114987927728214026Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:14:00 +00002006-06-09T12:59:45.353-07:00More hypocrisy from so-called "Catholic Intellectuals"Meet Benjamin Wiker, a man whose understanding far outstrips his ability to muster an honest argument.

Mr. Wiker has a nice little screed entitled Benedict Contra Nietzsche: A Reflection on Deus Caritas Est, in Crisis Magazine.

He starts out well. It doesn't take a genius to see that some intellectuals who are not Papal Monarchists could use Deus Caritas Est (hereinafter DCE) as an excuse to grind their favorite axe, that being whether or not that axe applies. For instance, Mr. Wiker is absolutely justified in pointing out that Bishop Francis Deniau is probably talking out of his butt if he regards this as a wink-and-a-nod towards softening the Papacy's position on contraception.

Now, whether or not the Papal Monarchy has the grounds to tell us anything about contraception, as Deniau would probably argue against, is one thing, and as an obvious PM supporter, Mr. Wiker can argue that the Pope is entitled to regulate our dental floss, for all I care. Because Mr. Wiker is so focused on demonstrating his position's moral superiority to that of the liberal Bishop, and using Nietzsche as his straw-man whipping boy in the process, that he badly distorts the Encyclical in the process.

Enter the world's most-misunderstood philosopher.

For starters, Mr. Wiker needs to actually read some Nietzsche:

"It was quite surprising to have Benedict open with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s charge against Christianity. “Christianity gave Eros poison to drink,” Nietzsche quipped; “he did not die of it but degenerated—into vice.”

Well, actually, Mr. Wiker, no, it's not. But that's because every Christian on earth reads the words "God is dead," and assumes that Nietzsche held the same b.s. views his Nazi sister did -- the same sister who conveniently edited his works while he was in a coma. Of course, Nietzsche doesn't attack Christianity at all -- which anybody who's actually read the text with their eyelids open can tell you. Instead, he argued against hypocrites calling themselves Christians, while simultaneously reducing God to nothing more than a Sunday-morning checkbox.

Go ahead, Mr. Wiker. Take off your ideological blinders for a couple minutes, and crack a copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra. Of course the Pope quotes Nietzsche... Nietzsche is probably the most profound philosopher of the 19th century -- especially when one contrasts the Hegelian nightmare of an intellectual world in which he lived -- and is profoundly friendly to the practice of the Christian Faith.

But by all means, Mr. Wiker, never leave a straw-man unburnt and a convenient whipping-boy unwhipped, if that will allow you to smite the unholy liberal.

Can we get an honest argument from a conservative Catholic, please?

Now, by and large, I have no issue with the general argument Mr. Wiker puts forth, or would be putting forth, if he were willing to do the heavy lifting of writing an intellectually honest argument. But this guy is a Senior Fellow of Biblical Theology, not some holy-roller with a bachelor's degree pretending he understands hermeneutics. So when Mr. Wiker writes the following,

The restoration of eros demands that we reject both the gnostic denial of the reality and goodness of the flesh and the materialist, Epicurean denial of the reality and goodness of the spirit.

Mr. Wiker goes beyond the pale. As, unfortunately, is usual for Conservative Catholics lately. Opposing gnosticism? Great! Tossing an equals sign between Epicureanism and Hedonism, because that's convenient for your argument? The holy-roller in the middle of his second semester of philosophy might make that mistake, but Mr. Wiker, you know better.

And so on, until we get to this lovely gem:

Perhaps, then, Benedict begins with Nietzsche as a prophecy. “I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus,” declared Nietzsche in Ecce Homo, “I should prefer to be even a satyr to being a saint.” That is, he would prefer to be less than human than to submit to the reality of a spiritual realm, for that would entail the submission of his will to God.
No, as usual, Mr. Wiker, the Pope's a touch smarter than you are. For starters, on the off chance he actually forgot, Benedict has some folks who can probably remind him that Ecce Homo belongs to a six-letter literary tradition beginning with an "s." In case you're having trouble guessing it, I've heard recently that it rhymes with "flat tire."

Well, the argument descends into a generally-worthwhile, albeit completely misdirected, meditation upon agape as a love that descends from above, and eros as a love that rises creatively from below.

Far from poisoning eros, Christianity not only affirms it, but elevates it beyond its wildest dreams. Nothing is lost; all is divinized.
Yeah, Mr. Wiker, no problem. Pity you don't realize that Nietzsche agrees with you, insofar as you're talking about actual Christians, rather than the Sunday-checkbox crowd.

But, no. Mr. Wiker has to add in the traditional, smugly self-righteousness parting shot so horribly common amongst conservative Catholics these days:

If only the satyrs had ears to hear.

Well, the "satyr," as you termed it, can't hear. He's not around to defend himself, and his works were half-hijacked by a Nazi (not that it takes a genius to see where). And he certainly suffered, on a number of levels, and from syphilis espcially.

In fact, his very last conscious act, before lapsing into a syphilis-induced coma, was to literally hurl himself into the street to throw himself between a coachman and the exhausted horse said coachman was literally whipping to death, shielding the horse with his body and choosing to accept the angry strokes of a vicious man's whip while weeping in sympathy for a cruelly-abused animal.

“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16).

Remove the beam from your own eye, Mr. Wiker, and crack a copy of Mere Christianity: the "satyr" walking down his road of suffering was closer to God than you're ever likely to get up there on your high and mighty edifice.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/more-hypocrisy-from-so-called-catholic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114978465804378127Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:25:00 +00002006-06-08T09:37:38.136-07:00Kos just GOT OWNED over at SamizdataHere's KOS, on the future of the Democratic Party: Libertarian Democrats.
Here's Perry de Havilland, roundly thrashing him for his ignorance.

First and foremost, I've been saying for several years now, what Markos would have been saying if Perry wasn't unfortunately right (i.e., Kos has no clue what it means to be libertarian). A left-libertarian party is the only way the Dems are going to survive, because the electorate soundly rejects their two cores of power, the Soft Socialists (Kos, the Netroots, and Russ Feingold) and the Communitarians (Hillary, John Kerry, etc.) The latter have structural problems with being elected (and their outright rejection of liberty issues hurts them from the starting gate), and the former are dead in the water, because the Reagan Coalition was set up to fight these guys from Day One. The "Progressives" don't have any trouble getting their message out... the electorate hears it loud and clear, and rejects it outright for the semi-authoritarian pseudo-utopian claptrap that it is.

Going a step beyond Perry, Kos, on the other hand, cannot distinguish that there is a fundamental difference between positive and negative liberty. In other words, there is "freedom from" and "freedom for," and Kos is insensitive to the fairly drastic results of orienting oneself in one or the other direction. (Three guesses which orientation appeals more to the Democrats, and the first fifty don't count.) And to make the matter worse, he seems to posit that positive and negative liberty are unproblematically compatible.

That is a bozo no-no error that any freshman college student reading The Republic should be able to avoid.

In other words, Kos fails to walk the walk, because he has no clue how to talk the talk.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/kos-just-got-owned-over-at-samizdata.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114951496805651038Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:27:00 +00002006-06-05T06:42:48.116-07:00Demogogues on Gay Marriage, round twoI'm a politics junkie. Not theory, per se, though that comes in, but political news. The Great Game. (Yes, Virginia, I'm aware that this is a specific historical term -- I am blatantly abusing it.)

So, with all these things in the news that truly matter: Iranians protesting against abuses of their government while the Basij and religious secret police literally torture students to death (note to Progressive protestors in USA: you're not showing guts by blocking traffic as your preferred means of speaking truth to power, you posers. These kids are showing guts, occasionally as they're pulled slowly out of their bodies by truly evil men. So, show some respect). Vietnam and the US might reach rapprochement on economic issues. The US wonders how to keep its foundering hospitals afloat, when illegals cross the border solely to migrate up for free medical care, and then cross back over -- without losing the politically-incorrect benefits of Mexico essentially selling us their best and brightest citizens...

All this and plenty besides, and we have to talk about Gay Marriage?

Gay Marriage, Flag Burning, what other issues are there that so waste our time as a body politic?
This has nothing to do with conservative vs. liberal or Republican vs. Democrat. A couple of quick sound bytes to the contrary, nobody in the political establishment is taking the gay side in this. The Republicans may be cynical about proffering an outright abuse of the Constitution to achieve their ends, but Democrats are equally cynical about proffering doomed abuses of the court system to make cheap political points claiming to support gays, and then betraying them at the ballot box and "outing" people as a political weapon.

There are conservative arguments for and against Gay Marriage. (Defense of family/Provisions contra ultrapromiscuous, pro-disease bathhouse culture)

There are liberal arguments for and against Gay Marriage. (Marriage as a civil right applying to all citizens/Fairness mandating that all government marriages be labelled "civil unions," given its inherent non-religious character)

There are libertarian arguments for and against Gay Marriage. (Don't use the force of government to dictate social mores/Don't use government as a weapon to force straights to redefine the bedrock institution of their culture).

There. We've said it. There are arguments for it and against it. Now, can we get back to some issue that might actually have nationwide relevance, like the fact that there's a war on?http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/demogogues-on-gay-marriage-round-two.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114951393458116862Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:21:00 +00002006-06-05T06:25:34.633-07:00al-Faisal: would you buy a used textbook from this man?Sure, we've got a few bigots, he says, but we're undergoing changes as fast as we can...

Now, the Saudis' role in creating those bigots, and recent reporters' descriptions that said textbooks have not changed at all, doesn't seem to be mentioned. Neither the warning of Tom Holsinger (a frequent Winds of Change contributor -- link at right) that the Saudis have consciously engineered a society of brainwashed welfare lackeys that cannot survive without them, and the perils that creates for when the old clan structures finally do perish...

but, go ahead, al-Faisal, pull the other one...http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/al-faisal-would-you-buy-used-textbook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114943834858408124Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:24:00 +00002006-06-04T09:25:48.586-07:00Tanning updateMinor score for those who put up with me regularly: I need to put the piece of cowhide into its dressing and get a staking knife -- the cowhide is thick and dense enough that it can't be softened without treatment and a LOT of force... for which a belt knife is simply insufficient.

The horsehide, otoh, has started beautifully, and I may be able to get it done today. A nice excuse to sit outside in the shade while people with better tans than me soak up the sun.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/tanning-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114925721737607656Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:05:00 +00002006-06-04T09:20:14.790-07:00Oh, those poor mullahsThey're already planning to fight the last war.
The one we've just spent three years learning how to be really, really good at.

I can't tell if this is luck, pitiable sadness, or else Comedy Gold.
Hat Tip: Friday Winds of War.

Also, apparently Kurdistan is really getting it right when it comes to religious tolerance.
UPDATE: It's getting serious in Iran. Check out Gateway Pundit's link to right, and this video clip.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/06/oh-those-poor-mullahs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114909494901893839Wed, 31 May 2006 16:52:00 +00002006-05-31T10:05:38.393-07:00Chivalry is Dead and Alive.I'm glad I'm not this Marine, who has to go through the rest of his life reliving what it's like to stab a pregnant gang-banger while she and her thuglet goblin friends are out robbing people at gunpoint.

I had a long argument once with a guy in my salle, who has severe Cannot Hit Women Syndrome. For a long time, I even argued with myself over whether I should be bothered by the fact that I have absolutely zero compunction against laying a woman out if need be, merely because she's got tits.

Yes, in response to the obvious reaction, it's more complicated than that. But those of us following self-defense for a while have noticed that there are a lot of women out there involved in violent and aggressive behavior, and they're not shy about taking advantage of the fact that men's better halves generally tie a hand behind their backs. Their numbers seem to be increasing.

Chivalry is dead.

Simone de Beauvoir noted that a lot of women's foibles that held them back were not really coming from men, but were, instead, conformism viciously enforced by their mothers and sisters. Pity that running around gangbanging wasn't one of those things on Mme. de Beauvoir's list.

So it's going to start getting old-fashioned again. I mean, really old-fashioned. As in, 14th-century old-fashioned, where a gentleman treats a lady very well. So in that sense, Chivalry is still going to be alive, especially because most men are inclined and socialized (usually by other men) to assume that women are ladies until demonstrated otherwise.

Chivalry's alive.

Ladies, thank you for being ladies.
Gangbanging slut goblin-wannabes, be warned.

Marine, be at peace.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/chivalry-is-dead-and-alive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114883410341519747Sun, 28 May 2006 16:14:00 +00002006-05-28T09:35:03.520-07:00Blogging about to slow down a bit pending shift from BloggerI've got an offer, and I'm going to take it soon, as I'm sick of blogger giving me "we don't like your cookie" errors.

That said, I have random thoughts.

1. What kind of coddled, reality-challenged white-bread yuppie scum doesn't know the difference between the sounds made by a jackhammer and an assault rifle?

2. I traded shots with my instructor in the salle on Saturday, and hit the ground so hard I bounced. That rocked. Slowly but surely, martial arts concepts that were fuzzy, generalized statements, are becoming concrete, discrete ideas or even techniques. Unfortunately, this means you have to ask your instructor when you think you may have caught a clue... therefore, I posit that martial arts are an act of dual masochism.

3. I think that the gal on PubliusPundit may have overstated her case slightly... but only slightly, when she points out that one of the reasons we have yet another excuse to hate the Baby Boomer scum is their insistence on chopping society up into age brackets. So, don't trust anybody over 30.

4. The big exeriment I was planning on doing gets more complicated. On the one hand, good physics suggests using a nail as a penetrator, so we don't have to worry about impactor topology (far as I can tell, most of the literature on impactor topology is based on cylindrical or ogival penetrators, occasionally on spheres. Go figure, that's where the real-world application is). On the other hand, that makes the entire thing worthless in the context of medieval armor, because a nail effectively simulates a bodkin arrowhead, thus slanting any test done directly in favor of everything except mail armor. And while bodkins definitely existed, they were by no means the only thing out there, and neither do they conform to the topology of western early-and-high-medieval lance heads (though, oddly enough, it does somewhat conform to those from eastern Europe).

5. I ruined the rawhide Chichester sent me a while ago, b/c what we all thought was the grain, was, in fact, not -- what we thought was the flesh was, instead, parts of the grain that hadn't been removed... which only became apparent when I tried to oil-tan it and I suddenly had horsehairs popping up on what should have been the inside of the horse. So, at this point, probably the only thing I can really do with it is to turn it into lacing.

6. Summer is awesome, nice and hot, but not too hot, and Eason came to town, which warms the little evil cockles of my heart. Part of me still wishes I could get the time of day from recruiters so I could go do evil twisted shit to bad people who deserve it... but with folks having no trouble making numbers apparently age waivers aren't being tossed out like popcorn (Note to the irony-challenged: see random thought#3).

7. Somebody needs to simply flay Phelps and his "Thank God for IEDs crowd." Fucking demon worshipper. Hey, dude, even the biggest, hate-indoctrinated opponents of Christianity admit that "loving your neighbor" is one of its most basic commandments....

And now, I'm going to vacuum and enjoy the nice long weekend. Have a good one, folks.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/blogging-about-to-slow-down-bit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114858200454097627Thu, 25 May 2006 18:30:00 +00002006-05-25T11:33:24.586-07:00IRS gets its hand slapped, reimburses us several hundred dollarsOr something like that. Hell, as much as my wife calls Hungary, I'm pretty certain that getting that excise tax back will at least pay for ice cream. Though I know that the schmucks are trying to put the refund on the income tax, meaning that they're probably going to try to reimburse only this last year's worth of illegal taxation.

Pity, that. Over the past five years, we've certainly paid enough on this excise tax for The Bunny to get herself a business suit and a new pair of shoes.

HT-Puppy Blender.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/irs-gets-its-hand-slapped-reimburses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114856661112994103Thu, 25 May 2006 14:11:00 +00002006-05-25T07:16:51.280-07:00"The mortgage you didn't know you had."Debra Saunders out in SanFran gives a chilling little piece explaining why we should care about the national debt. No news to "the good twin," but it's a subject that doesn't get nearly enough attention, and explains quite a bit about Bush's approval rating, more than the Iraq War by a long shot: contrary to MSM spin, 9/11 and the WoT has been just about the only thing propping Bush's numbers up, and was clearly the only reason he managed to get re-elected.

Parts of Bush's "legacy" are going to ring big, over a long time. But the progress we've made internationally, and tax cuts at home, are only part of the problem. If he wants to really have this period shine, he needs to start waving that veto threat every time Congress tries to saddle us with more debt.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/mortgage-you-didnt-know-you-had.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114848665844152273Wed, 24 May 2006 15:30:00 +00002006-05-24T13:28:07.573-07:00Vladimir Putin: World-class DumbassYep, I just insulted the NeoTsar.

Here's a quick blurb on Russia's collapsing demographics, and thoughts for the same in Europe.
Now, I'm sensitive to this stuff lately, since the Bunny and I started on the trying-for-kids thing very late in the game, but bear with me.

There's one overriding difference, though: Europeans are sufficiently full of themselves that they think they can ignore Economics 101. Go ahead, ask one, he'll tell you. He'll tell you how brilliant European politics and the "social market" is, especially compared to the obvious failures of the heartless and corrupt American system.

That'll last a while. But when push comes to shove, European egotism will give way. The technocrats, unlike the Vampire, aren't stupid. France is already starting to turn around its demographic issues. The French, for all their many serious domestic problems, are smart -- they understand that quality of life counts. They may choose to get there in a way that makes most Americans twitch, and God help them, they may figure out how to actually carry it off... but they know for a fact that you're not keeping a society alive with a QOL in the toilet.

Putin, for all his aspirations to restart the Cold War and dictate to the world from an angular Eurasian throne, doesn't get it. Paying a subsidy to women so that they'll create babies is a start. But the notion that women are going to agree to this for the good of Russia is nonsense. To start with, so is the notion that anything Putin would describe as good for Russia will trickle down to the average Russian subject. (Yeah, I said "subject," not citizens. Citizens have rights.) The Kremlin and its faction runs Russia for its own benefit. Putin and his cronies love to tout their status as an "energy power," but it's all hat and no cattle for international grandstanding and foreign cash... ask the Muscovites who froze their asses off this winter when the weather got a little colder than normal, because the Powers that Be could care less whether there's something resembling a decent domestic gas infrastructure. Why waste all that good gas on the little people?

QOL, Pootie-Poot, QOL. This dumbass, for all his pretentions to worldly glory, still doesn't grasp that it's not 1850, and still doesn't grasp the reasons the Soviet Empire got its ass kicked in the Cold War.

It sure wasn't the CIA. Hell, our intel guys were so bad, we couldn't turn a Polish agent who knew he was going home to be executed. (Then again, whatever the faults of the Poles are, we all know it isn't a lack of balls.) No, much as I hate the phrase, we whipped the crap out of the Soviets, because we had Human Capital. Human Capital let us innovate and grow the Soviets into the ground during the Arms Race (insert giant nod to Reagan here). In the modern world, middle-class civil society is geopolitical power. That's why everybody wants to do business with China, in spite of the banking practices that would be a national scandal here in the US. It's why the Canadians still punch above their weight in foreign policy, in spite of the fact that their military can't make numbers because they're openly despised at home.

And it's why the US still hasn't had quite had its financial meltdown. Our financial markets are two steps away from a serious fiscal crisis as the dollar teeters over a debt-excavated abyss -- but folks abroad know we have a reputation for economic growth and innovation that makes the dollar a decent bet, for all its many documented faults.

Am I waxing brilliant here? Am I saying anything that any economist who's had his morning coffee won't be happy to confirm? Nope. This is all Bozo territory.

So why doesn't this dumbass get it? Hey, Putin: you want some babies? Try keeping your prospective mommies from freezing their asses off all winter, and stop continuing to foster the conditions that keep your prospective daddies at a life expectancy in the low 50s.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/vladimir-putin-world-class-dumbass.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114847974512819269Wed, 24 May 2006 14:07:00 +00002006-05-24T07:09:05.186-07:00Taheri sticks to guns on Iranian legislation story.Update here. Apparently, just because it wasn't in the formal legislation, didn't mean that folks weren't seriously mullahing it over.

HT- regimechangeiranhttp://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/taheri-sticks-to-guns-on-iranian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114847716661271073Wed, 24 May 2006 13:25:00 +00002006-05-24T06:26:06.613-07:00Jeb Bush to run NFL?Why make this speculation a public announcement? Has McCain shot himself in the foot so badly that prepping Condi, who's publicly known to be lusting after the job, is the only thing the Elephants have for '08?http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/jeb-bush-to-run-nfl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114847703109650441Wed, 24 May 2006 13:23:00 +00002006-05-24T06:23:51.156-07:00Well, Romania is on the ball...Can't say I'd like to be one of the poor schmucks under virtual house arrest, but nobody can say that they're not taking H5N1 seriously...http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/well-romania-is-on-ball.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114839238927652247Tue, 23 May 2006 13:40:00 +00002006-05-23T06:53:09.360-07:00Data Transfers and the Role of GovernmentBy now, I am assuming that I don't need to post a link for folks to be up on the data theft of 26.5 million veterans' data.

I'm sure I don't need to insult peoples' intelligences by pointing out that the story of how this happened is fishy as hell. (How does one guy get that much info on a disk, and why would he take it home?)

So while I personally suspect that John Q. Dipshit made himself a deal with some crooks in order to score big, and then got caught, let's back up and look at something else.

Government is not a god, not a Superhero, not even a Supervillain. It's just a tool, nothing but violence ritualized. That tool can enable people to do awesome things, or really boneheaded things... but it's still people doing them, whether it's a bunch of suits doing their damndest to destroy America's small farmers in order to give ConAgra and its like a bureaucratic edge, or whether it's thousands of Coast Guard guys kicking ass and saving lives during Hurricane Katrina.

Part of why I'm a libertarian, and not a conservative, is that I have a keen awareness that people can really be boneheads. And to stretch a metaphor, we don't want to loan the car keys out to too many people, and on too many jobs, because one bonehead can take the power of government, and accidentally drive 26.5 million folks right to hell.

So we have powers at the State level, where if folks are going to kick ass and take names, groovy... but if they're going to start swerving mightily all over the road on their Bikes of Government, they're doing it on a 200cc bike, not an 1400cc monster that's so big that even folks riding 650's can't even figure out how the thing manages to keep itself upright. Put a bonehead who's just kinda okay on a 200 onto a 650, and he's going to run that sucker right across the intersection and straight into a wall.

So, asking whether somebody trusts Government is kind of a silly question. The real question is, "what jobs are you willing to trust a complete stranger to do?"http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/data-transfers-and-role-of-government.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114805268138306256Fri, 19 May 2006 15:28:00 +00002006-05-19T08:31:21.463-07:00Iran takes first steps to religious genocideAll muslims to wear uniforms, and non-Muslim religious minorities to wear clothing specifically marking them as Jewish, Christian, or Zoroastrian.

It seems that the 20th century's evils are yet to be scrubbed out in the 21st.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/iran-takes-first-steps-to-religious.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114804969489658073Fri, 19 May 2006 14:36:00 +00002006-05-19T07:41:35.226-07:00Benedict XVI and Church ReformCould it be that Benedict's treading more lightly than some of the Papal Monarchists would prefer because, unlike the latter, he's paying attention to the bigger picture?

It's not really likely that the Vatican will reinstate its armed forces -- but one never knows. As one of the very few universalist, globally-oriented factions in Western Society (the tranzi socialists being very nearly their only competition), they are constrained in ways that states and other societies are not, but also able to act in ways that would be beyond dreaming for others.

Hat Tip: Winds of Change 5/19 Hatewatch Briefing.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/benedict-xvi-and-church-reform.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114792639581690228Thu, 18 May 2006 04:08:00 +00002006-05-17T21:26:35.886-07:00Petersen's "Mothras of Texas"
 Holy shiat.

I stepped next door to loan a Petersen's bird guide to the Watercolorist, and BooBoo said "hey, would ya look at that?" (BooBoo's el gato numero dos, so this was in sign language.)

Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot, over.
Now, I know, intellectually, that there are some big moths out there in this great big wide world of ours. I also know, that in over fifteen years around Dallas, I ain't never seen one like this. Usually we get the little grey jobs that eat the hell out of your wool. Since I happen to make felt out of exotic and otherwise hard-to-obtain wool, guess who kills pretty much all moths, on sight, 24/7?

Have alien beings masquerading as harmless third-world villagers planted the Moths of Doom in my house, or what? You know, the ones with the cricket legs who are Secretly Causing Global Warming from their Underground Base in Central America? (No, really, that's the plot of an honest-to-God sci-fi flick, and one of the better ones if you don't mind a little camp.)
Oh, and... she's a girl. Saw the ovipositor, while she was flapping like mad trying to escape me and BooBoo. Fortunately, she ain't real bright, and "flap" seems to be her cure for all problems.

"Flap" is ineffective against orange oil.

But she didn't give it up without a hell of a fight, so ya gotta hand it to her there. This is "Mrs. Flap," during one of her less intense moments, in my hand.

Yes, that's not a little moth bed I cranked out of nowhere... that's my hand, and the whole picture should be rotated CCW by 90 degrees to understand this sucker's true scale. Looks like the cocktail dress is only pretty from the outside; she's all brownish-grey underneath.

I was sleepy as hell on my way home... now, I think I may as well put on a pot of espresso, just so it's official. I'm not easily creeped out by bugs: I have, in fact, eaten a roach, just to seriously mess with a girl's head (she deserved it). But I'm mildly freaked by critters that aren't supposed to be living where they're living.

Gotta look this sucker up. What the hell is this thing, and how did a two-inch-long moth get the hell inside my house without me noticing?
http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/petersens-mothras-of-texas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114791674685234376Thu, 18 May 2006 01:43:00 +00002006-05-17T18:45:46.900-07:00Little monkeys imitate small boys with plastic machine-gunsPyow Pyow Pyow! Hack Hack Hack Hack!

Which is apparently monkey for this place is boring, let's go for ice cream.

Also, apparently early chimp-like man interbred with equally early, man-like chimp.

Having been exposed to precisely 9.2 seconds of Farscape Fan-Fic, I find this eminently plausible.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/little-monkeys-imitate-small-boys-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114789895313740267Wed, 17 May 2006 20:46:00 +00002006-05-17T13:49:13.190-07:00Congress, President, pass tax-cut heroin-pushing billIt sure seems that way. Woohoo, we've managed to keep AMT from gutting middle-class America... for one year. We've passed legislation to keep capital gains from going amuck... for two years.

What is this, the 1960s Chevrolet model of tax-cutting? Cut it for such a ridiculously short span of time that it becomes a permanent issue? "Vote for us, or we won't be around to give you another 12-month moritorium against having your paycheck raped by AMT next April?"

Talk about your cynical, election-year ploys. This is ridiculous. At least Soviets pretended to give you a Five-Year Plan.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/congress-president-pass-tax-cut-heroin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388592.post-114781156976367130Tue, 16 May 2006 20:28:00 +00002006-05-16T13:32:49.766-07:00The Attention-Whore to Sell our Jets?Let me get this straight. The Attention-Whore of Caracas wants to sell jets to the Mullahs. Our older F16s.

And the Mullahs are willing to pay for them? For jets they can't possibly maintain?

I don't know who's further into the bong-water.http://boxingalcibiades.blogspot.com/2006/05/attention-whore-to-sell-our-jets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (boxingalcibiades)0

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BPC Community Calendar

MOUNT VERNON – Here are some important events happening on campus at Brewton-Parker College in Mount Vernon.

Red Cross Blood Drive

The Lady Barons Basketball Team invites the community and BPC family to participate in an American Red Cross Blood Drive on the Mount Vernon campus, Thursday, September 9th. The drive will be held between 1:30 p.m. and 6 in the Red Cross Bloodmobile, which will be parked next to the Phillips Student Center. Call the Office of Student Affairs at 583-3206 for more information.

Voter Registration Drive

Brewton-Parker College’s Student Government Association will host Voter Registration Drive on campus this week and next to give students, faculty and staff a chance to register to vote in the upcoming elections. Deadline to register in the November Elections is October 4th. Absentee Ballots will also be available. Call E’Quain Rhodes at 583-3206 for more information.

Women’s Soccer Game

Come out and support the Women’s Soccer team this Saturday at 4:30 p.m. as they take on Savannah College of Art and Design. Admission is free. Go Barons! We are your Hometown College Team!

Coffee Shop brews Starbucks Coffee

Brewton-Parker College’s Coffee Shop in the Phillips Student Center proudly brews Starbucks Coffee. Coffee shop hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Community Lawn Sale and Chili Cook-off

The BPC Women’s Fellowship will host a Community Lawn Sale on the college’s front lawn Saturday, October 2. Call Mary Waalkes at 583-3110 to secure your booth site today. Cost is $20 for space and the seller keeps their profits. This event is a fundraiser to help support the BPC Chili Cook-off, which is raising funds for a new electronic sign for the campus. The Ladies invite chili cooking teams to enter its Third Annual Chili Cook-off, Saturday, Oct. 23. Mark your calendar for a fun, family time at the Mount Vernon campus where you can cast your vote for the Best Chili in the Surrounding Area. Call Jennifer Blaylock at 583-3210 for more information.

Brewton-Parker College is the only accredited four-year Christian college in south Georgia. The college offers bachelor’s and associate’s degrees at its main campus in Mount Vernon and external learning site in Newnan.

Brewton-Parker College News & Information
Brewton-Parker College | Located on U.S. 280 at 201 David-Eliza Fountain Circle, P. O. Box 197, Mount Vernon, GA 30445
with a site in Newnan
912-583-2241, 1-800-342-1087
Get directions to the main campus.
Contact Technology Services if you have any comments, questions or issues.

The mission of Brewton-Parker College, a Georgia Baptist college, is to develop the whole student through the application of Biblically-centered truth to a liberal arts curriculum in a community of shared Christian values.
Brewton-Parker College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate and baccalaureate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Brewton-Parker College.
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Mayor Brown / BPD Announce Chippewa Entertainment District Public Safety Plan

Mayor Reiterates Zero Tolerance of Criminal Conduct

BUFFALO – Mayor Byron W. Brown and Buffalo Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson today discussed aspects of the city's commitment to maintaining public safety in the Buffalo's downtown entertainment district, as well as elsewhere in the city.

"The recent violent behavior in the Chippewa Entertainment District is unacceptable and I will not tolerate anyone who resorts to violence here or anywhere else in the City of Buffalo," said Mayor Brown. "We will utilize every resource available to us, including the future deployment of 100 new Buffalo police officers, to ensure the safety of residents, business owners and visitors. Our response is consistent with my Administration's long established Zero Tolerance Public Safety policy, which targets criminal activity in any section of Buffalo and has contributed to a 6% drop in crime in the city over the past two years."

The Chippewa Entertainment District Public Safety Plan includes the deployment of the Buffalo Police Department's highly successful Mobile Response Unit, the utilization of the Department's new mobile surveillance security camera and the continuing monitoring and investigation of area businesses for compliance with city ordinances and state laws.

"We have thoroughly reviewed our operational plans concerning the downtown entertainment district and we've decided to increase our police presence to even a greater degree," said Commissioner Gipson. "That includes the addition of the mobile surveillance camera, the mobile command center and other initiatives that we're not at liberty to discuss for investigative reasons. We will continue to do whatever is necessary to ensure the safety and security of anyone visiting our downtown."

This activity is consistent with other multi-departmental actions that have taken place over the past two years including the expanded nationally award-winning Save Our Streets Task Force neighborhood "Clean Sweeps" and Mayor Brown's Working Against Violent Events effort that led to the September 2007 arrest of a suspected gunman responsible for two homicides on Buffalo's East Side.

"As I have stated repeatedly, I will not tolerate criminal activity anywhere in Buffalo," said Mayor Brown. "Whether it takes place in a city residential neighborhood where law abiding city residents have the right to live their lives in peace and comfort or in our city's Entertainment District, where city residents and visitors can come and expect to enjoy a night out without any concern for their personal safety. This is not a band-aid response to any specific incident. This is a reminder that the professional men and women of our Buffalo Police Department and other city agencies will perform their duties to the best of their ability and they will continue their excellent service on behalf of city residents, business owners and visitors."

Violent crime continues to decrease in the City of Buffalo. Through December, all four categories of violent crime – Homicide, Rape, Robbery and Assault – are down by 12% collectively versus the same time period in 2006.

The city's new 100 high-tech surveillance camera system and the Police Department's new police class, which will add approximately 100 new police officers to the Department by July 2008, will strengthen the Department's other ongoing anti-crime initiatives, including the ongoing and successful Mobile Response Unit, which is a specialized anti-crime unit that targets areas of high crime, illegal guns, gang activity and drug trafficking throughout Buffalo.

Since it began operations in January 2007, the MRU has made 2,638 arrests, issued 5,998 summonses, impounded 655 vehicles, seized $191,433 in cash and removed 165 illegal weapons from the streets.

The number of guns seized by the MRU is in addition to the 878 illegal guns that were removed from Buffalo streets in one day in June 2007 during the City's No Questions Asked Gun Buyback effort.


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Monday, April 25, 2011

Beautiful Blues

Images 1&5 - Unknown Image 2 - Ruthie Chapman Sommers  Image 3 - Rachel Smith Image 4 - House Beautiful Image 6 - Country Living

  1. some beautiful blue inspiration there!
    cheryl x

  2. A beautiful calming colour. Mimi xx

  3. Blue, it's classic and I love it :) Happy Easter Mandy, aren't all your gorgeous Belle & Boo products perfectly suited to Easter :)

    Wanted to let you know I'm passing on a LOVELY BLOG award to you. Being my first award, I'm not sure if all bloggers accept these awards but wanted to pay you the compliment regardless as I read your blog often. You can read more about it here if you like :) Nicolex

  4. I have been more friendly with this very refreshing and calm //marie

  5. that last bench is simply gorgeous! have a great new week, darling! xo

Thank you for visiting Brabourne Farm and for leaving your comments.


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Intermediate System (IS) is the terminology used to describe a router.

IS-IS does not use IP addresses to identify each IS.  Rather, OSI CLNS addressing is used.  Fundamentally, IS-IS does not use the IP protocol.  Rather, IS-IS uses it’s own L3 headers and leverages the Data Link layer directly.

CLNS (Connectionless Network Services) is a network layer protocol like the IP.  CLNS history comes from the 1980’s when it was still unclear whether IP or CLNS would be the defacto internetwork protocol.

In the 1980’s it was common for networks to have both OSI CLNS and IP application traffic.  Therefore, IS-IS was enhanced to be a single routing protocol that could support CLNS and IP concurrently.  IS-IS is open, flexible, extensible, and scalable.

Because IS-IS is not solely an IP protocol, IS-IS can easily be used for other non-IP applications, such as for Layer 2 routing implementations.  Example Cisco OTV, and Cisco FabricPath.

CLNS Addressing as the IS-IS router uses it, called the NET:

AREA (everything else) : SYSTEM ID  (6 bytes) : NSAP (1 byte)

Example:   49.1111.1000.1000.0001.00

AREA = 49.1111

SYSTEM ID = 1000.1000.0001

NSAP = 00

The SYSTEM ID is unique per AREA, however it may be simpler to also keep it unique across the network.

NSAP describes the upper layer protocol using — to address the IS-IS routing process on the router itself the NSAP is 00.  NSAP is analogous to the protocol number field in IP headers.

Two routers in the same AREA are considered intra-area and will form an L1 (Level 1) adjacency.

Two routers in the same AREA can form a Level 2 adjacency if their interfaces are explicitly configured for Level 2 only.

Two routers in a different AREA  are considered inter-area and will form a L2 (Level 2) adjacency.

Two routers in a different AREA will not be able to form Level 1 adjacencies.

By default, two Cisco IOS routers in the same AREA will form both and L1 and L2 adjacencies, unless their interfaces are configured otherwise.

interface serial 1/0

isis circuit-type (level 1, level2, or both)

Much like OSPF, the HELLO and HOLD timers do not need to match for neighbors to form.  Each IS-IS router declares its own HOLD time to its neighbors.

Much like OSPF, a designated router is elected on broadcast networks, called a DIS.  The DIS acts the pseudonode, just as the DR does in OSPF.

When IS routers exchange topology database information four types of packets are used:

Level 1 link state packets (LSP) – describe link state detail and information

Level 2 link state packets (LSP)

Complete sequence number packets (CSNP) – describe summary of  link states in data base

Similar to OSPF DD (database descriptor) packets

Partial sequence number packets (PSNP) – describe partial data base, or used to request LSPs

IS-IS supports several different metric values per link, Default metric, Expense metric, Delay metric, Error metric.

IP routing only uses the Default metric.

The other metrics are not commonly implemented.

IS-IS wide metrics is when the four metric fields are combined to together into a single large Default metric value

router isis

metric-style wide

IS-IS wide metric are required when using Tags

Wide metrics are required for MPLS traffic enginerring over IS-IS

Configuring some routers with wide metrics while others are not will break the network

To make the transition to wide metrics you can use ‘metric-style transition’ which allows an IS-IS router to accept both wide and narrow metric, presuming the metrics are within the narrow range.

router isis

metric-style transition

The default metric for an interface in Cisco IOS is 10.  The metric can be changed with the interface level command:

interface serial 1/0

isis metric

IS-IS provides the means to create logical flooding boundaries by breaking the network into one level 2 routing domain and multiple level 1 routing domains.

The one Level 2 routing domain could be analogous to OSPF Area 0

The multiple Level 1 routing domains could be analogous to other OSPF Areas

L1/L2 border routers will advertise all reachable IP destinations from their Level 1 domain into the Level 2 domain with a single Level 2 summary LSP describing the IP networks, much like an OSPF ABR and Type 3 LSA’s.

L1/L2 border routers will hide the topology detail of their Level 1 domain from the Level 2 domain (not flooding all of the Level 1 LSP information), much like an OSPF ABR.

L1/L2 border routers will not advertise IP destinations in the Level 1 domain learned from the Level 2.

A router with both L1 & L2 adjacencies does not automatically make it an L1/L2 border.

Only when an IS router is attached to another IS router advertising a domain (AREA) different than its own will it become an L1/L2 border

49.1111.1000.1000.0001.00  <—–>  49.2222.1000.1000.0002.00

The L1/L2 border router will set the “attached bit” in its LSP and flood that into the L1 domain.  The “attached bit” indicates it is connected to Level 2 and is an L1/L2 border.

If the Level 1 router receives a packet for a destination it cannot match with its own L1 topology information, it will look in its database for a router with the “attached bit” and send the packet to that router.

The L1/L2 border router does not generate or advertise a default route in the Level 1 area.

The Level 1 router upon seeing an LSP in its database with the “attached bit” will create a default route in its own IP routing table pointing to the L1/L2 border router.

Level 1 routers have no topology or IP reachability information outside of its area, which can sometimes lead to suboptimal routing for packets exiting the Level 1 area.

The L1/L2 border can be configured to “leak” specific IP reachability information (routes) into the Level 1 area to avoid suboptimal routing:

router isis

redistribute isis ip level-2 into level-1 distribute-list 100

access-list 100 permit ip any

Each IS router will re-flood its LSP’s every 20 minutes.  In a large IS-IS network, this is another good reason for area segmentation, as LSP’s will only be flood within their area.

In a large IS-IS network, you can also reduce the amount of LSP flooding traffic by increasing the LSP refresh interval, and increasing the LSP max age (lifetime).

router isis

lsp-refresh-interval (seconds, 1 to 65535)

max-lsp-lifetime (seconds, 1 to 65535)

Note: Be sure to set the LSP max lifetime to something higher than the LSP refresh interval

IS-IS over NBMA networks (Frame Relay)

One simple approach is to use point-to-point subinterfaces per DLCI.  Can waste IP address space in large nets.

Another approach is to use a the physical Frame Relay interface in a point-to-multipoint topology.

Cisco routers have IP inverse ARP for Frame Relay on by default – which helps for OSPF, but not IS-IS, since IS-IS uses CLNS, not IP.

To form IS-IS neighbors on NBMA point-to-multipoint networks (Frame Relay) you need to use frame relay map statements for CLNS.

interface serial 1/0

encapsulation frame-relay

frame-relay map clns 101 broadcast

Another best practice on NBMA point-to-multipoint topolgies with IS-IS is to define the Hub router as the DIS (designated router).  You can force spoke routers to never become the DIS.  On an NBMA or broadcast network all IS-IS routers will need to exchange LSP’s with the DIS.  In a NBMA network, the spokes usually do not have direct connectivity between each other, so its important that the Hub router always be elected the DIS.

hub-router# interface serial 1/0

isis priority 125

spoke-router# interface serial 1/0

isis priority 0

You can use the command ‘show clns interfaces‘ to verify which router is the DIS a given network/interface

IS-IS uses the CLNS selector byte to identify the DIS on a brodcast segment.  The IS-IS router uses the 00 value to identify itself, so this leaves values 1-255 available for DIS nodes this router has been elected to.

An IS-IS router can be the DIS on no more than 254 different broadcast networks.


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Bradley Insurance Group

Our Mission
Is You.

Every organization can produce better work guided by lofty standards. Sometimes it may seem impractical to live by core values in a world seemingly obsessed with power, prestige and fortune. In the pursuit of profit, corporations may feel compelled to cut corners or people, with too little attention paid to integrity and excellence.

At Bradley Insurance Group, we find that if we remain true to our client-centered mission, offer our clients support and excellent customer service, and go about our work together, living our core values, we are collectively rewarded with exceptional results and a better reputation.

Do You Feel This Protected?

We Know The Insurance Business

Bradley Insurance Group is a multiple lines, full service, independent insurance agency. We specialize in offering our clients the most comprehensive solutions to their insurance needs in Commercial and Personal lines, as well as Life and Health Benefits. President David Bradley began his career in 1976 and, along with his outstanding professional staff, Bradley Insurance Group has more than 125 years of combined experience.

As an independent insurance agency we work with many major insurance carriers, assuring our clients the best fit in quality products. Insurance is a “BIG” deal and we take pride in our exceptional service, from negotiating premiums with carriers to risk management and loss control to monitoring and assisting in the swift settlement of claims.


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Camtasia, Screen Recording

The Screen Recording Experiement

After a recent conversation with my buddy Jason, I decided to record a video to give him a quick refresher on how to update his site. In the past I’ve used Jing but I wanted something that did not have a time limit and had a bit more functionality. So, I decided this was a […]

Welcome to Brain Lava!

I will admit it, this site has been a very long time coming. Brain Lava is a domain that I registered many moons ago with the idea that I wanted it to be a place where I could share my technical thoughts. Over the years, however, I never seemed to find the time to create […]


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What is IBM Connect 2012 and why you need to pay attention to this event

On Episode 145 of the Taking Notes podcast Julian Robichaux and I spoke with three members of the IBM Collaboration Solutions (ICS) division about the brand new IBM Connect 2012 event being held in parallel with Lotusphere 2012. Our guests were Susan Collins, Marketing Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions and Social Business, Dan Hauenstein, Manager, Social Business Marketing Strategy and Michelle Tuttle, Market Segment Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions.

We talked about:

  • What is Connect?
  • Where and when it is.
  • Why you need to go to Connect.
  • Who also should attend Connect.
  • What kind of sessions there will be.
  • Who the Connect OGS speaker will be (Awesome choice).
  • Surprises people may see/hear about at Connect.
  • How attendees will be “transformed” by attending this event.
  • We ask about the Lotusphere OGS speaker and get an answer.
  • What attendees do at IBM Connect.
  • and more…

Keep up with the latest on the IBM Connect conference by following the IBM Social Insights Blog or the Twitter hashtags #IBMConnect and #IBMSocialBiz.

The show runs just under 27 minutes and is a great listen while wrapping your holiday gifts, trimming the Christmas tree or working on your P90X.

Listen now >

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This was found in Bryan’s drafts… enjoy.  “My kids and I loved watching this video together, and you will too! Simply stunning the kinds of life our oceans hold…”

Video  —  Posted: June 14, 2013 in Uncategorized

During a search of Bryan’s unpublished blog posts, the following draft was found.  Bryan wrote this in the summer of 2011.  This is how he should be remembered:  a wonderful husband, a loving father, a humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a fun-loving dad, as evidenced by his words here…

I want us to be a camping family – big time.  But the first step to get little kids camping is to do it inside first.  We got the tent up in our playroom.  Now we need to actually spend the night out there.  We’ll roast marshmallows in the fireplace and sing nutty old songs.  The A/C and running water is nice.  Real nice.  And no blood suckers.

This photograph was selected for the post because it was taken around the time that Bryan originally wrote it.  Please continue to be in prayer for Christy, Hannah, Logan, and Noah, Bryan’s beloved wife and 3 beautiful children whom he loved very, very much…and find ways to help them now and in the future.

Getting What You Don’t Ask For

Posted: February 25, 2013 in Inspiration

csa-soldier-2I asked God for strength, that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.

I asked God for health, that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.

I asked for riches, that I might be happy; I was given poverty, that I might be wise.

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life; I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing that I asked for but everything I had hoped for.

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am among men, most richly blessed.

– Unknown Civil War soldier

Great 5 minute video of Jerry Seinfeld showing his comedic genius.  Joke-telling really is an art form…and a whole lot of work to boot.  Especially when you have to write about nothing.

anxietyHere’s a summary of Tim Keller’s powerful sermon: Praying our Fears, based on Psalm 3:

There are 2 types of fear:
1. Fear: a healthy response to danger, which drives us to fight or flight, and then is gone.
2. Anxiety: a lingering, generalized, undefined sense of fear which paralyzes us.

If fear is a thunderstorm, anxiety is a constant, cold drizzle: the first produces green growth, the second mildew. Fear can be good for us – it gets us out of danger! – but anxiety makes us agitated, nervous and upset. Constant anxiety can permanently turn on our autonomic nervous system, which is only meant to respond to crises, and so lead to all kinds of health issues.

What causes this second, debilitating kind of fear is not a threat to life or safety, but a threat to our identity: when something that makes us feel in control is threatened or taken away. In Psalm 3 David faces both kinds of fear: the physical threat from Absalom’s armies, and the threat to his identity as the beloved, honored, upright king of his people.

But how do we escape from this second, debilitating kind of fear? 4 ways:

1. Follow your thread.
David describes God as a “shield around me” (Ps 3:1): a full-body shield which curves around the body, meant not for hand-to-hand combat but for following your commander into situations of extreme danger. If you turn and run, the shield won’t protect you. It’s only useful when you’re heading into danger. Obedience takes us not away from fear, but through and beyond our fear.

2. Relocate your glory.
David says, literally, “but you are my glory” (Ps 3:3). He says “but…” because something else has become his glory: he has built his emotional and psychological identity on something other than God. When we put our worth and security in something finite, out there in time and space, we are always vulnerable. So we need to relocate our glory: not in our talents or our role, or others’ opinion of us, but in God’s approval.

3. See the substitute.
But how do we know we have God’s approval? David says that God hears him because of his “holy hill”, the temple (Ps 3:4), the symbol of our Savior Jesus. Our significance doesn’t come from what we have achieved or what we have, but from Jesus, the one who was cut off from God so we don’t have to be.

4. Remember the people.
The opposite of fear is not an absence of fear, but love (1 Jn 4:18 cf Ps 3:8). Fear is self-centered, love is other-centered. You can’t deal with fear by yourself: you have to get your mind off yourself by serving others in love.

So here’s the solution to fear:

  • Go forward in obedience, whatever the cost
  • Seek identity in God alone
  • Look to the cross, where your significance comes from
  • Forget yourself in love for others

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Pitchers and catchers report in just a few days!  To get us in the spirit, here are Jimmy Fallon, Billy Crystal, and Jerry Seinfeld revisiting Abbott & Costello’s classic “Who’s On First?” routine, where we finally get to meet the team’s first-baseman “Who,” second-baseman “What,” and third-baseman “I Don’t Know.”  Enjoy!

skinnerTom Skinner, an African American minister from inner-city New York, in a 1970 sermon concluded by comparing Jesus to Barabbas.  Barabbas was also a revolutionary. He said “The Roman system stinks, it’s militaristic, it’s oppressive.” And Jesus would have agreed. The difference between Jesus and Barabbas was in their solution. Barabbas wanted change within the system. Jesus wanted to change the system entirely.

So why release Barabbas instead of Jesus?

“Very simple: if you let Barabbas go, you can always stop him. The most Barabbas will do is go out, round up another bunch of guerrillas and start another riot. And you will always stop him by rolling your tanks into his neighborhood, bringing out the National Guard and putting his riot down. Find out where he is keeping his ammunition. Raid his apartment without a search warrant and shoot him while he is still asleep. You can stop Barabbas.

But how do you stop Jesus? They took and nailed him to a cross. But they did not realize that, in nailing Jesus to the cross, they were putting up on that cross the sinful nature of all humanity. As Christ was nailed to the cross, it was more than just a political radical dying; He was God’s answer to the human dilemma. On that cross Christ was bearing in His own body my sin, and He was proclaiming my liberation on that cross. And on that cross He shed his blood to cleanse me of all my sin, to set me free. They took and buried Him, rolled a stone over His grave, wiped their hands and said, ‘That is one radical who will never disturb us again. We have gotten rid of him. We will never hear any more of his words of revolution.’

Three days later Jesus Christ pulled off one of the greatest political coups of all time: He got up out of the grave. When He arose from the dead, the Bible now calls him the Second Man, the New Man, the Leader of a new creation. A Christ who has come to overthrow the existing order and to establish a new order that is not built on man.

Keep in mind, my friend, with all your militancy and radicalism, that all the systems of men are doomed to destruction. All the systems of men will crumble and, finally, only God’s kingdom and His righteousness will prevail. You will never be radical until you become part of that new order and then go into a world that’s enslaved, a world that’s filled with hunger and poverty and racism and all those things of the work of the devil.

Proclaim liberation to the captives, preach sight to the blind, set at liberty them that are bruised, go into the world and tell men who are bound mentally, spiritually and physically, “The liberator has come!”


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‘Be responsible in using Internet’

  • Students using the Internet to register during the UK Education Exhibition. The Minister of Energy at the Prime Minister’s Office said Brunei’s surveillance agency will monitor online activities during the 10th Legislative Council sitting yesterday. BT file

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

THE Internal Security Department (ISD) and Authority of Info-communications Technology will stay alert in monitoring online activities, the Minister of Energy at the Prime Minister’s Office said.

Yang Berhormat Pehin Datu Singamanteri Colonel (Rtd) Dato Seri Setia Hj Mohd Yasmin Hj Umar said Internet abuse such as slandering and spreading negative images should be dealt with before they become threats to the stability of the country.

[RTB digital TV broadcasting expanding nationwide; Call to set guidelines for government websites and other stories from LegCo 2014 here]

The minister was responding to Legislative Council member YB Pehin Orang Kaya Maharaja Kerna Dato Paduka Seri Haji Yaakub Pehin Orang Kaya Maharaja Diraja Dato Paduka Hj Zainal’s query whether the ISD conducts surveillance on complaints and defamatory remarks on social media.

YB Dato Hj Mohd Yasmin said unhealthy activities such as defamation, provocation, incitement and spreading negative images posed huge problems as they can quickly spread among the public.

The minister acknowledged that hacking and spreading viruses are some of the challenges which needs to be addressed as they keep growing from day to day.

He said such activities are not only targeting individuals, but also organisations, including the government itself.

In addition, he said youths are the most vulnerable to cyber crimes, which know no age boundaries.

The minister said exposure to negative articles or video clips can affect their thinking, in terms of their moral and religious values.

The responsibility of regulating the use of Internet should not be shouldered by government agencies alone, he said.

“As consumers, we must adopt a responsible attitude by not participating in discussions and spread (information) which are negative.

“As parents or guardians, we will need to take part in reminding (those under our care) to be cautious and not to be involved in unhealthy activities that violate laws and teachings of Islam when using the Internet,” he added.

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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Gary Delgado will give the talk, "Democracy, Detention and Dirty Tricks," Monday, March 1, at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University.

The lecture, which is free to the public, is the final event in the Social Science Colloquium Series, "Higher Education and Civic Engagement: Fulfilling the Promise."

Delgado, who will discuss government intervention and tensions between national security and individual liberties in a post- September 11 society, is executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC).

Founder and director of the Center for Third World Organizing and leader in the National Welfare Rights Organization, Delgado has worked extensively with the activist and academic communities around issues of race and poverty. ColorLines, the nation's leading magazine on race, culture, and organizing, is published by ARC.

He has worked as a lead organizer with the National Welfare Rights Organization and as one of the initial organizers of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 750 neighborhood chapters in more than 60 cities across the country.

A scholar-in-residence at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California Berkeley, he also is a board member of the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute. His analytical work includes over 30 articles and studies on social change practice.

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Friday, November 28, 2008

AVR controllers built

I thought I best actually post rather than just lurking.

I have got my stepper controllers built , now for firmware.

How I got my avr programming kit up and running

Monday, November 24, 2008

120 parts built so far! Which includes a reasonably complete set of 90 printed Darwin parts; everything except the jigs and molds for the toothed belt pulleys, minus a few parts that I didn't use myself (like the foot spacer). I'd suggest spending the $10 on some quality toothed pulleys, as that will save you a lot of hassling with broken pulleys.

The quality is not perfect, but these parts work. My extruder has built most of these parts using several extruded parts built by previous incarnations of itself. You can expect to have to do some work with a needle file on a few of these though, just as I had to with my original cast parts, but overall I think they're quite good. Some of the larger parts have noticeable warping, but nothing too critical.

So, who wants em? I'll let them go for the cost of materials (roughly $30) plus shipping. More importantly though, I'm looking for someone who's relatively local (Toronto, or even Vancouver), and serious about building a RepRap. That way I'll be able to help out with the build, and replace any parts that get broken. There's nothing worse than having a broken part that prevents you from printing out a replacement for said broken part.

Send me a note at wbortz at gmail dot com if you're interested; extra points if you've already got the electronics up and running. :)

Wade Bortz

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

History Repeats Itself

Smug in the knowledge that I'd outsmarted this particular pitfall, I still managed to get caught by the very problem I thought I'd fixed.

The other night I noticed my Darwin had shut down just after laying down the raft for the X carriage. The error log showed that my temperature sanity check had been triggered, so I went down to the lab to check on things.

At first glance it looked like the PTFE insulator simply failed...

However, once I peeled off the insulation, the thermocouple popped right off the heater, as did most of the JB weld. Oops. So, similar to what happened to Nophead's extruder, my thermocouple came loose, causing my heater to overheat, which in my case caused the heater barrel to melt its way out of the PTFE insulator.

The sanity check did catch it, and prevented any further damage from occurring, but it didn't catch it quite in time to prevent wrecking the PTFE insulator. Which is too bad; I've managed to print over 80 parts so far, and only had 4 more large parts to go (plus a handfull of small bits) for a complete set of printed Darwin parts.

Ah well, back to the drawing board. Next up is fire cement!

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Remote Printing

Recently I've had a number of questions about my build setup, so I thought I'd blog it so the rest of you could see it.

I'm at the point now where my Darwin runs more or less unattended at night. I still don't trust it completely though. It's not that I'm worried its going to take over the lab; I'm worried it's going to break something and make a big mess as it extrudes plastic all over the place.

So, I set up a web cam to keep an eye on it. Pretty obvious, actually. The neat part is though, what with the fancy cellphones available these days, I can keep an eye on my Darwin from anywhere I've got cell access, via the magic of VNC. I can start and stop ReplicatorG from anywhere, and even cycle the Arduino power by rebooting my computer remotely. Even more importantly, it makes a great conversation starter at parties. :) Once I've sorted out the intricacies of gphoto2 and gtkam on Linux, I'll post a link where the rest of you can check it out online.

I'm also a little concerned about the JB weld giving out soon and causing the heater to go overboard while I'm away, so I incorporated Nophead's idea of a thermocouple sanity check in the firmware. If the heater has been on full blast for 10 s and the temperature hasn't increased, I shut everything down and throw an error message. So far so good; it responds nicely to random pulling of thermocouple wires. There's a special case of an intermittent but mostly off failure that it would miss, but I'm not going to worry about that yet.

Finally, I got tired of having to untwist or unkink the filament feed, so borrowing Andy's idea, I bolted a coffee can (I bought the Illy brand specifically because I wanted the nice cans it comes in!) to some plexiglass (it was handy), and hung it from the ceiling with some damaged kite lines (the Cabarete locals are infamous for tangling kites) and a jury rigged swivel (it was handy). Works perfectly – I haven't touched it since I set it up, and no more twisting or kinking.

Now I just have to stop by the lab every once in a while to collect the parts, clean the bed, and start the next batch. Life is good!

Sunday, November 02, 2008

A tale of two rulers

In which your narrator gets mired in the no-man's-land between SI and U.S. customary units...

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  • This is an archive page showing previous discussions and is used to prevent my talkpage exceeding a sensible number of sections.
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I solved the Decodémon puzzle. Bobtherandomguy 19:31, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Yay! the treasure of krakoshi is saved! OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 19:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Have this as a gift: {{User:Origamiguy/Prizes/User Decodemon}} OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 15:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Link templates. Use them. They rock. 281Tinaδ281s 18:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Use them. Follow shortlinks. TTEchidna 22:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Please, don't put spam like WTF on pages, even if you do put them inside <!-- & -->. That's still considered vandalism. Don't do it again. --Theryguy512 23:15, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

yes okay but srsly, why does a male character have a female voice actor? OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz
Ask PUSA. Not us. 493OptimatumTalk|12:58 11 Mar 2008
That's Pokémon USA right? OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 15:24, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Who else. 493OptimatumTalk|13:26 12 Mar 2008

tell me, how do i stop there being a contents box on my user page? OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz

You could try inserting a __NOTOC__ code on your page. --Shiningpikablu252 23:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
danke schön (thankyou). i will use it as soon as my userpage is returned and we can edit them OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 15:01, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
and still waiting....OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 15:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

when can we have our userpages back????? OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz

NO. PL12 16:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Userspace should be back soon enough, as will userspace editing. Just be patient. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 16:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Origamiguy there's a new sig policy and you can olnly have text in your sig. Sorry, I had to change mine too(and so did everyone else) --Moisesmorales 22:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

See, I got it. Here's the policy:

  • All signatures will be text-only and not exceed 80 characters on-screen when rendered.
  • No line breaks.
  • The font size of the signature will be no larger than the font size of normal text.
  • No signature templates.
  • A link to the user page, at minimum, and a link to the user talk page is recommended.

--Moisesmorales 22:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

okay, but userpage edits aren't allowed yet (for me anyhow).OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz
>_> It says 'The font size of the signature will be no larger than the font size of normal text'. I don't think you should use the <big> tags. Tina δ 17:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
i'm just making the word "guy" the same size as "origami". OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz
So long as it doesn't stretch the line vertically, there's no problem. <big> tags in normal text are a no-no, <big> tags in <sup> tags also stretch it, but from what I can see, it's not causing harm in the <sub> tags, so it's fine. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 21:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

What is the point of your caged mudkipz?PL12 15:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

It's a collection, coz i liekz 'em! Donate one and maybe it will be the most mudkipz'd page on the web! OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 15:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm hatching your mudkip right now. Click one the "1" in my sig to get my friend code.PL12 16:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I think you don't understand. These here are e-'kipz. You do not have to send me a mudkip on diamond/pearl (i'm running out of PC space anyway), just add a mudkip to the page and sign your name. OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 17:00, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
i see you have added one. please, take the userpage tag: {{User_talk:Origamiguy/Prizes/User Donated Mudkip}}. OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 14:13, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Just so you know, (I had to look it up myself too,) the American Style of Grammar states that "All periods and commas belong inside the quotation marks." MoldyOrange 22:53, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

But you are from the UK and that is probably why you changed it! MoldyOrange 22:54, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
yes. -- OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 09:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

just a test

I can make edits with my phone! OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 17:00, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Darkrai breeder

No! quiet! Since he joined, that means that he confessed that it doesn't exist. so this is all over!•Pokemaniac102 19:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

-But he's still tied to his word that it does! Remember u can't edit userpages, thus the template still exists on his page! So he's an unofficial non-believer! IT'S NOT OVER!--KukiTalk 19:13, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

You're still talking about that fake Pokemon which as I said is what he wants. The whole GNBA gives him attention too. JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. Porygon-Z 19:09, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I'll stop, going to give my dog a bath...•Pokemaniac102 19:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

warning dude

there is a storm coming for you--DaRkRaIbReEdEr LiEkS rOtOm 23:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry. The storm's been blocked for six months. --Shiningpikablu252 23:36, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
May I be the first to say. OHHH ZING!!!User:Darth Cookie Monster 01:04, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
LOL OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 14:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Can we have a page which lists which users are currently blocked, and for how long? I just wanna be the first to know when darkraibreeder is unblocked so we can see whether he took an anger management course. OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 14:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Special:Ipblocklist is the page you're looking for. --Shiningpikablu252 17:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

hey.. put {{subst:welcome}} instead of just {{Welcome}} please. MoldyOrange 18:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

whats the subst bit for? OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 16:01, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
It substitutes the template for the full coding, so when the new user checks their talk page, they don't get all confused by the lack of actual words there. Also, it lets the welcome template be edited without having to update it on userpages (seeing as its on every user's talk page). -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 17:59, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
kthx, now i know, i'll use it.OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz

Japanese Pokémon Name Redirects

Only redirect a Pokémon's Japanese name to a species page if that Pokémon does not have a disambiguation page. If a Pokémon has a disambiguation page, the disambig is the correct target for the Japanese name, not the species page. --Shiningpikablu252 14:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

If anything in the above comment confused you, here's a little routine you can try: Type in the English name you're seeking. If it's a redirect, create the Japanese name redirect to target the species page. If the English name is a disambig, create the Japanese name redirect to target the disambig.

If the Japanese name is already a disambig, link a new entry as follows:

  • The Japanese name of {{p|<English name>}}

And if the Japanese name links to something else, create a new disambig similar to the one for Thunder. Hopefully this clears things up. --Shiningpikablu252 04:17, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Don't Do It!

Don't make numbers redirect to particular Pokemon! It's bad and unpractical because it depends on which Pokedex you use. For example, number 001 can belong to Bulbasaur, Chikorita, Treecko, Turtwig or Pichu, depending on Pokedex models. So, please DON'T DO IT. --Maxim 15:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

If you were going to make pages for each 'Dex number, I would suggest disambiguation pages leading to each of the corresponding Pokémon... sort of like TM01, etc... -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 21:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
006 got deleted cause some1 did that - still sure? OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 09:50, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Just checked the deletion log on that one... the deleted page wasn't a disambiguation page, it was just a plain redirect (like it is now). TTE deleted it because there were too many 6's out there (route 6, ndex 006, hdex 006, etc). I think if someone(s) would be willing to make disambiguation pages for each number, that would be pretty helpful... people might search for dex numbers all the time, but you can't be sure which dex they were aiming for. (normally national dex, but not always.) I think disambiguations would be really helpful. Maybe I can manage something on 001 as a test/example. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 17:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Not just Pokédex numbers in the disambig, also EP001, AG001, DP001. Zurqoxn 18:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Grah, that's a lot of links. Still even more reason for disambiguation pages. Porygon-Z just informed me to 151, which is also a theme song in the anime... I made a disambiguation of it, and something like that could do nicely for the rest of the numbers. Let me go expand it for the anime too; there's a few episode 151's, right? -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 18:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Never fear - {{Number Redirects}} is here! I'll do the redirects, i want to help the world of bulbapedia grow, and show that i can do good in this world. thats right - all 493 of them OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 16:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks good. And another benefit of the SUBST is if we need to change part of the formatting, we can sic Bulbabot on the whole thing. Don't forget that for the really high numbers, like, 400+, I don't think there are any other episodes or Pokédex numbers that high, so you can simply redirect the page. (and if any of the episodes catch up, we simply edit the redirect page to turn it into a disambig page.) -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 16:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

girlfriend help

(continued on Current) uhh guys.... theres this girl in my school who ive got a huge crush on, but i dont know how to ask her out. any ideas? --OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 12:08, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Just be straight-forward! (: Thats what i did when i asked out my girlfriend...Then again, we were really good friends before we started going out so yeah...Just don't be nervous, and ask her when you think the time is right? Or just be really nice too her, become good friends with her (if your not already) and show her your a nice person (: Takoto タコト| サソデイ = 愛 19:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
As a girl myself, I suggest flirting and kindness. PL12 21:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
\You have 2 choices. Be direct about it, or show her you are a nice person, aka hold the door, help her in school work, TALK TO HER, and suchC is for Cookie 21:23, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Come to her SLOWLY. Get close to her, become her friend. THEN MAKE YOUR MOVE•Pokemaniac102 21:34, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice guys, i'm working on building up friendship at the moment OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 11:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Just make sure you've still got your virginity after you're over with her. Crushes can last from one day to three years. It's the Θρtιmαtum♏Talk|Links13:32 4 Jun 2008
I'm 15 and my birthday is in march so i dont think thats gonna be a problemOrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 11:49, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
And I know about crushes lasting a while - i had a crush on someone else for 2 years. I got rejected so i moved on.OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 15:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
And i'm happy because i saw her (the current crush) whilst i had a random box of chocolates in my pocket. I offered her a few, and she was more than pleased to take them. BINGO! :) OrigamiGuy-Talk-Contribs-Mudkipz 15:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


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Pure Play Streets Immoral's ‘Slumber Party Volume 10’

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—It seems that whenever something new is put to work, it needs to be broken in to do so comfortably. Shoes, horses, jeans, baseball gloves–and porn starlets. Fortunately for newbies who want to do convincing and appealing girl/girl scenes, Sindee Jennings is ready, willing, and more than able to do the breaking… and make them love the process and the results.

Immoral Productions’ CEO Dan Leal said, ”In order for a new girl in the adult industry to get good at doing girl/girl or lesbian porn they need to find a mentor or someone to train them. Sindee Jennings may well be one of the best possible women in the adult industry to break in a newbie. She squirts like crazy, can fit huge objects in her pussy, and loves to eat pussy. Other girls should be honored to be trained by a true pro like Sindee.”

The tenth volume in this girl-girl series from Immoral Productions continues features Sindee Jennings and Vicki Chase teaming up to teach theAshleeHillsto love pussy as much as they do. Then Sindee, Amber Ashlee and Chastity Lynn train Molly Rae in their own special lesbian way, and in the finale, Sindee teams up with two of the top girl-girls in porn, Aiden Ashley and Vicki Chase, as they truly put diminutive Kelly Klass through the paces.

Jenningsproclaimed, “I had such a good time breaking in these new girls with my friends. There is nothing I like more than teaching a girl to love pussy like I do.”

As with all Immoral Productions releases, it is being distributed by Pure Play Media. National sales manager Bill Rix stated, “Sindee Jennings and her friends truly do break in these new girls. I am sure that none of them will ever forget this experience."

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LOS ANGELES—X-rated gonzo sensation Sophie Dee landed the cover, a six-page layout and an interview in the April issue of adult video fan magazine Xcitement. The magazine features an in-depth question-and-answer piece with Dee written by journalist and webmistress Cindi Loftus.

"Sophie is beautiful, smart and funny, and I really enjoyed getting to finally hear her voice after talking to her via email and Twitter for over a year," Loftus said. "After I saw how amazingly beautiful she looked at the AVN awards, I just knew she was worthy of a cover. After I learned more about her career in adult and in mainstream I couldn't wait to do the interview. She has so many exciting things going on in her life, and we had a lot to talk about. Plus, I really wanted her views on interracial porn, so we talked about that quite a bit too."

Dee, who will be featured in the upcoming Ricky Longdick & The Golden Error of Porn, said she was excited to connect with her fans through the interview. "The fans know me as a very energetic performer, but I know there's a lot of curiosity about who I am when I'm not on set," Dee said. "Talking with Cindi gave me a chance to give those fans that chance and I enjoyed it. She's extremely knowledgeable about the work I've done and I think most fans will find my spread in Xcitement an interesting read."

Sophie Dee's websites are and; her myspace page is She also periodically performs on webcam at Fans can also follow her on Twitter at

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