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Everything Else / New Video Game law
« on: June 01, 2005, 11:41:18 AM »
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/05/31/video.games.ban.ap/index.html

They're at it again.  It sounds like it'll never stand up in court.  The only reason I'm posting it at all is because it includes the over-dramatic line: "Don't let them become the monsters that we see in these violent games," Democratic Rep. Monique Davis said.

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Robison E. Wells / Utah Library Association
« on: May 03, 2005, 06:41:36 PM »
So, as I mentioned a long time ago, I'm a guest speaker at the Utah Library Association's annual conference next week.  They haven't really given me a topic to speak on.  Any suggestions?

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Brandon Sanderson / For Sale
« on: April 25, 2005, 12:08:52 PM »
Well, I hopped on Amazon and bought the book.  If I don't like it, I expect a full refund -- which I will take out of your hide.

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Everything Else / Moving
« on: April 15, 2005, 03:03:00 PM »
So, I'm moving tomorrow.  If anyone wants to help, I'd love to have you.  I don't have much to offer, except blessings in heaven (I've got lots of them -- I'll be handing them out when you come).

I've got plenty of help moving out of my old place, but I'm hurting on help moving into the new.

The address:
1601 W. Foxpark Dr., #6J
West Jordan, UT

(Take the 90th South exit on I-15, and head west to 1600 W -- the first street before Redwood Road.)

About 11:30am.

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Everything Else / New Toy
« on: April 11, 2005, 05:48:36 PM »
So, I'm getting a neat new design program at work that's heavy on the 3D end, so my manager just bought me a new high-powered laptop.  It arrived today.  I'm very pleased.

Here's the basics:
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Intel® Pentium® M Processor 735 (1.7GHz) w/ 15.4 WXGA Display Qty: 1

Latitude D800 Intel® Pentium® M Processor 735 (1.7GHz) w/ 15.4 WXGA Display
D817DX


Memory 2048MB,DDR SDRAM 2 DIMMS
2048M

Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX Go5200 4XAGP w/ 64MB DDR Video Memory
64MB

Hard Drive 60GB,HD,9.5MM,5400RPM
60D54

Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, SP1, with media
XPPRO1

Modular Bay Devices 8-24-24-24X SWDVD/CDRW Combo Drive
24XCMBO

Wireless Local Area Networking Options Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) miniPCI Card
DW1350

Battery 9 CELL PRIMARY BATTERY
9C

Carrying Cases NYLON DELUXE CASE
NC

Docking Solutions D/Port Advanced Port Replicator
D-Family Monitor Stand
DPORT
DMON

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Suggestions Box / Hey Tage
« on: April 10, 2005, 07:58:55 PM »
For some reason, Urchin's acting funny on both TWG and my site.  It hasn't updated since Friday.  Any ideas?

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Site News / Hey Fell
« on: March 21, 2005, 10:47:35 PM »
What's your Windows Messenger name?

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Writing Group / Hey Stacer
« on: March 14, 2005, 02:00:10 PM »
So, the other day I was talking to another LDS author on another internet forum, and I referred to her books as YA.  She got really annoyed and told me that they weren't YA, they were middle-grade fiction, and it makes her really mad when people don't differentiate.

So, my question is: is she just really picky?  Or is there a significant difference?

(Knowing her, my vote is that she's just really picky.)

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Everything Else / That's hilarious
« on: February 11, 2005, 01:52:16 PM »
I just replied to a music thread, and used the phrase 'snig gering 14 year old' (although snig gering was all hooked together, as it should be), and the word was replaced with 'sblack personing'.  

It took me a minute to figure it out.  I've been laughing and laughing ever since.

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Everything Else / Disabled Truck Drivers
« on: January 19, 2005, 12:34:09 PM »
So, I work at a wholesale lumber yard.  We never have public customers come in, just truck drivers from other companies.  To pick up their loads, they come in the office, sign paperwork, and then drive around back.  They unstrap their trucks (usually semi's), a forklift loads it up, and then they re-strap everything good and tight.

So anyway, we recently remodeled the office, and building codes insist that we make the truck driver area handicap-accesible -- we're on ground level, so there's no need for ramps or anything, but we had to build two-foot-tall counter, so that truck drivers in wheelchairs would be able to sign their paperwork.

Does this seem odd to anyone else?  Maybe somewhere there's a wheelchaired truck driver, but even if there was, he couldn't pick anything up from us, because he wouldn't be able to strap his loads.

Kinda screwy.  Even so, we built the short little counter, just in case.

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Rants and Stuff / Men, as a general rule...
« on: January 11, 2005, 01:00:24 PM »
So, as I've said before, I work in a lumber yard.  Of the thirty-or-so employees we have on site, only three of them are women.  It always makes me laugh when women come into the office (which is a very rare occurance), because the guys trip over themselves to cater to her every whim.  

So today a new woman is interviewing for a sales job, and she's young and blonde and very attractive, and the guys here are treating her like she's the Queen.  Several guys, who normally are fairly grumpy, volunteered to take her on a tour of this or that, and she always has a group of guys around her, making fools of themselves.  However, since the whole industry like this, I think she'd do an awesome job in sales.

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Rants and Stuff / Favorite Obscure Place No One Has Ever Heard Of
« on: January 04, 2005, 03:55:00 PM »
...or cares about, for that matter.

I choose "Best Chicken", a little Greek place on State Street.

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Movies and TV / Phantom of the Opera
« on: December 22, 2004, 03:30:26 PM »
Here's a line from Ebert's review.  I think it's really funny:

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There was something unwholesome and pathetic about the 1925 Phantom, who scuttled like a rat in the undercellars of the Paris Opera and nourished a hopeless love for Christine. The modern Phantom is more like a perverse Batman with a really neat cave.

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Everything Else / Technical advice needed:
« on: December 09, 2004, 04:55:45 PM »
So, my wife wants to record my daughter singing, and burn it on a CD.  I have a CD burner, so that's taken care of, but I have no idea how to record her and make an audio file.  Anyone have any idea?  Do I need extra software (ie, stuff that isn't standard on Win XP)?

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Rants and Stuff / Pleurisy
« on: November 26, 2004, 01:04:32 PM »
So, I don't really expect this to generate a lot of conversation, but I just wanted to rant.

I've been sick for three weeks.  It started as a stomach flu type thing, with a lot of vomiting and a high fever.  That lasted about five days, and then the fever broke, and I got feeling better -- a slight cough developed, but nothing serious.

And then the cough got worse and worse, to the point where breathing became a problem, and I would cough uncontrollably until I vomited.  (I'm sure you all want to know this.)  Also: I can't walk thirty feet without being completely winded -- whereupon the coughing starts up again.

So I went to the doctor, and he said it was probably a viral infection, which means that there's really nothing he could do for me.  He gave me a cough medicine with codeine to help me sleep (which works, kind of).

And then I started getting sharp chest pains.  And it got worse and worse to the point where I can hardly stand up.  The doctor has diagnosed this as pleurisy, which is an inflammation in the lining between the ribs and the lungs.  And it hurts like fricking heck.  (As a matter of fact, yesterday, trying to get the house ready for Thanksgiving, I was trying to move the kitchen table.  It was the first time in my nearly five-year marraige my wife has ever heard me swear.  I can't even tell you how much this thing hurts.)

Anyway, I'm at work today, because this thing has been going on for three weeks, and I only have a very limited number of sick days.  I took Wednesday off and Thanksgiving, of course, hoping that I would be all rested up and feeling good, but this just keeps hanging on.  I'm looking forward to the weekend, and doing nothing.

Anyway, there's my rant.  It's a good thing I have a lot of pumpkin pie around the house, or this would be unbearable.

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