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No Normal Person Is Ever Finished Moving

Posted on November 13, 2011 by ehurst

The worst is over, now. All the stuff we intended to keep is now in another place. Most of those places are fairly appropriate, for now. There are a few items still sitting in inconvenient places, but don’t expect to … Continue reading →

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Hatred for Those Who Don't Hurt

Posted on November 12, 2011 by ehurst

There are few things more threatening to wealth, and civilization itself, than mandatory ritual mourning. On 19 April 1995 I was standing near a large plate glass window on the second floor of a college classroom building, high atop a … Continue reading →

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Great Aspirations

Posted on November 11, 2011 by ehurst

All my life, I’ve never been happier than digging ditches or stumps. Too bad I can’t get paid for it. I’m not competitive in the market right now. I’m too slow with the digging and nobody does trees by hand … Continue reading →

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Short Attention Span

Posted on November 10, 2011 by ehurst

Washington’s Blog notes correctly much of what we see today has been in the works far longer than most people realize. From my earliest memories, I have always been trying to see the forest, and not just the trees. Something … Continue reading →

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Work and Play on the Computer

Posted on November 9, 2011 by ehurst

Much discussion and gnashing of teeth over at Slashdot on Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? Yes, we do. That is, unless our only contact with computers is as phones and tablets, which is apparently now the majority. So … Continue reading →

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Curmudgeonry for the Week

Posted on November 8, 2011 by ehurst

Just a quick laundry list of short items. 1. We are trying to bring Afghanistan under the boot heel of our empire, on one level. We could win, but we won’t. The single greatest factor is incomprehensible to the military … Continue reading →

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Picking a Church

Posted on November 7, 2011 by ehurst

My wife and believe we have found a place which can tolerate us. Every church is first and foremost a human political organization. Okay, that’s redundant, since all human organization is inherently political. Shorn of emotional imbuing, “politics” is the … Continue reading →

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What's Shaking? Oklahoma Edition

Posted on November 6, 2011 by ehurst

Here in central Oklahoma, we are down at the southern tip of the Humboldt Fault. I know a little about seismology. It became a childhood fascination after we moved to Anchorage, Alaska just a year following the Bad Friday Earthquake … Continue reading →

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If I Could, I Would

Posted on November 5, 2011 by ehurst

Yep, if I had as much money as he does: [Ventura] vowed to apply for Mexican citizenship so he can live there more months of the year…. “I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my … Continue reading →

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Windows 7: Converting Flash Videos to MP3 Music Files

Posted on November 5, 2011 by ehurst

While some of the same tools are available for both Linux and Windows, there is simply no point learning the command line stuff in converting Flash videos on Windows. The hardest part is learning how to search the cache for … Continue reading →

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