Category Archives: personal

Reducing Baggage

When you really need it, you try to make a way to carry it. Otherwise, you try to pick out the one best of a collection and stick with that. I’m trying to unload things which, in my best estimate, … Continue reading

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Let’s Clarify Torture

Update: See below. You can ramble on for days about official definitions, provisions, and every other semantic weaseling you like, but we all know what torture is. Any honest definition includes using fear, repulsion, hatred, pain and other highly emotional … Continue reading

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It’s Tiring

No, not the trail work. It’s making progress, but I usually talk about it when there’s nothing else going on around here. Nor do I refer to the allergies or my workouts. Those things do make me tired, but I … Continue reading

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Thresholds on the Way

My jog yesterday was in light snow fall. It didn’t stick because the ground is too warm here, but it fell in my face and that was kind of fun. Today it was just a light mist, but it will … Continue reading

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PC Study Bible: Ripoff

Biblesoft sells a boxed entry-level Bible software package called PC Study Bible. It’s junk. The library included is fine, but the the software is just atrocious. It hogs the CPU, offers very slow screen repaints, and generally dogs down the … Continue reading

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Don’t Know Much About…

I’m not a Linux guru. I’m familiar with some aspects of Linux, and I enjoy using it. I’ve installed various versions of various distros on some 30-40 different machines. On a somewhat smaller scale, I’ve experimented with FreeBSD. My only … Continue reading

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The Trail Continues

If the wooded area near here was bigger, more remote, it would be quiet there. When I’m out on the trails, I can hear dogs just a quarter-mile away, trucks a half-mile away, the occasional unmuffled motorcycle, and kids yelling. … Continue reading

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Bible Logic — Like Nothing Else

Over the past few years, as I began to apprehend the logic behind the Bible, I realized increasingly just how difficult it is to put into words. That is, all my years of training and experience in writing with clarity, … Continue reading

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Why Must I Say This?

It’s been a long time since I ran into this issue. I’m fending off the aggressive commenting by a particular gadfly using an IP in Finland. As with all such folk, this one takes offense at my suggestion his pet … Continue reading

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Coffee Like Paint Remover

Nobody else in my household drinks coffee, but I love it. However, I’d rather do without if I have to drink that paint remover sold by Folgers. I started drinking coffee when I was 12. Living in Alaska, as I … Continue reading

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