This is the final post in this blog. I have moved it from the domain existdifferently.com over to original.existdifferently.com as an archived resting place. I will be re-using existdifferently.com. It may be for another personal blog or something else entirely. Regardless, although this is my oldest, original blog, my life is very different now than when I started and it’s time for a fresh start! However, I’m also a packrat, so I will likely never get rid of this archive entirely. (Whether I leave it publicly available or not I haven’t decided.)
Mon, 2008-03-24 (Mar 24)
Fri, 2006-12-29 (Dec 29)
Thu, 2006-12-28 (Dec 28)
Mon, 2006-12-25 (Dec 25)
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to everyone! My son’s not born yet, and if he continues to hold off, we’ll have a nice day with family after we get some sleep! I’m personally looking forward to the food :-)
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Sat, 2006-12-23 (Dec 23)
Baby Coming!
So, my wife, Ruth, and I have a baby on the way! I know, I haven’t updated this blog recently and haven’t mentioned it since July 1st when we found out, but he (it’s a boy!) was due on Dec. 20th. He’s not here yet, but Ruth will be induced on Tuesday evening, Dec. 26th if he hasn’t shown up yet. At this point, he could still be a Christmas baby, but we’ll see. I just set up a blog for him this evening so we can post updates and (of course) pictures. I’ll be linking there after he’s born and we decide on a name, because we’re not naming him until after he’s born and we’re going to register a domain name at that point. The hospital has an internet connection in the delivery rooms and I have a laptop, so the blog should go up pretty fast after he’s born!
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Wed, 2006-08-02 (Aug 02)
Stephen Colbert and Wikipedia, and how good is it, anyway?
Apparently on his TV show, Steven Colbert actually modified the Wikipedia entry about himself “live” (while the show was being recorded) on-air!รย And got a bunch of other users to modify some other pages as an example.รย Interesting stuff, especially when compared with an article in Nature showing that the Encyclopaedia Britannica has an error rate of less than but still comparable to Wikipedia.รย (Britannica didn’t like Nature’s article and Nature responded…follow the thread here.)
Personally, I like Wikipedia, but I’ll proably stay on the safe side and use it only for basic information and links to more credible information when writing college papers (oh yeah, I’m starting college this month since you probably didn’t know :-)
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Sat, 2006-07-01 (Jul 01)
BABY COMING!
Just wanted to announce…Ruth and I are having a baby! It’s due the end of December, and we’re going to find out the sex but the ultrasound isn’t until July 25th.
Oh yeah, and we moved in June to a new apartment, closer to Ruth’s job, and not terribly far away from mine!
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Sat, 2005-10-29 (Oct 29)
I’M MARRIED!
As of October 15th, I’m married! It was great…more to come when I have the time :-) I finally got access to my blog here after forgetting the password for a while, hence the reason it’s been so long since I’ve updated :-)
Tue, 2005-06-14 (Jun 14)
It’s a date!
Unless something drastic happens, we’ve set a wedding date! It’s this fall, a bit earlier than we first thought, and a bit later than we tried at one point, but it looks like all the schedules finally work out! It’s in mid-October! I don’t know if I’ll get more specific here in public or not, but you’ll know it when I’m married! Well, I may post-date an entry so I can concentrate on the honeymoon at that point ;-) Don’t worry, I’ll probably Flickr some pictures for you to check out after-the-fact (I’ve added more pics recently as it is). Maybe even some (emphasis on some :-> ) honeymoon pictures to go with wedding pictures, but you won’t even know where we’re going until afterwards of course :-)
Sun, 2005-05-29 (May 29)
The Ring! Favorite Shot
In case you were wondering what the ring looks like, here it is :-)
You can see more pictures on Flickr in this set!
I’m Engaged!
Yep, it’s something at times I thought I’d never get to say except on April Fool’s day, but it’s definitely real this time!
I’m engaged to be married!
I proposed to my now-fiancรฉe Ruth on Friday evening, May 27th, close to 4:35 pm local time. I won’t bore you with details of the proposal at this time, because if you know her, she probably wants to tell you herself, and will do a much better job of it than I will! Plus, if I’m there when she tells you, I get to see how excited she gets and it about kills me every time! :-)
I’d also prefer to not tell you date predictions (we have an idea but we haven’t locked things down yet) here. But, I will say that we think 12 months for an engagement is too long! :-) But I will almost definitely be over 21 when we get married, which if you know me, narrows it down a tiny bit :-)
YAY YAY YAY!!! :-D
Sat, 2005-05-28 (May 28)
News!
Well, I’d like to tell you something. But I won’t yet. Don’t worry, it’s not a death (it’s good news), but as when one occurs, certain people must be informed first. After which time, you will be allowed to know :-)
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Wed, 2005-05-11 (May 11)
Visual Verbal Math
Heh…just glad I didn’t get over 200% in math :-) Not that most of you need to worry about that anyway… ;-)
| Your brain: 0% interpersonal, 100% visual, 100% verbal, and 200% mathematical! |
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Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers. Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice, which I think is obvious:
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The 4-Variable IQ Test written by chriscoyne on OkCupid Free Online Dating |
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Thu, 2005-04-28 (Apr 28)
Adults and Debates
There was a really good quotation from someone in “this post at WorldMagBlog”:http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/014355.html that I like a lot (the post was made by someone with my first name, but it wasn’t me! The comment was made at 9:29am yesterday.):
The quotation is from Dorothy Sayers’ “The Lost Tools of Learning”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=davidsworldva-20&creative=9325&camp=1789&link_code=ur2&path=tg/detail/-/B0007FRAVK/qid=1114706741/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1?v=glance%26s=books (which unfortunately appears to be out of print):
Have you ever, in listening to a debate among adult and presumably responsible people, been fretted by the extraordinary inability of the average debater to speak to the question, or to meet and refute the arguments of speakers on the other side? Or have you ever pondered upon the extremely high incidence of irrelevant matter which crops up at committee meetings, and upon the very great rarity of persons capable of acting as chairmen of committees? And when you think of this, and think that most of our public affairs are settled by debates and committees, have you ever felt a certain sinking of the heart?
I see this in politics at all levels all the time, it’s one of the reasons I got annoyed with politics and stopped paying much attention. I get annoyed with immaturity at this level. On the other hand, it makes good speakers all that much more easy to appreciate!
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Sat, 2005-04-23 (Apr 23)
Glad to be home!
Vegas was great, but it’s so good to be home! I love lots of things that are in my life, and people that are in my life. It’s a good time to be alive, and God is good. And sometime, I’ll be able to share a bit more of it. For now, you get to read whatever I feel like putting here (well, you’ll always get that, it just might not be as interesting as my life actually is :-)
I got my camera, and it’s really cool. Haven’t had much time to play with it yet! Also they didn’t send me an adapter ring that I need to use the lenses I got, but they’re sending me one for free that will hopefully be here next week (never depend on specific timing from the USPS!). So I haven’t been able to play with the macro lens that I was looking foward to…not like I’ve had time anyway, so I suppose it’s all working out :-)
I have two friends that have actually uploaded a significant amount of stuff to “Flickr”:http://www.flickr.com/ now! Takes time, but eventually I bring people around to the latest and greatest I’ve found :-) Sometimes ;-)
Also…I didn’t know until I read one of the blogs I keep up with that “Adobe bought Macromedia”:http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2005/04/18/adobe-buys-macromedia/! Very interesting, but makes sense. I’m sure we’ll hear more soon!
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