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I watched "The Omega Man" last night w/the kids. They said it was a crummy version of "I am Legend". anyway, these end of the world scenarios are fun indulgent fantasies. here's some I got from a blog post by Amat Lim (Now if the earthquake prediction comes true you can't say you weren't warned!): Future Prediction by Juseleeno Nobulega Da Roose (Jucelino) Posted by limns on May 27, 2008 Some

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no... but I do need to come up with some material. been too busy on ebay lately!

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Kierkegaard's book analyzes the old testament story of Abraham and Issac. basically God told Abraham to murder his son, an indefensible, unjustified and unethical command with which he complied. the fact that at the last moment God said "stop, I was just testing you" is irrelevant. Abraham was carrying out an act of murder and so had accepted that mindset. this submission to a perception of

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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna Freud just a quote I thought to throw out to let you know I was around :)

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join the cause now!

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I have a new flickr account and picked some of my recent favorite shots to share. see them here

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one of the things I like about weekends is sleeping in -- you get time to lay in bed relaxed and mind cleared of most of the banal distractions. anyway, I can think better. this past week I was occupied with plenty of activities: saw the Body Worlds exhibit in LA, sold a vehicle, bought a new car, went on a business trip and dealt with airport travel, group dynamics and new surroundings. with

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I've nothing more to add now, but will come up with something clever shortly my friends! in the meantime, try "indicating the formal aspects of the idea of existence"... on an unrelated note, when you're in my neighborhood, I recommend the bbq pork pho at pho tay bak. it's places like this that make so cal an international food fest :)

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no, he's not even a Muslim. of course now that I've planted that idea, you're associating our next president with a terrorist. oops, I did it again. I'm such a tool for HRC :) more realistically, I'm thinking of comparisons of Obama with Jimmy Carter. both were good speakers promising the kind of change that only an outsider can do. seems to be a winning combination! actually, to me personally

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I was looking to buy some Vegameatavitamin (or is it meatavitavegamin)? unfortunately nobody has thought to create and market this product yet. yeah, you know what I'm talking about. it's not copyrighted by Desilu is it? well, actually I did find a poor facsimile of it. and here I thought you could find everything on the internet. here's a free unexploited idea for you get-rich-quick marketeers!

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in celebration of the new year, I made a resolution to escape into a cocoon of self-improvement and develop my historical cultural awareness by spending 2008 in front of my warm 42" plasma watching these classic films: Bogart: 1. To Have and Have Not 2. Casablanca 3. The Maltese Falcon 4. The Big Sleep 5. High Sierra Film Noir: 6. Asphalt Jungle 7. Touch of Evil 8. The Third Man 9. L.A.

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back in 2005 the University of Maryland reported: In a paper in the June 29 issue of Tissue Engineering, a team of scientists, including University of Maryland doctoral student Jason Matheny, propose two new techniques of tissue engineering that may one day lead to affordable production of in vitro - lab grown -- meat for human consumption. It is the first peer-reviewed discussion of the

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I try not to waste time, so when I needed to delete a comment from my last post I disabled showing all comments on it. because blogger does not obviously enough explain how one can delete a single comment -- which is what I wanted to do and I am too lazy, impatient and proud (qualities of a really useful programmer) to play blogger's game and search for the proper way. I still want to know how

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ok, it's not really truth or dare but I thought it sounded good. anyway, here's the challenge: give a short review (25 words or less) for each site on your current blogroll - when and why you added them, what you think of them, how often do you read them. here's mine: The Cutting Edge: anti-liberal blather. not worthy of my blogroll. Dr. Helen: Mrs. Instapundit is a psych and raises good issues

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I've never used the word "poignant" in a sentence before. I thought about it and how it could be used. I wrote it down on a piece of paper at my nightstand and went to sleep. I then had this dream: I've entered and sat down in a movie theater or small concert hall. on the screen a movie starts and I see that the quality is lacking; for what has been filmed is a large flat screen television.

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thought I should say a few words :) actually, I've been reading Shakespeare and you might recognize the title line from Hamlet (when Polonius asks "What do you read, my lord?"). rich material to digest...it takes much time for me. and so, not much time for writing here. don't ask why, for I shan't explain. fare thee well and havest thou a thanks-giving day!

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over a year ago now I did a post on what might be a "caliper profile personality assessment" question and ever since, on almost a daily basis, someone (~them~ I think), has been pinging my blog as a google search result of the phrase "caliper assessment test". I've had no other contact from them but they are probably checking up on me to make sure I don't reveal any of their intellectual property

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so you walk in to get a burger combo at the local fast food place and staring back at you to take your order is a sock monkey. you're first reaction is "ok, this is some kind of joke...". you know someone is under the counter holding the monkey, so should you just act like everything is normal and place your order? what do you say? should you address the monkey? do you really trust the food here

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not to brag, but I've already heard these comparisons. ok, I am bragging :) they didn't mention some other ones people have said: Christopher Reeves and Jeff Goldblum. http://www.myheritage.com/collage

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my mother-in-law told me this about a friend of hers. she took her son down to Sea World in San Diego for the day recently. the boy has Down's but is pretty high functioning. they had fun watching the shows and exhibits but then, this being during the summer and the park being crowded, suddenly they were separated and the boy was missing. as any parent knows, this is very frightening. she

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for some reason today I joined classmates.com and looked up people I knew 30 years ago (westchester high, class of '77). haven't been in contact with any of them at all. didn't really have much contact with them back in high school either. so what was my motivation? why dig up these old memories, dwell and wallow in the past? is there something unresolved? I have a much better life now than

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I wanted to share my first rather successful fishing trip last weekend in the foothills of the Eastern Sierras with the Boy Scouts.it wasn't an uber-survivalist camping trip - the creek was just stocked last thursday and googling revealed that the powerbait I brought probably was the best choice for attracting the trout. still, for me it was an adventure. I braved the weeds and mud and cold

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a flickr comment on this pic above that I took a while ago (raw toast coming soon!) got me started on a new project exploring the artistry of graffiti. I looked at the commenter's stuff and found some interesting shots like this: and this: which led me to wander to places like this flickr freight train graffiti set (or this one or this and this -- thx guys). there's some talent out there busy

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first selection for today is "Invisible Ink" by Aimee Mann (from "Lost In Space"). I like her wordplay, her voice (good range, slight accent - Toronto?) and simple clean guitar strumming (reminds me of Jimmy Page on acoustic actually): There comes a time when you swim or sink So I jumped in the drink Cuz I couldn't make myself clear Maybe I wrote in invisible ink Oh I've tried to think How I

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yesterday I was listening to fox news while changing in the gym locker room. surprisingly, a guy was being interviewed about meditation (TM I think). "a little hippy-dippy for the faux", I thought. what are these guys up to? my google search on the subject doesn't pick up anything on the story (as of today), but I noticed it does find a fairly large number (197,000) of results linking "fox news

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