Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: family

  • Unplugged for the Holidays

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    How to spend a long holiday weekend – Lifehacker: Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, most likely you’ve got the day off this coming Monday. I hope you’ll spend it doing as little as possible. Forget the email, the IM, the RSS feeds, the Google searches, what Wikipedia has to say about the origins of…

  • Washington DC

    I took a trip with my family to Washington DC last weekend. Below is a sampling of pictures I took. Many more are over at Flickr. Click on any one below to see it larger. Plus the larger view has a link over to Flickr. 😀 Tyrannusaurus Rex The two little girls below are my…

  • Another Nail in the Coffin of UNIX?

    If you have an audio copy of “Taps” play it now…. SGI – Services & Support: End of General Availability for MIPS® IRIX® Products: SGI launched the MIPS IRIX family of products in 1988. Since then, this technology has powered servers, workstations, and visualization systems used extensively in Manufacturing, Media, Science, Government/Defense, and Energy. After…

  • Dinosaurs vs. Fraggles

    Amazon.com: Dinosaurs – The Complete First and Second Seasons Created before the days of computer animation, Dinosaurs is an early 1990s television comedy series featuring impressive anthropomorphic, animatronic creatures created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The story lines challenge some of society’s most basic assumptions and explore some of the most universally troublesome aspects of…

  • Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3

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    Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Originally uploaded by sneezypb. I’d like to welcome this Sigma lens to my camera family. It will replace my Canon kit lens for Digital Rebel XT for all around use. I find the 18mm useful… however, the 55mm was limited. Being able to go anywhere from 18mm to 200mm is quite versitile.…

  • Kenny Boy Got It

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    Ken Lay, Enron founder, dead at 64 – Jul. 5, 2006: Enron founder Kenneth Lay died early Wednesday in Aspen, Colo., a family spokeswoman said. Lay, 64, was awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of conspiracy and fraud in the Enron trial in May. What a cop out…. Have a massive coronary because you don’t…

  • Circle of Friends

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    Americans’ circle of friends is shrinking, new study shows | Science Blog: Americans’ circle of close confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, according to a new study by sociologists at Duke…

  • Southerners Love

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    Study: Southerners care most often for elderly loved ones: Southern hospitality, it seems, extends to the elderly: A higher percentage of Southerners care for the old and ailing than do people in other parts of the country, according to a new study. Nearly 17 percent of Southerners said in survey that they provide regular care…

  • Black. White.

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    This show has an interesting concept. Though it smells a bit of people who have never really experienced racism. My mother participated in an anti-racism initiative (she is against it in principle). This particular group was of the opinion that whites could not ever experience racism (by convenient definitions). It troubled her that her children…