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I’ve been a bit out of touch lately – haven’t been reading newspapers or magazines, listening to the radio, watching the news, or reading news sites so when I (finally) heard about Richard clerk’s whistleblowing it was old news. Well, old to CBS maybe but just a rehash of what I’ve been saying ever [...]

I had an absolutely superb weekend! I went skiing at Mt. Hood on Friday, went to the anti-war rally in downtown Portland Saturday afternoon and then went hiking & to a great play on Sunday. I haven’t been skiing in about three years so I was pretty happy there was no major injury! [...]

Stories like this make me proud to call Portland my home.

I wrote at length some time ago about ‘power words’ and just wanted to say that I’m now feeling a little foolish. I’ve been reading an essay from Exposing Nuclear Phallacies (published 20 yrs ago) that discusses the same thing I was talking about and draws similar, albeit more clearly defined/explained, conclusions. 20 [...]

I’ve commented before on suffering and martyrdom but just remembered a thought from a couple of days ago: Why does our society seem to place so much more value on things that are achieved via suffering than things that are achieved through joy? You may think I’m out of my mind but I’m [...]

I’m working on a couple of projects, one for Oregon Peace Works and one for my grad department at school. I’m working a website for each of them – only a couple of sections for the Peace Works site but basically the whole schmoo for the deparment site. It’s pretty fun stuff – [...]

So I’m trying to get both vehicles registered & stuff here and it’s making me insane! Turns out that although I registered my car in NC, neither I nor the lienholder ever got the title! That wouldn’t be a big deal (other than the effing paperwork to get a duplicat) except there’s a [...]

I forget how much I love that movie until I see it!! There’s a great line, near the end, when Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams) has just performed a heroic act:
Policeman: “Are you okay?”
RR: “Well, I’m pretty fucked up in general so it’s kind of hard to gauge.”
I just LOVE that line!

I was in Powell’s bookstore last night and, on a whim, picked up a book about lesbian sex. I have no idea what I expected but whatever it was, it wasn’t what I got! I only read a few sentences, flipped through a couple of sections but I was pretty much knocked on [...]

In the software development world, transparency is a word used to describe something that works without the user understanding or even knowing what’s going on behind the scenes. This concept is highly desirable when you’re building software – the user doesn’t need to know how the program talks to the OS and how the [...]