Truth, Justice, and the American Way

My (and a few other’s) photos from Mises University 2005 are up.

My new phone. It speaks digital and analog, comes with a camera with zoom and flash, internal and external displays, speakerphone, and voice recognition for complete voice control. It weights 116g, has a talk time of 3 hours and a standby time of 150 hours. Its two-year-old ancestor seems like a dinosaur [...]

After working nights and weekends for last few weeks, I will be taking a well-deserved break and going to New York City for vacation tomorrow. Ill post the photos when I get back on the 28th (and maybe while Im there Im taking along a laptop with 3G wireless.) If any New [...]

I drive a lean, mean, love-bug killing machine. That windshield is the aftermath of one day’s drive.

Update: I started an album for my Auburn photos.

For anyone interested in such things, here are photos of beautiful Auburn, AL and my beautiful new laptop:
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I havent blogged much lately, so its time for an update on the recent goings-on in my life. I mentioned a while back that I had a great internship coming up in San Antonio. Unfortunately, the company reneged on their offer on the last minute, so I took summer classes and worked [...]

Last Monday, I finished my semester, and the last classes needed for my degree. I have to complete my internship before I graduate, but that is all that is standing between me and the “real world.” That is unexpected, because I will be able to finish my MIS degree much earlier than I expected. I [...]

A long time ago, I discovered my schools file-sharing network and stopped buying music CDs. Some time after that, I decided that while CDs cost too much, stealing music is wrong. So, I switched to streaming internet radio, and have been listening to various streaming stations ever since. Id like to share [...]

To top off a lousy week, my digital camera broke today
I’m in the market for a new one if any readers have suggestions for me.

I probably wont be doing much blogging in the near future. In addition to my usual hectic life, I got MS Flight Simulator 2004 yesterday, and will be spending most of my free time up in the clouds. Once my dvi-vga adapter comes in, Ill be flying with 4 monitors.

One of the fads going around the blogosphere is to list a dozen or so of the songs youre listening to. Interesting idea, but I dont think ones music preferences really say much about a person. So instead, I decided to post a photo of my bookshelf. Obviously, this is just a fraction [...]

I experienced a “wardobe malfunction” during a caving trip this weekend. Fortunately, the bastards at the FCC can’t censor these photos…yet. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to start going caving with ASS (Aggie Speleological Society) every other weekend or so.

Check out the new computer I put together. I think I’ll call it “The Ghost”

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The Specs:Case: Aspire X-Dreamer II
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Barton
Cooling: Thermaltake Volcano 9
Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta-L (nForce 2)
Memory: 512-MB PC3200 DDR (w/shims)
Hard Drive: 120GB Generic 10K RPM
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon 9600
Speakers: Altec Lansing [...]

Hot anime chicks molded in plastic! Call me weird, but these models rock!

I wrote my first Perl script today after three hours of fumbling around in a totally alien syntax. Score one for goal-directed action. I generally avoid Perl like the plague, but it was the only way I could find to do a bulk import into the MT email DB_File notify database. Ive [...]

It has come to my attention that I have more money in my bank account that any college student in his right mind should keep around. Its not that Im stingy, or that I dont know what to get, but that there are so many things I want, that I dont know where to [...]

I shredded, ripped, and tumbled down the black diamonds like mere bunny slopes (or was it the other way around?) and had an awesome time in Breckenridge. Check out the photos here the film camera shots are coming soon.

I discovered today that my credit card racked up $2,500 in charges during the last two days for unspecified network services. I have my suspicions about how my number leaked out, so I offer this advice: dont ever send out your credit card number on a non-encrypted connection, even if its someone you trust. [...]

I’m still in San Antonio, but the first of three photo sets is already up.
Update: I’m back – and the rest of the photos are up. (The photos were selected and resized: full-size originals are here.)

I’m leaving for a week to visit my parents over Thanksgiving. I leave you with a 1860’s political cartoon that would probably be un-pc today. (Found here.)