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So William Buckley is dead...

Published 02-28-2008 9:46 PM | Mark

And I would love to say something nice about him, since he had such a way with words and all. But his vitriolic hatred for Ayn Rand and his self-satisfied "purging" of her from a movement she never even asked to be part of, made Buckley ultimately...

Filed under: Politics, Current Events

HD-DVD is dead

Published 02-11-2008 10:51 PM | Mark

And I blew 200 dollars on my HD-DVD drive, as well as being influenced into buying the Xbox 360 in the mistaken belief that HD-DVD would win the format war. I remain pleased with the Xbox and it's near-perfect Live service, and I have a nice, yet...

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The Superbowl

Published 02-04-2008 5:20 PM | Mark

My roommate and I had a little Superbowl party last night. And to prove how little I care for football, I got overly drunk on Patron tequila and the contents of a Heineken mini-keg (Heineken tastes much much better out of the keg!), spent halftime defecating...

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Will the New York Times go bankrupt already?

Published 01-20-2008 1:16 PM | Mark

They have taken to running anecdotal front page stories about murderous military vets. These stories are bereft of any statistical analysis, because such analysis would destroy the point that the NYT is trying to make: that the Iraq war turns our soldiers...

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Breaking Benjamin with Misty

Published 11-26-2007 11:22 PM | Mark

Here's a picture of Misty and I at the Breaking Benjamin show: Ahh, memories. It wasn't just Breaking Benjamin. 3 Days Grace headlined, and Red and Seether opened. Breaking Benjamin was of course the highlight, but neither Red nor Seether disappointed...

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The wisdom of Marilyn Manson

Published 10-21-2007 5:21 PM | Mark

via littlegreenfootballs: "Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised." It's so true. It frustrates me to hear pundits in the media bemoaning our ever-escalating climate of violence, blaming video games or television...

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Pictoral addendum to the previous post

Published 07-01-2007 10:09 PM | Mark

I look completely retarded in this picture, but it's still the best one mike took. I need a better photographer! The gun, at least, is sexy: And *chuckle*, for your viewing enjoyment, here is the best shot I could get of the mangled bird foot protruding...

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New gun, and painful meandering anecdote

Published 07-01-2007 6:48 PM | Mark

I bought a Remington 870 Express Magnum shotgun today, from a friend and co-worker of mine who is trying to get rid of some of his enormous gun collection to persuade his wife to allow him to buy a Harley. This completes phase 2 of my gun collection ...

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Killers post-mortem

Published 04-30-2007 10:56 AM | Mark

I was a bit surprised at the small size of the Paul Tsongas arena in Lowell Mass. Place looked like it held maybe six thousand people. I'd have thought the Killers would be playing larger arenas, but no matter, because on the floor it all looks the same...

Filed under: Current Events, Music

Killers tonight

Published 04-29-2007 10:44 AM | Mark

It's no Tool, but I am still excited to see the Killers tonight down in Mass. Unfortunately, Mike's brother ditched us, so we were stuck with 2 extra tickets. And to add insult to injury, the tickets became bonded together and useless after getting wet...

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Winter on the coast, illustrated

Published 03-17-2007 2:30 PM | Mark

I brought my digital camera out to the coast today and took a few pictures around Fort Williams and Two Lights. The waves were rumored to be up to 25 feet high after last night's storm, but they appeared to have calmed down quite a bit by the time I got...

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All I want for Christmas

Published 12-24-2006 2:18 PM | Mark

is for embedded Youtube links to work. Yet as you can see, that's not happening, though not for lack of trying. I'll get it one of these days. Well, I also want a Nintendo Wii. And a DS, and a nice big screen 1080P HDTV, and a PS3, and a digital camera...

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Pearl Harbor Day

Published 12-07-2006 1:23 PM | Mark

Once upon a time we were not so steeped in self-loathing that we'd look to appeasement as the solution to every cross-cultural dispute. Here is a reminder of that time, on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing, even as the Iraq Study Group defecates...

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Yalla Ya Nasrallah

Published 08-20-2006 3:01 PM | Mark

I need to upgrade Community Server in order to embed direct Youtube links, and I intend to do that really soon now. Until then, feast your eyes on this less direct linkage to an Israeli Defense Force propaganda music video called Yalla Ya Nasrallah ....

Filed under: Politics, Current Events

Nine Inch Nails, again

Published 06-24-2006 2:18 PM | Mark

Wednesday evening Nine Inch Nails came to the Portland Civic Center to make up for their missed performance in February, and I of course was there to witness the show in all its glory. I left work early and headed over for a pre-show party at a friend...

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