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I am Mr Do. I am sedentary by nature, enjoying passive entertainment, eating when the mood takes me, and playing with my food. I try to avoid conflict, but when I’m angered, I can be a devil – if you force me to fight, I will crush you. With apples. What Video Game Character Are You?

Bush and God – a fascinating piece about the president’s faith. Say what you want about Bush. If nothing else, I believe his faith is sincere.

This is old and out of date, but if you’re a fan of Professor Frink, you’ll love it.

More progress on the bathroom today. The highpoint: my father-in-law was spreading concrete on the subfloor to get it ready for the backerboard, when the dog decided to pay him a visit. Jack left little concrete pawprints down the hall.

Which OS are you?

Patrick Norton writes about making the switch.

A great product is no more: BBEdit Lite, the free one. That’s a shame, because it was an awesome text editor. Now it costs $50 and it’s called Text Wrangler, which, while I love Bare Bones, is a horrible freakin’ name.

Very sadly, a great man is no more. Fred Rogers will be missed. I grew up watching his show. My Mom continued to watch it even after I left home. He was such a wonderful influence on kids. Very sad news.

John Perry Barlow: As it turned out, this is more or less what Cheney and his phalanx of Big Stategic Thinkers were doing, if one imagined the Soviet Union as a speeding Mexican bus. They were determined to project such a vision of implacable, irrational, lethality that the Soviet leaders would decide to capitulate rather than risk universal annihilation. It worked. Fascinating article. John Perry Barlow, one of the smartest guys around, writing about Dick Cheney, whom he considers to be one of the smartest guys around.

Here’s an article that perfectly echos the criticisms I have against web-based applications.

Finally, before I go to bed, one last article. A very sad one.

Oh, yeah. Myth II: Soulblighter is Carbonized and will be released soon. That’s so cool. I won Myth: The Fallen Lords a few years ago in some web contest and I bought Myth II as soon as it was available. Never did get Myth III: The Wolf Age, though.

To all the cars Dave’s loved before…

The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers can be found here. To be honest, I’m not sure why this guy put so much energy and thought into this. If you don’t like someone’s web site, don’t go there. If someone has a different opinion on what a web site should be, so be it. Who cares? I like the idea of having a weblog, but sometimes I find the “blogging community” to be really elitist and, frankly, quite irritating. I have a weblog because I enjoy writing things down, things I want to remember. And I like having a site to share with family and friends. What’s the harm there? Sheesh. Lighten up, people.

My grandfather told me a funny story tonight after dinner. When he was a child, he went to Sunday dinner at his grandparents’ house every week (much like my family and I do – what a great tradition). His grandparents had a dry house, where they dried fruit and vegetables before the days of electric food dehydrators. One Sunday, he and his cousins starting gorging on dried apple slices. They apparently went way overboard. Anyway, after running around and playing for a while, they got really thirsty and hit the spring house, where they drank their fill. He said he never had a stomachache like that before or after. Every single one of cousins bloated up and felt horrible.

You know, I get pretty annoyed at those Nigerian scam emails, but I’d never take it this far.

I got my phone back from Sony/Ericsson. They sent it back before but refused to repair it due to “extensive damage to the phone.” I couldn’t find any damage. After a few phone calls, they gave us their FedEx number and said to ship it back on their dime. They still say the phone is unrepairable, but honored the warranty this time and sent me a brand new T60d. At least, I think it’s a T60d. That’s what I had before. But this is upgraded or something. It does predictive text entry for one thing. I don’t think the old one did that, but I could be wrong.