tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101171322011-04-21T21:57:50.939-05:00At present this blog will be about nothing in particular, only things I find amusing, interesting, or noteworthy.Puddin'noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10117132.post-1123822378910680652005-08-11T23:50:00.000-05:002005-08-11T23:52:58.916-05:00

Thought this was kind of neat: the 100 oldest currently registered .com domains.

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So, radio waves I have heard travel forever. Once a signal has been emitted it travels through our atmosphere and into the depths of space forever to be received by anything that has the capacity to do so. Light, I have heard, is basically the same. However, it is argued that light travels in not only waves but as particles, too: namely "quarks."Now, since these things travel on-and-on into

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A good read if you get a couple of minutes. Inventing Our Evolution.The following site's "media" section is a true find for me. www.futurehi.netHaving read a few of Terence McKenna's (R.I.P.) books( The Archaic Revival ; Food of The Gods ; The Invisible Landscape ) which happen to be most excellent reads by the way, I have been a long time fan of the exploration of the 99.99999% UNexplored

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It seems as if the majority of the people visiting my blog here lately are out for a google search of "Darth Tater"... I believe my previous post "Dark Tater" is the cause of my recent influx of visitors, but I am nonetheless happy that my page is getting so much attention.Anyway, if you are looking for "Dark Tater" or "Darth Tater" or even the actual "Darth Vader" (you owe me a thanks for the

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I have recently picked up a 128Mb MP3 player. I was unaware of the magnificence of being able to tote around tunes on a small DIvice that is at your fingertips waiting to be plugged into the next inviting USB port. Yeah, 128Mb isn't very much but it's about 3 album's worth of tunes. Seeing as how my commute to just about anywhere I go these days takes less than 20 mins. I'm resisting the

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Welcome to my new blog.Oh yeah, I've already got one. Almost forgot.As you may have noticed, it's been a while since I've said much of anything. This seems to be a bit of a phase that I'm currently going through. Not sure what one would call this phase, but being in one is definitely the case. Things are kind of a "muted" weird.I believe it has to do with several things that have been on my mind

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Main Entry: ob·li·ga·tion Pronunciation: "ä-bl&-'gA-sh&nFunction: noun1 : the action of obligating oneself to a course of action (as by a promise or vow)2 a : something (as a formal contract, a promise, or the demands of conscience or custom) that obligates one to a course of action b : a debt security (as a mortgage or corporate bond) c : a commitment (as by a government) to pay a

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This site has some wicked programming... Check it.

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This speaks volumes for our culture... McNipple

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No charges? I don't understand how the tax payers of Georgia can let this stand. All of the resources that went into looking for Jennifer Wilbanks I'm sure add up to be a tremendous amount of man/woman hours=money that tax payers are going to have to foot. Having never married, I can try to understand the concept of "cold feet" before one "ties the knot," but to lie about it to her family and

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Try out this little flash game to waste a minute or two. Took me a few tries to get it.

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Well, let's just say there were a few awards given out at the Dogwood Cardboard Regatta. The race consisted of each boat going for time instead of all the boats being dumped in the water and going head-to-head. This served two purposes.First, we only had 6 entries that participated in the race. (I do say "only", now but I am kind of appreciative that we didn't have a huge amount of boats. We

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This past weekend was one of the most fun times I've had in a long while - despite the cold temperatures (nights - 30's, days -50's). The Dogwood Arts Cardboard Regatta was held this past Sunday afternoon as stated in my previous post. We were hoping for some weather that was suitable for swimming (we were anticipating it) such as the type of day we had when we appeared on Live at Five (video

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Looks as if I may have my "5 minutes" this evening. Yeppers, I get to be on Live at Five on WBIR Channel 10. Yesterday, Beth Haynes came to Oak Ridge to interview Tom and I for a piece promoting our Dogwood Arts Festival Cardboard Regatta (2mb PDF). The interview will air on this evening's edition of Live at Five. Obviously, the show begins at 5pm.The interview went well. We've had the boat in a

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Well, in an attempt to explain the blogging void I've left this past week, I'll use the excuse that I've been extremely busy with the "festival." This past weekend was entirely devoted to nothing but handing out balloons to kiddies and promoting the credit union.The Dogwood Arts Festival is a big deal in Knoxville and it's kind of cool to be involved and have a chance to spend time outdoors.

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Here's more games by the same German site. Some of them are pretty entertaining.http://www.severin.ch/

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This is pretty fun. With your mouse, try to keep this guy from falling over. Check it out.http://www.wagenschenke.ch

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When's the last time you saw a dead bird?Yes, a very weird and morbid question I admit, but seriously think about it. With the hundreds of thousands of birds within a short radius of most urban areas, why don't we happen upon these carcasses more often? I understand that there are probably just as many other animals out there waiting for the ripe opportunity to nab a quick McFlappy Meal© but are

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This is the antibiotic I had to take while I suffered from the third nip. I took this picture a couple of hours ago. I thought the blue contrasted well with the red capsules.I added the name and the dosage cause I thought it looked pretty cool.

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As misterorange reports here, an independent cinema in Springfield, MO is auctioning off the naming rights to their lobby concessions stand. You can bid on those rights here and perhaps get the chance to name a bar after yourself, the company you work for, or just something whitty you may have up a sleeve.Now this gets me excited! Knoxville at one time had a theater called "Cinema Grill"where you

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This was taken atop the Natchez Trace Bridge just south of Nashville.

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He says he was taking a picture of some authentic Chinese cuisine. You be the judge.

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This is the damage the Jeep Grand Cherokee imposed upon my Nissan ass...

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I took this a while back. July 1, 2004 to be exact... Victoria had these growing in her front yard... I fgured they'd make a good picture. Was I right?

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A buddy of mine visited China this past year. He was able to get some incredible shots of monuments atributed to Budah and the likes...

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I shot this on a trip to Nashville for a buddy's wedding back in June of '04. It was on the side of the road near the Natchez Trace Parkway bridge.

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Google has done it again. Check this out, it's their new "Satellite" images feature reported here, and found here. Click on the "Satellite" link in the upper right hand corner, select "location search" at the top of the page and tell it where you want to go.I was able to find my condo. Pretty cool.That beats the hell outta www.terraserver.com that I've used for years. That's as close as I can get

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I was just screwin' around with the camera last Saturday night at the local Calhoun's.Check it out.

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Today was such a BEAUTIFUL day in Knoxville, TN. It reached into the low 80s (82 by my thermometer), pretty abnormal for this time of year in my opinion, I'm no Matt Hinkin but it did seem extraordinarily warm today. I did enjoy the chance to get out of work early due to a power outage at the credit union.The power sort of flickered around 2pm. It was a really strange occurrence. Only partial

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Okay, this is extra cheesy today, but in the same sense kind of creepy. From time to time I have a notion that I have a touch of telepathetic abilities. Yes, you read that right. That's my personal ability to have an occasional preconception of a day's events or things that may happen in the near future.I'm sorry if you're actually reading this expecting to find some sort of profound reading of

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I entered a photo that I took a while back into a contest on Betterphoto's website. I'm a tenderfoot in the photography environment, but still it's cool to see your work posted on an excellent website.All The King's Men...Betterphoto has a few excellent newsletters that offer up daily pics and weekly tips, tricks, and techniques to the beginner through advanced photographers. Check out their site

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Well, the latest on el Cysto is that the doc wants me to continue with another round of antibiotics for which he wrote me another script. I've been lucky that as of Saturday or Sunday I have been able to discontinue use of the Vicodin without much residual pain. My thoughts, however, yesterday were that if he was going to start poking and prodding around on Mr. Cysto that I would be well prepared

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I'm doing some research for my latest paper and I've got Winamp open and tuned to an internet radio stations appropriately entitled "SKY F.M. - Best of the 80's." Yes, a bit of cheese for the evening, but hey, it was good then why can't it still be good in moderation now?So, get this, most of the tunes they're playing are pretty damn good. The sound quality is a nice 128kbps. I've got my speakers

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So, this past week has truly been an experience I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I've had a benign and unimposing cyst for several months that began rearing its ugly head about this time last week. It started out as a small lump not visible on the surface of my skin: about 2-3 inches from my left nipple towards my armpit. Yeah, pretty much in a spot that isn't easily protected during day-to-day

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Look at the name of this tobacco store. Hehe...

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My buddy, Dylen, mentioned this to me one time."Don't you wish life had a Ctrl+Z option?" Hell yes, I say! I spend a lot of time in various graphics programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator and others on a workday basis. The Windows universal "undo" becomes an incredibly handy feature when dealing with large files for print which require output resolution at 300dpi. Rendering Photoshop effects

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Here's my latest draft of a rhetorical analysis paper written on the essay by Edward I. Koch. We were assigned to read Koch's essay, critique the writer's effectiveness while using various appeals, then give an overall grade of the piece.My first draft is sort of embarrassing but enough to complete the assignment. That shouldn't be the way to go about writing a paper, but (excuse inserted here).

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Yes! I now have the internet via Comcast High Speed Cable. It was inevitable that I was eventually going to have to choose some sort of access. Needing to conduct research on various topics for class and an ever increasing "need" for the mother of all reference tools, I broke down this past week and went Nike on the internet's ass. I "just did it."Let me tell you, I haven't performed one bit of

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When you have a few minutes free, give this a read. It's basically a history of Real Time Strategy games that I hold dear; many of which I have spent hours upon hours playing. Enjoy.

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Okay, I'm not so sure the tsunami relief fund is the uniting factor here, but this does sound promising: Former Alice In Chains Members Say Now Is Right Time For Reunion Alice in Chains just happens to be one of my all-time favorite bands. (R.I.P. Layne) I wore out several cassettes copies of Dirt and Facelift that I had as a kid. I'd listen to them over and over all summer while mowing the

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The following are a few excerpts from the article "The King of the Night’s darkest hour”, by Larry Chin, an associate editor for Online Journal.As America mourns the death of late night TV icon Johnny Carson, fondly reminiscing over decades of gags and laughs, few bother recalling the single most telling "Carson moment" there ever was.. . .On January 31, 1968, New Orleans District Attorney Jim

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I am currently taking an English writing class at Pellissippi State Technical Community College. Below is the first draft of my paper that is due tonight. Wish me luck! Christian Hammond February 1, 2005 Summary #1, Draft #1 At present and for generations to come, the correlation between increasing technology and how society chooses to protect its privacy is and will be an ongoing dilemma.

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So, what's a guy to do? I would seriously like to have some sort of internet access at home. I don't have a land line and don't want to fork out $55.00/mo. for cable. Currently, I am only able to access the internet at work and at Victoria's house via her sweet cable connection. Having occasional access is definitely better than nothing at all. I consider myself lucky to have internet permissions

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Well, it's that time of year again. You know, that day everyone always says is "just another day". Nothing special. Well, I awoke this morning thankful to have another day in a brand new year - celebrated as being the first day of my 27th round of 365. That's 9,855 days, or 324 months, plus about 5 days when you take leap years into consideration. Maybe I'll start giving my age in days when

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Ha ha ha... Someone just forwarded me this link. Had to make sure everyone sees it. Or at the very least the handful of peeps that might see my page.

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So, you want my latest, eh? This one actually has been kind of in development. I had some notion of where I wanted to go with it but the full story didn't arrive, obviously, until after the story broke about the sub accident in the news. But the initial cover-up or havings-to-do-with conspiracy came just a few days after the "wave" of coverage by the media on the devestating tsunami in South Asia

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Okay, that is just too cool.

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I used to work for America's Collectibles Network Television (ACNtv) now known as Jewelry Television for almost 3 years photographing fine jewelry and gemstones. During those 3 years I worked mainly third shift (12am-8am). For the most part I actually enjoyed working such seemingly odd hours. At quitting time, it was especially nice to head some place most people only wished they could still be

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The announcement of DirecTV and TiVo parting ways brings a shimmer of hope. I say this due to my current inability to subscribe to TiVo ($4.99/mo.) simply because I have no land-based telephone line. The extra cost of having a land line simply doesn't fit into my budget. It's especially hard to justify the cost when it is used mainly to download a file each night that probably only consists of a

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Okay. THIS makes me think of the joke: Q: What are the famous last words of a true redneck? A: Hey, watch this!! The idea of zapping one's frontal lobe with currents of electricity to improve one's alliterative facility is pretty amazing. Shocking in fact. (Ha!) But, it worries me. What about Bubba and Uncle Joe who decide that their 'litrive parts aren't living up to the standards they had

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You know, in the world of ebay, nothing seems to surprise me lately. From the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese to the mother who attempted to sell the ghost of her father who apparently haunted her child's bedroom. Now comes Lucifer's Hotpocket - delicious but evil. $137.19 Unreal! The first bid started at $6.66. Nice! To me it seems as if the people who are bidding on these unbelievable (and totally

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Hmmm... 5 minutes ago I hadn't a blog. Now I'm neck deep in the fun of journal keeping. I'll have to create a theme for my blog. Currently, I couldn't tell you what I'd like it to be, but I'm sure I'll come up with something that suits my fancy. Check back, maybe I'll pick something you like.

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