Never Underestimate Radical Vision

What do you guys think of what is happening? I am not sure what to think. My religious beliefs tell me that gay marriage is against God’s Word but should we as God’s people be backing adding this to our Constitution? I don’t believe we should go this far as it is forcing our beliefs on everybody, but in the same breath I believe we should stand up for what we believe is wrong (and by stand up I am not even sure what I mean). So give me your thoughts on the issues.

Here are some links for different views:

http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/3819.aspx
http://www.inkblog.com/PermaLink,guid,aa815fc3-e3cd-4c6d-8c10-b2cee5ddc796.aspx

later

Today’s coffee is a fine Kenyan from IntelligentsiA coffee roaster
out of Chicago, IL. This coffee is rated a 94 buy http://www.coffeereview.com.

Here is what they had to say about the coffee:

Overall Rating: 94 points

Aroma: 9
Acidity: 8
Body: 8
Flavor: 8
Aftertaste: 7
Roast (Agtron): Dark/Medium-Dark (42/47)

Blind Assessment: High-toned, complex aroma: sweet citrus, cherry, apple.
In the cup gently acidy, while the fruit maintains its complex, elegant trajectory:
Meyer lemon, grapefruit, tart berry. The initial, almost shocking rush of
sweetness is balanced by a crisply bitter finish.

I like this coffee very much. The African coffees are always of high quality.
If you are coffee drinker put down the swill known as Folgers, Cains, etc. and do
yourself a favor and order some arabica coffee from a good roster. If you are not
sure where to start go to coffeeroasters.com and click on Highest Rated. Pick
anything from there to get you started. Fine coffee is very much like fine wine
and takes practice to develop a love for it.

I need to give a shoutout to Pele Plantations in Hawaii for sending me a free pound
of the Wood Captain Cook Estate Kona coffee. That was very cool. I ordered one pound
and got the free pound a day later. Good customer service! Look for a review of the
Kona coffee soon.

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ok, this is just one sweet piece of equipment. even you not tech
types have got to respect this monitor (if not, you can bite me!)

i am thinking that i need to upgrade, yeah right and monkeys
might fly out my butt. this sweet hunk of metal runs at the
price tag of $17,400.00! CRAP! that is a new car!

you can read more about the monitor here.

click here

why don’t you mit types stop meditating in a dark bathroom for
a sec and engineer something this cool (btw, stop or you will go blind.)

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For you math types (oh, and dirty programmer types)…

click here

hahahaha!

Some updates on the music I am currently listening to. The new Five for Fighting album is pretty good. I love the song “100 years”. It reminds me a lot of their “Superman” song on their first album. I just wish they would stick to more of the acoustic guitar and piano slow movement type songs. I like the more upbeat folk type songs; but I really dig the slower songs. They are great songs to code by. I also purchased the new worship album by Jeremy Camp. This is a very good album; yet, I am a little biased since his voice is so low that it is easy to sing his songs. Very good stuff.

I have to say that I love Apple and Pepsi. The new free songs under Pepsi caps is an awesome promotion. I was able to download the complete Newsboys worship album by collecting enough caps. Now I didn’t drink all those Pepsis, but I contributed greatly. I probably would not have bought the album outright. I didn’t feel to bad using my free songs on it. It turns out to be a pretty decent album.

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I was just talking to Ed on break and he said some financial survey guy called his house last night asking a bunch of questions. He said he didn’t pay attention to most of them but one of the questions was very intriguing. The man asked, “Would you rather have more money or more sex.” Now I found this too interesting to pass up.

I started to dissect a little and came to a couple of conclusions. You could say more money because if you had more money you could always buy sex. But then my brain said you just aren’t thinking right; you could prostitute yourself for money. Then you could actually have your cake and eat it too. What a great notion. You could stump the survey by saying both. You could actually have more sex ( and who doesn’t want that) and more money at the same time.

Although, given my belief system and the current relationship with my wife, I don’t see myself being able to accomplish both. So I will have to go with more sex. Cause if you are having sex all the time, you are not going out, therefore you are not spending money. So I guess you could have both. I will have to bring this up with my wife. What do you guys think? What would you chose? What other combinations could you have to accomplish both?

For extra credit see how you can get more football out of the equation as well. And no simple stuff like marry a wealthy nymphomaniac!

I just wanted to let you guys know about a really cool RSS reader that is free and written in C#. It is called Sharpreader and is available at here. You will need to have the .NET framework installed on your Windows PC. If you don’t go to your Windows Update site and download it.

A quick and dirty note about RSS. RSS is an XML format (don’t worry about what that is) that lets you quickly syndicate information. A lot of blogs have RSS feeds, as well as, a lot of web sites that have a bunch of news. All you have to do is point Sharpreader to the RSS feed URL and subscribe to it. Then you can configure Shrapreader to check at certain intervals for new information. This is extremely handy. I use it all day long to get the latest news information, as well as, new blog postings for the people I like to read.

Check it out you won’t be disappointed. If you need any help installing and/or setting it up email me and I will help you.

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Ok now I am going to have to stop being lazy. Kent McConnell finally got a blog up and I can not let him out blog me so I am back. Check out his blog it will make you wet your pants, http://www.supercubsfan.com/blog (he owes me for thinking up his domain name). So I will try to be more disciplined about making posts, yeah, right, you have heard that one before. No, seriously, I will, I promise, no, not the hose again. Oh, sorry, bad dream. Anyway I am back with more strange brain droppings than ever. By the way, those that want to read a blog that is half technical and half comedy I recommend Rory Blyth’s blog. He is a .NET/Java/Open source guy that is one of the funniest people I have ever read. His stuff is located at http://www.neopoleon.com. Read some of his archived stuff. Here is a sample post of his:

—START EXAMPLE

[Warning: This post is gross and unnecessarily immature. If that bothers you, then turn away now. If that doesn't bother you, then give me a call - we should go out for drinks and tell each other fart jokes sometime.]

I just left the bathroom at work.

Somebody was clearly experiencing some sort of intestinal difficulties. That’s no big deal – it’s normal. Work is a stressful place, and does all sorts of weird things to your stomach.

What was weird was the other guy who was in the bathroom. On the way out, he said this (to nobody in particular):

Boy, I’m hungry. Lunchtime!

My sentiments, exactly. Nothing gets my mouth watering like the fresh odor of other people’s feces.

I can’t even chew gum at a urinal. I don’t know how this guy managed to think of food while why the guy in the stall passed a lung through his colon.

— END EXAMPLE

Later,
Travis

p.s. I will work on getting the spam comments removed!