Archives: 2008 July

What’s this country coming to?

July 29th, 2008, No Comments

The following is the text of an email my girlfriend sent to her family today.  I can’t think of a worthy introduction, so I’ll just let her words stand on their own.
Rampage Attributed to Hatred of Liberalism
This hit hard for Lance and me. We go to a UU church in a conservative area, and [...]

TVUUC Shooting

July 28th, 2008, No Comments

I’m a bit wigged out just now. My then-wife and I visited TVUUC back when we moved to Knoxville for me to attend graduate school. This is the closest I’ve come to such violence in my life and my thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the deceased, the members of [...]

I *heart* my T43

July 1st, 2008, 1 Comment

I love Thinkpad notebooks.  Short of a Panasonic Toughbook, they are the most rugged notebook computers I’ve ever used.  Yesterday, while traveling home from General Assembly, I stopped in the men’s room at the Atlanta airport.  I hung my backpack on the hook on the door, turned away  to do my thing, and heard my [...]

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