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NASA has posted an updated archive of info regarding Columbia, especially in regards to the FOIA requests.
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You’ve just got to love these women: get nekkid for peace!
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Here’s something for to add to any Gnome-related collection she may have: check it out – I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but don’t open at work.
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Got the 802.11b card for my computer (living room) today, to connect to the wireless router in the bedroom. Yeah, baby. No Cat5 running down the hallway, and a solid 22Mbps connection. Woohoo! Time to download some music!
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I’m not home. Right now, we don’t even have a home to be at. So, if you want me to make you a userpic, piss off. Go bug someone else, cuz I’m going to tell you I’m unavailable and then delete the request.

Have a day.

The more you say that silly made-up word, the dumber it sounds.

Anyway, with the increasing changes to LJ, the fact that it is less reliable than my personal webhost on average, the rise in RSS feeds, and because I’m a geek – I’m still thinking of changing over to Movable Type for my journalish “needs.” So, here’s a question for any of you MT users out there: Do you get email notifications of new comments on your weblog? Cuz if I don’t know someone responded, I’d never look at my own log after posting something.
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The day after I randomly post TANSTAAFL, Brad posts this, which says the same thing about LJ. Wonder how many people are going to start looking into RSS aggregators and Movable Type weblogs soon…

Saddam denies weapons of mass destruction – well, guess that finishes that then, eh?

TANSTAAFL

Norwegian MP plays while debate rages. The debate, of course, being whether Norway would send any of their crack troops to help out in a coalition attack on Iraq. Once again, the public (outside Norway anyhow) lets loose a collective, “so what?”

I wish I could get Metalion for my Palm, though. It looks sweet, but it’s PocketPC only for now.
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1. As a child, who was your favorite superhero/heroine? Why? Spiderman, cuz he could climb walls and shit.
2. What was one thing you always wanted as a child but never got? Peace
3. What’s the furthest from home you’ve been? Korea, repeatedly
4. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to learn but haven’t yet? To rollerblade without feeling like a klutz
5. What are your plans for the weekend? Relax, do as little packing as possible.

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I just noticed (looking at invite code generation) that my first payment for LJ was only the 923rd payment ever. I’ve been on this thing a long time.
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I’ve added a new Random Meandering Thought on my site. It’s relatively short, and could probably have fit into my stream-of-consciousness ramblings on LJ, but I figured I’d make a post on the site to kick off the new year. I don’t write too many lengthy thoughts on there, since starting LJ journaling 2+ years ago.
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Monday

I hesitate to call anything that I do by such a lofty term as philosophy, but that seems to fit as well as anything else. Anyone who has any degree of introspection has, at one time or another, thought about how they approach life in general – the basis for their big life decisions. I call my approach the Risk to Reward Ratio method. I suppose others may invoke more-established terms like opportunity cost, but I’m not an economist and I would rather not muddy the waters too much (unless it’s to the strains of Mannish Boy, but I digress).

So, what is the Risk to Reward Ratio, and how does one use it? Simply put, every major decision in life (and most lesser ones) involves a usually-instinctive weighing of the pros and cons. I.e., "If I do X, I’ll lose out on Y."

I recently had to decide the mid-range path of my family’s lives. Would we stay in Arizona, where a company was offering me 10 grand more to do the same job I have done the past 2 years? This job, while dull as an old spoon, is not too difficult and I’m told I do well at it. Personally, I feel that I’ve been thrashing aimlessly the past two years, glad to have avoided detection as a complete fraud out of his depth. The other, non-Arizona, option was to take a job offer to move back to Texas. This other job is building on the job I did the last two years in the army, and I’m sure I’ll do well at it as well.

The pros and cons started to pile up. First, the plusses for each side:

And the negatives of each one:

This turned out to be much easier than I thought. However, in any risk-reward consideration, there are some risks that are larger than others. The house is a big risk: conventional wisdom says you’ll lose money if you sell a house less than 3 years after buying it. Fortunately, the market is wonky right now, and our realtor thinks we’ll be able to break even and maybe even get a nice dinner out of the sale.

Anyone want to buy a house in Southeastern Arizona?

Apparently Joe Millionaire fans are less willing to pay for a silly shirt mocking one of the characters than some people believe. Sold one of those I have no happy shirts, and it was to the person who suggested the design. Go figure.

Wonder how Mike’s bomb-the-liberals shirts are doing…
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Got a job offer in Texas, and we’ve decided to take it. So, off to San Angelo again.

Anyone want to buy a house in Sierra Vista?

I’m told there was a bizarre and hilarious moment on Joe Millionaire when a contestant proved her French skills were sub-par.

So, I’ve made a store for it. Don’t blame me, it’s all ‘s fault. 🙂
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Germany won’t help with war on Iraq. And a collective, “So what?” rose up from the crowd.
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Cafepress has now allowed us to set up newsletters to send to anyone who subscribes. So, if anyone is interested in keeping abreast of the latest and greatest from my not-very-succesful stores, go sign up.
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Latest announcement from the LAN admin folks here at the Defense Information Systems Agency:
Update of Netscape Communicator Pro to Version 4.79 scheduled for 6 Feb 03.

Yep, absolutely ensuring that we can’t access half the sites we need to for work, using an old non-standards-based browser. Did I mention, “Information Systems” is the name of the agency?
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