Scott Just "because it has always been done that way" is a bad reason to do something. It is also a bad reason to not do something.
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Scott @sblomquist6 You never know, they arrested a guy for DUI who was drunk while sleeping in his car, because the keys were within reach...
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Scott 2010 ... And waiting on a draw bridge ...
- via Twitter at 9:21 PM May 22, 2010

December 14, 2009

... and so it begins

First day in the new BU - already have a user story to look at, but not going to settle in just yet - we change buildings just after the start of the new year!

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December 11, 2009

So it ends...

Last day in the old BU - new job come Monday!

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October 25, 2009

Proposed change to new construction signs

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September 10, 2009

Not a truck I really want to follow...

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July 4, 2009

Happy Independence Day

It has been said that those who control the language control the future. I have been trying for years now to take back a little corner of the language, by wishing people a "Happy Independence Day", rather than "Happy Fourth", or "Happy Fourth of July". Especially when someone wishes me a "Happy Fourth", I make sure to respond with a "Happy Independence Day!"

Join me in bringing back meaning to the day - it is not just the fourth day of the seventh month people, it is our country's birthday!

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May 26, 2009

Purell invasion

Suddenly these oversized Purell dispensers are everywhere at work - at the elevators, anywhere there are more than a few light switches. We are all eventually going to die off because our immune systems will have become so weak from disuse they will not be able to fight off anything...

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March 7, 2009

The Debt Star

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Via AR15.com

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January 20, 2009

Centrist??!?!

On the CNN Wire blog, one of the authors had the audacity to say that Obama was being centrist in his speech today:

the question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.

Pardon me?!?! It is not the government's job to find anyone a job, help them pay for health care, or pay for their retirement! Just because he throws in the bit about government being too big or too small does not make him a centrist, nor his ideas. He still thinks that the government should be taking care of our every need, and that is certainly not centrist...

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January 10, 2009

Long term storage in my hood

Guess the porch was full...

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January 1, 2009

Run for your lives!

I ran across this video of the bloat of the bailout legislation - quite depressing really, in that this is not limited to this bill I am sure.

Bailout Bloat

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December 17, 2008

Moblogging

Yes, I know, first texting and now moblogging - I am dragging myself into the twenty first century a little bit at a time. Just finished my scripts last night to allow updating from my phone, so doing a first post while stuck on a conference call.

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November 10, 2008

Spy camera lens

I want, Want, WANT!

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June 26, 2008

SCOTUS says that it is not supposed to make laws!

Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

The above is from the SCOTUS ruling on the Heller case that upheld the right of the people (called out in the ruling as separate and distinct from "a well regulated Militia") to keep and bear Arms. You have to love the smack down of the activist courts so prevalent in the country today. This is a good day.

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May 10, 2008

New life for the laptop

We got a new laptop because the old one was dying - the final straw was that the power cord had a break in it somewhere, so you had to hold the cord just so or it would not charge.

I went at it this morning with a razor blade and 2 lbs of solder later, it works again! The patch is of course ugly, but it works - now what to do with this computer? I think I might try to install Ubuntu, but um, well, the CD player does not work ;). Of course half the memory slots don't work, the wireless card gave out years ago, and every once in a while you have to press the power on button repeatedly to get it to turn on, but it has a few month miles to go now!

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February 17, 2008

The cutest baby in the world

I know, eye of the beholder, I am not objective, etc, etc, blah blah blah; but tell me she is not at least one of the cutest babies that you have ever seen...

:)

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