Early morning, April 4th A shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride –U2 A toast, to one of the best of us.
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Decimus Tullius swears a lot.
“You are not fucking scouts,” Decimus Tullius shouts into the bruised face of Lucius Pontius on the day they report to him for duty. “You are surveyors. You look at trees, not soldiers. If you do see the enemy, you are not to attempt to approach him or gather information. You are to haul your […]
Shades of gray.
A friend wrote me an email tonight, raising some thoughtful and valid questions about the ethics of what I’m doing. So to clarify: I’m not working for Halliburton, CACI, or any of the other monolithic contractors over there. Nor would I. The company I work for is relatively small, and their sole purpose in this […]
My current theory on dieting and weight loss.
If you take a statistical sampling of diet tips from a few dozen people, you will learn that every single possible foodstuff is terrible for you; water may be poisonous in small doses; and that the only “real” way to lose weight and get into shape is to make your daily caloric intake consist of […]
Big man with a gun.
I went to The Gun Store today with Andi and her friends from California so that I could price and check out some guns. Let me be clear on this: I don’t actually like guns. I’m a constitutionalist, so I believe the Second Amendment is just as important to protect and enforce as the First…but […]
The feeling begins.
Taking a break from coding and house cleaning — I have a birthday party here tomorrow night, and my house is a wreck. I’ve decided, tentatively, to blog about my current unique situation. People seem interested in how this came about and what I’m doing to get ready to go to Iraq. (I’m pretty sure […]
Where I'm going
So, as those of you who follow my Twitters know, I’ve been excited about something these past few days. Now, I think, I can talk about it. I can’t really tell you everything, for reasons which will become clear, but I can tell you a bit. I’ve been hired by a medical technology company to […]
links for 2009-03-22
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Vids from the show
“Just Like Honey” (Jesus & Mary Chain cover) “Heroin” (Velvet Underground cover) These were the last two tracks I did. “Just Like Honey” was going to be the final song, but as you can see in the second video, an audience member asked me to do an encore. For these, I had a random audience […]
The show…
…was awesome. At least, the 20 people or so who showed up seemed to think so. I rocked out and debuted a new feature, in which I picked a random member of the audience to play drums with a Wiimote on a cover of the Jesus & Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey”. It actually worked […]