After another long ass talk with my dad a couple of days ago, it occurred to me that I really am not ready for children of my own.  I was listening to KFOG’s morning show yesterday and they were talking about kids vs. no kids.  More specifically, Renee’s recent marriage has become a battleground of [...]

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I hadn’t heard from my dad in years. Last time I got an email from him was probably one or two years ago, but it didn’t contain anything memorable. Frankly, I don’t even remember what he said. Lisa always asks me, “what are you going to say to him when you finally [...]

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I’ve got a nice long list of places I want to travel to, but I wonder when it’ll happen? Places I’d like to see:
Tibet Autonomous Region & Sagarmatha (summer?)
Kathmandu, Nepal
Xinjiang Uyghur A.R. & Takla Makan Desert (Luntai) (early spring)
Great Wall of China
Forbidden City
Paris, France
Swiss and Italian Alps
Tokyo, Japan
Venice, Italy
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Dettifoss Waterfall, Iceland [...]

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My computer gives me a fortune everytime I log into it. I thought this was particularly applicable:
Lackland’s Laws:
1. Never be first.
2. Never be last.
3. Never volunteer for anything.

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When Lisa and I first met, she introduced me to the Mongolian Chicken dish, served at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant across the street from the faculty offices at San Jose State.  “Little Palace” was a small kitchen behind a doorway without a door (reminiscent of my time served in Florida), a soda machine against the back [...]

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One of my pet peeves is the Christiano-evangelistic belief that animals and women are lower forms of life.
I have heard this statement all my life, “they don’t deserve to … because they’re animals, we’re people.”  Another variation is, “men should exercise authority in the house because we’re men; women should not extend their authority beyond [...]

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Girl and boy, many many years ago, went to the same school together.  In the course of that snapshot of time, they became friends, closer friends, and eventually lovers.  High school sweethearts, of sorts.  The boy loved the girl more than anything in the world, and promised himself that no matter what, there would be [...]

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I thought since it’s been about a year since mooworld.org went online, maybe it’s a good time to clean up the root directory a bit. Please let me know if there are any broken links or any problems.

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I’ve been able to copy all the posts from the old database to the new one.  However, I haven’t been able to copy the comments.  I may just have to do without them.
This should teach me to mess with domains on a running Wordpress blog.  There’s a fix published in their documentation, but it didn’t [...]

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Due to a problem between the MySQL database and Wordpress, I’m forced to rebuild the blog by hand. This will involve my copying and pasting all the posts I’ve had up to this point, if I choose to do so. And I think I will, because this is all part of the learning [...]

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