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… the goose is getting fat! (or is that me on all this office snacks that keep appearing?)

As viewed from the Bourne shell.

Hilarious! A snippet:

$ rm saddam
saddam: No such file or directory
$ find / -name saddam
/var/opt/dictators/spiderhole/saddam
$ wall NewsWorthy.txt
Broadcast Message from USA (pts/1) on Time.Magazine Sat Dec 13
We Got Him!
$ mv /var/opt/dictators/spiderhole/saddam /opt/jail
$ cd /opt/USA
$ cp -Rp Democracy /middle_east/Iraq
$ cd /middle_east/Iraq/Democracy
$ ./install
Install Error: Install failed. See install_log for details.
$ more install_log
Installed failed!
Prerequisite packages missing
Conflicting package Wahhabism found in /midde_east/Saudi_Arabia
Packages Church and State must be installed separately
File System /PeakOil nearing capacity
Please read the install guide to properly plan your installation.

Briefly, bash.org is a site dedicated to posting various humorus snippets from IRC, IM, and probably in-game chats. Some are pointless, some are horribly degrading, and some are absolutely hilarious. Some of my favorites from the past few days:

whiter

star wards

a hex

combining holidays

sky trebuchet

Good grief. Took me long enough to go again. Slowed the pace a bit - same distance (a mile and a quarter maybe), eleven minutes “clock-to-clock” - i.e. I look right before I step out the door, run, have a cool down section, and walk inside and look again. Last time was 9 minutes I think, and I was HURTING. Not so bad now, but we’ll se tomorrow. This time I just really need to get back out there sooner.

Kind of distressing this evening. Looked down and realized I was taking a regular drugstore’s worth of pills - two ibuprofen (which is less than I often take), one multivitamin (this new one has ginko and ginseng!), one claritin generic (antihistamine), and one sudafed twelve hour (decongestant). Fuckin’ hate allergies.

Started running on Sunday. Yesterday (Tuesday) I was still in pain, and today I got an allergy attack - should have run though. The main part being I need to establish a routine. I’d like to get to 3 times a week, and then start increasing length of time and/or distance…

Last vestiges of the old dc convention center…

I got Delicious Monster working, and the Delicious Exporter. If you wish, feel free to peruse the library.

I posted this on Erik’s site as a comment response to his question about the bans on gay marriage.

It’s been already said, but I guess you are saying my marriage to my wife isn’t valid because neither of us believe in God. How we feel about each other would hopefully change your mind in that regard. We weren’t married by anyone religious, nor anyone licensed by the court for that matter. In fact, we were married in your new home state, (and my old one) Pennsylvania. We paid ten dollars more for the license, and had to have two witnesses sign instead of one officiant. It was colloquially called a “Quaker” license by the person at city hall.

You might look up some time what the Quakers think about marriage. To them, it isn’t important to obtain God’s approval of the marriage - instead, what matters is (in addition to how you feel about other, obviously) acceptance by friends and community.

Acceptance of my marriage by your church or faith means nothing to me, whereas acceptance of my marriage by my friends, family, and community does… and acceptance by the government, for the legal and economic reasons.

On the other hand, for a gay couple that did believe in God, it would be important to them for their Church to recognize it. And I have no problem with that Church deciding that their marriage would not be valid, although I’m sure the couple would be distraught.

But the government should not have anything to do with it. The benefits, protections, etc. that the government provides are intended for people who have declared that they wish to be bound by the responsibilites and commitments that come with it. It really should just be that simple.

Atheists Are People, Too - well said.