complich8′s journal

As I stand here, at the head of another weekend, looking at what I’m going to do to fill my time, I find myself unusually displeased. I mean … sure,there’s stuff to do … I got a new database project that has the potential to earn a lot of extra credit if we do a [...]

Lots of trouble taking pictures today. Sunlight was in and out, had a lot of difficulty getting focus where I wanted it. Lots of pictures I wanted to take but just couldn’t frame, and a lot of the shots I took, the exposure is pretty off. Especially the first couple shots of founder’s park. I [...]

So, after a couple days of stress, and a couple hours at work, I was leaving to go home and decided to walk through this year’s bug bowl/spring festival, with my camera at the ready. Took in the neighborhood of 60 pictures (that I kept, I discarded almost as many outright) and 6 video clips. [...]

So I’m trying out fedora core 5 (thanks in no small part to the power of partitionmagic). Biggest thing I’ve noticed so far: nothing remotely related to home-user type multimedia works, at all. No xvid, no divx, no mpeg, no dvd, no mp3. Why’s that? Well, patents, of course! ’cause you see, Fedora, like the [...]

Americans feel that atheists are less trustworthy than all other groups (ABC News), and conservative christians would object to their children marrying muslims or jews substantially less than they would object to their children marrying atheists. Choice bits include: Many of those interviewed saw atheists as cultural elitists, amoral materialists, or given to criminal behavior [...]