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Pink for October
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I’ve gone Pink for October, in honor of breast cancer awareness month. Too bright? Let me know and I can tone it down a little.
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Burning Mercury Thiocyanide
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For my pyro-student, Sheldon. At least this won’t get you in trouble with your policeman neighbor.
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Picasa 3 beta (windows only)
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Again, Google continues to carry out its mission: to try to take over the world. I’ve just downloaded the Picasa 3 beta. You can now make movies, take screenshots and webcam shots, add watermarks and print captions. It also comes with a new photo viewer that looks like this: Hey, the easter egg still works!…
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College Grads in Beijing to Leave Campus Earlier
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College grads in Beijing to leave campus earlier (March 9, 2008, Xinhua) College graduates in Beijing will leave campus roughly a month earlier than the usual time this summer due to the Olympics which is scheduled to start on August 8 in the city. Beijing municipal education authorities required all colleges located in Beijing to…
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Yahoo Mail Beta Easter Egg
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Anyone else use Yahoo Mail Beta? Check out the easter egg: When composing a message just hit the Subject: button to cycle through a collection of random (often humorous) subject lines. A lot of real gems in here including: * The brain has been polished professor. * All your platypus are belong to us. *…
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Tea Stein
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The strainer at the top of the stein is filled with lychee black tea, one of my favorites.
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Flickr map
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Check out my geotagged pictures. Ok, there are only a few. At least I added some pictures from this summer. Nobody's really seen any yet.
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30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World
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With all the things going on in the world, the least we can do as Christians is to pray. There’s a 30 day prayer focus for the Muslim world. You can pray for Muslims through the 30 days of Ramadan or you can sign up for the free email version. It’s day 2 already, but…
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Picasa Easter Egg
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Hit Ctrl + Shift + Y, and a teddy bear will magically appear! It’s a bit freaky, if you ask me.
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Not just BFF, it’s BSF.
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At this stage in my life, I sadly realized that many of my friends are friends of convenience. They’ll hang out when it’s convenient for them. Who actually MAKES plans or intentionally sets aside time to hang out now? Is it because they’re all married and have their spouses now, so they don’t really need…
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Is it Friday the 13th or something?
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I’ve had about the worst day ever today, and it’s not even over yet! First off, I overslept, so I left the house late. When I leave later, there’s more traffic. Stinks. I leave before eating the free lunch at work to get new tires from Costco. I drive over to the one near the…
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Yellow fever (video) relapse?
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Remember the yellow fever video I posted a few weeks ago? Well guess what??? I was at UCSD last week with a friend dropping a car off for her mom. The exchange was goin down when I saw the Indian guy from the video!!! Ha! I must have stared at him for at least 3…
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WCC debriefing
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I went to WCC for the very first time evar. It was great to see people I haven’t seen in many many years. I was especially encouraged by the fact that they were still serving after all these years, even if they did go to the same jacked up “Christian” school that I went to…
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Four things
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You know when you played tag and you wanted to be it….oh oh, tag me, tag me! You end up just reaching out asking for the tag? I’m it! Four jobs I’ve had in my life Ice Cream Scooper Teacher Restaurant Manager Therapist Four movies I can watch over and over (hmm, I own the…
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Teaching
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Saturday night was TAD: Teacher’s Appreciation Day. We were tricked by the pastor’s wife (yes, th…
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Internet connections
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When I got home from work today, it was non-stop chatting. I finally had the pleasure of meeting…
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Entertainment escape from reality
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I watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose last weekend. Nothing special. The courtroom acting was ente…
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The forum is back…again.
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I was just playing around with some stuff this weekend. There were 2 things I wanted to get back …
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One reason why I STILL work with the youth
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I’ve been pretty pooped lately with everything that’s been going on. I’ve taken on the role of sunday school teacher in addition to being a fellowship leader. I was a bit stressed about it, seeing how I have to plan twice as much as before, and that I’m the one (and my co-leader Jerry) that’s…
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IRC channel
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Check it: #coffeehouse on irc.freenode.net is now in effect. Why #coffeehouse? #coffeehouse exists so that readers and friends of The Torn Identity have a place to hang out and chat with each other in real time. I used IRC way back when the “internet” first started, back before all the IM came out. Feel free…