Common Folk Using Common Sense

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Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)

Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant.
Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men
You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

Yep. I’ve taken this type of test several times over the years and [...]

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Welcome Visitors

June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This humble blog had two unique visitors last night:

131.43.10.# (AIR NATIONAL GUARD)
State : Virginia
City : Arlington
Time of Visit : Jun 18 2008 1:18:55 am
Visit Length : 4 minutes 30 seconds

132.239.51.# (University of California, San Diego)
State : California
City : La Jolla
Time of Visit : Jun 17 2008 10:41:29 pm
Visit Length : 2 minutes 46 seconds

Wow. [...]

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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3

June 18th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Mozilla:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. - June 17, 2008 - Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.
Available today in [...]

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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology

Tax Day In The U.S.

April 15th, 2008 · Comments Off

Many people don’t fully understand how taxes work in the US - including those that pay such tax.
So, as a Public Service to the community. I shall try to explain.
Let’s put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to [...]

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Tags: Blog · Government · Taxes

WordPress 2.5

April 1st, 2008 · Comments Off

Today’s April 1 - aka April Fool’s Day - so I’ve purposely not posted anything today in case someone thinks I’m fooling them.
BUT …
I have been busy updating the site with the latest version of WordPress - 2.5. Lots of bells and whistles behind the scenes. Been ironing out plugin compatibilities, customizations, etc.
SO [...]

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Christian Holy Week

March 21st, 2008 · Comments Off

This blog will be running on autopilot for a few days.

Last Sunday was Palm Sunday.
Yesterday was Maundy Thursday.
Today is Good Friday.
Sunday is Easter.
This week, called Holy Week by many Christians, is the most sacred time of the year, and it commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion [...]

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Tags: Blog · Christianity

Favorite Fictional Firearm

February 20th, 2008 · Comments Off

Some other gun bloggers have been talking about their favorite fictional firearms so I thought I’d join in the antics.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the EM gun, or railgun, in the movie Eraser. A slug of aluminum accelerated to Mach 10 is quite enough to perform any job required of it.

The Noisy [...]

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Tags: Blog · Guns

Three Arrests In Denmark Cartoonist Plot

February 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

From Breitbart:

Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist’s assassination for his depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims two years ago.
Three of Denmark’s largest newspapers said they would reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated by fanatics. It was one [...]