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Draft

Here's a drafted post from 2006, published now, for scrutiny: ................. What would you do if they reinstated the draft next week? Hypothetically speaking, of course. I think the standard draft proposal is 18-26 year old males get entered into the lottery. And even if the draft were reinstated, being a graduate student, I'd almost certainly be exempt. That being said, I'd definitely go if asked. Anywhere, desert, jungle or plains. I can't think of a better way to serve your country if she needs you than to obey being asked to fight for her. Likewise, there's nothing more cowardly than to enjoy the unbelievable benefits that we as a country, or even a culture, enjoy, and not be willing to protect it with personal mortal wounds. Putting aside the whole anthropomorphic argument (the idea that we are driven today by unnecessary wants that our technology can offer that weren't available centuries or even epochs long-ago in human history, and peo...
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Limits.

Here is a draft I found of something I wrote back in 2007. ................... I'm going to take this moment to sort of speak aloud. Which is really what blogs are for, am I right? A medium of one-sided discussion. I talk, and you listen. Only three or so people ever comment on my blog, so it really is like a one-way conversation. Google Analytics tells me I average about 11.5 (or so?) unique visitors a day, and about half of those are regular readers, and half are people that randomly get to my blog from a Google search or something. On a weekly basis, I end up having about 50 unique visitors. At any rate, the point is that I get to talk, and say stupid things, and you read, smirking to yourself while drinking your coffee. So, what's this post going to be about, Chris? This post is going to be about how awesome I am. Wait, wait - no I'm being serious. I really am awesome. But there will be some humility in this post also, because the second part of thi...
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I guess things on the internet do last forever

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Interesting to see what kind of a person I used to be.  I almost remember every one of these posts. 
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Future Perfect

Hi. Been a while since I've posted. No doubt many people who visited, laughed and mocked my posts over the years still constantly visit to continue their ingenious, enjoined rejoinders. Maybe I'll pick this back up.
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Ecce zebrafish:

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Quick picture from earlier today. I inverted the colors to make it look even more awesomer:
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Pushing into true 3D gameplay

Wow, this is stupifyingly (spelling?) awesome.
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Asus Eee PC

Got one. It's my new toy. I really only have a passing need or use for its functionality, but it's highly customizable, and really sweet. (It's basically a micronotebook computer: about the size of your average hardcover book, or a couple of DVD cases on top of each other. Wiki entry - you know that's hot.)
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We have a medicine to help you with that...

Ah, nice. It looks like there may be a work-around for lowered sexual desire experienced by some women: linky-poo . Brilliant. What do you do when birth control's artificial hormones and anti-depressant regimens obliterate the body's chemistry? YOU TURN UP THE VOLUME! More hormones. One of the side effects that you can read about on the label of most hormone based contraceptives is a decrease in sexual appetite in women, which is painfully ironic, considering the nature of the drug and it's presumed use. That a second hormone should then be created, tested and marketed is par for the course. Afterall, it's the least they could do, so that the women can at least feel like they're not getting ripped off for buying their birth control pills. At what point does it start to simply look like not interfering with the system and needlessly inserting X number of artificial re-checks and re-balances in our bodies is better than the alternative? I wonder if women will ge...
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Hey Government, back the fuck off!
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