December 2003


29: FedEx Discoveries

Maybe everyone else already noticed this, but did you ever see the arrow in the FedEx logo? look at the...

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26: The Diamond Age

I have just finished Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, the book that followed Snow Crash. Although the stories of the books aren't related, Stephenson's vision of another alternative future was just as engaging yet frustratingly possible.

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24: That Wacky Vatican

After a lifetime of sitting, standing and kneeling at the same points throughout mass, you miss a few months, and they go and change it all around!

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21: Camp n' Cannon Beach

I stayed on the coast this weekend, heading to camp on Friday night and staying through Saturday afternoon. I had...

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17: 100 Years of Flight

Today is the 100 year anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight. I think that itis utterly amazing what has been accomplished in the span of a mere 100 years. Flight has completely transformed transportation, war, and science.

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06: Mystic River

In Tillamook for the weekend, I stopped by the local cinema this evening to see Mystic River. It was that or Cat In The Hat, so the choice was clear.

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03: Passport

My passport arrived in the mail today, a few weeks earler than I expected. This pleases me, as it was one of the last things that I was worried about before heading off to England next month.

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