Archive for March, 2005

My weekend plans to hack on some GNOME related things and watch some baseball have turned south. First, I spent a few hours digging through gdb trying to debug why Evince crashes on a certain PDF. It's bug 171546. Since I don't have any encrypted PDFs that will open ...

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Two strange events in the last few days involving local teenagers and toy guns. First, a pair of Abilene boys tried to rob a Pizza Hut delivery guy with toy guns only to be greeted with the pizza mans real .38 pistol. Both were shot, released from the hospital, then charged. ...

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Reagan has a co-worker that will begin a 14-month deployement to Iraq in two weeks. As a going away present they decided to buy him an iPod. Because most of the people involved aren't great with technology, Reagan volunteered to explain the details to the group and make the purchase. After ...

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So I find myself needing to pull a practical joke or prank on some teenagers that want to die young. I'm looking for suggestions. Don't let me down. My guidelines so far: They're pretty good kids so nothing too bad. One of them owns a car, but we couldn't damage it permanently. No harm ...

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I must give credit to the college baseball fans supporting the Abilene Christian University Wildcats. The students hecklers at the games have impressed me with their quick thinking and their Cameron-crazy-like devotion. Printing out opposing player bios, making posters and hosting an impromptu trivia game on a dry erase board ...

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It's been a pretty bad month and a half for me, blogging wise. I attribute the slow down to a number of major changes in my life starting around Christmas. It's time to change that. Randomness: If anybody in Abilene needs a good painter I know a guy that doesn't charge enough ...

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