BigCat’s Blog of DOOM

My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.

Browsing Posts published in October, 2004

Lunch Time

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I’m just posting because it is lunch time and I don’t have much else to do. I read the news, I read livejournal, I read slashdot, and I checked my email.So now I’m updating so you have something to read. I got my Ipod, I’m trying to get a second one so I can get [...]

IPOD ARRIVED!!!

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I GOT MY IPOD….AWESOMES!!!! I have no digital camera to take pictures, but come on, why would I lie about it. Anyway, for those of you waiting for proof, I now have the Ipod, so if you want to sign up check out this link to my friends who signed up under me or if [...]

Todays things

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So apple released a new Ipod yesterday. This one has a color screen and an output to the TV for viewing photos / slideshows, and can download cover art for your music collection. It is pricy, but I have a scheme to get one. There is a new deal to get a second free 20 [...]

My Political Questionaire

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So Jeff was saying (and I agree with him) that we both want the same things for the world, but we have completely different ideas of what the governments role is to get there. So I figured I would make some questions up, and see what people think and why. If anything, if I think [...]

Hmmm….

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What to say. Well, I bought comics this weekend, and bags, boards, and a box. My comics are happier now. I played more Metroid. I would like to beat that before 2 comes out. BTW, guys..does that have online play? Cuz that would be sweet if we could warp-pipe that up. I’m worried I might [...]

Systems based Theories

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So I’ve been doing a lot of political agruing, and reading some of my friends blogs and I’ve been thinking. What if more people took a systems approach to everything. By that I mean, what if the stability of an entire system was more important than the individual. Our democracy is built on that kind [...]

Box Set Deals

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Amazon has some great deals on some first season box sets. At 14.99 a piece you can hardly resist some of these. The titles include (all first seasons): Buffy Angel (I expect Brent and Jeff will be happy about these two) Simpsons King of the Hill 24 and Futurama Lauren and I picked up the [...]

Worse than…

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What is worse than missing the Bears game because they don’t show it here….that instead I only have the Green Bay vs. Lions Game to watch. Oh well, back to metroid I suspose. I figured out how to keep my eyes from bothering me when I play some FPS, sit back from the screen with [...]

Damn Spam

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So, comment spam is increasing again at my site. Despite my efforts to make it easy to post comments at my blog, and keep it open to whoever, and to thwart spam by blocking IP’s and deleting old stuff, it seems like I’m going to have to take additional measures soon. So, what does this [...]

Lives worth Living

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Death is a sad event. Death by old age or older people dying from illness is sad. A younger death due to illness or tragedy is slightly more sad still. Children dying is very sad. Death in war reminds us that living life is only worth it as long as we have certain things. But [...]

Pattering of Rain on the Roof

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Off and on it has been raining today. It’s finally getting good and cold. Like 45ish as the high kind of cold. But other than being particularly annoyed by the draft at one of the seats I’ve been hoping around to in my office I’m managing. I’m looking forward to having my own cubical, so [...]

Liberal News

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So last night Jeff and I got into an arguement. It was probably the most “You’re wrong,” “No, you’re wrong” kind of arguement we’ve had in a while. We’ve actually been having really good discussions on all our hot topics, but this was interesting. He claimed that all the news is slanted to the right. [...]

Wonderland

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Once each season, God walks in front of me with a paint brush. He Paints each and every moment of the world around me. Winter ice palaces greet me each time I step outside. I walk briskly as the falling snow softly sprinkles on my face. I barely wish to disturb the falling snow, as [...]