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 January, 2005

Lables

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I was driving to work today and I noticed a “W in ’04″ bumper sticker on a car. Normally this is no big deal since I know those things are a pain in the ass to get off once they are on, but today I got to thinking. You start out with a cause, something [...]

Really Cool Testimony

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No growing legs back or anything like that, but possibly cooler in psychological changes. http://www.livejournal.com/community/challenging_god/506414.html

Scripting Homeless Encounters

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Another “Homeless” guy hit me up for money yesterday. Same story about “just wanting something to eat” but wouldn’t take the food we just bought at the grocery store for some stupid reason. Excuses about the shelters, “they are full of drug dealers,” “it isn’t safe”…so we decided we need a script for running into [...]

LJ Communities

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I have a lot of communities now on my LJ friends page. That means a lot of posts go on and off in a day or two. I can’t decide if I like this or not. 1. It makes it hard to find my friends posts, and 2. It is a lot to read, and [...]

The BMW Headache

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….Or is that wallet-ache? Well, yesterday I scheduled an appointment at the local dealership for Friday Jan. 28th…at $105 / hr just to look at it. The dealership is on the way to work, but it is pretty far away from my apartment. So that would be a hassle. Well today I figured there has [...]

Dreaming of a Life without a Job

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I would love to not work. More than anything, it would be super cool if Lauren got a huge book deal, and then made into a movie, and I got to sit on my ass all the time. Lots of people think that they would like to do this, but then if the opportunity arises [...]

Projectors and the Future of TV

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I’ve been doing some research for the church on buying a projector. I came up with four criteria I want to gauge this on. 1. Brightness – this is more important than everything else, including cost. We should want to pay more for the right brightness. So far, it looks like 2000 Lumens is the [...]

Cough Drops are like Crack

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I swear they engineer these things w/ addictive properties. I barely have a cough but I find myself instinctively reaching for a new one after I finish one. I think they have narcotics in these. The car said it was -16 F on the way into work today. That is cold. I blew something out [...]

Went to the wedding, it was good stuff. Got In ‘n’ Out right off the bat, which was really really nice. Then I went home and watched the “Manchurian Candidate” with Ralph. It wasn’t that great. Then I sacked out right after Lauren got back from helping make center-pieces. Next day, got up, loaded stuff [...]

Vineyards in CA

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I went to a Vineyard in Laguna Nigel (very close to an In ‘n’ Out I used to frequent) and I have to ask this question. Does anyone in the CA Vineyard have any idea how to preach correctly. Why is it that they have such an awesome worship, great ministry, and then this guy [...]

Why Did I Even Wake Up Today

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We’re back…at no later than 12:10 AM in the door after barely missing the first light rail we saw. Woke up this morning, 6:30 AM (slept In), left for work late, jumped the BMW w/ the Saturn before leaving so my car would start. Two miles away from home, it does that cutting out thing, [...]

Cool New Aids Findings

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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/1131.html Very cool findings on Aids. Could lead to a lot of new stuff. I always like when medical research develops into more than a guessing game, sooner or later we’re going to do medicine like we do engineering, modeling genetic structures, modeling interal organs and entire systems. Seeing what will happen before any surgery [...]

Up and Down….like a yo-yo

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I am looking forward to Dirk’s wedding. I think I’m going to take a fair amount of time off of work to go to it, so I can help out with random stuff. I was trying to figure out today if I should fly or drive (if I could find cheap air-fare), and I think [...]