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 March, 2005

More Free Stuff

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So I haven’t been paying much attention to my free junk lately, and out of the blue I got an email about a conga line I joined a while back. It turns out I made the top of the list finally, and people have started to sign up under me. Well, also there is more [...]

I have two full sized single board computers, at least one of which I’m going to give away. If you don’t know what that is, but it peaks your interests go to my companies website and check out our “full sized” “single board computer” section. Look at our P3 ones to get an idea of [...]

Anti-Poker Muse

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I’ve determined that my wife is the antithesis of a muse for playing good poker. Because I won AGAIN. That is twice since she left. And, twice in my WHOLE LIFE. Well, seeing as how my wife is my muse for many many other things, I will talk about those instead since I’ve made my [...]

I like Pants

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Sometimes I like pants, others not so much. Sometimes the drafty wafting of loose fitting shorts is my preference. Today I like pants because the pockets hold the winnings of the only time I’ve ever won at poker. But on the flip-side my pants also feel somewhat constrictive. I think the poker winnings make the [...]

I WON AT POKER!!!

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After taking second for weeks on end, over and over, I finally won tonight. Every night but one that I’ve played poker I’ve taken second at best in at least one game a night. I’ve played pretty solid in the past, and stood in there when I probably should have been out. But tonight the [...]

Well aint that about a …

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My wife is going to fly to California this weekend and stay there for a week. This generally seems crappy to me on all sorts of fronts. Like the front that she will be gone for a long damn time, and I won’t have anything to do…more on that part later. And on the front [...]

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BEST SHOW ON TELEVISION We are renting season 2 right now. Hands down best show on TV, better than ER, Alias, Lost, or anything else. Possibly the best show ever. Amazing acting, plot twists that I can’t see coming (and I’m pretty damned good at predicting plot twists), great directing, a good niche w/ the [...]

Interesting HS Moment

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I was reading Mike’s blog on some Catholic tradition thing, which as usual I found mostly uninteresting (the article not your thoughts on it Mike, I like what you say about that stuff) because it failed to actually address any of my actual concerns in a quality way. I could elaborate one why I find [...]

Lent Stuff

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Lent is starting to wind down as the NCAA tournament starts to wind up, and once again I failed to participate in the tradition of Lent. (I am the instigator of my illegal office pool for the NCAA and have my bracket filled out on yahoo) Most of you know I have very specific aversion [...]

I had a bunch of thoughts lately, and rememeber thinking I should blog about…like they were profound or something, but now I can’t remember any of them. All in all, that is probably good for you, cuz I’m guessing they weren’t that profound if I fogot them. I formatted my computer last night…it was pissing [...]

Weighing Possibilities

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K, so I’m thinking about everything that I need to process before I make any final decisions. I’m going to break these down into some categories of positive and negative things, and then my general concerns. ( some lists ) Well, there you have it…a whole bunch of stuff to think about. This is the part where [...]

Job Woes

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So I know I said I never have anything that I want to friends lock, but this is the exception I guess. Hence the LJ post instead of my regular blog. Well, my work doesn’t suck, but lately I have definitely not been into it. I had to start making cold calls, and while I’ve [...]

I made a cold call today

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I think I want to not do this for much longer. Cold calling sux. It took a lot out of me to make one. But with one call I have one quote to do, which is cool. I’m almost sure I won’t get a sale from it, but that is cool that the guy talked [...]