Author: Jason Burns
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The Day I Tried To Live
Words you say never seem To live up to the ones inside your head The lives we make never seem To ever get us anywhere but dead Soundgarden – The Day I Tried To Live Do you ever get the feeling that your thoughts are grand and composed in your head, but when you try…
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Background – Deviant Art – Portal Companion Cube
It’s been a while since I’ve played Portal, but I still think about how much I enjoyed it. I found a pretty awesome background to remind me of this. Edit: Grabbed new version from creator’s Deviant Art page. Looks like the problem with the hollow corner (which i had never noticed) was fixed. Deviation by…
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Book Club MeetUp
Munns convinced me to check out MeetUp.com for something I might be interested in. I love reading, and need to meet more people / become comfortable talking to strangers. Joining a book club seemed like a great way to accomplish these things. Brendan and I joined this club that meets in and around Durham. We…
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Douglas Adams Quote
I’ve added a new category for quotes. I always come across good ones, and I’d like to share. Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable, let’s prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. -Douglas Adams
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Twitter
I’ve decided to give twitter a try. My only problem is that I don’t know of anyone besides Brendan who uses the thing. Help out my testing by signing up here. View my twitter page here.
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Good Fortune?
Last week I had Chinese food with a small group of friends. Besides the food, my favorite part is the fortune cookies. I like the taste and you never know what fortune you’ll get. I had an awesome one that day: “Your greatest wish will come true.” I was perplexed though. I had lots of…
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Houses – Life- Stuff
Ever since the first one of my friends said “I’m buying a house” I’ve had a strange sinking feeling. A vague unease that I haven’t been able to describe. I haven’t been able to express my displeasure with the concept, or why it just wasn’t quite right. Something just screamed out to me: Wrong, we’re…
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Number 16, I will miss you
I had my Top Left Wisdom Tooth pulled today. Tooth #16. The dentist did a good job. It was a pretty big effort judging by how sore my skull is right now, but I was in and out of the office in 45 minutes. Pretty good time. I learned a valuable lesson. I must NEVER…
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Vista PC
I bought a new PC and am rocking the Vista on it. I’ve also installed WoW, Team Fortress 2, and Portal. I play all of these on high cranked up to 1680×1050. It looks so smooth and awesome. Dual GeForce 8800 GTS 512s in SLI will do that. So far I like Vista. I will…
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CCIE Attempt #2 – FAIL
Took a while to update this one. I failed my most recent round of CCIE testing. I did better than the first time, but not good enough to pass. I knew all of the answers, but I was not calm, cool, or collected enough to correctly apply this information in a timed test. Next time…