Sat - Jan 26, 2008 : 10:06 pm
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1st Nephi : 16 - Holy Cow
PoeticIntensity
I'm not entirely sure where to even begin with this chapter. So many good stories are found in this one, which can easily be likened to our own lives and our own times. Various lessons come to mind....
For example, verses 1 through 3 are a magnificent litmus test of personal righteousness. When someone comes at you and truthfull...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 24, 2008 : 07:01 pm
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Focus Becomes Reality
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... Chatting with good friends has its benefits. Just like think-tanks and collegeate consortiums are good for concerted cognation, a good conversation with a concerned cohort can be just as contenting.
I think I've mentioned this before in my journal, but in talking with a good friend of mine, I hadn't made the connection with just...
Lds / Spiritual
Wed - Jan 23, 2008 : 09:47 pm
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1st Nephi : 15
PoeticIntensity
After reading this chapter for no more than 30 seconds, I simply must type.
I love verse 3.
Many, many times have I been in a doctrinal discussion with someone and the other person just can't "get" what a scripture or principle means. Verse 3 could explain why that happens to us.
Some things we just can't understand without th...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Jan 22, 2008 : 10:06 pm
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1st Nephi : 14
PoeticIntensity
When I sit and think about what I just read, the 14th chapter of 1st Nephi is pretty crazy.
Just a few points...
The majority of the chapter is all about the "mother of abominations" and the "whore of all the earth".
I believe it's written here to clarify the impact this (these) church(es) has (have) had upon the plain and...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Jan 22, 2008 : 12:40 pm
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Microsoft Cares ... Really.
PoeticIntensity
No, seriously, people... Microsoft really does care.... loads and loads of caring!
They care so much ABOUT MONEY it makes me sick.
I just got done reading this article and I'm left with a feeling of sickening "awe" at how greedy Microsoft really is.
Lately, I've been following a story about a group of people in a project...
Computers / Linux / Microsoft
Mon - Jan 21, 2008 : 10:26 pm
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1st Nephi : 13
PoeticIntensity
Where do I even begin with this chapter?
I remember reading it and understanding it for the first time during my mission. It was really cool realizing that all of this stuff in this chapter is written about in history books! It talks about Christopher Columbus discovering America, the Revolutionary War, the Bible, the coming of the Bo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Jan 20, 2008 : 11:01 pm
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1st Nephi : 12 - Beautiful Yet Horrible
PoeticIntensity
I had forgotten that in this chapter, Nephi sees the Lord descend from heaven to the people who would be born from Nephi.
I put myself in his situation, and quite honestly , I have no idea how I would react. It would be so supremely surreal - seeing your kids' kids' kids' kids, and then seeing the Savior of the world show himself unto them....
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Jan 19, 2008 : 05:50 pm
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1st Nephi : 11 - Do You Believe?
PoeticIntensity
As soon as the angel of God knew Nephi's purpose and desire, the first question he asked him was "Do you believe?".
I think that's a fairly important question, which we should ask ourselves each day. If we are being tempted and we ask ourselves that question, to which we already know the answer, I can promise you the tempter's pow...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jan 16, 2008 : 10:14 pm
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1st Nephi : 10
PoeticIntensity
First Nephi Ten...
I'm not really in a spiritual mood right now, which really is unfortunate because I know this chapter has some spiritual meat to it.
One thing I can write, is when I read this chapter during my mission, and even before, I always found myself focusing on Nephi's desire to see the things his father did (in verse 17).
He didn'...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Jan 15, 2008 : 10:00 pm
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1st Nephi : 9 - Blind Faith
PoeticIntensity
Two things for tonight's study:
I believe the purpose of this chapter is the same as chapter 6: To give purpose behind the Book of Mormon. The things Nephi is writing are things of God - things pertaining to the ministry of the people in those days.
I love verse 5. It reminds me of when Adam was commanded to build an alter and...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Mar 31, 2011 : 11:02 am
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Melodies of March
AudioGuru
I apologize for the complete lack of posts in March. I've been having so much fun recording, I forget to write about it.
If you'd like to stay more up-to-date with the studio happenings, I tend to post much more information on Advanced Budget Studio's Facebook page than on the blog. It's just easier.
So, head on over to Facebo...
Miscellaneous
Wed - Nov 07, 2007 : 02:02 pm
tired
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Desktop Tower Defense
PoeticIntensity
Hehe.... I was looking at this site yesterday while I was browsing around my new RSS feed stuff. I didn't get past game number 4.
I've never been one to spend a lot of time playing online flash-based games, but I have to admit, Desktop Tower Defense is pretty darned amazing. Amazingly addictive, I mean.
If you have a couple ...
Computers / Miscellaneous
Thu - May 05, 2011 : 09:53 am
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Mormon : 5 - Arms of Jesus
PoeticIntensity
So, the past few days have been days of trial, and these days come and go largely, I believe, to help me remember the covenants I've made to God, and to help me remember how sweet it is to feel the Spirit.
When I read the end of verse 11, I wondered what those who had never felt "clasped in the arms of Jesus" might think of those ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Feb 18, 2008 : 10:47 am
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2nd Nephi : 6
PoeticIntensity
I think this is the first time I'm not really inspired at all to write anything.
This is frustrating because I can tell there's a lot of meat to this chapter. I guess it's partially because I really am not into the whole "gathering of Israel" thing. That's horrible to say because it's such an integral part of the whole plan ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Nov 15, 2008 : 01:24 pm
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Cats Have Nine Lives
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I didn't know if I was going to blog about anything this weekend, but something just happened definitely blog-worthy. Nothing insane, but something that I think people might find interesting.
You know, I've always heard that cats have nine lives, but I've always kind of been the one to keep that in check. No, I don't shoot ...
Cats / Life
Mon - Sep 21, 2009 : 05:03 pm
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New Studio!
PoeticIntensity
Although I've got quite good at it, I've been in web development for too long. My passion has always been in music, and it's about time I did something about it.
Knowing that I need to keep my family safe, and having been bitten some by risky endeavors, I'm taking baby steps at first, but it's now official.
Advanced Budget Studios is offi...
Audio / Personal
Tue - Jun 07, 2011 : 12:51 pm
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iPhone cloud vs Android
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So, this isn't gonna be the rant that you thought it was by the title. With the little time I have, I couldn't come up with a better one...
So, the story is - I had just eaten a delicious burger at Coney's, when on my way home, I happened to turn on Rush Limbaugh. He was talking about this new "cloud" technolog...
Babblings / Linux / Miscellaneous
Sun - Apr 06, 2008 : 07:29 pm
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Day 3 - Colorado Trip
PoeticIntensity
Today was pretty laid back. We watched one session of conference (Annie and Craig were gracious enough to let us watch it on their TV), played a lot of Brandon's new Wii, and went to a park which was pretty cool.
Other than that, today was .... average.
Here are some pics of the park.
Collin found some guy who was quite nice, flying ...
Personal
Tue - Feb 15, 2011 : 03:48 pm
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ABS + Mixbus = Good Times!
AudioGuru
Man... I've been so busy recording good music lately, I haven't had any time to let you all know what has been going on.
It's no secret that the studio uses Ardour as it's main digital audio workstation. So far, the program has been superb in its stability, scalability, and features to help create great music.
Recently, howeve...
Audio / Mixing
Sun - Mar 27, 2011 : 11:27 pm
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Updated Audiofire12 + Gentoo
PoeticIntensity
So, I wrote a few days ago how I was able to get my new echo audiofire12 working under gentoo Linux with the old firewire stack. Well, I couldn't leave well-enough alone, so I tried my hand at updating my kernel and using the new stack. Turned out there were a few caveats that, without some external help from a great person in the...
Audio Hardware / Gentoo / Linux
Mon - Jun 16, 2008 : 04:51 pm
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Gen. Conf. - Best Investment - Child
PoeticIntensity
For some reason, I love the commandment of paying tithing. It's probably one of the top 10 commandments of which I have a burning testimony.
I love this quote (as well as Jacob 2:19)
"President Heber J. Grant stated, “I want to say to you, if you will be honest with the Lord, paying your tithing and keeping His commandments, He...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Jul 14, 2007 : 02:04 am
content
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Music... again.
PoeticIntensity
It's 2:00am and I'm sitting down here writing and recording music. I'm trying to do some really relaxed "Trance" music, and .... I'm not entirely sure how it's gonna turn out, but it feels good being able to record music again.
I don't even have a name for the song I've been working on for the last month, but... it'll come when it'...
Wed - Jan 16, 2008 : 10:14 pm
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1st Nephi : 10
PoeticIntensity
First Nephi Ten...
I'm not really in a spiritual mood right now, which really is unfortunate because I know this chapter has some spiritual meat to it.
One thing I can write, is when I read this chapter during my mission, and even before, I always found myself focusing on Nephi's desire to see the things his father did (in verse 17).
He didn'...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Feb 29, 2008 : 12:36 am
grateful
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2nd Nephi : 13
PoeticIntensity
There are portions of this chapter where I think it is referring to our day, or the latter-days. I'm not sure, though.
Man, to understand this Isaiah stuff, I've really gotta be in a super-spiritual, "yearning after truth", mood or it just doesn't make much sense.
The latter verses I find interesting simply because they are so f...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Sep 12, 2007 : 02:00 pm
pensive
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Doctrine of Peace
PoeticIntensity
Due to recent events in my life, I've been feeling a little like the waves constantly lapping at the shore - in motion or at unrest. I know the sounds of the ocean usually bring a feeling of peace, but .... not if you're in the water.... :)
Anyway... This feeling of unrest has brought on a bunch of thoughts and ponderings to me as I'...
Lds / Spiritual
Sun - Aug 05, 2007 : 11:13 pm
peaceful
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A Good Sabbath
PoeticIntensity
I just got home from Jovi's baby blessing (Brandon and Chloe's first baby) and it was a pretty cool experience.
Today was a good day because I thought that it was gonna be .... not good.
Yesterday night, I stayed out a bit too late, and thus didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night. In fact, on my way home, my good friend Steve bought me ...
Sun - Aug 28, 2005 : 08:29 pm
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LDS Fest 2005 - Simply Sublime
PoeticIntensity
People connect on different levels in this life, and I just had an
experience of supreme connection on the musical level. I felt like I
was experiencing something somewhat supreme... But I'll talk about that
later.
Yesterday was the LDS Music Fest 2005, and EnZign was lucky enough to
be part of it again. It was such a s...
Audio / Miscellaneous / Personal
Sat - Jan 19, 2008 : 05:50 pm
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1st Nephi : 11 - Do You Believe?
PoeticIntensity
As soon as the angel of God knew Nephi's purpose and desire, the first question he asked him was "Do you believe?".
I think that's a fairly important question, which we should ask ourselves each day. If we are being tempted and we ask ourselves that question, to which we already know the answer, I can promise you the tempter's pow...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jan 21, 2008 : 10:26 pm
tired
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1st Nephi : 13
PoeticIntensity
Where do I even begin with this chapter?
I remember reading it and understanding it for the first time during my mission. It was really cool realizing that all of this stuff in this chapter is written about in history books! It talks about Christopher Columbus discovering America, the Revolutionary War, the Bible, the coming of the Bo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Oct 20, 2007 : 04:38 pm
excited
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PayPal/Verisign Security Key
orson
I got one of those PayPal security keys a little while ago.
I got one after hearing about it from the security now podcast. Now I use it for PayPal and Verisign's OpenID.
Since it is based off of cryptographic algorithms. I decided to start using it for random numbers whenever I needed one. I do this all the time. Flip a coin? I don't carry c...