Tue - Oct 09, 2007 : 05:42 pm
pensive
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"I Can't" ... Bah!
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... One thing which really irks me is when someone tells me "I can't", for whatever reason.
I'm not exactly sure, either, since there really are things which we cannot do, such as transmutate ourselves to become vultures. I don't believe I've ever met a person who has become a vulture, although, that would mean that he...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Tue - Oct 09, 2007 : 05:15 pm
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Elder Holland's Talk
PoeticIntensity
This morning I came to work rather ponderous, but not pondering anything in particular. I so enjoyed Elder Holland's talk this last Sunday that I went and downloaded it, watched it, and did about 4 hours of research into the Nicene Creed, which Elder Holland mentioned.
First, I must say, hearing Elder Holland's talk was... uhhh.... a...
Lds / Spiritual
Mon - Oct 08, 2007 : 09:35 pm
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FHE At The Jones House
PoeticIntensity
This post is mostly for my parents. (Hi Mom). I thought you'd enjoy hearing a night of FHE in the Jones residence. :)
There should be a little "play" button right below the mood panel in the upper right-hand corner of the journal detail page.
Enjoy....
Lds / Personal
Sun - Oct 07, 2007 : 08:15 pm
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Server Down! (Temporarily)
PoeticIntensity
Wow.... This will probably be a short entry, but I thought I'd write down what is the first hardware failure of my server!
I built this server 3 years ago, and it has been serving up everything that is served in my house (mythtv, web (this site), ftp, ssh, music, photos). Well...
Yesterday evening, we tried to fire up mythtv...
Computers / Linux
Sun - Oct 07, 2007 : 05:36 pm
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2007 Oct. General Conference
PoeticIntensity
Man... I'm not entirely sure what happened this year, but conference was amazing!
I've already told you what I thought of the first session (Sat. 10-noon session). The next two sessions were gonna be equally amazing.
With two children, it's hard, but not impossible, to really concentrate on what is going on with conference. There ar...
Lds
Sat - Oct 06, 2007 : 11:44 am
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Conference 1
PoeticIntensity
Brother Packer's talk about everyone in the church being the same, and no office being more important than the other was very inspirational to me this conference, along with Thomas S. Monson's talk about Sister Patton and the talk he gave in 1969 concerning her and the death of her son in the Navy.
I feel inspired as I sit here listening to the l...
Lds / Spiritual
Thu - Oct 04, 2007 : 09:44 pm
envigorated
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Jump On It
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I just got back from an absolutely wonderful place. This place is called:
Jump On It
and it's seriously a wonderful place.
My wife is addicted to this game called "Bunko" which she plays once a month with about 12 other women, so I get to play "Let's Go Babysit!" for 2-3 hours while she plays Bunko.
Any...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Wed - Oct 03, 2007 : 02:00 pm
amazed
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Sony's Digital Rights?
PoeticIntensity
I think I'm beginning to understand why I hate Sony so bad. Their stance on digital rights' management is absolutely astounding.
According to this article, Sony's cheif anti-piracy lawyer stated that "...making a copy of a purchased song is just a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'"
So, in a nutshell, Jennifer Pariser i...
Drm
Wed - Oct 03, 2007 : 10:41 am
happy
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MythTV Basement Home Theater
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About 2 years ago I got this hairbrained idea to use mythtv to create a computer-based full-media center for my basement home theater. At the time, I had a sweet side-job which was paying me nicely, so I had the means to do pretty much exactly what I wanted.
I had a couple of things for which I wanted to use the basement, namely 1. My Home...
Computers / Linux
Tue - Oct 02, 2007 : 04:44 pm
excited
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Mustang GT vs Saab 950 Turbo
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Hehe.... I love it when I learn new stuff about Springville.
I had no idea that there existed a place in Springville that was absolutely perfect for racing. Now we're talking 0-80 MPH racing in a straight line. Nothing curvy or anything like that. So... Anyway...
My co-worker, Steve comes into my office (or rather, the...
Cars
Mon - Jun 23, 2008 : 12:09 am
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Toilets and Servers
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This past Thursday, we finally decided to rip it up. I mean, literally - rip it up.
Then, we decided to take it out the backyard to see what the heck was clogging it all up.
It was just as we suspected. Collin had flushed a freaking toy cell-phone down our toilet!
and yes, we took the toilet out in the backyard, twisted it, turned it...
Personal
Tue - Jun 24, 2008 : 05:59 pm
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Home Teaching...
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I just got done preparing my message for my home-teaching visit tonight, and after reading through the matieral the 2nd time, a thought came to my head, although I'm not sure how I'm gonna get it out. Here goes nothing.
As I was thinking of home-teaching in general, the thought came that "love" is pretty much the strongest power o...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Feb 14, 2006 : 10:48 pm
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Heaven Has Come....
PoeticIntensity
And in a sense, that's true!
Yes, folks... Another addition to the illustrious Jones family has arrived here on earth just in time to watch his dad go a little more insane. If we were talking about anything other than the bunch of lunatics running around this house, that might just seem a little alarming, but we're not.
So it isn't. :)
Act...
Tue - Jan 15, 2008 : 10:00 pm
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1st Nephi : 9 - Blind Faith
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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
Tue - Oct 16, 2007 : 09:53 pm
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Literal Scriptures?
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My wife and I got into a discussion a couple of nights ago which has stayed with me enough for me to mull over the questions at least a couple of times. I'm not 100% sure of the correct answer yet, so I thought I'd blog about it.
The topic at hand is a quite sacred one, so I'll treat it with as much respect as is possible.
The discussio...
Lds / Spiritual
Tue - Jul 01, 2008 : 11:48 pm
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Welcome Back, Jason.
PoeticIntensity
To have that taken away which is precious to you usually results in one of two things. Either you do what is required to get back what was taken from you, or you devalue the thing which was taken, justifying its absence.
About three years ago, for one reason alone, my Temple recommend was revoked from me and the ensuing years caused me to ...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Aug 24, 2007 : 11:23 pm
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Random Ramblings
PoeticIntensity
Well... All I can really say today is:
"Thank heavens for time."
The reason I say that, is because if it weren't for time, we'd never get over our sicknesses, and holy crud, I'm about done with this one.
Today was the first day Sarah really felt good enough to be home with the kids happy, and healthy for the most part, and if she...
Personal
Tue - Jul 22, 2008 : 04:57 pm
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Gen. Conf. - Light and Truth - Steuer
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Hmm.... I enjoyed this talk, but I'm not entirely sure what to write about it.
The three aspects of gaining a burning testimony of light and truth given are completely true:
Learn True Doctrine
Gain Pure Testimony
Live Gospel Courageously
I remember something my mission president said about the first one. He said som...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jul 23, 2008 : 04:59 pm
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Gen. Conf. - One in the Crowd - Nuen...
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This talk was wonderful! It brought many memories of my adolescence to mind, along with quite a few ponderous questions which I had never before contemplated.
I'm not sure if it's my current mood, or the Spirit or what, but this talk was wonderful.
It brought back memories of my own childhood, when I made decisions which would bring on ma...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Feb 02, 2006 : 08:44 pm
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Life is a contradiction.
PoeticIntensity
Man.... No wonder we're all so screwed up in this life. If someone out there honestly does not think he or she is screwed up in some manner hasn't really lived. :)
The whole reason for my saying this is the very essence of my life. If I've been taught once, I've been taught 1,000,000 times that to touch a lit burner on a stove is to get B-U-R-N-E-...
Sun - Jan 15, 2006 : 07:02 pm
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Interesting Situation...
PoeticIntensity
Lately, I've been feeling a pretty intense lack of the Spirit in my life. I've been unsuccessfully trying to pin it down to something specific and it's driving me kind of crazy.
Well, today at church, I decided to try something for one week, hopefully longer, but definitely one week. I'm seriously going to do my best to base all my decisions on ...
Sun - Jan 08, 2006 : 03:58 pm
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Hoorah! Our wellness spell is over!
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Yup.. the Jones' family is now over its span of multiple-month's good health and have plunged into the wonderful month of January's sickness.
We've all got some sort of weird light-flu-type bug, and it's not happy. Luci hasn't smiled all day and none of us went to church today. Ohwell... such is life. I hope I can work tomorrow.
We'll see how...
Mon - Jan 16, 2006 : 09:58 pm
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One down, 6 to go...
PoeticIntensity
Interestingly enough, while I was praying last night, I felt prompted to start a fast. While I started it, the words flowed freely as the code from my fingers on a good day. :)
I fasted that I might not be so friggin' scared about finding employment. I fasted that I might know what to do to make ends meet while I try to figure out what I want to...
Mon - Jul 01, 2002 : 01:22 am
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Cave Experience in California. Exclusive with Sarah.
PoeticIntensity
Wow... Ok... On Saturday, I played hooky yet AGAIN from work. I know I shouldn't have, but I was going to miss an excursion up to a cave in Auburn, CA with 20 other awesome people. I gave it some thought, and I figured that this would probably be my only opportunity to get to go in this situation, so... I went. I had a WONDERFUL time..
I saw...
Mon - Jan 23, 2006 : 07:46 pm
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FHE Tonight... My Testimony.
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We've been trying to get into the habit of having Famiily Home Evening together as a family, and tonight Sarah planned a splendid lesson that would have been enjoyed much more if I wouldn't have been ill, and dead-tired. But... such is the life of a husband/father/bread winner. :)
Anyway... After the lesson, she wanted all of us to write down ...
Tue - Jan 24, 2006 : 09:59 pm
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Baptism By Fire...
PoeticIntensity
All I gotta say is, I'm glad I had a lot of clothes on this morning. Yes, it was friggin' cold outside, but that was only a small nuisance. The real reason I'm glad I had many layers on was due to the large amount of crap I shot in my drawers when I checked the main server log files this morning.
Around 9:30, the floor admin came to me saying he...
Sat - Jan 21, 2006 : 09:16 pm
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End of a Good Week
PoeticIntensity
Well.... Not much to write, other than this week's goal wasn't forgotten. :) I'd say that 5 out of the 7 days I had were a success of making at least 90% of the decisions during the day based on strengthening the family.
My job is going well, although it's kind of scary because I'm the sole Linux guru of the company. They're putting a lot of fa...
Tue - Jan 17, 2006 : 10:52 pm
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Bad Decisions....
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... Today I really messed up. Well, not *really*, but I messed up pretty badly if we're considering the goal I set at the beginning of this week.
I decided to play Need For Speed Underground 2 (my latest addiction) for a "while" and it turned out to be for "7 hours". Yeah.. That's just not cool when all the decisions I'm making are suppos...
Sat - Aug 09, 2003 : 10:57 am
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Letter to unborn Luci
PoeticIntensity
Ok... It's been a long time since I wrote in my journal... Sorry about that. Right now my life is good. I'm happy.....I'm blessed... Life is good. Just in case the other file gets deleted, here's a little letter I wrote to our baby-to-be.
Hello, mister or sister Jones the 1st. I don't even know where to begin in expressing my feelings for ...
Tue - Dec 23, 2003 : 01:00 am
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Henry's Birthday
PoeticIntensity
Hmmm... Today we didn't do much... We had good intentions of doing a lot of things, but it didn't happen. We ate breakfast.... it was a pretty good one. We had eggs, sausages, hashbrowns, and toast, and it was good. After that, we were gonna go see the Lord Of The Rings – Return Of The King, but Julia wasn't feeling good, and we would have go...