Sun - Nov 25, 2007 : 09:44 pm
grateful
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Another Wonderful Sabbath
PoeticIntensity
Sitting here before I begin this entry, I have to sit and sigh... A sigh of gratitude.
Today has been a Sabbath of great spiritual confirmations of simple truths.
While reading this entry, I suggest you click the "play" icon button in the upper right-hand corner of this entry window. Instead of playing the usual En...
Spiritual
Sat - Nov 24, 2007 : 10:48 pm
exhausted
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We Finally Cut It Down!
PoeticIntensity
Wow... I can't believe I'm still awake. For future reference, the day after Thanksgiving is a day of pain. It is a day of fear and dread. But today was better.
When I got married to my wonderful wife, she told me she would marry me on one condition. Okay, okay... That's a lie. But if I wrote down all the conditions u...
Personal
Fri - Nov 23, 2007 : 10:54 am
grateful
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Happy Thanksgiving!
PoeticIntensity
Well... It came and went yet again.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Yesterday was a day filled with gratitude, family, good food, and fun.
We woke up, got the family ready to go, and we took off for Farmington in my Mustang GT (Hehe... Yup.. We packed a crib, casserole, oreo pie, two kids, and two adults into this wonderful sports ca...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Wed - Nov 21, 2007 : 02:47 pm
happy
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Women's Roles / LDS Beliefs
PoeticIntensity
A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in my car driving to and from Salt Lake City. During the trip, I had the opportunity to listen to one of the best talks on Women's Roles in the LDS faith. I was so impressed by the contents of this talk, I had to listen to the entire thing twice.
Both times, both my heart and my eyes were fille...
Lds / Personal
Tue - Nov 20, 2007 : 04:48 pm
content
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Life as Usual
PoeticIntensity
Beyond yesterday's post, I haven't posted anything in awhile. I guess it's because nothing really interesting has happened lately.
My kids are growing like weeds, and I try to enjoy them when want to, and I'm trying to want to more often. That's kind of a sad statement, but I don't believe I am a "born-to-parent" type of guy...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Mon - Nov 19, 2007 : 01:51 pm
spiritual
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Temple Worthiness
PoeticIntensity
Continuing in the tradition of weekly fasting, church this week was very enlightening. Sarah and I decided to go to a new "marriage and family" class instead of the usual gospel doctrine lesson, and I'm quite glad we made that decision.
Lately, temple worthiness hasn't meant much to me. There's more to that story, but that's...
Lds / Spiritual
Sun - Nov 11, 2007 : 11:03 pm
envigorated
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Incredible Speech on Creativity
PoeticIntensity
A couple of days ago, I wrote a post about failure and innovation. I had just seen the movie "Meet The Robinson's" which is a movie all about creativity, failures, leaving the past behind you, and always looking forward.
Well... Orson Jones gave a pretty incredible link in the 1 comment in that post.
The comment containe...
Miscellaneous
Fri - Nov 09, 2007 : 12:07 pm
amazed
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Is Linux Really More Secure?
PoeticIntensity
I've been using Linux now for long enough to have heard just about all the facts, opinions, babblings, and flame-wars about Linux security vs. Microsoft security.
*sigh*
It seems that every time I try to explain to people the added security inherent to Linux, they have all sorts of explanations why my explanations are bogus. Some of my ...
Gentoo / Linux / Microsoft
Fri - Nov 09, 2007 : 10:26 am
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Failure and Innovation
PoeticIntensity
I saw a good movie the other day. It's called "Meet The Robinsons".
If you haven't seen it yet, and you like movies which actually have a moral (kind of tough to find now-a-days), I'd highly recommend it.
A specific part of the movie caught my attention and is the cause for this entry. The part basically consists of a li...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Thu - Nov 08, 2007 : 09:30 am
happy
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Steve Ballmer At His Best
PoeticIntensity
About a month ago, I came upon this video, which you simply must watch. It's basically a re-make of videos previously posted about a pretty animated Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO) put to music, and hacked up beautifully.
At the time I watched it, I didn't think much of it. It was funny, and it was Steve Ballmer. Hooray.
But...
Microsoft
Mon - Jun 16, 2008 : 04:51 pm
blah
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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
Sun - May 17, 2009 : 11:42 pm
grateful
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A Great Saturday
PoeticIntensity
Yesterday was a good day. Yes, yesterday was most definitely a good day.
My great friend Scott Morris's father died last week and they held the viewing and funeral yesterday. I also had our annual concert with my band, Plan B.
My day started at 6:45am (a time, I would really rather not see for my entire life), and consisted of dri...
Cars / Life / Spiritual
Sat - Feb 10, 2007 : 11:30 pm
no mood
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Salt Flats Craziness
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I can't write a lot, but I've *got* to write something.
My good friend Steve and I have been wanting to find a good place to race our new cars. He has a 2006 Cobalt SS (sweet ride), and I just got a 2007 Mustang GT (which, unfortunately, I really don't know how to drive well yet).
So, today we decided to just head out west and end u...
Cars
Wed - Jan 09, 2008 : 03:07 pm
no mood
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Microsoft ad
PoeticIntensity
I was sifting through my various RSS feeds a couple of minutes ago, and one popped up from TomsHardware which I thought might be interesting. So I opened it up in my browser, and before I could even read the title, my eyes were drawn to this ad by Microsoft. The image itself isn't very funny, but man-oh-man, the captions which came to m...
Microsoft
Mon - Mar 15, 2010 : 02:29 pm
grateful
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Helaman : 4
PoeticIntensity
Hmm.... Another war started by another group of dissenters. Man alive... Seems like the story is all the same. People who want to rule another nation end up being sparked and fed by dissenters of the nation they want to rule (think of Amalickiah)... *sigh*
The latter half of this chapter is a great reminder of what h...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Tue - Jul 08, 2008 : 11:00 pm
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Mosiah : 2
PoeticIntensity
It's been a long time since I have read the Book of Mormon. Well, I decided to repent tonight and read where I left off at Mosiah.
One scripture which always stands out to me in this chapter is the latter portion of verse 9. King Benjamin is telling people how they should prepare themselves to hear his message, and thus he says:
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jun 30, 2008 : 12:59 pm
grateful
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Gen. Conf. - Words Never Cease - Holland
PoeticIntensity
I watched this talk about 2 months ago and was very impressed by what Elder Jeffrey R. Holland proclaimed.
Down to its essence, Elder Holland simply states case after case as to why it makes no sense the claim that God has ceased speaking to us.
Quite frankly, I believe him. With overwhelming evidence given, it's hard not to see the clear...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Sep 24, 2008 : 03:02 pm
tired
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Mosiah : 14
PoeticIntensity
One question comes to mind this time reading chapter 14 and the beginning of 15.
Why in the world did Abinadi think these priests could understand what he was talking about?
An interesting perspective can be had when the audience of each scripture is considered.
The thing I don't get about these chapters (14 and 15), is that the doctrine A...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Apr 16, 2009 : 12:26 pm
amazed
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Alma : 24 - Conversion
PoeticIntensity
Man... When I started reading this one, I forgot it was about the Anti-Nephi-Lehi's who sacrificed themselves for the word of God. Wow.
Along with the previous chapter, I find it interesting that the main source of contention among all the Lamanites are the people who were once Nephites themselves. The Amalekites and the A...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Oct 10, 2008 : 08:59 am
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Mosiah : 23
PoeticIntensity
This chapter was good to read. I felt the spirit quite a bit. Some insights I had this time around were interesting...
I really wish I knew how much Alma knew about the Gospel before he was converted by Abinadi. Regardless of how much he knew, it's interesting that each decision Alma makes with his little city of people he broug...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Mar 11, 2010 : 02:59 pm
sick
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Helaman : 2
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I sure would like to know what the politics of the time were back then. Helaman's guard was able to single-handedly save the newly-appointed chief judge, by disguise, intellect, and ultimately a firm blade straight through the heart. Yet, the account says nothing of telling anyone what was happening during the incident....
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Jul 30, 2007 : 11:50 am
peaceful
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To Write...
PoeticIntensity
(poem)
To write...
Feeling as though worthlessness is she who has found me...
The block of feeling sinks deeper into an endless ocean...
of creative decay.
Yes, to write is to live.
But to live defines my weakness
my misunderstanding
my inadequacy
my wretched mind
my life.
nevertheless!
to write...
..is to live...
...and I shall live....
Wed - Mar 12, 2008 : 12:27 pm
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MPAA: Piracy vs Sales
PoeticIntensity
I just got done reading this article in which Dan Glickman states some figures on how the Hollywood box office did in 2007.
With all of the cracking down and spazmic hooplah the RIAA / MPAA has been spewing, you'd think the figures quoted in this article would be something akin to "worst year ever, due to piracy!" or "box office s...
Drm
Thu - Sep 20, 2007 : 06:13 pm
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"Posting Forms to Sessions" - Trick
PoeticIntensity
(how-to)
Any web developer who has been in the craft for more than a couple of days realizes how often forms are used in web development. Well... Where forms are used, form methods are used, and one of the crazily irritating problems with forms using a "POST" method is the fact that when the "back" button is pressed after lea...
Programming
Tue - Jan 18, 2011 : 05:30 pm
tired
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3 Nephi : 21
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I've now read this chapter twice, and I cannot remember a single thing I read. I started journaling about the chapters of the Book of Mormon January 1, 2008 - as a resolution to write about each and every chapter of the book. I'm not sure if I can make it through this chapter one more time! I have no idea what's going o...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures
Fri - Jul 15, 2011 : 09:21 am
okay
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Ether : 7
PoeticIntensity
So... Sometimes I feel like I write things here that could get me into trouble, but I figure, if this is what I really think, and I'm sincere about it, then right or wrong, the truth will eventually come out. Many times, I've thought one thing, and then upon further studying and prayer, have found out I was wrong ... and I'm okay ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Thu - Oct 18, 2007 : 02:30 pm
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Thoughts on the RIAA
PoeticIntensity
Those who know me will find this post a bit ... unlike my typical post.
This is mainly because I have a pretty passionate stance on DRM, OSS, Microsoft, Linux, and religion. (I hate DRM, love OSS, hate Microsoft, love Linux, and I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Anyway... I have a few words to say ab...
Drm / Miscellaneous
Sat - Feb 09, 2008 : 02:32 pm
tired
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2nd Nephi : 2 - Part 1
PoeticIntensity
Before I even begin reading this one, I've gotta say that 2nd Nephi 2 is one of the power-doctrine chapters. I'll be surprised if I can get through reading this today.
Verse 2 contains an interesting phrase: Consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain. This brings to mind quite a few cross-references, but can you imagine how much...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 07, 2010 : 03:59 pm
okay
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Alma : 48
PoeticIntensity
I was just looking at the timestamp on these chapters, and realized that Amalickiah went from being a Nephite citizen, to the king over the entire Lamanite nation in approximately 1.5 years. How freaking crazy is that?
Also, one thing I failed to mention about chapter 47 is the last verse. A very interesting verse, that is. Once...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Apr 28, 2009 : 01:03 pm
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Alma : 27
PoeticIntensity
What a great chapter this is. And what stupid people the Amalekites were. "Gee, we're having a hard time killing our enemies, so let's kill our own people instead. Yeah, that'll make us feel better." Freakin' idiots.
The parts I loved especially about this chapter were parts I've never noticed before, or at least...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual