Fri - Aug 03, 2007 : 11:56 pm
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Friends and Friendship
PoeticIntensity
Hmm.... I'm wondering how I can write this entry without offending anyone, so... if you are offended by it, I'm sorry. What is going to be said has to be said, and it will, hopefully, enlighten at least someone.
Due to this wonderful blog, I've been feeling quite pensive lately and liking the change. Midst this change, I asked on...
Thu - Aug 02, 2007 : 08:11 pm
tired
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Sleep and Caffeine
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Heh.... My wonderful 3-year-old daughter Luci loves to sleep with her parents. Her dad doesn't sleep very much anymore, and because of this, he has to watch his caffeine consumption or he'll get addicted to it.
Heh.... Caffeine... That brings up some interesting history.
Due to my personal beliefs and what people taught me...
Wed - Aug 01, 2007 : 09:13 pm
pensive
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Financial Decisions...
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I keep on runing into these people who have learned what I want to learn.
About a year ago, I met a guy named Rick Koerber and he seemed like a normal guy. About 6 months later, I find out he's a freaking multi-millionarie. I also find out that he teaches how he did it, and so I learn about it. It seems really legit...
Tue - Jul 31, 2007 : 01:39 am
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Drum Corps. 2007
PoeticIntensity
I just got back from a wonderful evening spent with my wife, Shaun, Tiffy, Shane, and Becca. We went to Weber State to see the annual drum core competition.
Let me just say.... Amazing. Yup... Amazing.... That's what it was.
It also got me to thinking about a lot of things. For some reason lots of normal things...
Mon - Jul 30, 2007 : 11:53 am
peaceful
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knifegunpen.com
PoeticIntensity
I was wandering around the net to shake off the daily grind, when I came upon this site .
The poem made me think, and thinking is a pretty good thing. So, in response to his poem, I wrote the poem "To Write". I was suprised at how fast it came, and pretty freely, too. Anyway...
It's always a treat to find good poetry....
Mon - Jul 30, 2007 : 11:50 am
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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....
Sun - Jul 29, 2007 : 01:13 pm
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Transcoding subtitles
PoeticIntensity
Today I needed to encode a movie I bought on Friday (Fearless), and I wanted to encode it in its native language, but have english subtitles. The command I ended up using was this:
transcode -a 0 -i Fearless.dump -M 2 -w 2200,250,100 -A -N 0x2000 -y xvid -o Fearless.avi -Z 854x480 -J extsub=2:0:0:0:0:100:255:2:3
The "a" takes care...
Wed - Jul 25, 2007 : 09:38 pm
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Two Motorcycles and The Moon
PoeticIntensity
"What is a motorcycle doing in *this*?", I thought as I continued upward through the winding Spanish Fork canyon. It wasn't so much that a motorcycle was in this particular canyon, but rather in the canyon during one of the 3 most torrential downpours I've seen during my lifetime.
I was coming home from work today when about ...
Wed - Jul 25, 2007 : 05:17 pm
amazed
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Right vs. Wrong
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Holy cow, there's some weird crap on the Internet.
I was just sifting through Youtube for some comic relief from the daily grind when I wondered where in the world Marilyn Manson had gone. When I was younger, I was pretty much disgusted and amazed at the slim amount of MM media I was exposed to. I haven't heard anything about him for y...
Wed - Jul 25, 2007 : 10:30 am
irritated
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Active X, Microsoft, *sigh*...
PoeticIntensity
I've just gotta say.... WHAT THE %$@! ????
At work, I need to have a windows box along side my gentoo installation, so I can easily view stuff on IE 6,7,etc... Well... I downloaded a PDF and thought to myself, "Gee, it'd be nice to view this PDF I just downloaded..." So, I go to Adobe.com and try to download their...
Fri - Aug 22, 2008 : 12:36 pm
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Mosiah 4 and Other Thoughts
PoeticIntensity
I decided to get back into reading the scriptures now that I've finished the last conference talks.
This has nothing to do with Mosiah 3, but one thing I neglected to write about was the last gospel doctrine class I attended. Our wonderful teacher, Ryan Anderson taught again, and made a wonderful parallel out of Amalickiah and Satan.
We...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Jun 21, 2010 : 05:36 pm
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3 Nephi : 3
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So the past few chapters, I've been ragging on how wishy-washy the average human soul must be in order for signs of the Messiah's birth to be taken so lightly...
Well... This chapter leads me to believe that there were still quite a few believers who held true through all of the dissenting.
The part I liked most about this chapter...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - May 08, 2008 : 12:00 pm
pensive
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Gen. Conf. - Our Hearts - Lund
PoeticIntensity
This talk really got me thinking about where my heart is.
As I've grown older, my pet sins are still doing their best to have their portion of my heart dedicated to them. I'm still doing my best to assure they don't.
Often, I wonder how my life will differ in this aspect 5 or 10 years from now. Will I still struggle with the same si...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 25, 2007 : 10:01 am
amazed
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Unbelievable Microsoft Excel Bug
PoeticIntensity
Okay.
How long has Microsoft been in business? How long have they been the "best seller" of productivity suites? Oh yeah... and one last question: How many people have bought their Office software?
Yeah.... That's what I thought. LOADS, GRUNDLES, MILLIONS.
So.... I was reading my RSS feeds this morni...
Microsoft
Sun - May 27, 2007 : 05:03 pm
amazed
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Un-Believable...
PoeticIntensity
Alright... This is insane.
On Friday (2 days ago), we were here in California, and my cell phone was in the van. Unbeknownst to me, Andrea Clifford from Natures Way called around 11:00am, telling me that they were done with the 2nd-round interviews and wanted to talk to me concerning the web developer position. I got that message around 4:20....
Fri - Sep 14, 2007 : 05:39 pm
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Solid Programming
PoeticIntensity
I am by no means a "versatile programmer" in the general sense of the word. I know of many programmers who are much more well versed in various languages and best practices methodology. In fact, I am not even a computer science graduate, and I don't have a masters degree in anything.
*BUT*
I do have a lot of experience i...
Programming
Thu - Sep 20, 2007 : 06:13 pm
content
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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
Sun - Aug 22, 2010 : 11:26 pm
content
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gentoo mp3 tag editor
PoeticIntensity
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find a good console-based mp3 tag editor in gentoo, and was surprisingly fruitless in doing so.
After using the wonderful "equery belongs" command tied to an editor I use on my server (but couldn't remember where it came from), the program mp3blaster came up.
Although mp3blaster claims to just be an m...
Audio / Gentoo / Linux
Wed - Mar 26, 2008 : 11:44 pm
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Jacob : 1
PoeticIntensity
Nothing really jumped out and grabbed me for this chapter.
I liked how Nephi was seemingly fiercely loved by his people. I wish we had a president today like that. Seems like politics in general now has nothing to do with what is best for the country. It's all about backstabbing, getting rich, and furthering agendas. I wo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Jan 22, 2010 : 03:48 pm
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Alma : 52
PoeticIntensity
Onward and upward towards the goal of finishing the whole Book of Mormon, writing about each and every chapter, by the end of this year.
This chapter was all about war, and strategy. I didn't find anything particularly enlightening about it, yet I firmly believe that each and every word written in the Book of Mormon has a meaning - and will...
Book Of Mormon / Lds
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
Wed - Jan 16, 2008 : 10:14 pm
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1st Nephi : 10
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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 - Aug 28, 2007 : 08:42 pm
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ILMJ Gets Comments!
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(how-to)
Yes! You can now comment on public blog entries at ILoveMyJournal.com!
I wrote the whole process from scratch, so some of the methods used to keep bots away might be new to you. Here's the skinny:
First off, nothing is required except the comment and the human-test answer. I'm not sure if this is gonna stick or not, but I co...
I Love My Journal
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
Thu - Mar 06, 2008 : 10:05 pm
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The Spirit in Music
PoeticIntensity
I've been debating writing this down for quite some time now, but I think it's time now to write it.
What I am penning is a more detailed account of what happened this day during my mission.
It was April of 1996, two months before I would return home from my 2-year service as a missionary for our Lord Jesus Christ.
I was serving in a leade...
Lds / Music / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Jan 27, 2008 : 09:34 pm
somber
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President Hinckley Died Today
PoeticIntensity
I just got up from a nap I was taking due to my going to bed at 4:00am this morning and the first words my wife told me after coming up stairs was "President Hinckley died a few hours ago."
I'm not one to get upset at death. For some reason, I've never had a problem with people dying. The one thought which makes this even ea...
Lds / Personal
Sat - Aug 04, 2007 : 06:55 pm
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When You Care...
PoeticIntensity
Today I had an interesting thought. It's a question that possibly has thousands of answers, but, since I'm on a pensive streak, I thought I'd write down some of what I came up with.
The thought was "How do you tell if someone cares for you?", which also spawned the thought, "How do I tell if I care for someone else?", whi...
Sun - Mar 16, 2008 : 08:30 pm
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2nd Nephi : 25
PoeticIntensity
It feels quite refreshing to be able to understand more than just a couple of verses again. As I was reading tonight, I realized how much could be written about this chapter. It's quite full of good doctrine.
Here's what I noticed tonight:
From verse 1 until 6, Nephi seems to be trying to explain the "hard to understand" n...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Oct 21, 2007 : 02:05 am
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Mustang's Fog-lights?
PoeticIntensity
I simply must blog about this - quickly.
When I arrived home from a trip through some pretty insane snow tonight, I simply had to test a theory I had about my 2007 Mustang GT's headlights vs. fog-lights. (Apart from the chance to drive like a maniac in the snow, which I absolutely love)
So, I get my car going about 25 down a very lowly-li...
Cars / Miscellaneous
Thu - Jul 19, 2007 : 10:48 pm
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Fires in Utah / Gratitude
PoeticIntensity
Well... It seems that all of Utah is on fire. I mean... Almost literally. Currently there are 5-6 fires raging on in various parts of Utah, the extreme north, to the extreme south. One has consumed 18,000 acres so far. Insane...
Why do I find this interesting? Well, it's just interesting that one of the "si...