Wed - Jul 23, 2008 : 04:59 pm
pensive
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Gen. Conf. - One in the Crowd - Nuen...
PoeticIntensity
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
Wed - Jul 23, 2008 : 10:41 am
happy
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Miss Universe
sarahkimjones
Okay, I was watching the latest Miss Universe the other day and it was kind of like watching a train wreck. You don't want to look, but you can't bring yourself to turn away. The interesting part about it was the question and answer portion which is supposed to be the most important part of the competition (yeah right!). They had ...
Tue - Jul 22, 2008 : 04:57 pm
content
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Gen. Conf. - Light and Truth - Steuer
PoeticIntensity
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 16, 2008 : 03:29 pm
grateful
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Gen. Conf. - Will Not Yield - Zwick
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I really liked this talk. There were points in it where I found his words coming through my mind's eye of the past.
While growing up, I was probably on the extreme of what Elder Zwick was trying to convey. Instead of being tempted to go along with the crowd, I thought the crowd was stupid, and I didn't need them. ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jul 14, 2008 : 02:12 pm
pensive
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Gen. Conf. - Ask In Faith - Bednar
PoeticIntensity
I just got done reading, listening to, and watching the general conference talk "Ask In Faith", by Elder David A. Bednar.
I must say, having missed the original broadcasting of this conference, I heard all the hype about this talk in the ensuing weeks and months. It seemed that this talk was all the rage about learning how to &quo...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Jul 13, 2008 : 06:07 pm
grateful
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Thoughts of Family...
PoeticIntensity
This morning I woke up and just was in a good mood... Feeling very grateful for lots of things... So, I decided to make a video of it all, and I think it turned out okay.
Just a jumble of thoughts and emotions from yours truly.
Enjoy.
...
Personal
Sun - Jul 13, 2008 : 11:07 am
peaceful
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Mosiah : 3
PoeticIntensity
This time through Mosiah 3, I had a few interruptions, so I wasn't able to concentrate as much as I would have liked, but family really does come first, so, ya gotta do what ya gotta do...
Anyway.. Mosiah 3, to me, this time rang loudly of what the Atonement of Jesus Christ is all about. It speaks of who needs the Atonement, who is c...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Jul 12, 2008 : 01:30 pm
content
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OpenFire gentoo problems
PoeticIntensity
I just spent the last three hours trying to figure out why my OpenFire 3.5.2 instance was installing just fine, saying that it was running just fine, but in reality was not running at all.
Neither port 9090, nor 9091 was open, both ports 9090, and 9091 were closed. ps -A | grep openfire returned nothing - at all.
Yet, /etc/init.d/openfire sta...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Tue - Jul 08, 2008 : 11:00 pm
happy
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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
Tue - Jul 08, 2008 : 03:57 pm
impressed
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KNRS 570 AM and Linux
PoeticIntensity
When I'm not listening to music, I love listening to a few AM talk radio programs. Well, about six months ago, one of my favorite radio stations, KNRS 570 AM radio, changed their streaming program that let people use the Internet to hear their content.
This change effectively shut-out all Linux users. I chatted with 4 other Linux use...
Gentoo / Linux / Miscellaneous
Tue - Sep 08, 2009 : 10:12 am
amazed
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Hard Drive Crisis
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So three days ago (that would be Saturday morning), I found that my server was having weird problems. I was getting an I/O error when I tried to start a movie for my daughter. Yeah, that can't be good. I'd seen that problem before when LVM got out of sync somehow (after about 6 months of uptime), and decided to reboo...
Computer Hardware / Computers / Linux
Sun - Jun 08, 2008 : 12:13 am
exhausted
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Last Three Days
PoeticIntensity
I've been fighting with my computer for the past hour to get gentoo to import the contents of an SD card in a card reader (announces itself through USB as "07cc:0500 Carry Computer Eng., Co., Ltd"), and was unsuccessful.
As such, I have lost all motivation and energy to work on getting the journal entries for the 3 days of Rat Fink (Ed ...
Personal
Fri - Mar 05, 2010 : 02:28 pm
tired
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Alma : 63
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I forgot that Alma had 63 chapters.
This chapter has always just kind of made me raise an eyebrow while reading it. I must say, I felt the Spirit while reading it, and I know it's true, but I wonder why it was written.
Why did Mormon dedicate half a chapter to people "going northward"? And what about the ships?&nbs...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Wed - Oct 24, 2007 : 04:58 pm
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Temptation and Personal Battles
PoeticIntensity
Something which I've never even tried to verabalize, let alone write down is the subject for today's blog.
I've always thought there must be something wrong with me, since I've always been almost at the point of being tormented spiritually. That may seem a bit harsh, and surprising to those who know me, but it's true. Never actually ...
Spiritual
Tue - Mar 01, 2011 : 10:32 am
happy
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3 Nephi : 29
PoeticIntensity
Seems like chapter 29 is all about "spurning", and to be honest, I really don't know what that means. The word is used 4 times in 3 verses, and is used no where else in scripture. It's definitely something we shouldn't do, and may be related to "hissing" or "making game". Very interesting.
I believe...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - May 19, 2008 : 08:24 am
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Life
koyote Dreams
(short story)
Well, the auction went real well! We made more then enough money for camps. Which by the way I am going to Girls camp. Their bumping me up a year so I'll be with my own age group.
At the auction I sold myself three times, each time was funny. Because the first I got up on the stand, heard the anounser say " Here is a very pretty young l...
Fri - Aug 31, 2007 : 09:27 am
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New Haircut
PoeticIntensity
I just thought I'd let ya'll know that I got a new haircut a couple of days ago. I think its swell.
I guess this just goes to show that I'm not entirely sane... pretty much... ever.
The mohawk has quite a story which I might as well divulge right about now.
It all happened about 7 years ago, when my brothers all got together for some event...
Personal
Tue - Aug 17, 2010 : 12:13 am
excited
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New Studio Acoustics!
AudioGuru
Okay... So, since I began this journey of becoming a better recording engineer, I knew there was a lot to learn. I have a degree in Digital Media with an emphasis on audio recording, and thanks to a great teacher, Mike Wizland, I quickly began to get a good grasp on the basics.
The early success of the studio has enabled me to get a few great m...
Audio / Audio Hardware
Mon - Apr 23, 2007 : 11:12 pm
no mood
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Judgmental Paradox
PoeticIntensity
I'm not even sure if that's spelled right. Ohwell..
Two things:
I love the smell of new leather. I went into my car to get my laptop to blog, and the smell of new Mustang GT leather came to greet me. I love it.
I don't appreciate enough the fact that my wife is so emotionally stable. She really is. Serious. Whenever I see someone who...
Sun - Sep 30, 2007 : 12:46 pm
peaceful
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Children Of God
PoeticIntensity
Once, after inquiring the reasons why he believed Mormonism was wrong, a good Baptist friend of mine began telling me about Satan and his desire to take the throne of God before the world was.
Everything he told me was true and accurate, as far as my knowledge goes. Satan did try to take the throne of God and was thusly cast out of heaven ...
Lds / Spiritual
Tue - Oct 04, 2011 : 12:43 pm
grateful
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Moroni : 6
PoeticIntensity
This was a good chapter. Starts out stating that worthiness is necessary in order for baptism into the Lord's church:
bringing forth fruit of worthiness (not entirely sure what this means, specifically)
having a broken heart and contrite spirit, showing a witness of true repentance
taking upon yourself the name of Chris...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Jun 09, 2008 : 03:46 pm
grateful
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Gen. Conf. - Exam. of Right. - Monson
PoeticIntensity
I'm so disappointed in the way things played out this last April. I just finished reading President Monson's talk, and thus concluded the Priesthood session, and I so would loved to have been there. But the past is the past, and I should consider myself grateful to be able to read the words after-the-fact.
One paragraph of this talk ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Sep 18, 2008 : 03:27 pm
tired
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Mosiah : 11
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... The first thing that hit me while beginning this chapter was this: How in the world did Noah get selected to be king?
I mean, really. Verse 1 lets us know Zeniff had at least two sons. Could his other son be that much worse than Noah was? Burning a prophet of God at the stake? C'mon...
I w...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 15, 2009 : 04:10 pm
ecstatic
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Workin' The System
PoeticIntensity
Okay... Quick story...
Last Thursday, I was looking around the Internet for a great deal on a new pre-amp I want for my studio. Happens that about 2 hours into searching, I found a deal almost too good to be true. I found my 8-channel Focusrite Platinum Octopre for $300.00 less than anywhere I could find ($400.00 less than retai...
Audio / Life
Sat - May 23, 2009 : 10:43 pm
tired
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Narcoleptic Snapshot of Life
PoeticIntensity
Well.... It's late, and I'm tired, but I wanted to let you all know, that right now, I know that if I dig in and learn the Zend framework, immerse myself in it as much as I can, while maintaining some semblance of a balance in my life, short-term, I'll make it with my new employment. I've just gotta jump in, so I sink or swim. I t...
Computers / Personal / Programming
Mon - Apr 09, 2007 : 07:38 pm
no mood
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I'm a MySQL veteran, but...
PoeticIntensity
The majority of my coding life has been spent with two tools.
PHP
MySQL
I don't claim to be a guru programmer, but the various professional problems which have been presented to me have always found their solution using these two tools. They're great tools. *sigh*
Recently I've found out that Oracle owns both sleepy cat's db en...
Computers / Programming
Thu - Apr 01, 2010 : 10:26 am
amazed
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Best Recording So Far
AudioGuru
We've done it. We've hit the mother load. The golden goose has landed.
I had the opportunity yesterday to work with one of the most talented musicians I've ever met. It's somebody I've highly respected the past few years, and have wanted to work with ever since I heard him play. He's largely unknown, and has requested me om...
Music
Mon - Oct 29, 2007 : 10:55 pm
content
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2007 Halloween Pumpkins!
PoeticIntensity
Well... Our pumpkins this year were just so darned cute, I had to blog about em' - I mean, after all, this is my journal!
So, without further ado, here are a few photos of the 2007 Jones Family Halloween Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza!
...
Personal
Wed - Apr 13, 2011 : 10:47 am
content
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Mormon : 1
PoeticIntensity
Not sure why this caught my attention this time, but doesn't it seem a bit weird that Mormon was carried by his father when he was 11 years old? It seems like he was carried on somewhat of a journey, too - to a different land. Maybe his father was quite big and could accomplish such a task, because an 11-year-old isn't small enough to ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Feb 26, 2008 : 10:56 pm
spiritual
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2nd Nephi : 11
PoeticIntensity
Let Isaiah begin!
This chapter is a great pre-cursor to the chapters to follow. Nephi explains why he like the words of Isaiah, as well as the fact that he likes to bring people to Christ.
Interesting in verse 3, Nephi says he'll send the words of Jacob to his children for the purpose of reinforcing his own words. The reason being b...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual