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
Wed - Jan 23, 2008 : 09:47 pm
happy
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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
Wed - Dec 05, 2007 : 01:16 pm
content
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Logitech Orbit AF and Gentoo
PoeticIntensity
This morning, I ended up with a new toy in my hands and as luck would have it, I also had a couple of hours to mess with it.
The device is a Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF webcam.
I've always had a little interest in videography (nothing compared to my interest in audio, however), and from time-to-time I've tried to get various webcams to work in L...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
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....
Tue - Jan 19, 2010 : 06:11 pm
okay
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Gentoo XFCE4 / XDM / TWM Problems
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So with the latest update to xorg-server (I think it was 6.5), xdm stopped loading XFCE4 and I couldn't get it to load anything but TWM.
Here was the problem:
Somehow, an important file got removed. The file is this one:
/etc/env.d/90xsession
The contents of the file is simply:
XSESSION="Xfce4"
With that...
Gentoo / Linux
Tue - Feb 14, 2006 : 10:48 pm
no mood
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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...
Sat - Apr 03, 2010 : 10:35 am
grateful
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Conference Notes 1
PoeticIntensity
The opening talk by President Monson was inspiring. I love how he talked about his wife, the stories of them meeting, and the fact that her parents were converted to the Gospel by his grandfather's brother. (I'm amazed he knew that, by looking at his photo!)...
Also.. When Pte. Monson said that the presidency loves all those of t...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Feb 06, 2008 : 03:16 pm
excited
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LDS Online Scriptures
orson
(how-to)
Recently I was reading from scriptures.lds.org and decided it could be improved to make it easier to read. Here is what it looks like normally.
A couple things bugged me. Narrow text is generally easier to read. So, I made it more narrow. Also, the superscript letters that signify a footnote throw off the line spacing. I figured out a cool l...
Sat - Apr 10, 2010 : 12:09 pm
energetic
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Camp and Stuff
MJS
Sorry I couldn't write yesterday, I got a little preoccupied. My sister is going to camp with my mother (she wrote about it in HER journal) WITHOUT ME. They left at about 1:00pm and got there at 3:00pm.They're coming back on Sunday and will be home by about 8:00pm. I was mad, but then I remembered I get to go with the whole Young Women gr...
Babblings / Camp / Fun
Fri - Jan 01, 2010 : 05:59 pm
content
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Drum Cover - Green Day B. of Broken Dreams
Drummer
I thought I wouldn't do anything today... Mostly because I was feeling a bit ill... But, I figured there was no better way to usher in the new year!
Happy New Years 2010 to everyone! And hope you enjoy AdvancedOnlineDrums' version of Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Click for video. ...
Audio / Drums / Music / Video
Tue - Jul 31, 2007 : 01:39 am
tired
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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...
Fri - Aug 21, 2009 : 11:50 pm
okay
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Alma : 39
PoeticIntensity
First thing out of the gate that I noticed this time around with this chapter is that the first thing Alma says to Corianton regards his disobedience - in a possibly sarcastic way, or at very least - sincerely displeased. "Haven't your brothers been a good example for you?" Anyway... I found that interesting
Also noteworthy ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Dec 13, 2010 : 02:08 pm
excited
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We're on the radio!
PoeticIntensity
Okay.. Not really the "radio", but a cool little Internet radio station picked up Herod the Fink (a band I'm in), and decided to feature us. They decided to play our song, "Desperate Husband's Chorus", and I think it's way cool.
The radio station is called "LDS Music Today" and can be found at http://www.ldsmu...
Herod The Fink / Personal
Mon - Jul 26, 2010 : 04:32 pm
content
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3 Nephi : 8
PoeticIntensity
The most striking point of this chapter, this time, was the description of the darkness which covered the land after the storm. I've never thought about the darkness as an analogy of Christ's absence. The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes.
We know death as being a type of prison due to the body and the soul being separated...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Aug 21, 2008 : 02:59 pm
happy
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Random Thoughts...
PoeticIntensity
I haven't been getting much sleep lately... So I think I'll write about.... something. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to write about, but it's been much too long since I've written to continue not writing any longer.
I found this link today, given to me by this dude. It's a great theme for a blog, and I hope it goes far.
...
Babblings / Life / Miscellaneous / Poetry
Tue - Mar 01, 2011 : 10:32 am
happy
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3297 total views
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 - Aug 03, 2009 : 09:29 pm
exhausted
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Alma : 37
PoeticIntensity
Man... I'm tired... I've got to see what I can make out of chapter 37 because I told myself today I would read and write about it. So here goes.
The first thing that comes to mind is that the popular verse 6 seems to come out of thin-air. The verse before it talks about the plates of brass retaining their "brightness",...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 18, 2007 : 01:53 pm
tired
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Truth Exists....Right?
PoeticIntensity
Sadly, lots of problems exist with the world today. I guess it's human nature to create problems, and ya know...? I'm alright with that. Problems need to exist in order for life to be life, right? Yup... The eternal struggle for self-improvement, or whatever.
Anyway... One thing that irks me quite a bit, and a...
Personal / Spiritual
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
Thu - Oct 13, 2011 : 09:35 am
grateful
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Moroni : 9
PoeticIntensity
What a horrible, yet extremely personal and hopeful chapter. The nature of it reminds me of the psalm of Nephi (2 nephi 4:15-end). What horrible, horrible things were going on at the end, but it just amazes me, the strength of Mormon, and his constant prayers for Moroni - and his pleading to God for his soul to be brought b...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
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