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
content
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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
content
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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
spiritual
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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
PoeticIntensity
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
PoeticIntensity
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 - Aug 01, 2011 : 12:10 am
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Backing the Music
AudioGuru
So, last week, a client came in who presented a song to me, and we proceeded to record it. It quickly became a favorite of mine, and I've since decided to produce it up beyond what it was originally, with the permission of the owner, of course. The song is an acoustic version of Yellowcard's "Ocean Avenue", and I really,...
Babblings
Fri - Jun 14, 2013 : 01:20 pm
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Utah Valley = Talent!
AudioGuru
So, I've had the opportunity for the past few months to work full time with clients from all over Utah Valley. From the sweet harmonies of By Request's soft country swing, to the relentless brutal drive of The Suffering's hardcore sound, the longer I'm in company with musicians of this area, the more I'm convinced that Utah Valley seems to be...
Music
Wed - Aug 15, 2007 : 12:31 pm
irritated
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Another Mormon Myth?
PoeticIntensity
Wow... Three entries in a matter of a couple of hours. I guess I've got a lot to write.
A couple months back, I wrote about a pet-peeve of mine. Has to do with a phenomenon whereby people claim something doctrinal which really has very little, if any, doctrinal basis at all.
Well... I believe I remembered something else which just might...
Lds
Tue - Oct 16, 2007 : 09:53 pm
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Literal Scriptures?
PoeticIntensity
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 - May 24, 2011 : 05:12 pm
excited
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Studio Cruisin'
AudioGuru
So, we received our new Oktava-Modded Apex 205 microphones, and the results have been very pleasing. New songs by BTP, PoeticIntensity, and some voice-overs have used them, and we are definitely feeling the love. Working as drum overheads, cab mics, and even acoustic guitar mics in stereo-pair. All around, these are some rea...
Audio / Miscellaneous
Mon - Aug 06, 2007 : 09:40 pm
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LDS Doctrine
PoeticIntensity
As I was sputtering around the net today, I found a pretty cool feature within google, of which I did not know. Did you know that google can search blogs for stuff you're interested in?
Well.. Today I typed in "LDS Doctrine" and I found this site which had all sorts of good stuff in it. I read one of his posts concernin...
Sun - Sep 23, 2007 : 03:27 pm
no mood
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Texture Extraction
orson
(how-to)
Using The Gimp to remove low frequency data from an image.
When I take a picture of something I would like to use for texture, there is often a slight change in the color across the entire image. I want to keep the detail, but make the overall color even across the image.
This is a picture of dusty rain marks on the hood of my car:
It is l...
Wed - Aug 15, 2007 : 10:11 am
irritated
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What IS the Gospel of Christ?
PoeticIntensity
I just returned from a family vacation at "Down-At-A" water-park with all my immediate family (minus Andrea) and had a blast.
During the evening of the first night, the discussion was lulling a bit, so Curtis and I decided to begin discussing some doctrinal points of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
During this discussion, both Curtis and I ...
Lds / Spiritual
Tue - May 06, 2008 : 06:05 pm
excited
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Luci Singing Frog Song
PoeticIntensity
Sunday morning, Luci came into our room, climbed up in our bed (Sarah and I were still half asleep in bed, as groggy as ever), and she started bouncing up and down while singing the "Green Speckled Frog" song.
Although I was still not aware of most the world around me, I thought her singing was quite cute. So about an hour later,...
Children / Music / 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 - Jan 08, 2006 : 03:58 pm
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Hoorah! Our wellness spell is over!
PoeticIntensity
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 - Jan 23, 2006 : 07:46 pm
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FHE Tonight... My Testimony.
PoeticIntensity
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 ...
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...
Wed - Jan 18, 2006 : 11:09 pm
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Tomorrow's The Big Day!
PoeticIntensity
First off, today was much better than yesterday as far as basing my decisions to strengthen my family. I spent the morning with Luci, and most of the afternoon and evening with Luci and Sarah.
At noon, I went in to get all the paperwork taken care of for my new job, and I must say... I'm impressed, excited and anxious all in one emotion. I'm sur...
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 ...
Sat - Aug 09, 2003 : 10:57 am
no mood
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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...
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...
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...