http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG babblings! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:28:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through death and fire to banter words with a witless worm." -Gandalf http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2008/03/31/be-silent-keep-your-forked-tongue-behind-your-teeth-i-did-not-pass-through-death-and-fire-to-banter-words-with-a-witless-worm-gandalf/ "If we could assemble all the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes." http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2008/03/31/if-we-could-assemble-all-the-antimatter-weve-ever-made-at-cern-and-annihilate-it-with-matter-we-would-have-enough-energy-to-light-a-single-electric-light-bulb-for-a-few-minutes/ In "Seabiscuit" trainer Tom Smith says of Seabiscuit: "They got him so screwed up running in circles; he's forgotten what he was born to do.he just needs to learn to be a horse again." http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2008/03/05/they-got-him-so-screwed-up-running-in-circles-hes-forgotten-what-he-was-born-to-dohe-just-needs-to-learn-to-be-a-horse-again/ testaga http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2007/11/14/testaga/ IBM Remote Insight Board (RSA) causing Windows XP to blue screen (BSOD) when attempting to remote control a system. Was getting a BAD_POOL_HEADER error, with stop code: 0x00000019 & 0x1A020001 almost every time I tried a remote control session. That error code seems to be device driver related according to my research, ... http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2007/11/14/ibm-remote-insight-board-rsa-causing-windows-xp-to-blue-screen-bsod-when-attempting-to-remote-control-a-system/ When the prosperous man on a dark but starlit night drives comfortably in his carriage and has the lanterns lighted, aye, then he is safe, he fears no difficulty, he carries his light with him and it is not dark close around him; but precisely because he has the lanterns ... http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2007/11/09/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-as-quoted-by-vernard-eller-in-simple-life/ Second Hand Lions - from Hub - "There are some things that a man has to believe in. It doesn't matter if they are true or not; what matters is believing." http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2007/10/09/second-hand-lions-from-hub-there-are-some-things-that-a-man-has-to-believe-in-it-doesnt-matter-if-they-are-true-or-not-what-matters-is-believing/ Gabriel Marcel speaks of "availability" as a "being who is ready for anything, the opposite of him who is occupied or cluttered up with himself." http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2007/10/03/availability/ About the Transformers Movie, a blogger (mormon?) said: It's like spending a day at the state fair: a little bit of actual entertainment, a lot of embarrassingly cheesy attempts at entertainment, and the faint whiff of bull crap everywhere. --Eric D. Snider http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2007/07/09/its-like-spending-a-day-at-the-state-fair-a-little-bit-of-actual-entertainment-a-lot-of-embarrassingly-cheesy-attempts-at-entertainment-and-the-faint-whiff-of-bull-crap-everywhere-eric-d-snid/ "To a small boy, his father is more than his father - he's his vision of his future, his portrait of adult manhood. If that vision is discredited, then growing up itself is discredited." -- J. Budziszewski http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2007/07/09/to-a-small-boy-his-father-is-more-than-his-father-hes-his-vision-of-his-future-his-portrait-of-adult-manhood-if-that-vision-is-discredited-then-growing-up-itself-is-discredited-j-budz/