Brent’s Thoughts

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Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.

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Your Vote Counts!!!! Right?

Original post on old forums Did you know that last night an alarming number of people's votes didn't count for anything? No don't worry they wouldn't have changed the outcome of the election. No not even because it was 50,202,473 votes that didn't count. It…

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AFNI Talk

I met up with Brock and Cheyenne a couple weeks ago. It was good to talk with them about stuff, not just AFNI, but other stuff as well. They were in the middle of rolling out a new image to the call center and it…

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John Mellencamp Greatest Hits

I am not sure when exactly it came out, but I found it last night and now have a copy. Link on Amazon It is a good CD. There are some on there that I don't recognize, but that could just be because I haven't…

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Looking at houses

Original thread from my old forums I haven't really gotten too far into it yet, but there is a house on the edge of Edmonson county that I am going to look at tomorrow. It is listed at $129,000, which with what I can put…

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Classmates.com

I picked up a "gold" membership to classmates a while ago and I have been using it to try and get ahold of some of the people that I went to HS with. So far I haven't had a whole lot of luck, but I…

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Stacey's in the hospital again

She has been in and out of the hospital the last couple weeks, because it seems that her medicine isn't enough to stop them anymore. There isn't a whole lot to tell really. Right now they are just working on finding the right combination of…

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Jetfire

Original thread from my old forums I have aquired a new laptop, thanks in part to WKU-Swimming, who has paid for half of the cost of the machine. After the mail in rebates, I will only end up having about $450 in it. That isn't…

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Bob Vila

Original thread from my old forums ... And its good to have you home again. I have been on something of a home repair/change kick as off late. I picked up a cordless drill a while ago, that also came with a flash light and…

ThoughtsJunk

Presidential Debate Drinking Game!!

Everytime Bush Says: al qaeda Everytime Kerry says something that doesn't make sense. Everytime either canidate doesn't answer a question Everytime Bush says something that isn't a real word Everytime WMDs are mentioned. Everytime 9/11 is mentioned, but not the the 9/11 comission. Anytime either…

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Little Dog goes to the vet

Original thread on my old forums Tomorrow Pico is going to the vet to get two of his baby teeth that have never fallen out removed. I am scared to death over it. They are going to have to give him some kinda of general…