Brent’s Thoughts

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

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Update on the 56 Chevy

I haven't posted too much on it, because my uncle has been working on having a new house built, but lately he has really been working his butt off on the car. When I was up there last I spent a day and sanded on…

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Another Doctor's visit

We went back today to have some more tests ran and to see if they could find a heartbeat for the baby. The visit started out with them telling us that they had gotten Pauline's blood work back and that she was blood type A…

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Hey we are going to be parents.

Continuing with my tradition of posting really important things with mundane titles, I figure Maxx will love this one. That is right, Pauline and I went to the doctor today for the start of appointments for our first child. She had taken several over the…

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The story behind "Carrots are good for your eyes"

I stumbled across this on Snopes.com while I was looking something else up. http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp In summary the reason the myth about carrots being good for your eyes was started was as a way to hide the British development of RADAR. They instead told everyone that…

JournalGeek

Backend Changes

Well maxx has finally decided to call it quits on his webhosting company . That means I had to spend some time looking for a new host. I had already looked at Dreamhost.com a few times so I picked up an account with them. Everything…

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Hacking Democracy

Before you go and vote today it might worth your time to watch this show from HBO. It is scary how easy it is for people to screw with these computer machines. It is also scary how in bed these companies seem to be with…

JournalGeek

I'm number two, I'm number two

On a lark, I did a search for "Adaptec 1420sa" the other day and was surprised when I found that my post on the Adaptec 1420sa is the number two hit right under Adaptec's own site. That is pretty cool and maybe, just maybe, it…

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Excellent Article on the New Atheist trend

http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/1,71985-2.html I don't really agree with his conclusion at the end, but he does a great job of showing several sides of the situation. Personally I think that it is important to call people on things that they are not rational about. I don't know…

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Cloned cows, the other red meat

zOMG OMG OMG!!!!!!11!!111!! They are cloning aminals and put tehm in UR foodz!!! RUN!1!!! ..ahem... sorry. The news agencies are all awash with reports that the FDA might approve cloned animals for sale as food. Whoopdee. People need to stop being so reactionary to words…

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The best explanation

Normally the stuff I link from YouTube are things that I get from other sites. Following links and stuff. I found these on my own and they are well worth the look Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 I agree with pretty much everything in…