Monthly Archives: January 2009

Pretty Funny Bit

Posted on 2009/01/12 by ngilmour

Reblock Yourself the Polly Frost Way! There’s not much to say about this aside from it’s really funny. I moved to Sedona, Arizona, and once again began to focus on my own creative work. Easing back into my own true … Continue reading →

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An Early and Un-Sophisticated Review of Google Chrome

Posted on 2009/01/11 by ngilmour

I read about this project in WIRED magazine with some enthusiasm; after all, I’ve been using gmail since early in the “gmail invites” days, play on Google Earch with abandon, use Google’s security package until AVG improved on it, and … Continue reading →

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Horowitz at the MLA

Posted on 2009/01/10 by ngilmour

Impasse at MLA Folks who have read my material over at the Conservative Reformed Mafia know that I agreed to participate in an experiment with J. Wizzle (a screen name, of course) in which we both reviewed David Horowitz’s Indoctrination … Continue reading →

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Opening Day, Spring 2009

Posted on 2009/01/09 by ngilmour

I made a curious error planning for yesterday: I assumed that freshman comp students would be less chatty than they were, and I assumed that sophomore English and other humanities majors would be more so.? I suppose people are more … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?

Posted on 2009/01/08 by ngilmour

I actually read this one while watching a sick Micah before we left for Indiana, so I’m working mainly from memory?here. ?This is my second Smith book, and once again I enjoyed it immensely. ?I get the sense reading Smith … Continue reading →

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My Vista Exile

Posted on 2009/01/07 by ngilmour

Well, my Ubuntu 8.4 disk doesn’t have the driver for the new laptop’s wireless card, and I’ve now burned three .iso disks, and none seems to want to install Ubuntu on the new computer. (I got a new laptop for … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2008 pics, part 2

Posted on 2009/01/06 by ngilmour

Here are the next set of pictures. ?Enjoy! Christmas 2008 Trip Indiana Segment

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Christmas 2008 Pics, part 1

Posted on 2009/01/05 by ngilmour

And now… the much-awaited Christmas 2008 galleries! Today I’ll post West Virginia; tomorrow, Indiana. Christmas 2008 Trip West Virginia Segment

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Like Christmas, but Every Week

Posted on 2009/01/04 by ngilmour

Sundays not the Same Today Normally I don’t get halfway through Darrell Huckaby’s weekly column before I roll my eyes and give up.? That’s alright; he probably doesn’t read this blog either.? Darrell is one of many local columnists in … Continue reading →

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Travel and Confession

Posted on 2009/01/03 by ngilmour

No, I didn’t commit any particularly memorable sins while traveling for Christmas–I did exhibit the standard shortness of temper that comes with sleeping too little in beds not my own and American-style gluttony at most meals, but nothing that more … Continue reading →

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