Archive for November, 2006

Chicago’s Field Museum

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Travel

Over Thanks­giv­ing week­end, some friends and I went to Chicago to see the King Tut Exhibit. It was amaz­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, they had a no photo pol­icy on that exhibit. With the crowd and all the secu­rity peo­ple, I didn’t want to get kicked out so I didn’t take any pic­tures of that exhibit. But our […]

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Read more | Comments (4) | Nov 26, 2006

NGD, which are you?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Quizzes

Pure Geek 43 % Nerd, 60% Geek, 39% Dork For The Record: A Nerd is some­one who is pas­sion­ate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is some­one who is pas­sion­ate about some par­tic­u­lar area or sub­ject, often an obscure or dif­fi­cult one. A Dork is some­one who has dif­fi­culty with com­mon social expectations/interactions. You scored bet­ter than […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Nov 20, 2006

50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life

This is a list of the 50 most sig­nif­i­cant sci­ence fiction/fantasy nov­els, 1953–2002, accord­ing to the Sci­ence Fic­tion Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, ital­i­cize those you started but never fin­ished and put an aster­isk beside the ones you loved. 1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien* 2. The […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Nov 16, 2006

Did you vote? I did (maybe).

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Politics, Rants

I moved to a new house not that long ago. A cou­ple of weeks back, my wife and I went to the DMV and updated our driver’s licenses. While we were there, we both requested that the DMV update our voter reg­is­tra­tions. Approx­i­mately one week ago, my wife got a card in the mail confirming […]

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Read more | Comments (3) | Nov 7, 2006

Gift Ideas

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I recently ran across a cou­ple of items online, but not on Amazon.com that I showed my wife as things I would like for Christ­mas. Since they weren’t on Ama­zon, I can­not just add them to my wish­list. She requested I add those items to CB.net as a blog post. I started to do so, […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 3, 2006

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