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Public Library

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

When I was in ele­men­tary school; I used to get in trou­ble for talk­ing to the other kids dur­ing class. Even­tu­ally, this got bad enough that the teacher called my Mom in for a parent-teacher con­fer­ence to dis­cuss the prob­lem… Teacher: Mark keeps talk­ing dur­ing class and it’s very dis­rup­tive. Mom: When is he doing […]

Tags: Books, HAL, money, nostalgia, problem, quotes, reading, series, Software, youth

Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 28, 2005

Gossamer Commons

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Reviews

Later today, I’ll be post­ing PLotW1 but before that hap­pens here’s a dif­fer­ent link that you should really check out. Gos­samer Com­mons is a rel­a­tively recent web­comic, started back in March 2005 by Eric Burns and Greg Holkan. Eric writes, Greg draws. The premise is some­thing like so; the main char­ac­ter, Keith, has saved the […]

Tags: annoyed, Burns, coffee, Links, reading, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 17, 2005

Reading eBooks

Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews, Software

My rat­ing: 5 out of 5 I recently fin­ished read­ing the last of my unread stack of books, took a look at my bank account and real­ized that con­tin­u­ing to buy more at the cur­rent time would be… unwise. So I started look­ing around the apart­ment for some­thing else to read, but noth­ing really sparked my […]

Tags: Books, coffee, park, PHP, reading, Reviews, Software, writing

Read more | Comments (1) | May 19, 2005

Ta-da!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Ladies of the Inter­net, you missed your chance! By the time you’re read­ing this, my fiance Ariesna and I will have com­pleted exchang­ing our wed­ding vows and will be shov­ing cake into each other’s faces1. I’ve known that this day was com­ing up for some time, but it hadn’t really sunk in what was happening […]

Tags: family, friends, future, health, pain, reading, Scottish, Wife, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | May 7, 2005

I’m baaaack!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Quizzes

My inter­net con­nec­tion went down over the week­end and I ended up tak­ing a half-day of vaca­tion so I could be around for my appoint­ment with the repair guy from 1–5. *grumpf* Why can’t they make appoint­ments like nor­mal peo­ple (e.g. 3–4)? Any­ways, as you can see my inter­net con­nec­tion has finally been fixed and […]

Tags: email, HAL, Quiz, reading, repair, vacation, weekend, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 18, 2005