Fri - Aug 03, 2007 : 11:56 pm
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Friends and Friendship
PoeticIntensity
Hmm.... I'm wondering how I can write this entry without offending anyone, so... if you are offended by it, I'm sorry. What is going to be said has to be said, and it will, hopefully, enlighten at least someone.
Due to this wonderful blog, I've been feeling quite pensive lately and liking the change. Midst this change, I asked on...
Thu - Aug 02, 2007 : 08:11 pm
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Sleep and Caffeine
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Heh.... My wonderful 3-year-old daughter Luci loves to sleep with her parents. Her dad doesn't sleep very much anymore, and because of this, he has to watch his caffeine consumption or he'll get addicted to it.
Heh.... Caffeine... That brings up some interesting history.
Due to my personal beliefs and what people taught me...
Wed - Aug 01, 2007 : 09:13 pm
pensive
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Financial Decisions...
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Okay... I keep on runing into these people who have learned what I want to learn.
About a year ago, I met a guy named Rick Koerber and he seemed like a normal guy. About 6 months later, I find out he's a freaking multi-millionarie. I also find out that he teaches how he did it, and so I learn about it. It seems really legit...
Tue - Jul 31, 2007 : 01:39 am
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Drum Corps. 2007
PoeticIntensity
I just got back from a wonderful evening spent with my wife, Shaun, Tiffy, Shane, and Becca. We went to Weber State to see the annual drum core competition.
Let me just say.... Amazing. Yup... Amazing.... That's what it was.
It also got me to thinking about a lot of things. For some reason lots of normal things...
Mon - Jul 30, 2007 : 11:53 am
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knifegunpen.com
PoeticIntensity
I was wandering around the net to shake off the daily grind, when I came upon this site .
The poem made me think, and thinking is a pretty good thing. So, in response to his poem, I wrote the poem "To Write". I was suprised at how fast it came, and pretty freely, too. Anyway...
It's always a treat to find good poetry....
Mon - Jul 30, 2007 : 11:50 am
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To Write...
PoeticIntensity
(poem)
To write...
Feeling as though worthlessness is she who has found me...
The block of feeling sinks deeper into an endless ocean...
of creative decay.
Yes, to write is to live.
But to live defines my weakness
my misunderstanding
my inadequacy
my wretched mind
my life.
nevertheless!
to write...
..is to live...
...and I shall live....
Sun - Jul 29, 2007 : 01:13 pm
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Transcoding subtitles
PoeticIntensity
Today I needed to encode a movie I bought on Friday (Fearless), and I wanted to encode it in its native language, but have english subtitles. The command I ended up using was this:
transcode -a 0 -i Fearless.dump -M 2 -w 2200,250,100 -A -N 0x2000 -y xvid -o Fearless.avi -Z 854x480 -J extsub=2:0:0:0:0:100:255:2:3
The "a" takes care...
Wed - Jul 25, 2007 : 09:38 pm
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Two Motorcycles and The Moon
PoeticIntensity
"What is a motorcycle doing in *this*?", I thought as I continued upward through the winding Spanish Fork canyon. It wasn't so much that a motorcycle was in this particular canyon, but rather in the canyon during one of the 3 most torrential downpours I've seen during my lifetime.
I was coming home from work today when about ...
Wed - Jul 25, 2007 : 05:17 pm
amazed
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Right vs. Wrong
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Holy cow, there's some weird crap on the Internet.
I was just sifting through Youtube for some comic relief from the daily grind when I wondered where in the world Marilyn Manson had gone. When I was younger, I was pretty much disgusted and amazed at the slim amount of MM media I was exposed to. I haven't heard anything about him for y...
Wed - Jul 25, 2007 : 10:30 am
irritated
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Active X, Microsoft, *sigh*...
PoeticIntensity
I've just gotta say.... WHAT THE %$@! ????
At work, I need to have a windows box along side my gentoo installation, so I can easily view stuff on IE 6,7,etc... Well... I downloaded a PDF and thought to myself, "Gee, it'd be nice to view this PDF I just downloaded..." So, I go to Adobe.com and try to download their...
Mon - Mar 17, 2008 : 11:43 pm
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2nd Nephi : 26 - Part 1
PoeticIntensity
First thing I noticed in this chapter is verse 1. He tells his children that Christ will show himself unto them. How is this possible if this was written approximately 550 years before Christ would come? Very interesting... I'll have to research that.
Verse 7 pops out at me like a bolt of lightning. I've been lookin...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Dec 27, 2007 : 11:22 am
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Uncomfortable Spirituality
PoeticIntensity
I was brought up in a good, wholesome LDS home where abuse wasn't even thought about. I didn't even know abuse was a word until I learned about it from others. I went to church, had a good time, and generally enjoyed a wonderful family life.
During my teenage years, I started thinking about spirituality for no apparent reason. I star...
Music / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Dec 14, 2009 : 12:58 am
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Ubuntu Still Has Demons
PoeticIntensity
Okay.. So I installed Ubuntu on my brother's computer about 3 weeks ago, and he has been loving it! Before that, he had been using gentoo with me as his personal admin, which I didn't mind because he rarely needed it, and when he did, it was usually a 10-30 minute fix, no problem.
So, he liked it so much, and from what I could tell, ...
Gentoo / Linux
Thu - Jan 24, 2008 : 07:01 pm
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Focus Becomes Reality
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... Chatting with good friends has its benefits. Just like think-tanks and collegeate consortiums are good for concerted cognation, a good conversation with a concerned cohort can be just as contenting.
I think I've mentioned this before in my journal, but in talking with a good friend of mine, I hadn't made the connection with just...
Lds / Spiritual
Wed - Nov 21, 2007 : 02:47 pm
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Women's Roles / LDS Beliefs
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A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in my car driving to and from Salt Lake City. During the trip, I had the opportunity to listen to one of the best talks on Women's Roles in the LDS faith. I was so impressed by the contents of this talk, I had to listen to the entire thing twice.
Both times, both my heart and my eyes were fille...
Lds / Personal
Mon - Feb 02, 2009 : 09:48 pm
amazed
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LVM2 Auto-Reconnect
PoeticIntensity
I run a server in my home. It's nothing more than a hobby-type server that runs gentoo Linux, a couple of web-sites, my myth-tv installation for my home-theater, and all the family files. I also have about 150 compressed movies on there, all of which can certainly take up a lot of hard drive space.
I started this project back in 2004...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Mon - Sep 28, 1998 : 12:00 am
no mood
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Dozen Roses for Diana
PoeticIntensity
I've got a lot of typing to do but i think I've got enough time to do it in now, if I hurry. Let me just
say that last weekend was heavenly. I fell deeper in love with Diana than ever before.
The weekend started at around 8:30pm Friday night when I arrived home in Farmington from
Provo. I called Diana immediately (after noticing some new CDs fr...
Thu - Sep 20, 2007 : 10:56 pm
amazed
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Mustang GT Gone Cayman
PoeticIntensity
It's late, but I've just gotta tell ya'll what happened about an hour ago.
An acquaintence of mine owns a 2007 Porsche Cayman and last Sunday, we talked and he agreed to take me out driving tonight.
So, he arrives here with his beautiful car out front, with the driver's door wide open. I say my goodbye's to the family and head out to th...
Cars
Sun - Apr 15, 2007 : 12:06 pm
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Necessity of Church Membership
PoeticIntensity
An interesting question came to me today, while talking to a good friend at work. The question is simple.
It’s based on the premise of two distinct beliefs.
1. LDS faith teaches us that unless the proper ordinances have been performed by those who are in authority to perform such ordinances, one cannot enter into the kingdom of heav...
Lds
Sat - Jan 26, 2008 : 10:06 pm
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1st Nephi : 16 - Holy Cow
PoeticIntensity
I'm not entirely sure where to even begin with this chapter. So many good stories are found in this one, which can easily be likened to our own lives and our own times. Various lessons come to mind....
For example, verses 1 through 3 are a magnificent litmus test of personal righteousness. When someone comes at you and truthfull...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Aug 04, 2007 : 06:55 pm
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When You Care...
PoeticIntensity
Today I had an interesting thought. It's a question that possibly has thousands of answers, but, since I'm on a pensive streak, I thought I'd write down some of what I came up with.
The thought was "How do you tell if someone cares for you?", which also spawned the thought, "How do I tell if I care for someone else?", whi...
Fri - Jun 04, 2010 : 11:08 am
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Helaman : 16
PoeticIntensity
I'm always slightly dumbfounded while pondering on the things that wicked men come up with to justify the signs given by prophets...
"Oh no, we can't hit this guy who is telling us we're wicked, so he must have a devil! GET HIM!"
"Oh my! All these miracles that are happening just as the prophets said they would - can'...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Mar 19, 2008 : 12:16 am
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2nd Nephi : 26 - Part 2
PoeticIntensity
Ya know, I sure am glad that Nephi wrote verse 22 of this chapter. In all of scripture, this is the only chapter which uses the word "flaxen" to describe the way Satan tempts us.
Flax is a fiber from a plant which is used to make linen. Linen isn't known for its strength.
Satan indeed does "lead us" with very ent...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Aug 27, 2007 : 10:18 am
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Important Mythtv configs
PoeticIntensity
I upgraded all of my boxen yesterday, including my main server (which now has successfully become my slowest machine). As you probably know, I run gentoo on everything.
When I built my mythtv-based home-theater in my basement about 2 years ago, I spent about 2 months configuring my server to handle everything I needed it to. I didn't d...
Gentoo / Linux
Wed - Sep 05, 2007 : 04:55 pm
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2007 Monterey Trip - Day 6
PoeticIntensity
Okay... It had to happen, and it happened today. Since this is a public entry, and I really don't want to throw a negative light on the situation, I'll do my best to filter out my emotions. If I have to vomit emotions, I'll do it in private. Anyway...
This morning, I woke up and Kim (my dear mother-in-law) decided to make ...
Personal
Fri - Mar 14, 2008 : 09:58 pm
pensive
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2nd Nephi : 24
PoeticIntensity
I find it interesting how Satan is described throughout scripture.
In this chapter, through verses 13 - 20, Satan is seemingly exposed as the weak fraudster he really is. Verse 16 is quite potent, written from the standpoint of people who were tempted by him, when shown his actual person, are amazed at the frailness of Satan. They say...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Aug 28, 2007 : 10:19 am
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Staying True to Yourself
PoeticIntensity
One other thing I've been thinking about lately is a lesson I learned a long time ago. This lesson is summarized into one sentence:
Being true to God in no way diminishes your being true to yourself, simply because God knows how the *best* "you" is.
I was talking with one of my brothers when he said "But if I become 'churchy'...
Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 24, 2008 : 07:01 pm
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Focus Becomes Reality
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... Chatting with good friends has its benefits. Just like think-tanks and collegeate consortiums are good for concerted cognation, a good conversation with a concerned cohort can be just as contenting.
I think I've mentioned this before in my journal, but in talking with a good friend of mine, I hadn't made the connection with just...
Lds / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 11, 2007 : 11:24 am
pensive
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09/11/2001
PoeticIntensity
Concerning world events, I'll be the first to say that I'm a pretty naive guy. I keep up on stuff that's important to me, but not too much more. I realize that this is somewhat of a flaw, so I am trying to involve myself much more with the world.
That said, on the morning of Sept 10, 2001 - if you asked me what the "world trade ...
Personal
Sat - Aug 04, 2007 : 07:13 pm
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ILMJ RSS Feed!
PoeticIntensity
One other thing.
ILoveMyJournal now has an RSS feed for the main page content. Soon, we'll be adding categories to the blogs as well as categorized RSS feeds.
Also, eventually, we'll be getting the ability to post comments on blog entries.
I love this site. :)...