I finished debugging the regex for a new wordpress plugin I’m now using on my blog – it will take a “tagged” block of text (in this case inside double curly braces), and link to a target website (duckduckgo.com, amazon, etc) based on the ‘type’ of content (another tag inside the curly braces).
the ‘benefits’ of being friendly
Coming home from Hartford this week, my wife and I got stranded in Detroit (ok, so DTW is in Romulus… but whatever). Our flight into DTW from BDL was delayed a bit, but we still had ~40 minutes to get to our flight to Lexington. However, when we landed we found out that the flight …
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reading more
I find that the more time I tend to have, the less I want to read… but when I’m really busy, I’ll find all kinds of books that look interesting. With my current work arrangement, I travel frequently, and have been taking the time on the flights (if not sleeping) to read through histories, novels, …
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saying “thanks”
In case you ever want to know, here are a couple pages that spell-out how to say “thank you” in hundreds of languages: http://www.deepestfeelings.com/holidays/thanksgiving/thank_you_in_many_languages.shtml http://www.etailersdigest.com/greetings/saythanks.htm
jeopardy! was wrong
A recent Final Jeopardy! question said there are two pairs of countries which differ in spelling by only two letters: Australia/Austria and one other. The answer they were looking for was Niger/Nigeria. Well, I was thinking about this recently and realized there is a third pair: Mali/Malawi. It’s not often you see errors on Jeopardy! …
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new blog
My wife started blogging recently – and while there’s only one post up so far, I’m sure it will grow 🙂 Welcome to the blogosphere, honey =D
pee-harmony, the original doggy forum
Have you ever noticed while walking a dog that they stop and sniff every tree, bush, and poo pile? And when two dogs come together, they sniff each other’s butts (a distinctly rude activity, if you ask me!) I have a theory – dogs sniff each other’s butts because they’ve sniffed the pee patches and …
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melting pot
Normally I don’t like reviewing chains, but The Melting Pot is different. It’s a fondue place, and is a blast to eat at. The first time I went was with my wife and parents-in-law the weekend before Thanksgiving. We were looking for a “fun” place to eat, and had been thinking about trying a fondue …
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grace and truth church
My parents have been attending a small “start-up” church in the Albany area for about two years now, and I just recently updated the church’s website: http://graceandtruthchurch.us.
chronology
I have been working on chronologies of the Old Testament recently – which is turning into both an exceptionally enlightening project, and a complicated one! My first draft of chronologizing Genesis is complete. All entries are done using whole years. I have also completed the first draft of the chronology of Exodus through Joshua. My …
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church hunted
Following-up with last week’s post, my wife and I have joined Porter Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington KY. She has already engaged in their Awana program on Wednesday evenings, and has started working with their women’s ministry – so much so that she was asked to setup a facebook group for them (which she has!) …
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church hunting
For several months, my wife and I have been church hunting in the Lexington area… a process far more difficult than we had anticipated! Our main goals have been these, in the order of priority: Must preach from the Bible No women in prominent leadership roles (deacons or pastors) An excited community of believers who …
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the julep cup
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a restaurant worth writing about. Last night I finally found one again. To celebrate the two monthiversary of marrying my wife (since I had to miss the one month one with work travel), I decided to take her out to a nice place that wasn’t a chain …
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fact of the week
From the `fortune`-powered, motd on my server this morning: Here is the fact of the week, maybe even the fact of the month. According to probably reliable sources, the Coca-Cola people are experiencing severe marketing anxiety in China. The words “Coca-Cola” translate into Chinese as either (depending on the inflection) “wax-fattened mare” or “bite the …
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first plugin: term define
Term Define is a pretty simple plugin – something really just to get my feet wet in the area. For any ALL-CAPS terms/words in a post, when the page is rendered, a link to dictionary.com is inserted. So a word like ‘HULA’ would get transformed into HULA. (Note: I’m not using this particular plugin on …
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wordpress plugins
I’ve started writing [simple] plugins for WordPress – the blogging tool I use to manage antipaucity.com. As I write more, if I think they’re worth sharing, I’ll write about them here. A full list will also be available at http://antipaucity.com/plugins.
note to anyone who sent models to the freight yard in phoenix
Reprinted from the NYO&WRHS Yahoo Group (owrhs at yahoogroups dot com). To anyone who sent any model locomotives and/or rolling stock to The Freight Yard in Phoenix, AZ for custom painting, please be advised The Freight Yard closed its doors in May and the proprietor made a midnight raid on his shop and removed all …
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wordpress issues
It seems something is amiss here at antipaucity.com – the CentOS Apache test page displays, when it should be displaying the main page of my blog 😐 Oddly enough, all direct links work fine. If anyone has some thoughts, I’d appreciate any feedback!
Bible study cross-reference service
It’s been several years in the making, and will be a continually-added-to tool (I hope!), but I am finally nearing the releasability of a Bible study cross-referencing tool to see what books on your shelf (or on Amazon’s ;)) cover a passage you are interested in learning more about for personal, group, or church settings. …
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whose phone is it, anyway?
Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A cell phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands free speaker-function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen. MAN: Hello? WOMAN: Honey, it’s me. Are you at the club? MAN: Yep, sure am….. WOMAN: I’m …
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back
On the 19th of June, I married my sweetheart. We then went on an awesome trip to the Williamsburg VA area. Like all vacations, that one was MUCH too short, but we had a blast. Now we’re sadly back to reality – work, grocery shopping, walking the dog.. but that’s cool because I’m spending this …
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kaching
I had been playing with a fun stock market simulator/investing application on Facebook until yesterday. It was called kaching (now defunct). The authors decided to focus their efforts on their for-pay service, kaching.com, and drop the free app on facebook. That’s all well and good – folks making money does not bother me. What does …
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cloudy driving in progress
In follow-up to a previous post, I saw this on Wired.com today. Seems Ford sponsored a class at UMich to develop Cloud Computing apps… for the Commute. The new Fiesta can Tweet while it’s driving. Not sure I like that idea… but it’s interesting, to say the least.
57 and 38
Today was my aunt’s birthday. If she were still here, she would be 57. Just under two years ago, she passed away. I know she’s in a much better place now, but it doesn’t make it hurt any less that she’s not here any more. In 38 days, I will be marrying the most amazing …
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irony
About 2 years ago, I wrote about the problem of holding onto electronic stuff just because storage was cheap. It wasn’t until I met my fiancee that I realized I did the same thing with “real” stuff – holding onto it just because it was there. I’m no where near a candidate for Hoarding: Buried …
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