January 2009

Week 5/52

January 31, 2009

I’m now 5 weeks into the 52 Weeks Project. For those of you just joining, this is a project in which I will be taking a different self-portrait of myself every week for a year. For this week, I decided it was time to venture outside. It’s actually not that cold today, so I liked [...]

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Tax, Title, and License

January 29, 2009

Last night, my wife complained to me about the sub-title of this blog: “wallowing in my own crapulence”. She said it was disgusting. So I’m looking for some ideas on what, perhaps, I can change it to . For those of you who haven’t figured it out, both the title and sub-title of this blog [...]

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Photo gear listing

January 28, 2009

As promised, a post about photography gear. A caveat, if you will, before we begin. I am not a professional photographer by any means. I am strictly a hobbiest. But I think that I’m certainly improving with experience, and I believe I am worthy of my tools toys. Here’s a breakdown of my photo gear. [...]

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More housekeeping

January 28, 2009

I’m afraid that for the time being, this blog is going to be oh-so-very meta. Blogging about blogging. Mostly, this is due to the fact that today I was busy working for a living, and didn’t have a chance to create the content I’d hoped to do today. Last night I was up until about [...]

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Moving Day

January 27, 2009

So I’ve moved this blog off of WordPress.com to a self-hosted solution, for a couple reasons: 1) I wanted to be able to customize the theme (I used Chaotic Soul as my theme on WordPress.com, and I hated the way it showed archives) 2) I hear plug-ins are neat. Well, the first annoying thing is…of [...]

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Talking Politics

January 21, 2009

My Political Views I am a left moderate social libertarian Left: 3.8, Libertarian: 1.85 Political Spectrum Quiz My Foreign Policy Views Score: 0.78 Political Spectrum Quiz My Culture War Stance Score: -5.62 Political Spectrum Quiz

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My dog is awesome

January 19, 2009

Scout Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton So poor Scout had to have a cyst removed from his head last week. We got the good news today that it was totally benign (it is some kind of tumor that develops from a hair follicle) but they got the whole thing excised and he should be just [...]

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