Off the Mark

I received my pre-ordered Ani CD, reprieve, in the mail today. Yay! It’s not due in stores until August 8th.
I’ve been “listening” to it over and over while writing the previous post. That said, it’s been mostly serving as background music for now so I’ll refrain from saying much about it.
As a [...]

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Maybe none of you are asking this question, but I have to admit it has been pestering me a lot lately. The sad part is that I honestly don’t have an answer.
I have been pursuing my own self-education this summer amid all the apartment hunting, moving preparations, job searching, relaxing and whatever else I’ve [...]

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Today my son told me that he that has reenlisted in the Army for 6 more years. It did not come as a surprise as we had discussed the possibility via IM on Monday evening.
I am extremely proud of my son and I support him in this decision! He has discovered what he [...]

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I have mentioned once or twice, here and there [FRL], that I got a $10 gift certificate to iTunes back in December that I just never seemed to get around to using.
This morning, I finally did. I had a couple artists recorded in my little personal, local wiki [VoodooPad by Flying Meat (for [...]

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A while back, just before ALA Annual, I wrote a post declaring my opinion that Leslie Burger’s Emerging Leaders program was discriminatory due to its age restrictions. That post got a lot of comments, most of which were in general agreement, although several pointed out other ways in which it was, at best, non-inclusive [...]

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This is my new blog, Off the Mark.
It is replacing my original blog …the thoughts are broken… which was hosted at TypePad. Reproduced here, in a different expression is the last post I made [that is, it is edited to make sense in this context], and reproduced in a different manifestation is the entire [...]

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Last night I went to a going away party for one of our soon-to-be grads. After having a few pints of Guinness the party broke up. I went to another bar with 2 folks, fully intending to drink only water.
Having acquired my water I began perusing the list of fine beers they have. [...]

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I was able to get WordPress installed yesterday afternoon and now have a default WP blog in place.
Tomorrow evening my friend Kurt is going to help me try and get this one imported into WP.  Wish us well!
Toward that end, I intend to do a little maintenance and prep around here.  When I [...]

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…and hopefully only temporarily so.  While I was waiting on my domain to go live today I threw together a quick page or two, borrowing some CSS from across the web.
Now seriously, this is just a placeholder so please don’t judge me too harshly for an hours work.
marklindner.info
I am extremely pleased that I actually [...]

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Or perhaps "eminent."  Or maybe even "immanent."  But then they’re not really imminent either.  Just "empty."
I just registered marklindner.info, marklindner.net and marklindner.name.  Their mine, all mine.  Bwaahaahaa.  I passed on .org for now, and someone has .com parked.
Since it is after my bedtime, tomorrow I’ll finish ordering my hosting from LISHost.  [Thanks for the timely [...]

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