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Friday, September 30th, 2005

Recommendations and Total Cost of Ownership Analysis for anyone in the world that wants to switch to a Mac

Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless©: Mad As Hell Finale: Recommendations and Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
This is what I think you should do if you want to maximize a carefree and secure personal computer existence.

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Monday, September 26th, 2005

Owwie

Saturday (17th) I’m getting ready for bed when I notice a pain in my back. I think that I’ve pulled a muscle so I take some Advil and a hot bath but that doesn’t do anything. Then it hits me.

Kidney stone.

Ick, ick, ick.

It’s not as painful as others though, so I spend the night pacing and throwing up. But it didn’t move. Normally, I can feel the stones as they travel through my body but this time the pain just stayed in one place. After 12 hours I finally drove myself to the ER. They gave me nice drugs that knocked me out and I had to call a co-worker to come pick me up. We got my prescriptions filled and I went home and went to bed. The actual stone passed fairly quickly (I seem to have been severely dehydrated) but I still felt really bad. I was nauseated the whole week, even after I went back to work. Finally finished the drug they had me taking on Saturday and Sunday I felt much better. *Knocks head against desk*

I still don’t feel good. I think it’s a combination of my sleep cycle being off and the fact I ate as little as possible last week.

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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

True Neutral

True Neutral
44% Good, 48% Chaotic

Plane of Existence: The Outlands, “Plane of Concordant Opposition“. Description: The plane between all other outer planes.

Examples of True Neutrals (Ethically Neutral, Morally Neutral)

Mr. Spock
Linus Torvalds
Dr. Strangelove
Scott Evil
Batman
The Punisher
Switzerland
Canada

Not actively for or against anything. Has his or her own reasons for doing everything. Usually difficult to understand.

Will keep their word if in their best interest
May attack an unarmed foe
May use poison
May help those in need
May work with others
Indifferent to higher authority
Indifferent to organizations

True Neutral

“Balancer”

Some neutral [people] commit themselves philosophically to
neutrality. They are of the true neutral alignment as described in
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

A true neutral [person] sees good, evil, law, and chaos as
prejudices and dangerous extremes. He advocates the middle way of
neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run.

Some true neutral [people] actively support balance in the world,
and seek to avoid having any one side, law or chaos, good or evil,
become too powerful over them or anyone else, and will work against
whichever side is the most powerful. They tend to side with the
underdog in any situation, and are often opportunistic in their
actions.

True neutral is committed to the avoidance of extremes, and is non-judgemental.

Side-Note from Xan81:

Due to your Neutrality, I would really, really LOVE your
feedback. Not that I don’t want feedback from members of the other
alignments, but a True Neutral’s feeback is typically NOT emotionally,
morally, politically, or socially charged. Please send me an email! I
have it set to automatically email me when someone gets this score, so
I know who you are True Neutrals are the classic, “I just don’t give
a shit” alignment, and I fully understand if you don’t feel that you
have any responsability or obligation to sending an email/comment. Even
if you did, I’m sure you’d have some difficulty in deciding what to
comment about. But, I guess that depends on your tendencies
Xan

Other Alignments and Tendencies (Tendenices are what you would more often sway towards; esp. for Neutrals):

0-39% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Evil

0-39% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: Neutral-Evil

0-39% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Evil

40-60% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Neutral

40-60% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Neutral

61-100% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Good

61-100% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: Neutral-Good

61-100% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Good

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 17% on Good

You scored higher than 41% on Chaotic

Link: The Alignment Test written by xan81 on Ok Cupid

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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of fiction. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books.

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