tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:45:01 +0000my bloghttp://www.markrhodes.us/blogger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)Blogger511125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-3980094715578841834Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:35:00 +00002010-02-02T19:15:01.533+04:30And I haven't blogged since what, the middle of January?Well, not quite as bad as I thought but I suppose I might write something here.See, here's the thing. I haven't been terribly inspired to write much. Not long form anyway. I post on Facebook (you can find me here if you want) but that's usually just random thoughts that catch my fancy. So. What's new. I got new running shoes! Thanks http://www.markrhodes.us/2010/02/its-almost-february.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-7614016402617688197Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:50:00 +00002010-01-12T22:28:05.006+04:30Quote One, from California: "[O]ne of the arguments that the anti-gay-marriage side has increasingly turned to outside the courtroom is that allowing same-sex marriage would hurt heterosexual marriage. At the pretrial hearing, Judge Walker kept asking Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8, how exactly it did so. “I’m asking you to tell me,” he said at last, “how it would harm http://www.markrhodes.us/2010/01/two-quotes-for-today.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-8227696633363346066Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:48:00 +00002010-01-04T09:37:35.235+04:30Created by Auto Insurance.orghttp://www.markrhodes.us/2010/01/created-by-auto-insurance.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-7212463883921257119Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:55:00 +00002009-12-30T07:33:18.131+04:30Just got word I don't have to go back south. Sooooo glad. I don't want to be the complaining type, but ugh. Just ugh. It is horrible down south.The bases and living conditions are just deplorable. I mean seriously, it's bad. I blame the Marines. The rest of the world slowly builds up and improves their facilities over time. The Marines (who are the preponderant force in the south) haven'thttp://www.markrhodes.us/2009/12/phew.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-3002440351777923614Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:39:00 +00002009-12-24T17:12:35.261+04:30I'm stuck in a FOB I can't stand. I've got equipment that won't work. I've got customers who won't cooperate. And I'm sleeping in a tent with no heat.*sigh*I got a nice, hot shower this morning though. And I ate my fill of cashews.http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/12/its-christmas-eve.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-6007997225458332261Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:34:00 +00002010-02-02T19:02:54.647+04:30"Here's an incontrovertible fact: every one of your ancestors survived to reproductive age and got it on at least once with a member of the opposite sex. All the way back to Homo erectus. And even further back to Australopithecus. And even further back to monkeys, to lizards, to the first amphibian that crawled out of the slime, the fish that preceded that amphibian, the worm before the fish and http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/12/heres-incontrovertible-fact-every-one.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-1390494183992115496Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:34:00 +00002009-12-09T03:10:03.431+04:30. . . but I found this bit amusing:"Here's an incontrovertible fact: every one of your ancestors survived to reproductive age and got it on at least once with a member of the opposite sex. All the way back to Homo erectus. And even further back to Australopithecus. And even further back to monkeys, to lizards, to the first amphibian that crawled out of the slime, the fish that preceded that http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/12/it-was-sort-of-cliche-article.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-8883903728675783431Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:40:00 +00002009-12-07T09:26:18.153+04:30It's Saturday Night Live. I know, I know, it's just a skit.But tell me again why it's ok to make jokes about Tiger Woods getting beaten up by his wife? Would SNL (or the late night comedians) be making jokes if it was Woods who had beaten his wife because she was sleeping around? I guess we can make jokes because Tiger had it coming to him for his sexy times with those women, right? Or maybe http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/12/so-yeah-i-get-it.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-549910104469056964Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:27:00 +00002009-12-04T18:06:29.933+04:30Heterosexism: Negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships. It can include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the norm and therefore superior. People of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias. Heterosexism as discrimination ranks gay men, lesbians, and bisexualshttp://www.markrhodes.us/2009/12/word-of-day.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-7422103652799552465Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:54:00 +00002009-12-04T02:30:18.492+04:30http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/12/blog-post.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-3829118698944295924Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:49:00 +00002009-11-27T01:22:49.945+04:30. . .or, How To Spend $75 In Order To Save Money On Your Thanksgiving Turkey, End Up With Two Live Turkeys, And Still Have No Bird For The Actual Dinner.http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/21st-century-neuroticism.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-4377113101575136001Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:36:00 +00002009-11-21T14:08:01.592+04:30http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/musical-poop.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-8002116873472605376Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +00002009-11-19T23:22:03.622+04:30Senator Robert Byrd, a one time member of the KKK who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, commenting on why he changed his mind:I have no idea where he was going with the Constitutional lawer line of thought. No idea at all. I mean, I tried hard to figure out where he might have meant to go. I've got nothing. That's not why I posted the video though. As I watched Sen. Byrd describe his http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/surprise-find-today.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-2270004819511054217Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +00002009-11-19T20:48:48.810+04:30SOLVEOriginally uploaded by Jeff CagleFrom Ackerman:"What’s an actual insult to the victims of 9/11 is the idea that America is not strong enough to withstand the blatherings of a mass murderer. For me, the prospect of KSM grandstanding at his trial falls into I-wish-a-motherfucker-would territory. I want to hear how KSM builds a case against America, because everyone will hear how laughably http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/on-trying-ksm-in-nyc-ivilain-criminal.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-1181571332035155581Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:26:00 +00002009-11-13T23:01:27.590+04:3024.365.Friday the 13thOriginally uploaded by allgoodpeopleNothing really to blog about today. We've got new charge codes here at work. The Army thinks I need yet another security class (so I can use their computers safely, of course). I ran four miles today pain free for the first time in a long time. Yay gravel roads and mild inclines!And the Beastie Boys rock. That's all I have to report.http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/it-friday-13th-y.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-3600725387607548372Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:03:00 +00002009-11-10T18:39:24.736+04:30Algernon Charles SwinburneOriginally uploaded by cellini31From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may beThat no man lives forever,That dead men rise up never;That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.~ Algernon Charles Swinburnehttp://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/dante-gabriel-rossetti-algernon-charles.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-4220532854357270221Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:39:00 +00002009-11-10T17:24:29.683+04:30Veteran's Day. Its one of those nice sentiment kind of holidays but no one expects the day off or overtime pay or anything. It's like Columbus Day, but without the genocidal undertones. But hey, you guys! Guess what I found out today. DRS counts Veterans Day as an honest to goodness holiday! woot woot! God bless the military-industrial complex.http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/veterans-day.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-8192974497057134334Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:24:00 +00002009-11-09T13:19:39.279+04:30I've had two flights in 4 days canceled because of "weather". What kind of weather? They never specify. I'm assuming bad weather. I can see the weather though, and it really hasn't been bad. Which is really not the point at all. I assume these helicopter pilots are prepared to fly their machines into a hail of bullets and RPG's if need be, but we get a little rain and suddenly they go all http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/random-thoughts.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-550531087648099420Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:35:00 +00002009-11-08T15:12:43.991+04:30"If there's anything nice that these Town Hall meetings have yielded, it's that we're no longer shocked and disturbed by the fucked up rhetoric plaguing our national debate. . . . These guys are just being ridiculous now."Gawker, commenting on the current status of the health care reform protesters.Later in the article they come up with this gem:"There are thousands of pages in the (health care http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/if-theres-anything-nice-that-these-town.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-2212153041615661616Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:55:00 +00002009-11-07T23:34:43.570+04:30Odwalla Superfood barOriginally uploaded by kathyandbrandonA package full of holiday themed goodies arrived for the EOD battalion from a church earlier this week. Halloween candy, Thanksgiving themed items, other bits and goodies wrapped up like Christmas presents. Very sweet. It warmed the conkles of my heart.They didn't send much chocolate (I looked), but they did send a metric fuck ton of http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/odwalla-superfood-bar.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-3775879398581075357Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:10:00 +00002009-11-07T13:25:18.711+04:30Abraham LincolnOriginally uploaded by Believe Collective"I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it "all men are created http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/thought-on-overturning-of-same-sex.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-1541678063472439077Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:46:00 +00002009-11-03T15:46:56.840+04:3011.2.09.FrontOriginally uploaded by allgoodpeople"The Law of Unintended Consequences: the proposition that every undertaking, however well-intentioned, is generally accompanied by unforeseen repercussions that can overshadow the principal endeavor." ~Konrad J. FriedemannOnce upon a time I decided to grow a beard. I started in May, to be exact. It wasn't a planned thing. I've never grown myhttp://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/11209front.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-8556418087936977807Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:45:00 +00002009-11-02T18:17:15.360+04:30Guy 1: "Hey man, so D.C. is in Maryland?"Guy 2: "Umm, no man, it's just D.C. I think."Guy 1: "So it's in Virginia?"Guy 2: "No, I think it's just called D.C."Guy 1: "Ok, so where's McFadden's?"More here.http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/overheard-conversations.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-7795894978824416343Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:55:00 +00002009-11-01T19:05:09.020+04:30. . . or "Flickr? I barely know her!" Anyway . . .I just love having a "gee whiz!" moment. Or in more modern parlance, "How friggin' cool is that?!?!" I've had some time on my hands these last couple of days, so I've been playing around on Flickr quite a bit to pass the time. Uploading and organizing old photos, taking new photos, experimenting with Photoshop - all kinds of photo and image http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/flickr-days-and-nights.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334574.post-377823071400803991Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:43:00 +00002009-11-01T18:24:59.361+04:30This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.http://www.markrhodes.us/2009/11/flickr.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Mark)1