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Captain’s Blog, Stardate 3.14159265

December 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments

Years ago, Avery Brooks (who will forever be Cmdr. Sisko to me) did a truly awesome commercial for IBM, one that still prompts me to occasionally exclaim, “I was promised flying cars!” The point was that, when people look into the future, they see today’s technology modified for the future, not the invention of whole [...]

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Unexplained Absence

December 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments

I had to log into WordPress a few days ago so I could comment. This impresses upon me exactly how long I’ve been radio-silent. A week before finals, we had a Let Us Tell You How Unprepared You Are for Finals Assembly in which we were told to apologize now to our friends and family [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Career · Creativity. · Education · Goals · Law · Personal · Web 2.0 · Writing

Sparks! (I’m Back)

December 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

For a few weeks when I first stopped being able to find time to blog, I kept windows open in Safari to the point that it was neigh on impossible to shut down my computer, for fear of losing all the wonderful and amazing links I was going to share! But then I got into [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Blogging · Doubt · Getting over Religion · Humor · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Religion · Ritual · Sexuality · Society · Spiritual Progressives · Technology