[Final Update: Here is the link to my final creation, which also has links to other participants' works: You Are Here: A Photographic Journey Thru Heaven & Hell ]
I will be updating this throughout the day.
6:16 am: GameBoy wakes me up and reminds me I need to take him to his all day Junior Classical [...]

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I received this lovely, lovely gift from Bored in Vernal and CrazyWomanCreek. It’s too good not to share, and since they’re public figures in the ‘nacle, I wanted to thank them openly:

If you want to read it, click through to the photo’s page on flickr, and choose “all sizes,” and go from there.
BiV wrote the [...]

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I love xkcd, and I love this comic the most:

In spite of (because of?) the instance of profanity it contains, it hangs prominently above both of my desks, at home and at work. I am, of course, the guy at the desk, and the girl’s voice is like a siren calling to me.
I am a [...]

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In spite of my various attempts to clarify my motives, people continue to ask why I have chosen to be so noisy and public as I exited the LDS Church. Most of these questions (and the occasional accusation that I’m insincere, or an attention whore) come from people who seem to be deeply connected to [...]

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Picture taken by @taojunky
This post is mainly a recounting of my experience of being excommunicated. Mine was probably a strange situation, since I may be one of a handful of apostates who welcomed excommunication, who also chose to attend their disciplinary council. I may follow this post with some analysis in a day or three. [...]

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I just wanted to direct your attention to Jana’s experience of the disciplinary council. She’s a tough woman, but I acknowledge that this has been difficult for her, so I hope you’ll treat her with civility and compassion.
I’ll try to fill some of the gaps in her recounting (when I was brought into the council, [...]

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Bang…bang…bang…bang…bang…bang.
Were those gunshots? Firecrackers? Was that screaming?
If it was gunfire, there were so many shots–was someone on the rampage? I told CatGirl to get down and I locked the doors. I called the police but the dispatcher put me on hold. And kept me on hold. I finally hung up. It was [...]

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Jana completed her 31+ mile race across the open water from Newport Beach to Avalon yesterday. I’m so proud of her!
In one day, she had her first outrigger race over 10 miles, her first ride on the Pacific in a motor boat, first swims on the open water miles away from any shoreline, and her [...]

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“On The Pier” (taken on 9/11/01) is Creative Commons licensed by *Hiro.
July 2nd, 2001 is Mind on Fire’s birthday. The birthing process was painful, since I hand-coded the site and put much more effort into the design and scripty goodness than I do now. Here’s kind of what it looked like on July 23rd [...]

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The most common question aimed at me in the past day is why I’m bothering to go to this council at all. This query has come from the devout, from former mormons, from irreligious friends. It certainly would be easier on me, on Jana, on the men in that high council room if I didn’t [...]

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