Archive for September, 2006
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
It’s not that I’m not blogging. If you look over to the right, you’ll see "Pages." For a very long time, the only one there was "About the Author." I thought maybe it would be a good idea to hang some other useful information over there. I’m going to primarily work on my world [...]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
There are a few relatively new issues from the U.S. Mint I thought worthy of a short discussion. The first was the 2006 American Buffalo one-ounce gold, the second was the American Eagle 20th Anniversary set. After missing the 2001 Silver Buffalo at offering time and price and continually underbidding for them on [...]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Yesterday marked yet another sort of "first" for me. I flew from Tokyo to Frankfurt. Since that flight goes over Russia, that means I’ve finally at least been a passenger across the entire globe. I know my Father-in-law has done that more than once. As a matter of fact, his circumnavigation has included stops [...]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
I just watched a class live via the Internet. Then I called my brother, grandmother, and uncle via VOIP. If you’d told me that you could do any of these things at all ten years ago, I’d’ve thought that was really cool. Today it’s just another routine achievement that thousands of others have [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
You know who you are! I hope you had a great day!
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
I took a little time to read A Rip in Heaven, by Jeanine Cummins. Jeanine did a wonderful job relating the story of her family as they dealt with the assault and murder of her two cousins, Julie and Robin Kerry. This was of enormous significance to me. Julie, Robin, and I were all [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Sir Isaac Newton is at once something of a hero and the bane of my existence. My latest problem has me trying to use integration by parts of natural exponentials and trigonometric functions. The last time I had to do this in earnest was 1994 (if that late). In a way it’s been fun [...]
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Jill’s been found, everyone! Praise the Lord!
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
If any of my readers are in the vicinity of Bishkek, Kyrgystan, please be on the lookout for Maj Jill Metzger — She’s been missing for a couple days now. Report anything suspicious to AFOSI or Kyrgyz police. Story on CNN.com Story on FoxNews.com Story at AF.mil If you have friends, [...]
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