SPAM has hit a new low

Ok, I think spammer's are really trolling the bottom of the barrel for methods. I have now been spammed in my blog. WTF! Some spammer has actually posted a "comment" to my blog that is a spam. They didn't even manage to do it right. They posted the spam to an entry from October. *sigh* I guess this is what you can come to expect of the wonderful...

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Do we see a pattern here?

So, I got a lot of great gifts from the family this year but I noticed something a bit odd... Mom - GameCube, Secret of Nimh DVD, Martini GlassesDad - Money, Bartenders' Guide A-Z, 6 pc. Bar Set, Hamilton Beach DrinkMaster (for making milkshakes and frappes - not to be confused with your standard blender)Grammy - Money, 12 bottle Wine Rack Sister...

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May you have a Happy Holidays

I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays. I finally get to have a vacation for about a week and a half starting on Wednesday. I still have too much shopping to do so wish me luck trying to make it through the malls. I'm looking forward to my New Years Party. Its been a while since I hosted any kind of shindig at my place. It should be fu...

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Snow, snow and more snow

So I went home to a family party today and drove an hour to get there, stayed for two hours and then it took three hours to get home due to the snow. All I can say is I hope this makes for good hard pack on the mountains. I need to go SKIING!!!!...

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A Study: Continued

So I finished up the interviews with the Harvard girl. She turned out to be really great and I'll be going in to Harvard to see her present her final paper. This should be fun. I can't wait to read her paper. I think I'll find her viewpoint of things interesting, being a straight, female, non-greek, women's studies major. I'll be sure to post...

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Life is good

Life is good these days. I don't know whether it was happenstance or just a funk I was in or what but apparently I was fairly anti-social for a few months. At least thats what some of my friends think since a few of them were worried something was wrong and asked me what it was. Its nice to know I have friends that notice things and care, especially...

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! Hope you all are enjoying the holida...

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I do....

So I'm of two minds today. One part of me is ecstatic. Today the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts ruled that it is unconstitutional for the state to deny marriage rights to gay couples. The other part of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop. The SJC stayed the execution of the order for 180 days, to give the Legislature "time...

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Old Friends

So Wednesday night I ran into an old friend of mine that I haven't seen in 3 years. We left of on a fairly sour note. After we both realized that the other one was there at the train station we gave each other a huge long hug, the first thing she did was say I'm sorry. It was great to hear her say that, but at the same time it was unncessary. ...

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A Study

So I get this random e-mail a while back from a girl studying Women's Studies at Harvard. She found my e-mail on lambda10.com - a resource for gays in the greek system. She's doing a study where the point is to interview someone and really get to know them and how they are affected by the subject matter you are trying to study. Well, her subject...

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Time for the gym

Well I definately need to hit the gym. I'm starting to get noticably (at least in my opinion) overweight. The point is that my dad even commented on the fact that I'm starting to develop a gut. Add to that the inevitable hair loss that is my genetic legacy. *sigh* Why is it that by the time you figure out life and the world of relationships enough...

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Back from Doctor

Well it turns out I simply have a pulled quadracep. I don't recommend it. I simply have to take ibuprophen until it goes away and not aggravate it too muc...

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Ouch

So I don' t know what I did, but I hurt my leg. I'm off to the doctor today at 11:30 to get it looked at. It hurts every time I put additional pressure on it. I can walk for the most part but I'm kinda limping. I'll post the results of the appt. this afternoo...

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Eclipse

The moon was absolutely spectactular tonight. First off it was crystal clear and the moon was a perfect full moon. After that the eclipse was stunning. At the peak of it, the moon was crimson. All in all an incredible sight to behol...

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wow I need to post more

Is it bad when you have to check your previous blog entries to figure out what you need to post? I guess that's a sign that you haven't made an entry in a while. Lets see what's new... I just talked to Stepha and she's coming back in January!! :) I can't wait. I'll have to have a Cosmo party in her honor. I'm in the process of looking for a Townhouse/Condo...

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*sigh*

Yeah, so surprise, surprise the Red Sox don't make it to the World Series. Were we really expecting anything different? Ah well, to quote the typical Red Sox fan: "There's always next year!" *grin* At least the Yankees lost to the Marlins. I can take some comfort in that. Here's to a Cubbies vs. Red Sox next year!! :-D I promise I'll update...

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YAY Red Sox!!!

WOOOOHOOO!!! Red Sox win at the 5th game. It was a total nail biter until bottom of the 9th, right down until the last pitch. I was at Crow and when they won we all were screaming and yelling and we went outside and a bunch of us got in our cars and went up to the quad on campus. I don't know who but I ended up being one of the first cars in the...

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Dealer Hits on 16, Stays on 17

Well, my friend Howie started work today as the new Windows Systems Administrator at WPI and has moved into the other half of the office. Less space for me, but this should actually be good. Already we have better lighting and it looks like things will go well. :-) After work, Howie, my boss Jon, my other friend John and I all went to Mohican Sun...

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Not my day

As you can tell, my day has already sucked due to electrical issues. Now I find out one of my tires went flat. Turns out there is a screw lodged in it. Funny, that's almost the same as the nail in the side-wall of my other front tire last week. Two tires in a week, that is definately a record for me. I'm a little bit suspicious since it was two...

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Colin's blog = poof!

For those of you who read my blog and Colin's blog, he doesn't have the time to update his blog so he has deleted it. This has been a public service announcemen...

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I hate stupid people

I have been unable to do much of the work I normally do for the past two days due to the fact that electricians have been having a tendancy to cut my power in my office. They are working on splitting up the almost completely unused Fuller Auditorium Preperation Room next to my office, and since my office was originally created by splitting it off...

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And all was right with the world

YAY!!! My home PC is finally back in operation. I've been using my laptop for the last month while trying to figure out what is wrong with my PC. After replacing the power supply, and swapping out all the RAM to test it I finally was able to figure out that it was a combination of my network card being fried and the PCI slot it was in being fried....

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TGIF

Well its Friday. The day started out rainy and ugly and didn't get much better. I went to drive into work and found that my front tire was flat. Looks like I'll be making a trip out to DirectTire soon. Thankfully at this point I have a full size spare so its not that bad but I have to make sure to change it soon so I don't take any chances while...

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You Can Never Look Back

Had a good party at crow the other night. It was an 80's theme. While it was fun and all, I'm starting to feel my age a bit at the parties. It's little things that remind me that I'm not an undergraduate any more and that I can't go back. It's like the line from "Boys of Summer" 'Don't look back! you can never look back!' I sometimes feel a bit...

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Here We Go Again!

Well Microsoft just released a new security patch to take care of a new attack vector for the RPC/DCOM security vulnerablity that gave us the Blaster/Nachi virii. We are beginning to batten down the hatches to prep for the worst with this. Hopefully we'll weather the storm well, but in case we don't and you don't seem me for a week or so, you know...

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Dreams...

Dreams are interesting things. I tend to get very wrapped up in mine. They are very realistic and tend to be very close to the surface and vivid shortly before I wake up. Sometimes I'll find myself oversleeping because in the dream I want to see how it ends, what happens. Lately a weird, slightly disturbing trend is that I'm dreaming and can't...

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phew...

Well, things are finally starting to settle down a bit here at school. The virus is for the most part contained, thanks in large part to the long hours put in by many of our IT staff (myself included). NSO went off pretty cleanly, without too many problems. Freshmen are getting slowly settled into the new network environment and will be pretty much...

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Ugh...

This is going to be the week from hell... By week I mean the period of time from 8/18 - 8/29. See in my opinion a week doesn't end until you have a weekend, and since I'm working today 8:30am-whenever I'm done and similar for tomorrow on sunday I don't get a weekend until Labor Day Weekend on August 30. The reason I'm doing this is cuz its NSO,...

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CAMPING!!!

I'm going camping this weekend. Its gonna be great. I haven't done this since highschool. I have promised everyone that I'll make some really great fires for us to sit around and toast marshmellows and cook on. I'm sooo excited. Its a nice chance to recharge and get away from technology for a short while. There's something invigorating to be...

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F***ing Idiot Computer Users

At the risk of sounding like a total elitist, Operating Systems should require licenses to put on the internet. If you want to have a completely unpatched system, fine, go ahead, but don't put it on the internet and expose me to your inability to click "Windows Update." For the most part it is really easy and simple for desktop users to download...

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The view from the outside...

What is it with some people... I've been discussing two new shows, Boy Meets Boy (BMB) and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy with some friends and have been reading articles written on it. There seems to be a lot of backlash against the two. For years the gay communitee has clamored for more airtime and to get representation on television. We got...

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Vertical Horizon

I'm so excited!!! Vertical Horizon is FINALLY coming out with a new album. (http://www.verticalhorizon.com/v2/html/media.html) The new album is called "Go" and you might have already heard the new single "I'm Still Here". The album is getting released on September 23. Spread the word to other VH fan...

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Soul Mates

Ever had someone that means everything to you? I do and he's touched my life in ways I never thought possible. He's someone I can talk to when everythings gone wrong, he'll listen to my tirades, get drunk with me on wine, and lend a hand when I need one. He's someone that I can think about and he'll make me happy and make a bad day seem less tiresome....

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A Profound Thought...

I was reading some of my friends' away messages today and found this one: When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent...

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Just got in

I just got back from VA visting my friend Stepha. It was good to see her and a nice break from life for a while. Work is getting into crunch time so I'm busy as anything these days. I only have 3 weeks before students come back. Gotta get it all ready before that. I should be on track so I'm not too worried. I won't be able to really relax again...

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The Catholic Church

Bear with me this is a long post.I am so sick and tired of the Catholic Church. It is such a hypocritical organization. It has completely lost sight of the spirituality it possibly once tried to convey. The Vatican has just unleashed a document stating that all Bishops should lobby their representatives hard to oppose all pro gay marriage/adoption...

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The point of blogs?

Well several of you have said that you liked the color changing version of the blog and I may go back to that at some point but this new one has grown on me so I'll be keeping it for a while. A friend of mine today said that blogs were simply good for saying what you didn't have the guts to say in person. What do people think, is that true? I used...

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The Colin Entry

I have been requested from many people, including the incredibly busy boy himself, to provide the masses with a blog update for Colin. Since I can't post to his blog I'm doing it here. You can read this if you want from the extended entry. Warning, its very long. ********************* Where to begin..... Ok, well Colin returned to Worcester on the...

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ouch

Well I'm not sure what I did but I seem to have injured myself. I somehow hurt my ribs on my right side to the point where it hurt a bit when I was breathing or walking. I was supposed to go out last night to Axis, but considering it hurt when I was walking, I certainly wasn't going to go dancing. I feel bad because everyone was going out for Jonathan's...

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FYI

I've updated a few things on the blog. - I've updated the template so it looks a little different. Which would you guys prefer, the color changing main page or the current one? - I've changed the comment options so that if you don't care to leave an e-mail address you don't have to. - Updating the main template updated all the other pages including...

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LMAO

Oh my god... I just laughed more than I have in a LONG time. Colin played me this CD by Bill Engvall; it was all stand-up comedy. I was non-stop laughing almost the entire way through, Colin can attest to this. I really have to say that laughter is the best medicine. I was laughing so hard my eyes were watering, tears just streaming down my face....

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6 Degrees of Seperation

Its kind of funny how people interconnect. I started my blog and told a few people, one of them Erin. She linked to my blog here, so then Gretchen found it and linked it. Colin has them both linked on his site (but not mine yet) so that has to be how Jessica found it, by going to one of their sites. Jessica is a friend of Colin's from back home...

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Systems Administrator Appreciation Day

The site seems to be down at the moment but here's its URL.http://www.sysadminday.com/ Today is Systems Administrator Appreciation day. Take a moment and thank your Systems Administrators. He/she has the thankless job of making sure that everything works. Often times the only way you notice what we are doing is when something breaks. Most people...

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The Power of Words

How is it that when someone uses a term like "fag" in a sentence, and I state that I, as a gay man, find that term offensive, somehow I am the bad guy. I'm told that I'm the one who needs to take things less seriously and relax and not let it bother me. Why does no one think that its the fault of the person who decides to knowingly use a word that...

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I'm tired...

Damn, I'm tired this morning. I had to get up at 6am this morning to make sure Colin was up to get to his appointment in Boston by 9am. I was good, I went to bed no later than midnight, but since I had to get up early fate was working overtime against me. I got a call from a drunken Nick at 1am, which I didn't realize what was going on until I missed...

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Blogs...

I think the other reason I've always been leary of blogs is that I'm used to the abuse its cousin, the AIM profile, can get. For a year I lived with people where they wouldn't tell you what was wrong, or why they were mad, but they'd always update their profile to make a statment about it. It got to be so that if I wanted to know their mood I'd check...

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And so it begins....

Colin was talking up blogs last night so I finally decided to give one a try myself. It seems that all my friends have them, so why not jump in myself. I've been curious about blogs for a while but never seemed to want to do it enough to take the plunge. You see I don't quite understand the appeal of it. Maybe you have to be a bit of a exhibitionist...

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