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False Alarm

It’s very interesting (and amusing) how a “belief” system works.

I couldn’t help but think about that fact after the “May 21st Apocalypse” transpired. Cris had mentioned how many people literally dropped everything they were doing to prepare for the end of the world. And how strange it must feel for them to suddenly find out everything they “believed” in was, in fact, not true.

I couldn’t help but think what if there was no God? How would all the priests, who dedicated most of their lives to their respective orders feel? Or what about all those people who believed you should live your life for the sole purpose of getting close(r) to God – who, in my hypothetical scenario, didn’t exist in the first place. How many years of their lives would they have wasted if that were the case. That would be such a bummer! Read More

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Getting Screens to work on my network

Ever since I was forced to use our DSL modem as a router (instead of the AirPort Extreme), I’ve been having DMZ 1 De-Militarized Zone and port forwarding issues. Apparently, these things don’t play nice on a double-NAT 2 Setting both as their own gateways setup.

The thing is, a while back, I bought this iOS app called Screens – and one of the awesome things it did was provide IP resolution anywhere without having to pay for a dynamic IP service. 3 The app itself wasn’t free, but that little feature came bundled with it. For those who don’t get the implications, it means I’ll be able to remotely connect to my PC REGARDLESS if it changes its IP – because the Screens gateway service will do the IP resolving for you.

Sufficed to say, I was never able to utilize this awesome feature because my said topology… until a few days ago. Read More

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⇡1 De-Militarized Zone
⇡2 Setting both as their own gateways
⇡3 The app itself wasn’t free, but that little feature came bundled with it.
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Divine Comedy

Sorry, this is going to be a religious rant… but I just can’t help myself.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
– Epicurus

I know this sentiment has been addressed in one form or another in a lot of religious debates, and I admit it is also most probably a product of a limited world view 1 Yes, such limited understanding is applicable to rational thinkers as well – which we’re all guilty of. But nonetheless it still remains just as frustrating – especially when faced with situations that seem to drive the point home. In this case we have the Japanese crisis. Read More

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⇡1 Yes, such limited understanding is applicable to rational thinkers as well
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Two tats in the pipe

While I was extremely pleased with the ambigram I came up with for my name earlier, there was one “limitation” it had as far as “tattoo eligibility” went; its [horizontal] length.

It makes a perfect candidate for putting on the back or front of the torso 1 Upper back, or below the belly area … or pretty much anywhere you could put it horizontally.

However, I intended to have my arm tattooed… specifically the inner forearm – which you would think was no problem – since any part of the arm had a nice length to accommodate such a design. And for the most part, you’d be right.

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple for my tastes; I’ll mention some problems I foresee with putting the long ambigram in the various places of the arm. Read More

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⇡1 Upper back, or below the belly area