A Light in the Darkness :: Paladin's Blog
I would like to convey my condolences to the Buckley family and all those who's lives he touched and are impacted by the sadness of his passing.
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I'll lead off by saying I am a non-smoker. I chose not to smoke (chain smoke cigarettes) based on the health risks. However I have had a premium cigar now and then, though they usually disagree with my sinuses. In other words, a ban on smoking won't really affect me much.
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Do you believe that United States economy is bad? Especially with all our presidential candidates discussing it as such and proposing their various "stimulus packages" and other "buy your vote" pandering. Not to mention the blathering of the talking-head pundits and their gloom and doom prognostications of a (gasp) recession.
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This computer would be "pimped" out with the latest and greatest hardware: Pentium-II 300mHz MMX processor, 16 MB RAM, Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro AGP Video Card, SoundBlaster AWE64 Audio Card, 40x CD ROM drive, and a HUGE 8GB hard drive!
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I'm a web developer. Cross platform and cross browser compatibility is a way of life. Especially when you work on a corporate website that generates thousands of hits per day by your customers. If your website doesn't work in the standard browsers and the major nonstandard browsers then you have a problem.
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Gaea is a strange world. While it does feel somewhat midevil fantasy, it has that wierd "only-in-Japanese-Anime" merger between a fantasy style world and strange technology. This strange technology apparently enables giant mecha suits, called "Gaimelif", piolted by knights. The Gaimelif of course look similar to midevil battle armor (with that Japanese flair) and must fight eachother with, yes of course, really big swords.
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I was doing some reading earlier today and came across an address Ronald Reagan gave on behalf of Barry Goldwater in 1964. It covered a great deal of topics, not the least of which was The Cold War and Vietnam. He also elucidates the fallacies of liberalisim and anti-war sentiment
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I found my father was doing research on fine malt scotch and had brought home bottles of Springbank 10, Lagavulin 16, Glenmorangie Maderia Finish, Balvenie 15, and Talisker 10. I will probably review all of these in turn, however I'll just tell you now, I found Talisker to be wonderful, and my favorite of those (and it still stands as such). Therefore when I was in a specialty spirits retailer to get a gift for a friend's birthday and I happened upon this unique bottling of Talisker, I was
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If you've kept up with the news this past week you probably heard about the tasering of a University of Florida student when he was being removed from a "Town Hall Forum" featuring Senator John Kerry (D-MA).
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220 years ago, September 17th, 1787, the elected representatives of We the People adopted the Constitution of the United States to replace the Articles of Confederation in defining our federal government.
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I found and located a local liquor store that carried better brands and top spirits, and found the Irish section. Original and Black Bush were of course present, and Black Bush was selling for $32 for a 750. However next to it was Malt 10 selling for $35 for a 750. This wasn't brain surgery. I'll always take a single malt if I can! Thus I got my first bottle of Bushmills Malt 10.
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I had known for a long time that this animated series existed. I remembered seeing the VHS tapes in the "Family" section of movies at retailers like Electronics Boutique or Best Buy, back in the days of VHS of course. However when this OVA was in general circulation (1997 / 1998) I remember not knowing what the heck story it was about. Not surprising because not many people, including myself, had played Final Fantasy V. Not until Final Fantasy Anthology came out in 2000 did I play Final...
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In my quest for quality fantasy anime, I am often times taken in by nice box art and intriguing synopses on the back cover of the box, especially on value priced complete DVD collections. As was the case when I noticed the "Sorcerer Hunters" complete collection at my local Best Buy. The price was right, I forget the exact amount but it was about $40 retail. What I got was "fantasy" but definately not what I expected, sure it was part traditional "fantasy" but it was also part something else...
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There are three things I'm a sucker for in an Anime series those are: fantasy, detailed animation, and an epic dramatic plot. Therefore, having seen some intriguing artwork for "The Twelve Kingdoms, I read a few reviews that made it out in the aforementioned "epic dramatic fantasy" light. Thus I had been eying it at my Best Buy for some time now. However the two complete packages...ostracized
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I was born in 1980 and was weaned by television in my youth on some of the more legendary action-figure toy driven animated television shows. You might remember them, names such as He-Man and ThunderCats... Therefore it was required that I go to see the live-action, CGI, explosions extravaganza paying homage to the series "Transfomers". Though the original 1984 animated TV series had numerous spinoffs, mostly the original Transformers cast is present. Of course Optimus Prime, leader of the Au
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I am reminded of the history of Rome when I read about the immigration problems in the south. Consider the Visigoths... "In 376, the Huns forced the Visigoths (western Goths) to leave their homeland near the Danube River in modern Austria. The Visigoths asked Emperor Valens permission to settle inside the Roman Empire. Valens agreed, but charged the Visigoths unfair prices for food and other supplies. When the Visigoths protested, Valens ordered them to leave. The Visigoths refused, and
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After 8 years I've finally been able to register three new domain names for my Final Fantasy Chronicles web sites...
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This game starts a completely new storyline in the "Onimusha" saga. It is set a number of years in the future of Japan (supposedly the 1590's) apart from the days of Samanoske Akechi of "Warlords" and "Demon Seige" and Jubei Yagyu of "Samurai's Destiny".
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First I remember the trailers for this movie back 5 years ago and being semi-intruged but after seeing "The Lion King" I had sworn off Disney many years ago. (For the record I do enjoy the classic Disney films, and I did like Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast...but Lion King was well...not my cup of P.C. tea so to speak.) However one of my favorite websites gave me food for thought, www.imdb.com. Let me copy some of the movie's salient trivia that intruged me into the audition:...
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A couple weeks ago I went with my friend Pat to watch the adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel "300". Which, if you've been living under a rock, it retells part of the story of the Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes, where 300 Spartans held the pass of Thermopolaye against 300,000 or so Persians.
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