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Listening to: Ambient Transcendent Volume 2. I made the CD about four hours ago so don’t go browsing amazon for it. It’s not the best of the five ambient CD’s I’ve made over the past couple years, but it’s meant more to add more songs into the collective playlist than to be listened to as a stand-alone CD. Great Music though.

Reading: TelevisionWithoutPity.com, the Ann Coulter archives, and Cracked.com. The first because I love The Amazing Race and love Miss Alli’s recaps of each episode. The second because it’s smart to learn the ways of your enemies. The third because some of the top ten(or 17 lol) lists are hilarious.

Watching: Band of Brothers. Brilliant miniseries set during World War II. I hate world war II video games with more passion than is reasonable. If you want to experience the horrors of war or bring honor to those who fought them sixty years ago, don’t go buy a video game and start shooting fake people. In terms of video games, it’s glorified duck-hunt. In terms of real life, you are getting practice shooting people who haven’t been our enemies since before your parents were born. Get rid of Battlefield 1942(a game that every WW2 veteran must absolutely be horrified at seeing made.) and put in Band of Brothers. Don’t watch for the entertainment factor. Listen to the interviews before each episode.

Gaming: Not really anything right now. Work stress and other issues from the non-console world demand my attention. Though I have played a few rounds of Yahoo Canasta for the first time in years. Also, spent a good bit of time beating my Dad and little brother in cornhole last weekend. Oh, and kicked butt at the Library staff carnivale thing on tuesday.

Thinking about: The trip to the Intellectual Property conference at UMD next month. On the one hand, I’m looking forward to it, but on the other hand I’ve only been at this for a year and I’ll be around some of the preeminent copyright experts from around the nation. Also, I’ll be the sole OSU rep so my mouth will be communicating the currents trends and developments at my university to the reps from everywhere else.

Writing about: A story from the perspective of a man who once had full bodily-function, but is now paralyzed everywhere except his writing hand/arm. Don’t ask me the medical issues that would cause this, I’m not familiar with what spinal injury would directly cause such a unique affliction. Anyway, my thought was, what if I had an insatiable need to communicate, but could only use a single hand to do so. What would I write? If my only concern each day was who changed me and who fed me, could I then write the next great american novel?

Journaling about: What it is to be a Professional. Is it the quality of work that makes one a professional? Is it having the backbone to stand up and be held accountable? Is it about being a good student-supervisor? Is it about good inter-personal relations with other employees? Or is it just checking in at 8 in the morning, running on the treadmill for 8 hours, and then checking out at 4:30 all so that a paycheck arrives at the end of the month?

Just bought Children of Hurin.

This article was written by E.J. Donne and was in today’s edition of The Columbus Dispatch. Read on and prepare to come away with some things to ponder. The thought that will dominate the entire coming weekend for me is this quote Mr. Donne included by the writer Sam Harris: “Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501790.html