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I finally went to a shooting range for the first time last week. Really a nerve racking experience since I've never fired a gun before. Also piled on is the fact my dad is a refugee and has really strong feelings against it (which I'll admit colors my own opinion too much).

I wound up taking a class the range offers where they introduce you to basic safety aspects, types of guns, ammunition, etc and let you load and fire a couple of different types of semi-automatic weapons. During ...

A random thought of mine probably not worthy of a full discussion, but sometimes I wonder if we're all not still just a bunch of dark age crusaders, duking it out for various personal reasons. I read stuff all over the web from various schools of thought and can't help but get the feeling we've created a strong "us v. them" mentality on any number of issues.

Maybe nothing's really changed from the days of the crusades. Maybe people and their morality and their politics are ...

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I'm finally going to be moving after this summer. Basically I can't stand Michigan winters and have the ability to move, so I'm heading south. My original plan was somewhere in Florida, but my brother is going to be moving to the Atlanta area and has convinced me to go have a look. I'll be spending about a week in Atlanta in mid-June, trying to find places in my budget. I've heard I might want to check out the towns just outside/around ...

every time I read someone else's writings, I feel like no one has ever ruthlessly questioned the value of what they were saying. I'm all for critiquing anything and everything, but it seems like no one ever gets to this point about value, or if they do, they never present enough of a solution to the problems they pose.

I feel this way about any number of supposedly intellectual views people traditionally espouse, but it's especially true for a few I see constantly popping up on the ...

Updated 11-18-13 at 12:38 AM by Tenken

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I guess it feels weird for me to blog, but I'm completely bored and here on and off for quite some time.

I've recently been offered and accepted a new job and as a junior developer (i.e. code monkey) at a tech megacorp. They're saying it's full time permanent, but I have no clue if this tech megacorp really has the long term in mind for any employees right now or what kinds of projects they have in waiting. It's just been tough to turn down because I've never had that developer ...