More quick quips, hits and observations for today (February 23, 2009):

• Everybody's entitled to an opinion; unfortunately, not everybody understands nor accepts that this also means they can have the wrong opinion.
  
• Murphy's Law is as pervasive as the laws of gravity.
  
• Number 80 always makes me think of the incomparable Jerry Rice.
  
• I don't know why I'm so fascinated by characters who wear masks. Perhaps it is because I believe everybody wears a mask at all

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It seems like life (well, my life, anyway) is presently moving at a breakneck pace, so instead of writing a more formal type of discourse in this space I'll just resort to a rapid-fire, don't-quite-care-where-the-dart-lands approach to this particular blog entry.

• I just got a new car. I actually wanted a color other than black this time around (I wanted blue), but blue Civic Si coupes are apparently difficult to find without the Honda Navi System + Summer Tire package.
  
• There

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Artists are admirable because, well, you might say it is perhaps the only way a human can ever know what it is to be the Supreme Creator. The act of creating something from nothing more than ideas and inspiration is one of those profound things that make homo sapiens a different kind of animal. The ability to express abstract concepts, either as a concrete construct...

My name is Joe, and I'd like to make a confession: I'm addicted to computer hardware testing.

There's just something undeniably exciting about the thought of going testing. Whether it's computer hardware or automobiles (I've tested various cars for Chrysler, Ford, GM, and BMW, among others), or even whilst playing my racing simulation games, there are few things I enjoy as purely as testing.

Why is it exciting? That's a deceptively simple question. It looks simple,...