jamin on January 26th, 2006

I guess I’ll participate in the Four Things Meme.
Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

Window washer
Bakery clerk
Web application designer
Integration Specialist

Four movies I can watch over and over:

The Princess Bride
Office Space
Napoleon Dynamite
Lord of the Rings (all three)

Four TV shows I love to watch:

Family Guy
The Simpsons
High Stakes Poker
Firefly

Four places I’ve been on vacation:

Niagara Falls
New Orleans
San [...]

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jamin on January 18th, 2006

Dad called this morning to let me know that Grandma passed away last night. She hadn’t been doing well the past couple of weeks and Dad had flown down to Atlanta to help take care of her. I phoned her hospital room early in the evening yesterday and we talked for a few [...]

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jamin on January 16th, 2006

BellyBytes has a list of what they think are the 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet. Clearly I don’t eat enough of these foods. I hadn’t even heard of quinoa. I do get plenty of shellfish, salmon, spinach, peanuts, garlic, and skim milk though.

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jamin on January 13th, 2006

Lauren has another book review up, this time about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel.
Sometimes over the top, sometimes overly sentimental, this story is indeed extremely loud and incredibly close. But Oskar Schell’s tenderness is almost impossibly beautiful. His navigation through a complicated, painful, young life with eyes wide open is a gentle reminder [...]

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jamin on January 12th, 2006

I recently switched from PokerRoom.com to Full Tilt Poker for playing online. Originally I had signed up at PokerRoom because they were the only site I could find that offered an interface for Linux and Mac users in the form of a Java applet. And I still think it’s a very good site [...]

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jamin on January 9th, 2006

Baptist preacher Gordon Atkinson, aka Real Live Preacher reviews NBC’s new show, “Book of Daniel”: Sinfully bad TV. You have to click through an ad to read the full article if you’re not a Salon member, but it’s worth it just to see that there are in fact Christians out there with some integrity [...]

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jamin on January 9th, 2006

Perhaps I’m in the wrong line of work?

You scored as English. You should be an English major! Your passion lies in writing and expressing yourself creatively, and you hate it when you are inhibited from doing so. Pursue that interest of yours!

Philosophy

100%

English

100%

Linguistics

92%

Journalism

92%

Mathematics

75%

Engineering

75%

Theater

67%

Psychology

58%

Dance

50%

Chemistry

42%

Biology

42%

Anthropology

33%

Art

33%

Sociology

25%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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jamin on January 6th, 2006

I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.0. Hopefully this won’t spam the the planet. If you see anything broken on my site, let me know.

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