mike the mountain

I rarely post anything about politics or current affairs. Three main reasons for that: one, there are so many out there that write so much better than I about such things; two, I plainly find the subjects distastful; and three, so much of such discussion these days centers around policies and actions of the [...]

Funny how spending five frustrating hours rebuilding, reinstalling, firewalling, virus protecting, spyware scrubbing, registry tweaking, not to mention violently cursing my roommate’s salvaged struggling sub-gigahertz Windoze ME machine can really shift the perceptions of even the least technologically inclined towards the wonderful world of Apple.
Now please don’t mistake me for a blindly faithful “iCultist“. [...]

One thing I sometimes miss about my (admittedly brief) time in the military was always knowing what I had to do. Someone always told me what to do, where to go, when and what to eat. There was a certain solace to be taken in having someone else responsible for all my major [...]

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Every time I see this crap I want to reach through the screen, across the internet, and out the monitor of whomever is allowing this brain-melting glitch to continue to accost my posting efforts and, for every missed link, lost post, and screwed up sentance… KILL HIM!!!
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When posting on Blogger, and I try to add [...]

I’m chilling out on the couch at a bit before midnight Saturday night. Not much of a Saturday by some standards, but I did spend it in the company of friends, playing games, eating pizza, and watching Napolean Dynamite. That’s all right in my books.
J.P.’s got a wifi network going at his apartment, [...]

I hate that feeling, when you’re laying in bed and your body just doesn’t want to shut down, when your mind keeps racing because there’s too much left to do. I hate going to bed feeling like I didn’t accomplish enough. I can’t sleep when that happens. Go to bed feeling crappy, [...]