Verbum Humanum

"...elephantine adventures in pursuit of the obvious." 

FOXNews.com - Obama: 'Procedural' Spat Over Health Bill Vote Doesn't Worry Me

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate," Obama said. "What I can tell you is that the vote that's taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don't think we should pretend otherwise. And if they don't, if they vote against it, then they're going to be voting against health care reform and they're going to be voting in favor of the status quo. 

So a vote against Obama's health care reform is a vote for the status quo? Why only two choices? Why can't a vote against Obamacare simply be a vote against Obamacare? Surely many want to reform healthcare who don't like Obama's version of reform?

::: sigh :::

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Common Queries Tree

Common MySQL Queries

An amazing resource!

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Oral creatine monohydrate supplementation improves brain performance

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See mom!  Told you so.

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A Closer Look at Vitamin D | Eat. Move. Improve.

I would encourage everyone to start supplementing Vitamin D if they do not work an outdoor job, eat fish everyday, or drink at least a half gallon of milk a day or other dairy. There is 100 IU per cup at 16 cups in a gallon is 1600 IU total. Current government recommendation is 400 IU per day for adults and less for kids. This is too little to reach sufficient levels, especially for those allergic to dairy.

The benefits are too great to ignore.

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The Week In Review: March 15, 2010

Currently Reading
Lectures on Calvinism
Orthodoxy
The Four Loves
speric on GoodReads

Movies Watched
It Might Get Loud
Magnolia
Ed Wood

Top Artists Last Week
Cream (29 plays)
Deftones (26 plays)
Incubus (23 plays)
Thrice (20 plays)
Them Crooked Vultures (20 plays)
Interpol (19 plays)
The Black Keys (18 plays)
Jimi Hendrix (16 plays)
Pearl Jam (13 plays)
The White Stripes (13 plays)
Chevelle (9 plays)
Silversun Pickups (8 plays)
Coldplay (8 plays)
Delirious (5 plays)
Fleet Foxes (4 plays)
Rage Against the Machine (2 plays)
guardian.co.uk (2 plays)
ESPN (1 plays)
Company of Thieves (1 plays)
ericfarkas on last.fm

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I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

-Homer

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How to stay Stressed

Always begin by setting impossibly high standards for yourself
* Compare yourself only with the greatest masters of all times
* Take all criticism as total truth and take it personally
* Condemn all your mistakes and imperfections without mercy

* View your work not as a commitment but as a burden to resent
* Fixate on the outcome, and ignore the process
* Identify the success of every endeavor as an assessment
      of your value as a human being

* Worry constantly about factors beyond your control
* Avoid all meditation and relaxation
* Eliminate your sense of humor
* Never listen to music for pleasure

* If you have a physical problem, seek a quick, easy solution outside yourself
* Don't exercise; eat anything at all, anytime you want
* Smoke, drink, use stimulants, take drugs
* Don't fasten your seatbelt

* Take on too much, never say no
* Rate everything as critically and equally important
* Stay disorganized
* Ignore your support networks
* Don't ask for help

* Take no responsibility for your behavior
* Exploit the friendship of others for your short-term advantage
* Stay in the victim position
* When in doubt, blame someone else

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Workout music for training

Some good selections here.

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drogus's apache-upload-progress-module at master - GitHub

Upload progress module for apache

This works with mod_passenger; awesome!

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The best bug tracking system. Don’t raise bugs, write an automated test!

When anyone finds a bug, he/she immediately writes an automated test that fails based on the bug just discovered. This mechanism have the following advantages.

  • Gets rid of versioning problems, everyone works on the head.
  • Guarantees that the bug is never gonna reappear undetected.
  • Eliminates uncertainty on what the bug exactly is.
  • Eliminates bureaucracy
  • Consolidates the development activities in one place, the code.

Interesting approach.

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