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Below, you’ll find all of the entries on this site in reverse chronological order. If you’re more into visualization goodness, check out the tag cloud for System 13.

October 2008 (1)

• 02: A Tale of Geekish Woe (7)

September 2008 (3)

• 21: Geeky Dreams (5)
• 14: Call Me A Bibliophile - A Meme (6)
• 01: The Flood of Freshmen (0)

August 2008 (5)

• 25: 3 Weeks In With No S and Shovelglove (0)
• 16: The Library’s “Readable Non-fiction”? (8)
• 15: The Dark Knight - Not As Good As I Expected (6)
• 10: Two Pictures from the Fair (6)
• 05: Shovelgloving and No S Dieting (1)

July 2008 (6)

• 30: Farewell, Packet 8; You Rocked (0)
• 24: Two Things: Exercise, and We Named Her Zoë (3)
• 17: Amazon.com, You Can Afford Tape (0)
• 14: A Doggy Dilemma: Not Mine, But Whose? (8)
• 09: America’s Got Talent - Some of America, Anyway (3)
• 03: Open Mouth, Insert Foot (3)

June 2008 (5)

• 27: 7 Random Things About Me (7)
• 23: An Exercise Update - Hey, What’s That White Dust? (3)
• 19: Battlestar Galactica: Where’s It Going? (2)
• 15: How Should Academic Dishonesty Be Dealt With? (4)
• 10: A Quick Note (2)

May 2008 (5)

• 31: Exercise: Making it Accessible (3)
• 27: The Worry Gene (5)
• 24: Me Versus Making New Habits (8)
• 17: Writers: Just Use “Said”, Please! (4)
• 09: Google Maps and the Isle of Lindisfarne (5)

April 2008 (12)

• 28: A Brief Silence (0)
• 23: Term Paper Woes (Part 2) (0)
• 18: If You’re Dead, Can You Still Get Life Insurance? (12)
• 17: Term Paper Woes (1)
• 14: Showers and Hydrant Flushing - Do Not Mix (0)
• 13: War Games (0)
• 10: Some Cool Facts About Water (0)
• 08: Used Books: A Quick Update (4)
• 06: Used Books: One Internet to Find Them All (1)
• 04: Bested by a Magician. (2)
• 02: Battlestar Galactica: I need my fix - now! (2)
• 01: Into the Wild (4)

March 2008 (7)

• 29: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (4)
• 27: A little confusion about centuries (9)
• 21: MetaFilter is not 911 or Poison Control. (2)
• 19: When is enough truly enough? (9)
• 14: Stargate SG-1: Where are all of the people? (7)
• 09: Battlestar Galactica - It’s Almost Here! (4)
• 04: “I Have A Question.” (9)

February 2008 (7)

• 28: The Cellphone Plague (7)
• 24: Josh Vs. The Video Card (4)
• 19: Invalid Loyalty! (4)
• 16: So Much Stuff To Do, So Little Time! (0)
• 10: The Independent Scholar’s Handbook - For Free (5)
• 06: Nicholas Sparks? Yuck! (4)
• 02: Bad Spammers, Bad! (6)

January 2008 (10)

• 31: Delayed Unsubscribing from Promotional Emails (2)
• 27: Mort (0)
• 24: Doing Something? Ask Yourself Why. (0)
• 21: The Crow Road (10)
• 17: Wikipedia in Search Results (9)
• 13: 52 Books in 52 Weeks - Looking Back (4)
• 11: Server Hop (4)
• 10: Eragon Is So Gone (9)
• 06: Why Are These People “Following” Me? (7)
• 04: University Students - Some Things Never Change (8)

December 2007 (4)

• 31: Happy New Year! (3)
• 24: The Lives of Others (6)
• 19: Finished with finals! (7)
• 03: A Short Hiatus (5)

November 2007 (10)

• 28: Letters vs. Emails as Primary Sources (6)
• 22: Happy Turkey Day! (5)
• 20: Battlestar Galactica - Gone Until April (9)
• 18: Tanks: A Post Script (3)
• 15: A Foul Weekend, Indeed. (5)
• 09: What makes an “educated person” educated? (17)
• 07: Learning: how important is it to you? (9)
• 05: This is me in the morning. (2)
• 04: I broke the internet. (7)
• 01: Russian stereotypes on American television? (5)

October 2007 (8)

• 29: One Religion to Rule Them All… (34)
• 26: Tanks: Unstoppable Beasts? Tricky Question. (7)
• 21: Posting about not posting (13)
• 12: The Power of Mind (20)
• 08: 9rules.com - Ali2 comes out tomorrow! (10)
• 06: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (9)
• 03: Researching - then and now (4)
• 01: Blogging for Breast Cancer (0)

September 2007 (9)

• 30: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (10)
• 26: Why lie when the truth will do just fine? (10)
• 23: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (4)
• 21: Spiritual chanting - on YouTube… (4)
• 18: A dog-like duck - jumping for food. (4)
• 14: No, our signs aren’t lying.  (7)
• 11: A general update from the 13th System (7)
• 06: Seeing and acknowledging the problems of the third world (0)
• 01: Lack of respect for teachers (10)

August 2007 (10)

• 28: Do people who underline in books ever actually finish reading the books? (10)
• 23: Eight Random Things (3)
• 18: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (8)
• 15: Spoken to by the preacher (5)
• 13: Chased down by the preacher (9)
• 09: Book bits: The Pale Horseman and Harry Potter sadness (10)
• 06: Book bits: The longest sentence ever? (11)
• 06: A few brief thoughts about the Prisoner of Azkaban movie (5)
• 05: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (7)
• 01: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (4)

July 2007 (22)

• 31: Alas - Hooked to Harry Potter! (14)
• 30: Death of a Hard Drive (4)
• 28: Caution: Middle aged persons on board! (5)
• 26: Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (15)
• 23: The Last Kingdom (1)
• 20: Friday’s Feast #152  (2)
• 20: Some thoughts on mindfulness meditation (0)
• 19: The internet is not the solution for everything. (5)
• 17: 64squar.es - Chess meets Web 2.0 (3)
• 16: Abandoning The Mote in God’s Eye (4)
• 14: I love used books. (11)
• 13: More Red Orchestra Guest Passes (4)
• 13: Friday’s Feast - #151 (2)
• 13: What’s your learning edge? (2)
• 11: Social networking sites - what’s the big deal? (7)
• 10: A brief note to Physicians Mutual (7)
• 09: Weekend tidbits (3)
• 06: Smile and wave - you might make someone’s day. (3)
• 05: Some more reflections on our Buddhism group (4)
• 03: An open letter to Kroger (7)
• 02: Interstellar drive in 2008? Afraid not. (6)
• 01: The Subtle Knife (3)

June 2007 (28)

• 30: iPhone - no, wait. iDon’tiPhone. (9)
• 29: Friday’s Feast #150 (0)
• 28: God bless America? (4)
• 27: Some reflections on starting a Buddhist study and meditation group (5)
• 26: Ohio Web Library - online research resources for free (5)
• 25: Frustration is… (8)
• 24: The Golden Compass (6)
• 22: “All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.” (0)
• 22: Two bits of game news: one good, one bad (4)
• 21: Like father, like son. (5)
• 20: “A history degree? What are you going to do with that?” (8)
• 17: Is space colonization really feasible? (4)
• 16: Ostriches, squirrels, and crocodiles, oh my! (0)
• 15: And there was much rejoicing! (0)
• 15: Friday’s Feast #148 (4)
• 14: Xenocide (1)
• 13: Stargate SG-1 Season 1: Complete. (0)
• 12: What’s that beeping? (5)
• 11: What are folks looking for when they find… me? (3)
• 11: Is failing a final exam funny? (2)
• 09: The Nazi swastika in video games (24)
• 08: 6 simple tips to help you survive finals week (and after) (0)
• 08: Friday’s Feast #147 (0)
• 07: AGLOCO: Get paid to browse the internet. (0)
• 04: 2 Free Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 Guest Passes (14)
• 03: How Günter Grass spent the war (0)
• 03: Auschwitz: A New History (2)
• 02: Friday’s Feast (on a Saturday) (0)

May 2007 (27)

• 31: Well, frak. Battlestar Galactica is ending after all. (7)
• 30: A tale of cheating and intervention (5)
• 29: Who would I like to see blog from history? (5)
• 27: How long do documents really last? (4)
• 25: Friday’s Feast #145 (5)
• 24: How to install a TinyMCE plugin under WordPress (9)
• 24: 30 bits of trivia about Star Wars (0)
• 20: The ending of Children of Men… (7)
• 19: Language in Battlestar Galactica (7)
• 19: I Can Has Cheezburger? Definitely. (3)
• 18: Friday’s Feast (8)
• 18: Sharpe’s Tiger (0)
• 17: Lakota Woman (0)
• 16: WordPress upgrade in progress… (0)
• 15: Poll: Do you actually use the sidebars on blogs? (5)
• 13: Clear those mines, men. (0)
• 10: Sharpe’s Tiger and the “s word” (2)
• 09: Falling off the exercise wagon, climbing back on (2)
• 08: OpenDNS - a safer and faster DNS (2)
• 06: I just moved a whole solar system! (5)
• 05: Are you a book moocher? (0)
• 05: Is it worth going to college? (10)
• 04: Feast on this. (0)
• 03: The animated Bayeux Tapestry (0)
• 03: The Russian-Star Wars connection (0)
• 02: Speaker for the Dead (0)
• 01: Content thieves. Grrr. (4)

April 2007 (16)

• 30: Why am I learning Russian? (6)
• 27: Quickies! (0)
• 27: The Feast of Friday (0)
• 26: Some parental frustration (4)
• 25: Those shoes with wheels built into the heels… (9)
• 24: Give history another try, please. (4)
• 22: Buying shoes for a Hobbit. (5)
• 20: Feast on this. (0)
• 19: Ender’s Game (6)
• 18: [IMPORTANT] Please click to fight hunger! (0)
• 17: A change in my reading plan (5)
• 14: Nickelback released one song twice. Do you know which one? (6)
• 10: A note about System 13’s recent activity (3)
• 07: What I find useful in Buddhism (5)
• 03: Overheard in my math class today… (4)
• 01: Google April Fools pranks for 2007 (4)

March 2007 (25)

• 29: Two thoughts (and one answer) (5)
• 29: An open letter from my lower body (4)
• 28: Make a nation, today! (2)
• 27: Threats of violence in the blogosphere (1)
• 26: Battlestar Galactica, Crossroads, Part 2 (9)
• 26: On Pre-Columbian Native American populations (15)
• 23: The Language Geek (2)
• 22: Foiled at the library. (5)
• 21: I want to know you. (An open thread of sorts.) (7)
• 21: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (0)
• 19: Skepticism and Buddhism (13)
• 18: The Unifying Theme of System 13 (6)
• 17: One free Joost invitation available (3)
• 16: A visual update for System 13 (2)
• 15: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness (2)
• 14: Did you know? A presentation. (5)
• 14: The Asteroid Belt: Giving up email and dinosaurs instead of humans (3)
• 13: My weight is going the wrong way. (6)
• 12: One of my computers nearly melted. (12)
• 12: An update on my 52 books in 52 weeks progress (0)
• 10: I’ve been drawn into magic again. (5)
• 07: Battlestar Galactica: Maelstrom (7)
• 06: Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World (4)
• 03: On Buddhism and weight loss (20)
• 01: What’s up with online tracking? (4)

February 2007 (12)

• 28: The Asteroid Belt: Japanese emoticons and buffet theft (3)
• 26: A Book Meme (5)
• 24: What a welcomed sound! (0)
• 23: The Asteroid Belt: Ancient war and the neglect of elderly parents (0)
• 20: Insomnia (6)
• 20: The New 9Rules (0)
• 19: Battlestar Galactica - Still good, but dragging a bit. (2)
• 17: Forgive me father, for I have sinned. (3)
• 16: Oh, the irony… Donating goods, part two (3)
• 12: I wanted to give, but they didn’t want it, apparently. (6)
• 07: Blog stage fright - I am not particularly fond of this. (7)
• 04: Is Akismet broke or something? (7)

January 2007 (13)

• 31: This isn’t what I had in mind, Winter. (4)
• 27: The Dark Tower (Book 7) (2)
• 24: The Asteroid Belt: Spies and fruitcakes of mass destruction (2)
• 22: Battlestar Galactica: Rapture (4)
• 21: Battlestar Galactica tonight - don’t forget! (3)
• 18: Tabletop games are actually a lot of fun. (2)
• 15: One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism (0)
• 12: A few random updates (2)
• 07: The Fall of Berlin 1945 (3)
• 07: Song of Susannah (1)
• 05: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me (3)
• 05: 52 Books in 52 Weeks, 2007 - The List (6)
• 02: Some book lag (0)

December 2006 (27)

• 31: How stupid can you be? (0)
• 28: Recommend some books to me! (21)
• 28: 52 Books in 52 Weeks (0)
• 26: Dear Winter, I want snow. (11)
• 25: My son and monster trucks (5)
• 23: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc. (2)
• 21: An open letter to cats (8)
• 21: Blogger seems to be mimicking WordPress.com (9)
• 20: Starting a Buddhist meditation group (4)
• 20: The Asteroid Belt: Toy Story on drugs and giant centipedes (0)
• 18: My first steps with Russian (2)
• 16: Over a month until the next Battlestar Galactica episode? Gah! (9)
• 15: Is learning a foreign language fun? (6)
• 14: Me? In 9Rules? How can that be? (27)
• 14: You’re never “done” with a foreign language. (5)
• 13: The Asteroid Belt: Squirrel contraceptives and Battlestar Galactica Simpsons (3)
• 12: Why would someone do this? (0)
• 11: A major mistake I made in learning German: I didn’t listen. (1)
• 10: A little less religious discomfort (4)
• 09: Battlestar Galactica: The food question answered (sort of) (7)
• 08: What would I do with 10GB of space on WordPress.com? (7)
• 08: Cold wind and kids (2)
• 08: Battlestar Galactica lingo invades Dilbert (2)
• 06: The Asteroid Belt: ancient tsunamis and sex with squid (2)
• 06: Apparently, I’m a dedicated reader. (Big surprise!) (4)
• 04: The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (4)
• 02: Does spelling really matter? (18)

November 2006 (28)

• 30: Are books going anywhere? (8)
• 28: The tryptophan stupor is now over. (2)
• 24: Some search strings that have led people here. (4)
• 23: Some people really do amaze me. (2)
• 22: The Asteroid Belt: Life in space, The Hobbit, and snipers (6)
• 22: And then there was much rejoicing: finals are over. (0)
• 20: An open letter to TIME magazine (4)
• 20: NaNoWriMo: My steam has disappeared (3)
• 18: Atlantic Times, a free monthly newspaper in English about Germany (10)
• 18: Sometimes, I really don’t like my iPod. (0)
• 17: Booksprice.com - find the cheapest books (3)
• 16: Battlestar Galactica love (4)
• 15: The Asteroid Belt, First Encounter (2)
• 14: I finally have a driver’s license. (11)
• 12: The winter blues (or just plain old winter sleepiness?) (9)
• 10: The various translations of Bilbo Baggins (7)
• 10: Access to space: Catastrophic Failure (7)
• 09: President Bush’s response to the Democratic wins (2)
• 09: Frodo and Gandalf were of Norse descent (7)
• 09: They took my comics! (7)
• 08: A picture is worth 1000 words, right? (0)
• 06: A NaNoWriMo novel update (2)
• 05: Back to Mid-World I go (2)
• 04: Abandoning Ringworld Engineers (2)
• 04: A few tips for NaNoWriMo writers (3)
• 03: Writing with wreckless abandon (7)
• 03: CSS on WordPress.com has disappeared (0)
• 02: The first day of novel writing - NaNoWriMo (3)

October 2006 (52)

• 31: Icelandic cuisine? Rotten shark. (24)
• 30: Did the Buddha really exist? Answer: It doesn’t matter. (21)
• 30: One novel in one month: NaNoWriMo (8)
• 29: Some instances of attacks on freedom of speech (1)
• 29: Some more thoughts on Battlestar Galactica (2)
• 29: links for 2006-10-29 (0)
• 28: Just a note for IE users… (0)
• 28: Blog for freedom of speech (0)
• 27: Disappearing stuff? Maybe disappearing memory. (4)
• 26: Disappearing stuff (6)
• 25: Walking up to a stranger and starting a conversation, part 2 (5)
• 25: Some religious discomfort (16)
• 24: System13.org and some WordPress.com love (5)
• 24: links for 2006-10-24 (1)
• 23: Frak! I’m a Battlestar junkie! (3)
• 22: Remember: Enable ClearType in Windows XP! (2)
• 22: The 19th century blog (5)
• 21: Warring gods of winter and spring (0)
• 20: The ideal vacation spot? (6)
• 19: Walking up to a stranger and starting a conversation (10)
• 19: links for 2006-10-19 (0)
• 18: Clash of science and religion (7)
• 18: The end of the universe, part 2 (4)
• 18: The end of the universe - what’s there? (11)
• 18: links for 2006-10-18 (0)
• 17: Hobbit Vikings! (0)
• 17: links for 2006-10-17 (0)
• 16: Ninja Penguins can kill you! (9)
• 16: WordPress.com login bug fixed (seemingly) (2)
• 16: links for 2006-10-16 (0)
• 15: Modern Icelandic and Old Norse (and yet more books) (4)
• 15: Used books are gifts from the heavens (0)
• 14: Delete my blog? Why, yes, yes I did. (3)
• 14: Eek, WordPress.com said I deleted my blog! (3)
• 12: links for 2006-10-12 (0)
• 10: The books are taking over (0)
• 10: links for 2006-10-10 (2)
• 09: Currently reading - the nonfiction (0)
• 09: links for 2006-10-09 (0)
• 08: Lots of free medieval music MP3s (5)
• 07: links for 2006-10-07 (0)
• 06: Off to play a Viking (0)
• 06: links for 2006-10-06 (0)
• 05: Currently reading and recently read - the fiction (3)
• 04: Has anything ever killed reading for you? (0)
• 04: links for 2006-10-04 (0)
• 03: From blog title to blog design (6)
• 03: links for 2006-10-03 (0)
• 02: Why System 13? (5)
• 02: A blogging survey (4)
• 02: links for 2006-10-02 (0)
• 01: A Viking voyage, part 2 (0)

September 2006 (41)

• 29: The Cranberries - how did I forget these guys (and this gal)? (2)
• 27: links for 2006-09-27 (2)
• 26: links for 2006-09-26 (0)
• 26: Five Questions (15)
• 25: A Viking voyage (10)
• 25: links for 2006-09-25 (0)
• 24: Shedding dogs and hardwood floors (0)
• 24: A note about the link posts (0)
• 24: links for 2006-09-24 (0)
• 23: What color do you own? (2)
• 22: Stargate SG-1: Thor’s Hammer (2)
• 20: Goats riding a bike… ? (0)
• 20: Star Trek, The First Generation remastered (0)
• 19: Stumbling through the internet (0)
• 19: 20 things you didn’t know about…. death (0)
• 17: DailyLit - Read books in small chunks (0)
• 17: Talk like a Pirate (1)
• 16: Not digging Ringworld (6)
• 16: Google.org - Google’s philanthropy side (0)
• 15: So, does this mean my blog is popular? (3)
• 15: Goats, garbage disposals, and Americans (0)
• 14: American Buddhism on the rise (2)
• 13: OhioLINK rocks. (4)
• 13: LibraryThing blogs (2)
• 13: A del.icio.us request (1)
• 12: According to Microsoft Live, feed readers don’t exist (0)
• 12: A snippet from a Don Davis interview (0)
• 11: Indexed (1)
• 10: Are the Jedi Buddhists? (0)
• 10: Some books I’m reading (and a few blunders of mine) (2)
• 09: 21st Century Buddhism podcast (2)
• 08: Buddhism: Life is suffering (or not) (1)
• 08: A Past and Future Secret by Blind Guardian (4)
• 08: The Bard’s Song by Blind Guardian (0)
• 08: A bit more about biking (0)
• 07: Stargate SG-1: The Nox (7)
• 05: I didn’t plan that. (0)
• 05: Discarding college notes - why did I do that? (3)
• 05: So, Steve Irwin has died (5)
• 04: U.S. Labor Day Meme (0)
• 01: Impressed thus far with Stargate SG-1 (4)

August 2006 (31)

• 31: Republicans fighting ‘Islamic fascism’ (0)
• 31: Riding a bike used to be a lot easier (4)
• 28: Education is undermining creativity (3)
• 28: New Orleans then and now (2)
• 28: A simple way to make your comments stand out on your WordPress.com blog (4)
• 27: What if the Vikings had maintained their presence in the United States? (14)
• 24: Finals week is over (6)
• 23: It’s finals week for me. (0)
• 21: Life in the universe, and the killer virus (5)
• 18: Here’s more of what I’m doing (4)
• 18: Interstellar space, here we come (6)
• 17: Languages in Stargate SG-1 (34)
• 17: Hello to the visitors from the WordPress.com blog (1)
• 15: A whitelist for JavaScript widgets? (5)
• 15: Talk: A new feature from LibraryThing (0)
• 15: Requiem for a Dream - a very sad movie (9)
• 15: LibraryThing, one of my favorite websites (2)
• 14: K2 now available on WordPress.com - sort of. (0)
• 13: Falling pixels have been cleared from the road (2)
• 13: Watch out! Falling pixels! (0)
• 12: Why isn’t the K2 theme available? (4)
• 12: Did Google forget about Gmail? (4)
• 10: I really love library book sales. (4)
• 09: Utopia = No place (0)
• 09: This heat sucks. (0)
• 09: And now, a problem with Vonage. (0)
• 08: Skype refund (0)
• 07: Requiem for a Dream trailer (2)
• 06: More SkypeIn oddities (0)
• 02: A pleasant surprise from FolderShare (0)
• 01: Embarrassed about speaking a foreign language? Get over it. (0)

July 2006 (11)

• 28: The Size of Our World (2)
• 26: Writing on water (5)
• 26: Syncing text files (and more) (0)
• 21: Warp speed. (0)
• 20: The return of the invisible man (0)
• 20: SkypeIn works, and I am an idiot. (0)
• 20: SkypeIn still not working (2)
• 18: More information about SkypeIn problem (2)
• 18: Problems with SkypeIn (1)
• 18: An introduction of sorts (0)
• 17: Stand by… (0)