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Do Christians hate soldiers? No!

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:09:25 +0000

I’ve seen the question come up on Digg more than once: Why do Christians hate soldiers? The perception undoubtedly comes from the protests at military funerals. Unfortunately, there’s a small fringe group from Kansas that’s giving the perception that Christians

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A story of a truck, some trains, a vet, and a possible scam

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:51:27 +0000

I think I've been taken for another Internet scam.

Of course the Internet is ripe for this kind of thing. The story of Kaycee Nicole Swenson is one infamous example. Unfortunately I fell for that one too, although not as hard as some people did. All I really wasted in that case was some bandwidth and a little disk space. That's more than I can say for the people who sent her gifts and other things.

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I got a Pentax K110 digital SLR camera last month

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:25:39 +0000

When the Nikon D40 came out in November priced at $599, it seemed like the whole world went ga-ga over it. After all, we've pretty much been conditioned to expect to pay $1,000 to get into the digital SLR game.

But then I found out about the Pentax K110D. It's also a digital SLR, and costs about $100 less than the Nikon. There wasn't much information out there about it. So, after consulting the one person whose opinions on cameras I trust, my wife and I got one.

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What to do with those e-mail forwards

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 02 May 2003 03:09:19 +0000

Coke is unpatriotic and anti-God. Pepsi is unpatriotic and anti-God. Target doesn't support veterans. Dennis Miller supports the war in Iraq. Andy Rooney doesn't like the French. An atheist made the FCC make CBS discontinue Touched by an Angel.

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Good thing: It’s baseball season. Better thing: My Royals won

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:56:59 +0000

Every time I turn on the radio or go online, I hear about how the Bush Dictatorship has plunged us into another Vietnam or how I'm a redneck just like everyone else who ever voted Republican. And at work, I'm buried in Backup Exec problems, a program so bad that it continues to make me think its main purpose for being written was industrial sabotage.

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Airshows, photography and Linux routing

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 17:37:35 +0000

Gatermann and I went out shooting again yesterday. More exploration of the warehouse district, and we found out that the warehouse district is a halfway decent place to watch an airshow. A couple of cargo planes buzzed us, tipping us off to what was going on, so I went chasing. I'm not the airplane junkie my dad was (few people are), but I'm still a sucker for exotic military planes. I borrowed Gatermann's telephoto lens and took shots as planes went by. A pair of vintage P-51 Mustangs zoomed by, so I got a few shots of those. A couple of modern fighters made a brief appearance, but I couldn't get them into the lens quickly enough to identify them. Chances are they were F-16s; not as common a sight as they once were, but you still see them.

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Memorial Day: Thank a vet

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 28 May 2001 06:49:23 +0000

It's Memorial Day. Memorial Day for many means barbecues, maybe a trip to the lake. We're far enough removed from war that it's mostly become another excuse for a three-day weekend. Yes, we fought a war 10 years ago, but it was so quick it didn't really seem like war, and it was undeclared. And our previous administration involved us in plenty of skirmishes, but that wasn't exactly war either. And I know, to many of us Vietnam seems like it was just yesterday, just like the first Bush administration seems like it was just yesterday to me, but Vietnam was long enough ago that there's an entire generation of adults who view it exclusively as an historical event--by the time I was born, we were out of there.

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