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Classic Chatter Box from 2005

Judge Jones on Intelligent Design

"The overwhelming evidence at trial established that ID is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory." -- From Judge Jones' decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover.

Read up on this case at the ACLU's site, or read the 139 page decision for yourself (you know I did ).

-- NatePerryThistle - 23 Dec 2005

South Dakota tower demolition doesn't...

There is a great video and a photo essay from the almost demolition of the (maybe formerly) tallest building in South Dakota.

-- NatePerryThistle - 05 Dec 2005

More fun with Cardstacking

Meet Bryan Berg, cardstacker extrordinare.

-- NatePerryThistle - 24 Nov 2005

We've got to get Zubbles!

Fearing that our last ChatterBox highlight may have been a bit too serious I present for your enjoyment Zubbles, the first Colored Bubbles!

-- NatePerryThistle - 19 Nov 2005

Silly Soda!

More fun with Jones Soda and some interesting flavors in their holiday packs.

Brussels Sprout with Prosciutto, Cranberry Sauce, Turkey & Gravy, Wild Herb Stuffing, and Pumpkin Pie. Soda?!?

Thanks Pops!

-- NatePerryThistle - 19 Nov 2005

Pat Robertson on Intelligent Design

After eight school board members who suppoted 'intelligent design' lost re-election in Pennsylvania this week Pat Roberson had this to say to the city that didn't elect them:

"And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there." -- from CNN

-- NatePerryThistle - 11 Nov 2005

The Vatican on Intelligent Design

Cardinal Poupard, head of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture has been quoted as stating:

"The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim," he said, and that the point of Genesis is that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator."

"The faithful should heed modern science and to guard against religion crossing over to fundamentalism if it ignores scientific reasoning."

-- NatePerryThistle - 11 Nov 2005

Cornell President on Intelligent Design

"Intelligent design is not valid as science, that is, it has no ability to develop new knowledge through hypothesis testing, modification of the original theory based on experimental results, and renewed testing through more refined experiments that yield still more refinements and insights."

from 2005 State of the University Address

-- DiegoValderrama - 03 Nov 2005

Oh, a little accountability, at last

From an Office of Special Counsel Press Release:

"WASHINGTON – Senior White House official I. Lewis Libby was indicted today on obstruction of justice, false statement and perjury charges for allegedly lying about how and when in 2003 he learned and subsequently disclosed to reporters then-classified information concerning the employment of Valerie Wilson by the Central Intelligence Agency. Libby was charged with one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements in a five-count indictment returned today by a federal grand jury as its term expired, announced Justice Department Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald."

One may wish to read Libby's Indictment for the details.

-- NatePerryThistle - 28 Oct 2005

Hey, what about Ben Bernanke?

Ben Bernanke has been appointed, by President Bush, to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Greenspan has served since he was appointed by President Reagan in 1987.

-- NatePerryThistle - 27 Oct 2005

All about Wilma!

General information about Hurricane Wilma may be found in WikiPedia.

-- NatePerryThistle - 24 Oct 2005

News find of the day (o)(o)

The Fourth Annual Blogger Boobie-Thon is officially underway!

-- FloydPerryThistle - 01 Oct 2005

And on the local scene, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is being celebrated with artistically decorated plaster boob casts.

See Also: http://www.cancer.org/ - http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/ - http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021001-9.html - etc.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 07 Oct 2005

All about John Glover Roberts, Jr.

The always impressive WikiPedia has a full biography of John Glover Roberts, Jr., 17th Chief Justice of the United States.

-- NatePerryThistle - 30 Sep 2005

All about RITA

I've placed an RSS feed for Hurricane RITA on our NationalHurricaneCenter page.

There are some satellite images in the Current Events area of the OSEI Web site.

-- NatePerryThistle - 22 Sep 2005

Happy Birthday RickHarmon

Happy Birthday Rick! Where are you?

-- NatePerryThistle - 15 Sep 2005

Excellent Hurricane Katrina coverage at Wikipedia.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 02 Sep 2005

There are also some very good live information sources available on the Internet from folks in the fray.

-- NatePerryThistle - 02 Sep 2005

Please welcome: CameronKeith!

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome CameronKeith to OurSite. Quite possibly the first user to sign up without duress from one of the Perry-Thistles.

-- NatePerryThistle - 30 Aug 2005

Welcome!

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 30 Aug 2005

Thanks Brat.

-- NatePerryThistle - 31 Aug 2005

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 31 Aug 2005

Hooray for Cam - not only did he register, he edited! See: BenSeniorBall92

-- FloydPerryThistle - 31 Aug 2005

Image Gallery Plugin Installed

I've installed the Image Gallery Plugin. It creates an index and clickable slideshow of the attachments on a page, which can also be included on any other page. Please see our first example on Sid's page, which is also currently featured on the WebHome page.

-- NatePerryThistle - 27 Aug 2005

Welcome Sidney Jane Aurelia Perry-Thistle!

Sidney Jane Aurelia Perry-Thistle, 7lb 1oz, 19 1/2 in, arrived strong and healthy at 10:14 AM PDT on the 24th of August, 2005. Mom and Dad doing fine. :)
UPDATE: Everyone was discharged in great condition from the hospital on Friday and they are home resting.

Who	Date	Time	Birth Weight	Winner
pops	25 Aug	0700	7lbs, 5oz.	Winner for Arrival Time
dad	14 16 18 20 22 Aug	1800	7lbs, 8oz.
Uncle Nate	21 23 Aug	1300	7lbs, 8oz.
Kati	27 Aug	2306	7lbs, 2oz.	Winner for Weight
Parisa	26 Aug	1100	7lbs, 6oz.
Joy	25 Aug	1700	7lbs, 7oz.

Click to see me big.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 24 Aug 2005

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How Many Planets Are You?

I read the new bloggie message on nate's site. After seeing that if everyone in the world lived like nate they would need 4.1 planets, I wondered "what the heck is he talking about?" I set forth to this site in hopes that it would give me the answers I needed.

The answer I got:

If everyone in the world lived like me we would need 3.4 Planets.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 23 Aug 2005

Wow! Only 3.4 planets? I'd better start triming down my consumption if I'm going to compete with that.

-- NatePerryThistle - 27 Aug 2005

My footprint is either 7 or 9 acres depending on how I answer the population of the "place" I live question - so 1.5 to 2.1 planets for me.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 28 Aug 2005

I think it has a lot to do with me not having a car. I'm sure if I had a car I'd have another half a planet or more.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 29 Aug 2005

The Great Server Outage of 05

I would like your input on a topic name for our outage.

Vote for them, too! And to clear up some confusion, you can vote for more than one, just not for the same name. -- ParisaZolfaghari - 17 Aug 2005

What are these rules?? I feel restricted. -- KathiaZolfaghari - 20 Aug 2005

Someone's gotta chain you down. -- ParisaZolfaghari - 22 Aug 2005

Enter here:

Suggested Name	By Who	Vote?
TheGreatServerOutageof05?	Nate
TheGreatServerOutageof05?	Nate
AyPorDiosSeJodioElServer?	Diego	2
NineteenDaysWithoutPTWiki?	Nate	2
WhenTimeStoodStill?	Kati	3
PTwikiCaesuraSummer05? (see:WordOfTheDay)	Pops
TheComa?	Parisa	1
P-Twitching: Email Withdrawal	Kati	1

grin Yay Diego

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 31 Aug 2005

UPDATED: Firefox 1.0.6 Fixes Stability Issues

Hot on the heels of version 1.0.5 comes 1.0.6! This is a stability release to fix a few extension incompatibilites that were introduced in 1.0.5.

-- NatePerryThistle - 20 Jul 2005

Nesting Continues on Noe Street

Hey Ben!!!

Got any updated nesting pictures? For those who missed it, see the nesting begin.

-- NatePerryThistle - 18 Jul 2005

Yes there are some great photos of the nest! Stay tuned for updates...

The new photos seem to have been eaten by butterfly!! Can't find! Remain calm and be patient, they may resurface after regurgitation.

-- BenPerryThistle - 20 Jul 2005

Thanks for the update Ben, hope your computer coughs up the images sometime soon!

-- NatePerryThistle - 20 Jul 2005

I helped Ben find those pictures (his Picasa program wasn't looking in the User's Application Data folders on the disk where his photo transfer software likes to put things). So... now that the site is up we might get a peak at that polished place, eh?

-- NatePerryThistle - 12 Aug 2005

Buzztracker

I've hooked OurVeryOwnPortal up with a BuzzTracker feed. I think the graphical change after the London bombings on 7/7/2005 is quite impressive. Check it out!

-- NatePerryThistle - 08 Jul 2005

Latest Letter from Leanne Anderson

Leanne is a PianoBasicsTeacher who is currently studying in Matsumoto, Japan. Her entertaining and informative letters have been languishing in the dim, dark recessess of the Piano Web. Mayhaps they will see more visits here in the Family Web.

Update: Leanne has returned to the United States and is currently teaching in Pasco, WA. It was great to see her at the 10 Piano Concert! I wonder if there will be more letters chronicling her further adventures. --Floyd - 03 Sep 2005

15 May 05 "Join me for a week?"

More letters.

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Guidelines for Publishing Information Online

It would be a good idea to read and head the tips in this US-CERT Cyber Security tip when deciding what to enter into our Web site: Guidelines for Publishing Information Online. Remember that every change you make to our site is stored, it is also quite possible for information to be cached elsewhere (like Google).

Have fun, but consider what you're putting up here.

-- NatePerryThistle - 06 Jul 2005

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FourthOfJuly2005atChezWarpheads Cancelled!??! Sizzles

Rumors abound! The word on the street last night was grim. Some people want to run off to SierraHotSprings^? instead of putting up with the hungry hordes expected to decsend on ChezWarpheads later today. Put a note on the door, she says. Can he pull it off by himself? Will they get it together? Stay tuned....

-- FloydPerryThistle - 04 Jul 2005

Oh, we've got it together. Kathia--I mean "some people" are all ready and "psyched!" Don't belive the hype!

-- NatePerryThistle - 04 Jul 2005

-- FloydPerryThistle - 04 Jul 2005

Boy, did they get it together!! Thanks Kathia and Nate for a great party

-- FloydPerryThistle - 05 Jul 2005

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UPDATED: SayulitaWedding

Yuri Godwin and Kerry Kelly got married, and I finally got around to putting up some pictures.

-- NatePerryThistle - 11 Jun 2005

Yuri Yuba has a centralized collection of images from Sayulita at PBase.

-- NatePerryThistle - 16 Jun 2005

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Nesting Has Begun on Noe Street

Out of Control Kitchen Painting!

Move Down Warpheards...
Just a little More......

-- BenPerryThistle - 29 Jun 2005

Who the heck are the Warpheards??

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 28 Jun 2005

Warpheads are nice people.......
Warpheards are much like Sheperds they show the Warpheads where to go... of course.

And here is some upheaval in Nate and Kathia's bedroom (or is that Kapuki's?).

-- BenPerryThistle - 28 Jun 2005

Or is it Ben and Mary's bedroom soon?
Way to post Benjamino! I can see my slippers.

-- NatePerryThistle - 29 Jun 2005

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Crolf Season Opens!

The course is well groomed and fast. Colorful balloons marked the wickets for the Grand Opening Weekend - 11, 12 June 2005. A good time was had by all!

-- FloydPerryThistle - 15 Jun 2005

FourthOfJuly2005atChezWarpheads

The 4th of July party at ChezWarpheads is officially on the schedule. This is your open invitaion: please consider celebrating independence day with us!

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Happy Birthday David!

Here is your song. -

-- FloydPerryThistle - 14 Jun 2005

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Crolf News

After much weed whacking it's time to WhackOff^? Wickets 1, 2, 3 (still some high grass to get over), 4 (from the earlier whack-off place), and 9 are ready for play. So is 7 ("VannsCamp"), but 5, 6, and 8 are still a jungle.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 26 May 2005

Sweet! I'm there. How about soon today?

-- NatePerryThistle - 26 May 2005

ChatterBox Clean Up

Yeah, I moved the old ChatterBox content into ChatterBox2003 and ChatterBox2004. Uh huh.

-- NatePerryThistle - 14 May 2005

Crolf

Just wondering, but when are we going to get the crolf site up? It's been coming soon forever!

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 12 Apr 2005

I'm not sure... I like your enthusiasm though.

-- NatePerryThistle - 12 May 2005

Me too -- What would you like to see happening at http://crolf.info?

-- FloydPerryThistle - 15 May 2005

We need more crolf pictures, and how crolf works - the nitty gritty in the world of Crolf. and there should be a calendar with crolf events posted. ....yeah.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 04 Jun 2005

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Carousers Return! - Apple Fast Starts Tommorrow

Welcome home Nate and Kathia; Ben and Mary! Oh yeah, KapukiPerryThistle too! Got images?

-- FloydPerryThistle - 26 May 2005

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POES Auroral Activity Estimate

New at the exciting SpaceWeather Topic.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 15 May 2005

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A Smoking Turkey...

was spotted this morning at CampAugustine. Make your reservation for dinner now. Don't be (shudder) snubbed!

Thanks for the left-overs. shudder

-- NatePerryThistle - 14 May 2005

Location Change

Tuesday/Thursday morning t'ai chi has been moved back to Gold Run Park (or Field, or Mound...). Still at 7:30am. Thanks for your patronage. And it's my birthday today.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 10 May 2005

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Solar Wind Indicator

Bored? Watch this - it will change every 15 minutes. See SpaceWeather.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 12 Apr 2005

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Fifty-Million Firefox Downloads

The Firefox project has blown past the 50 Million download mark. On the celebration page you can watch the downloads count up in real time.

Oh, and you should have been prompted to update your product by now... but just in case you've been ignoring it: if you're not running version 1.0.3 go and get an update!

-- NatePerryThistle - 29 Apr 2005

Children in the Thick of It... For a Change

Grass Valley. The children are not snubbed tonight. In an unprecedented move, Nate Perry-Thistle and Kathia Zolfaghari are actually included in the evening plans, which include take-out and a movie (both Chinese). Dinner is at 7pm followed immediately by a showing of House of Flying Daggers.

"Well," Perry-Thistle said, "it seemed like they wouldn't have any choice but to include us given we're hosting it at our house. And we have the DVD."

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 28 Apr 2005

Announcement

T'ai chi is canceled for Thursday. Rain. See you on Tuesday the 3rd!

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 28 Apr 2005

Nooooooo!!!!

(Yay blinkies)

The above post sounds like the Brat, but you just can't tell because it's unsigned.

-- NatePerryThistle - 28 Apr 2005

Muahhahahhahaha.

-- The Masked Crusader - 28 Apr 2005

No ChatterBox for you!

The Brat said this was too old, too stale.

-- NatePerryThistle - 12 Apr 2005

Yellow Alert!

UPDATE -- the ISC infocon alert level has returned to green. The DNS cache poisoning has been mitigated and instructions for protecting ones DNS servers are available.

-- NatePerryThistle - 08 Apr 2005

The ISC infocon alert level has been elevated to yellow, meaning "We are currently tracking a significant new threat. The impact is either unknown or expected to be minor to the infrastructure. However, local impact could be significant."

The reason is ongoing DNS cache poisoning. Unsuspecting users can be spirited off to malicious servers instead of the domain they asked for. This hasn't affected everyone, and most users shouldn't be too alarmed, just raise your awareness level a little bit. Update your anti-virus, anti-spyware software, your operating system, etc. and stay tuned for further information.

Technical readers can stay up to date on our InternetStormCenter headlines page.

-- NatePerryThistle - 07 Apr 2005

Uh Oh. I'm a sitting duck.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 07 Apr 2005

Quack!

-- NatePerryThistle - 07 Apr 2005

PTLocoTime ends! Todays Δ CAR = 0 minutes

We will all now agree - The Universe has swallowed up an "hour" of "time" which it will dutifully regurgitate on 30 October 2005

Welcome to Pacifc Daylight Time - a CommonlyAcceptedReality

-- FloydPerryThistle - 03 Apr 2005

26,886,811 and counting, and now "Time to Upgrade (again)!"

It's time to download an update to Firefox: version 1.0.2 which includes some security fixes.

Go get it right now. Really, the Web will still be here when you get back.

If you use Thunderbird or Mozilla you'll want to update it as well.

-- NatePerryThistle - 25 Feb 2005 and again 26 Mar 2005

Check out the 25 Million mark press release!

-- FloydPerryThistle - 15 Feb 2005

P-TWiki Patched

I've applied patches to TWiki as recommend by http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/UncoordinatedSecurityAlert23Feb2005.

Please document any problems you find in the UpgradeLog and let me know if you find something not working as expected.

-- NatePerryThistle - 25 Feb 2005

Happy Saint Valentine's Day

-- FloydPerryThistle - 14 Feb 2005

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Children Snubbed!

Saturday afternoon. Clinging to the phone, Nate and Kathia awaited word on dinner--a supposed pork loin roast.

The phone never rang.

They waited and they waited. However, no one called. Forgotten and unloved, Nate and Kathia stepped up and took charge of their dinner. They braved the elements--and SPD--to fend for themselves. Hence:

Ribeye with mushrooms, onions, and bacon drenched in zinfandel tied together with melted triple cream bleu cheese
Luscious garlic mashed potatoes
Decadent kale (we had to try to make it sound good)

Grr!! You know who you are...

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 13 Feb 2005

Happy Birthday Anne Woodward!

I hope you enjoy your next trip around the sun. -- NatePerryThistle - 03 Feb 2005

Ditto! -- KathiaZolfaghari - 13 Feb 2005

Help Me Out

Buy this book: Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders -- for you! I'm the person they describe in this Wired News article: How to Handle a Burning PC that gets calls from friends and relatives asking for computer support.

-- NatePerryThistle - 31 Jan 2005

Wedding Pictures Begin to Come Into Focus

Wedding Boo... er, Bloossoms.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 25 Dec 2004

Da Brat Arrives!

Congratulations to ParisaZolfaghari on her 21st BIRTHDAY!! -- FloydPerryThistle - 13 Jan 2005

Thanks!! I've already gone into a bar!! (Last night at midnight, during tango, because there's a bar downstairs). The girl carding everyone just kind of looked at my card with a confused look on her face. I had to tell her that it was midnight. But then she let me through. Yay me! And tonight I go to Kell's. Muahhahahaha (<--- evil laugh) -- ParisaZolfaghari - 13 Jan 2005

It's SO not fair that you're going to Kell's without us. And here I told my French class today that you were my favorite sister.

Also, I don't believe you're technically into your 22nd year until 3pm. So at midnight, you technically weren't of age yet.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 13 Jan 2005

Details, details. And I was born at 2:30pm, thank you very much. And Kell's was alright..but Jimmy Mak's was better.. The music was so good.. (jazzy blues-y stuff). But now I'm tired... Pictures of My Birthday Bash will be headed your way soon. -- ParisaZolfaghari - 14 Jan 2005
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