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Name: Javert03


Interests: Programming, piano, debate, drama, servers of all types, eating, techno talk, and geek machoism.
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Hi!

Because I really don't have anything special to say, I'll just post a couple photos I took last week. The first is our dorm (10-second exposure), the second is Founders Hall (the main building at PHC, 15 seconds). Both were shot from approximately the same place.



Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Sing Praise to the Lord!

I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my foes rejoice over me.
O LORD my God, I cried out to You,
And You healed me.
O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave;
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His,
And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.
For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for life;
Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the morning.

Now in my prosperity I said,
“I shall never be moved.”
LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong;
You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

I cried out to You, O LORD;
And to the LORD I made supplication:
“What profit is there in my blood,
When I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You?
Will it declare Your truth?
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me;
LORD, be my helper!”

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

-Psalm 30


Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Current Favorite Patrick Henry Quote

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."


Click here for the complete speech.


Thursday, July 03, 2008

From Break to Bruise: Marvels of Modern Medicine (or not)

****WARNING!!!! DISTURBING IMAGES TO FOLLOW!!!!****

If you were to look at a red, purple and green leg, swollen to about 1.5 times its normal size, and its owner told you, "I dropped a rock on it," what would you suspect? A bruise? A break? An insane rock-hurling maniac? Take a look for yourself:



And up close:


For background, we were trying to build a dam in the creek near our grandparents house. I was collecting rocks, and decided to climb the hill so I could get some bigger and more useful ones. The blue arrow in the photo below points up the hill I climbed. I was a bit up and off to the right. One rock in particular caught my attention. In relation to my torso it was probably about 1x1.5x2 (WxLxD). So it wasn't small, but not too big either--certainly something I could handle (hahahahaha). Based on how smaller rocks were falling, I figured this one would fall down the hill to my left. When I finally got it lose however, it came straight down at me and clipped my left knee.



Well, I went to the ER, where I had some X-Rays done. The doctor looked at the X-Rays, asked a bunch of questions (after the rather insightful nurse called me a dummy), and concluded I had fractured my tibia, but without any displacement. The swelling and bruising was a result of the tibia bleeding.


Well, well, well, so much for my summer. I'd be on crutches for at least 4 weeks--or so I thought. The ER doc advised us to see an orthopedic doctor for further help. So as soon as we could (Monday), we made an appointment with the fill-in for our regular general practitioner in order to get a referral to an orthopedic doctor. On hearing I'd dropped a rock on my knee, she smiled and proceeded to examine the X-Rays.


See anything obvious?




Very good! Neither did she. She explained to us that ER docs often make a guess when they're not sure what's wrong, just so that they have a diagnosis, and that there was a good chance I didn't have a fracture at all. But one glance at my swelling told her there must be a problem. She then referred us to her favorite orthopedic doctor, who, providentially, was able to see us that very afternoon. After a brief examination, he informed me that my leg was certainly not broken, and that he would bet money I had injured my MCL (some ligament somewhere). He also said it was a common football injury. I thought that was cool--don't ask me why.


From there we went to get an MRI, and Wednesday we returned to the doctor to see the results. And now things were even better! Not only was my leg not broken, but my MCL was fine too! All I had was a massive bone bruise on my femur. A bruise! In these MRI images, the femur is the top bone (I asked my sis ) and looks considerably less solid than the lower bone; that's the bruise.





At any rate, I'll still be on crutches for probably two weeks, and may have to do some physical therapy, but hey! it's not broken, praise God! TTFN, Ta Ta For Now

 


Sunday, April 20, 2008

Under Attack

Here's an update on the case of the photographers being sued for not photographing the sodomite wedding:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61342


In other news, I've got tons and tons of work to do, but today I just played around on my computer. *contented sigh* I wanted to set up RoundCube on my server, which would require a complete mail system (besides HTTP, PHP, and MySQL). I thought I had SMTP already figured out, but AT&T apparently decided they didn't want me relaying email through their servers and thus made my Postfix configuration worthless. So I spent a while fixing that and did some configuring of MySQL, and now I guess IMAP will have to wait. I'm thinking of using Courier-IMAP. What's your opinion?



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