Comments for Brian Slezak

Comment on "Those Days" by Joy

Joy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:05:28 +0000

LOL Welcome to fatherhood!

Comment on A Feeling of Pride by Lilly

Lilly — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:45:17 +0000

oh barack is so horrible….
i seriously considered moving out of the US to Canada when i heard he won…have you heard about the incident where he met another leader and had to BUY THEM SOMETHING FROM THE GIFT SHOP to give to them?? He’s VERY unwise…dude, we’re headed for a steep downhill plunge now…

Comment on Do Not Advertise Like This by Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:43:23 +0000

lol i’m so glad my church doesn’t advertise, i find myself thinking many of those same thoughts as i pass by other church signs XD thanks for the comical look on life!

Comment on Lucid Dreams by John

John — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:58:57 +0000

Nice dream! I like your blog, too. You might consider submitting descriptions of some of your lucid dreams to this lucid-dreaming e-zine:

http://dreaminglucid.com/submitdreamsarticles.html

Comment on All You Need by Joy (mom)

Joy (mom) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:27:42 +0000

It is amazing what a child in your life can do. It makes you much more aware of the world around you and your place in it. “God” is in everything! Even your infant son!

Comment on The Brave One by Laura Guy

Laura Guy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:46:05 +0000

Hey Brian,

I haven’t seen the movie (and I probably won’t as I can’t stomach violence), but I enjoyed your explanation of it. It occurred to me that the dark side is seen as the strong side, while light is often portrayed as weakness. It seems much weaker (even more feminine) for this character to forgive those who hurt her than to exact her revenge on them and other evil-doers. Yet, how much more inner strength would have been required for her to turn away from her rage and embrace life – perhaps becoming a counselor for other victims of violence? In my book, that would make her truly as tough as nails. When you refuse to give in to fear, no one can ever use it to terrorize you again. It wouldn’t make much of a Hollywood thriller, but it would have been a much greater profile in courage.

Laura

Comment on Steal-Proofing IT Stuff by Ian Beyer

Ian Beyer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:03:54 +0000

The funny thing is, over the course of my tenure at JCS, I installed a crapload of the Pink Stuff (originally Belden, but later CommScope) at Sprint. The wireless labs there probably have a couple MILLION feet of the pink wire. And yes, under a blacklight, it actually *does* glow. This is very cool in a darkened datacenter with all the blinkenlights and some open floor tiles.

Rumour has it that the color was originally a custom job for Hallmark, and enough people wanted something other than the standard set (at the time) of wire color, and lo, it became a stock color along with teal and the other 10 standard telecom colors (blue orange, green, brown, slate/grey, white, red, black, yellow, and violet) – so cable is available in pretty much the same set of colors as the inner strands of a 12-strand fiber optic cable.

I think the other reason Jeremy put jacks on the cable is that Cat 6 solid conductor is a bear to terminate onto an RJ45 plug.

Comment on Morality FAIL – Health Care by Pernickety Curmudgeon

Pernickety Curmudgeon — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:40:13 +0000

Lets remember that all health care is not equal and therein lies the problem. One cannot have “equal” and “fair” healthcare when not every doctor, nurse or pharmacist is equally or even minimally skilled in their profession. In a homogeneous nation like Japan or Sweden one might conceive of some national health model but in the USA quite frankly our gene pool is so mixed up that no statistical approach to allocating(err rationing) healthcare seems possible.

What will save our system which may not be good or fair but is the best in the world, is people paying for their own.

One last note, advances in genetic testing for the deveolment of new treatments in the allocation of old treatments is gonna have profound effects on our system.

Comment on Morality FAIL – Health Care by Mark Burleson

Mark Burleson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:09:59 +0000

Agreed it is a failure. It is moral failure for us not to help, that is correct, but others who do not carry the same worldview will think differently.

I personally, like you it seems, think the responsibility lies more on the individual and less on the government. I lean more towards states rights in the end anyway when it comes down to federal versus state.

Overarching principle: the people need to be brought back to the point that THEY make the difference and take the responsibility.. the gov’t shouldn’t be.

Comment on Managing a Web Site Improvement Project by Bradley Miller

Bradley Miller — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:54:15 +0000

Wow — $14,000 budget for the web site? I’m very blessed with time and talent to devote to our own church site, and we’re in the middle of a redesign right now moving to Silverstripe for the CMS.