Write your representative.

In a republic like ours one of the greatest things we can do as citizens to influence legislation is to write our representatives and senators to voice our opinion. For this hour in history I strongly suggest writing your representative in congress against SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act will allow the U.S. Government to use DNS blocking; the same method used by the PRC, Iran and Syria to censor The Internet and keep there citizens in the dark.

Please help fight SOPA! Fellow The Dallesians and eastern Oregonians please email Greg Walden. You can also sign a petition at whitehose.gov to let the white house know what we think about this bill and where they can shove it.

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Playing Mari0 on Ubuntu 12.04

If you are looking to play Mari0 on Ubuntu you may have run into a bit of a roadblock because love 0.8.0 is not yet available for Precise from the love-unstable ppa. No need to worry though the .deb file for Oneiric will work just fine. First download the .deb from launchpad, either amd64 or i386 . Then install dependencies by running. $ sudo apt-get install libdevil1c2 libmng1 libfreetype6 libgl1-mesa-glx liblua5.1-0 libphysfs-1.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libopenal1 libogg0 libvorbis0a libvorbisfile3 libflac8 libflac++6 libmpg123-0 libc6 libgcc1 libphysfs1 libstdc++6 Then install the love-unstable with dpkg ~/Downloads$ dpkg -i love-unstable_0.8.0~r1028-0oneiric1_<amd64/i386>.deb Run love-unstable on mari0 ~/mari0$ love-unstable mari0_1.3.love Enjoy what is possibly the coolest crossover game of all time.

Overcome evil with good.

Romans 12 is a beautiful passage of scripture. You can say that about many parts of The Bible but this description of life following the risen Jesus is beautiful. This morning reading this section I realized how nicely this wraps up: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." We can fight evil without seeking out revenge. We can live wisely without thinking of ourselves as wise. We can be humble. And, above all, we can love and serve God and one another. Transform your mind.

Bike disaster leads to awesome discovery about my neighborhood.

While replacing the tire on my front wheel last week my quick release just completely fell apart. Being a bicycle maintenance noob I said to myself "No! Now I need to go buy a whole new wheel!" (and quick because this is my commuter bike ) I quickly hopped in the car and drove down town to the local bike shop downtown, which was closed. Apparently the owner is "biking and eating in Italy." I have only ever known of this one bike shop in The Dalles. In desperation I did a search for bike shops near The Dalles and low and behold a location popped up just blocks from my house. T & Nae's Cycles is a little appointment only bike shop a couple operates out of their house. I didn't know it was appointment only at the time so I just hoofed it up there to see if they could help me fix my bike. Luckily somebody was home and willing to help me out. Once I explained to him my problem he got me the part I needed (for free! ...

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