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So it is that time of year again, where we dress up the colonization of the US and the removal of the indigenous people as awesome. Now I have no beef with the holiday itself, just more of it's portrayal. I can agree and ascribe that the Native Americans had pity on the pilgrims and helped em out with a solid, but it didn't stop there. You know being a people of reciprocation they gave back with small pox and other diseases. Some solid stealing of land and last of all the slaughter of Native Americans throughout the whole westward progression. Sounds like a good trade if you ask me. Now before everybody goes all, but your parents wouldn't have met without this progress, or look at the luxury you live in! I will admit that for me, the events turned out pretty good. Im part of a loving biracial family that has some pretty good looking specimens in it, I have a solid Native American family that helps me remember that big families equal more love, and I know how to make other people uncomfortable while making jokes about my racial background. Regardless of my feelings on it's portrayal, Thanksgiving has always been a good holiday for me.
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Yeah I admit Im a bit of a nerd and a bit of a tinkerer.  I like to take things apart and know what makes them work.  I also like to be able to replace parts of existing things on my own, either to fix them or to try and get more performance out them.  Thus I will probably always be a PC man.  With that said my wife recently had her headphone jack on her iPod go out.  Since I am a sensible man and realize that she would go insane with this we went and got her a new iPod classic and she is once again happy with her music goodness.I went and dug up her original 5th gen iPod vid and thought about swapping parts between this one and her old one which is going bad.  As I said I like to tinker.

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True, hate is a strong word for what I am talking about, but there are few things which can bring me to a frothing,sputtering, incoherant rage.
For instance:

• The current healthcare debate and how it seems like it's just insurance companies leading the fight to insure I can't get insured
• People who insist they aren't racist, by using the statement, "Im not racist, but..." or "Im not racist, I have a/an *insert race* friend"
• The fact that the UNM head coach still has a job after hitting one of his assistant coaches
• and of course losing at boardgames

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Well not all the time, really, but I finally took the javascript class that was a pre req for a few other classes I've already taken thanks to a great teacher who knew I could do it. This wasn't the text book that was called for, but it did help fill in some gaps that came up and helped to extend the lessons that were started. This focuses on AJAX, while the class moved into jQuery.

Now we are caught up I think. No really I think I am, I mean I've only started this yesterday, I just forgot to post it, maybe I'll manipulate time on my other blogs so it's not so lame.

I've seen the whole daily picture thing and felt I needed to join, so Im gonna try and catch up now. I got a new camera with a macro setting so I tried it on our prickly pears.

I need your help denizens of ABQ and RR, NM.  Earlier this week someone hit my brother's car in the middle of  the night, and left us with a nice present of this.

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Blessed with wierd mix of Native American and white hair genes, I found one which caused my hair to thin up top while leaving a bunch of hair everywhere else. So I solved it by getting rid of it all.

So, Halloween, it makes for good times and bad times. Good because it is the most rockin and our neighborhood still loves to have trick or treaters. Bad, because all my costumes aren't always finished, or they prey upon destroying the hopes and dreams of small children everywhere. Mainly focused on my offspring and my nieces and nephews. This year I did it by committing the ultimate in cable sin. I stole Hannah Montana's coiffe of power! That's right folks I donned the blonde hair piece and proceeded to do all I could to besmirch her name and give the children I met nightmares for the rest of their lives.

( I cut this because you don't want nightmares, but some of you just won't be able to help yourselves )

So there you have it. I was bad, and it was fun. Beware, for this may happen again next year!

So I finally remembered my camera as I went around searching for my costume parts yesterday and look at what I found! You know you wanna click after that taster.



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