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I’m not sure if any of you have heard these adverts recently, but one of the current sponsors of MPR is Celsius LLC. The long and the short of it is that they’re a matchmaking orginazation dedicated to helping financially secure, single, educated, urban, liberal non-smokers who are over 30 meet each other with the goal of finding a long-term mate. Like my post title says, do we honestly need any more exclusivity in our society? Seriously. What does this say about the current state of our culture when organizations pop up just to help people find friends who are *exactly* like themselves? Ugh – it makes me cringe each time their name is read on the air. If there’s anything I’ve learned during my post-college years living here in the cities, it’s that there is great enjoyment to be had from meeting, engaging, and spending quality time with people who are nothing like I am.

To further my point, I give you a direct quote from their website:

Because we are confident that kind, empathetic, open-minded people tend to prefer other kind, empathetic, open-minded people, we have decided to limit the membership to people of the liberal ilk – the very people who are most likely to possess these traits in combination.

That really angers me. I’ve known many people “of the liberal ilk” throughout my life. Yes, many of them were very open-minded, kind, etc., but just as many of them were very egotistical, closed-minded, and standoffish towards anyone other than their liberal kinfolk. Maybe I’m being to harsh here, but for them (Celsius) to make that comment implicitly shows their close-mindedness and prejudice against anyone who doesn’t label themselves as a liberal.

Am I off-base?

Greetings, all. Just wanted to drop you a note that I’m still alive :-). I’m sure some of you have noticed my absence from the interweb for the last few days. I took the last half of this week off to be home with Meghan and Bjorn. It has been really good to have this time together as a family. Meghan and I have spent countless hours smiling, laughing, and generally enjoying our new family member. I have a bunch more pictures to post…I’ll try and get to that tonight.

Luckily this was on a development server:

Linky (new window).

It’s not every day that you see a load average of 138. The guilty party shall remain nameless.

I was going through the access_log of my work website this afternoon and saw a bunch of hits from SlipperySkip. This guy took one of the AMD Geode NX boards that we designed and mounted it (as well as the hard drive/power supply/etc) inside a humidor. Pretty classy case mod if you ask me!

I always thought life as a hobbit would be quite enjoyable. From the bits and pieces we get to see of their lives through the LOTR series, it seems as though they get to sit around for 90% of their days eating good food, drinking good drink, and smoking the southfarthing’s best pipeweed[1]. Doesn’t seem that bad of a life, huh?

Anyway, according to this website, if I were a hobbit, my name would be “Fastolph Knotwise of Michel Delving”.

Interesting to say the least.

[1] …except for that whole “scouring of the shire” thing. That must have been a bummer.