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Office Space Originally uploaded by tdouthat. See the ugly shoes I have to wear to work. After working from home for most of the last four and a half years, I’m being forced to start working from the office again. I’m extremely annoyed by the situation. I took this particular position in June 2001 mostly…

The Religious Right is winning the culture war. Mostly because they are the only ones fighting in it. I just watched the latest episode of Frontline on pbs.org. The title is “The Last Abortion Clinic”. It’s about the pro-life movement’s attempts to close down the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. Now, despite…

Short post tonight: I just found three interesting things on the net tonight that I felt like sharing. First, an interview with my favorite author, Neal Stephenson at Salon.com provided an interesting quote on the nature of programming: “I think there are common threads between writing and programming. That’s a really easy statement for people…

Home Repair Originally uploaded by tdouthat. Good morning. It’s Saturday. I got up about half an hour ago, and I’ve done several of my usual morning chores. I didn’t bother with the showering since I’m going to be painting the living room in a little bit. We started having… Actually we had our first family…

The hotel bar Originally uploaded by tdouthat. Hey y’all. There was nothing good on TV upstairs in the hotel room, I didn’t feel like reading, and I’m not ready for bed, so here I am at a bar called Chaddick’s in the Plano, Texas Marriott. The place kind of reminds me of the hotel bar…

  Greetings from Plano Originally uploaded by tdouthat. Howdy. I’m in Plano for two weeks of training for work. Click on the picture to go to flickr to look at the rest of the pictures that I’ve taken.  

Here’s dad eating birthday cake at Aunt Faye’s 84th birthday party.

Happy 4th of July Originally uploaded by tdouthat. Here’s my sister Vanessa, my mom, my dad, my son Jacob, my wife Michelle, and my daughter Jillian waiting for the fireworks to start at the Mormon Visitors Center here in Independence. I love bug spray. These bugs out here are driving me nuts. I don’t know…

I’m not a big fan of celebrity journalism but I’ve been thinking about Tom Cruise and his Scientology bullshit. He got into a debate with Matt Lauer on the Today show Friday about psychiatry and scientology, and Matt Lauer tried to get on him about it, but wasn’t prepared enough to be able to make…

  We had another good night of baseball at the fields up by Fort Osage High School where Albert Pujols played as a teenager. Jacob’s team (the Gorillas) beat the Queen City Outlaws 19-4. Their record is now 8-3.Jake is the kid standing on the bench at the far end of the dugout.