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# I Paint What I See

Observations and thoughts of variable depth from someone who still thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea

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## Posts

- [Wasting Tokens - Silly things I'm doing with AI agents.](https://matt.baya.net/wasting-tokens-silly-things-im-doing-with-ai-agents/) - Just a quick note to mention what I've been up to recently, or more precisely, what I've set some AI agents up to do recently. Writing this mainly to share some URLs in hopes the search engines find the following sites, for what it's worth. Background: AI - Yes, I'm kinda into this whole AI
- [How to be the worst Community Manager ever!](https://matt.baya.net/how-to-be-the-worst-community-manager-ever/) - A guide for Antioch College Community Government managers, or for those about to run. This was last revised when it was published in the Record in either Fall '97 or Winter '98. I'm quite proud of this document. Just about every point in here I saw done by some CM's (sometimes even me) or ComCil
- [Hail the Traveller - I'll miss you Jake](https://matt.baya.net/hail-the-traveller-ill-miss-you-jake/) - I found out today that Jake Harrison (on FB as Jake Otto Parts), a friend of mine I haven’t seen or chatted with in person for over 30 years had died yesterday. You would think ‘Well you hadn’t been in touch, how much could they mean to you?’ but apparently… a lot. This hit me
- [Yet Another Scammer tries to offer me free money](https://matt.baya.net/yet-another-scammer-tries-to-offer-me-free-money/) - Below is my chat with a fake account on instagram using messenger pretending to be a friend of mine. It's always the same dance; "Have you heard about the free money?" I went a different route today, besides just mentioning ridiculous things like dental floss factories and pigeon races, I started looking up the images
- [Eulogy for our old minivan](https://matt.baya.net/eulogy-for-our-old-minivan/) - Emily and I have been living together for 29 years. In that time I believe we have owned 11 cars;1984 Buick LeSabre - 1992 - 19941990 Mercury ? (Like a K car) - 1994 - 19981998 Saturn SL2 - 1997 - 20061990? Chrysler(?) Town & Country Minivan - 1998 - 20012002 Subaru Legacy - 2001
- [Biden is my hamster - Updating a meme for 2020](https://matt.baya.net/biden-is-my-hamster-updating-a-meme-for-2020/) - I had saved a copy of this meme in 2004 (were they even called meme's then?). No idea who the original artist was. Here's the 2020 version :) Biden is my hamster. Ok , really I'm hoping for (and voted for) Bernie but my gut tells me it's, sadly, gonna be Joe Biden and I
- [John Kerry is my hamster](https://matt.baya.net/john-kerry-is-my-hamster/) - Is John Kerry your hamster?
- [Identity Theft](https://matt.baya.net/identity-theft/) - Hey looks like the wheels of fate have picked me up in their treads and dealt me out as a scam victim. Someone got a hold of my debit VISA #, which I only use online at places I trust (Amazon.com, etc.) but apparently I trusted one too many sites, or someone in one of
- [DJ Tommy Dean aka Tom Salisbury](https://matt.baya.net/dj-tommy-dean-aka-tom-salisbury/) - I just heard via an IM from a friend at WERU that a friend of mine, Tom Salisbury or as I knew him DJ Tommy Dean (or Cowboy Tommy Dean) passed away suddenly today at an event at the American Legion in Ellsworth, ME. He was 50. I don't know any more details but.. this
- [Life lessons from... Matt Gorman](https://matt.baya.net/life-lessons-from-matt-gorman/) - Note - This is one is a series of 'Life Lessons from..." posts. Matt Gorman is a friend of mine from Antioch College from the late-80's early-90's. We first met in Sunnyvale, CA when I was an intern there at ByVideo, Inc. (RIP). I was living with friends and was walking back from the
- [A few of my favorite things - Gadgets & Apps edition](https://matt.baya.net/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-gadgets-and-apps-edition/) - I have always enjoy other blogger's posts about what applications, apps, tools, gadgets, books etc they like. One great site for this is "What's in your bag". So I figured I'd make an attempt at doing this, however it quickly ballooned into a TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) list, so I'm breaking it into different
- [Here's to the quiet ones](https://matt.baya.net/heres-to-the-quiet-ones/) - Here's to those who are mostly silent on social media for reasons they don’t want to talk about in a public forum.
- [DaVinci on pushing our limits](https://matt.baya.net/davinci-on-pushing-our-limits/) - “Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.” — Leonardo DaVinci
- [Day in the life of Joe Republican](https://matt.baya.net/day-in-the-life-of-joe-republican/) - I just received the following in an e-mail collection of jokes I subscribed to years ago. This isn't so much a joke more than a mildy humorous history lesson / story to make a political point. It's a bit hamfisted and it goes a bit overboard, but I like the general feel of it and
- [Matt's Tech Conference Survival Tips](https://matt.baya.net/tech-conference-survival-tips/) - Matt's tips for getting the most out of attending a tech conference/training. I've been working professionally in IT for over 20 years (and really if you count studying and hobby work it's really over 30 years). I've attended a number of trainings, workshops and conferences during that time and I've learned some survival tips that
- [Religion, politics ... and sports.](https://matt.baya.net/religion-politics-and-sports/) - Note to self - Add 'sports' to the 'religion and politics' list of things not to talk about at work or with friends (and probably social media too...oops). Apparently I'm the only one in my social network who couldn't care less about current major sports events. Clearly there is something wrong with me. I'm somewhat
- [My response to David Rovic's essay "How Facebook killed the internet"](https://matt.baya.net/my-response-to-david-rovics-essay-how-facebook-killed-the-internet/) - I wonder if the same things were said by folks when books became more prevalent, or maybe when newspapers and magazines started appearing. Or when radios first started getting popular, or television. All of those were paradigm shifts where suddenly more information and content became available than was previously imaginable and I'm sure they all seemed overwhelming to those experiencing it. I've heard stories that the music industry was deeply against radio when it first became available, and that the movie studios hated the idea of VCRs, and TV stations hated the idea of tivo. Napster & Bittorrent scared the bejeezus out of the music industry, yet by many counts it brought about the revolution that brought us ipods and removed the music industries model of buying 'albums'. Currently the cable companies are scrambling to deal with the idea that people can stream almost all their content and don't need cable packages and bundles. Change is scary.
- [I have trouble asking to be paid](https://matt.baya.net/i-have-trouble-asking-to-be-paid/) - This is my blog entry on one of my big hangups in business, asking for money. This isn’t a strong suit of mine, to say the least.
- [The case of the gullible web designer and the insulting client.](https://matt.baya.net/the-case-of-the-gullible-web-designer/) - "Here's my story, sad but true" - Dion "Come all ye friends I'll sit you down, and sing an doleful ditty..." - Great Big Sea Last year I set up a website for a recent acquaintence. I moved her site over to host on my server, set up her site in wordpress, made a custom
- [Marcus, you will be missed.](https://matt.baya.net/marcus/) - Wednesday was a terribly sad day for our household. We had to say goodbye to one of our cats, Marcus, who was only 4 years old. Marcus was certainly our most social and constantly present cat. If you visited our house for more than a few minutes odds are you met him. We had 4
- [Norm Whitman's 'Stories We Could Tell' & 'Detours'](https://matt.baya.net/norm-whitmans-stories-we-could-tell-detours/) - I want to tip my virtual hat to Norm Whitman, a gentlemen I've only met a few times over the past 30 years, but whom has been an inspiration, a mentor and a friend. Norm hosted a 'folk' radio show on WYSO 91.3 FM Yellow Springs, OH up until his last show on September 27,
- ["When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama](https://matt.baya.net/when-you-do-things-right-people-wont-be-sure-youve-done-anything-at-all-god-futurama/) - "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama episode 'Godfellas' I saw this in someone's signature on a tech mailing list I belong to today and it immediately reminded me of some of the conversations I have had with fellow sysadmins about our jobs. When we
- [Seeger, we'll miss you](https://matt.baya.net/seeger-well-miss-you/) - We had to put our dog Seeger down on Tuesday morning. He was 14.5 years old, possibly older since we got him as a rescue in September 2000 and didn't really know how old he was. See a copy of our e-mail to friends from fall 2000 about the story of how we got him.
- [Heilmeier's Catechism](https://matt.baya.net/heilmeiers-catechism/) - Heilmeier's Catechism — A set of questions credited to Heilmeier that anyone proposing a research project or product development effort should be able to answer.
- [Goblin - 1995 - 2013](https://matt.baya.net/goblin-1995-2013/) - So it has not been a good month pet wise in our house. On Monday morning we had to say goodbye to Goblin our 18 year old cat. Needless to say there were and are still lots of tears being shed. Matt and I got Goblin and his brother Finnegan in 1995 in Ohio. He
- [Oberon the goofy newfie, we'll miss you](https://matt.baya.net/oberon-the-goofy-newfie-we-will-miss-you/) - Yesterday we said goodbye to our ridiculously big newfoundland dog, Oberon. He hasn't been able to go up and down stairs for a while, I've literally been lifting him up and down off our porch (which is no small feat for a dog his size) and there wasn't much hope of him getting any better.
- [Wasting A Phishing Scammers Time](https://matt.baya.net/wasting-a-phishing-scammers-time/) - Perhaps is wiser to just ignore blatant phishing scams, but I like to string them along sometimes. Last night was one of those times. I received a chat from someone I don't know very well on Facebook last night. I decided to play along as soon as I realized it wasn't really them, here's the
- [Capacity to give](https://matt.baya.net/capacity-to-give/) - I'm out here in Southwest Ohio right at the Alumni Board meeting for the college I graduated from over 21 years ago (yikes)... well kind of. The college I attended officially closed in 2008, then through a series of efforts by a large number of folks, it reopened but with many casaulties (including all the
- [Resolutions](https://matt.baya.net/resolutions/) - I started this blog post in late December, and then just left it in draft form until now. Instead of tossing it now that it's 2 months older, I figured I'd post it now and just take off the 'New Years' part of it. By the way, I'm told my first word was 'more' and
- [Musicians I'd Buy Anything From](https://matt.baya.net/musicians-id-buy-anything-from/) - I've been working on this post for a while, in fact I started this post in early 2007 but never feel it's complete. I have been hesitant to publish it since I'm bound to leave someone off. I also keep putting this off because I want to put a nice long description after each artist.
- [Inbox Zero - A never ending battle](https://matt.baya.net/inbox-zero-a-never-ending-battle/) - I mentioned a few days ago that one of my goals is to get more organized and that one of the things I'm trying to do is Inbox Zero. This is really a pretty simple concept, your inbox should be for incoming e-mail only and should be empty when you're done. Your goal is to
- [Ugh. My son wants to play Magic: The Gathering](https://matt.baya.net/ugh-my-son-wants-to-play-magic-the-gathering/) - Out of the blue Owen, our 9 year old in 4th grade, mentions to me today, 'My friend J**** plays Magic: The Gathering and I want to spend all my back-due allowance and savings on this box of assorted cards I found on ebay'. Sigh. Seriously? I've never even mentioned
- [Don't call me (maybe)](https://matt.baya.net/dont-call-me-maybe/) - I'm not a big fan of phone calls. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind hearing from friends & family, or if you have something pressing that demands my attention or requires an immediate response, then by all means, call me! But in my job, my attention needs to be prioritized, and a phone call
- [Lifeproof Case for iPhone 4 Review](https://matt.baya.net/lifeproof-case-for-iphone-4-review/) - I pre-ordered a Lifeproof case for my iPhone 4 the moment I heard about it. Having killed my previous iphone 3GS, which at the time was in an Otterbox Defender case, by taking it into the ocean with me back in February 2011. So I was looking for a sturdy waterproof case, "Just In Case"
- [Blogging for the next 30 Days](https://matt.baya.net/im-going-to-blogging-for-the-next-30-days/) - For reasons that don't make much logical sense, not only did I encourage a friend to organize a '30 Days of Blogging' project, I signed up for it. Of course the first 3 days of this month I've been travelling so now I'm backlogged and need to rattle off 3 days of witty, insightful and
- [Michael Anthony Groteke, 21 years ago today](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-21-years-ago-today/) - It feels like just yesterday I posted wrote my annual post about Mike last year. I feel a little weird posting about this each year, since I'm all out of stories and anecdotes. It's been 21 years since his death in a car accident on Dayton Yellow Springs road on February 8th, 1992. This is
- [Michael Anthony Groteke. 20 years. Still miss you.](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-20-years-still-miss-you/) - I've blogged about him every year on this day for a while now. I don't have much else to say on this day except I still remember and miss Mike. See http://matt.baya.net/?s=groteke&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 for a list of blogs where I've mentioned him.
- [Is 'on-hold' music engineered to annoy?](https://matt.baya.net/is-on-hold-music-engineered-to-annoy/) - I've heard that fast food restaurants pick colors and designs that make people uncomfortable enough to not want to stay there for very long. As I sit here on hold waiting for tech support I wonder if the really cheesy 'almost jazz' music and overly perky female voice recordings of 'We know your time is
- [3 things that made me think of living in Boston 23 years ago](https://matt.baya.net/23-years-ago/) - I've been meaning to blog more, though I don't have any real reason too. Not sure why I feel the sudden urge to blog the following, but hey, I'm going for it. Someday maybe I'll have deep and interesting posts like Nancy Wood's I'd Rather Be Defying Gravity Blog, or interesting tech posts like Nicole
- [Everything my son needs to know about System Adminstration he learned from Minecraft](https://matt.baya.net/everything-my-son-needs-to-know-about-system-adminstration-he-learned-from-minecraft/) - Last October my son, then 8 years old, asked about getting a 'Minecraft' (http://minecraft.net) account. I hadn't heard of this game before this that I recall, but after a bit of searching it seemed mostly harmless (no blood or graphic violence, curse words, sneaky in game 'If you want this item it just costs $5,
- [A topsy turvy year](https://matt.baya.net/a-topsy-turvy-year/) - "It's been a 'topsy turvy' year" .. this was a line from a friends year-end letter I read a few months ago and it's been stuck in my head since, indeed, this past year has been crazy for us. A year ago today I found my job at The Jackson Laboratory would be ending in
- [The last person left with a job](https://matt.baya.net/the-last-person-left-with-a-job/) - I always loved this comic. I don't know the artist's name, anyone recognize them?
- [Mixed Feelings](https://matt.baya.net/mixed-feelings/) - Dear friends who keep telling me 'Congratulations', I do appreciate it but please realize that isn't what I 'need' right now. To be honest with you, I'm more in the mood where I'd rather hear 'Sorry you're leaving' or even just 'I know this is a hard time for you and just wanted to let
- [Job hunting for the first time in 11 years](https://matt.baya.net/job-hunting-for-the-first-time-in-11-years/) - For those of you who might have missed my facebook & twitter updates over the past few weeks, I am on the job market for the first time in over 11 years. This isn't by choice, my position is being downsized due to a decrease in the grant funding for my department at The Jackson
- [How to be the worst web designer ever](https://matt.baya.net/how-to-be-the-worst-web-designer-ever/) - After dealing with rescuing some sites this past week I've been inspired me to make a list summarizing all the messes I've had to help cleanup over the years. I've written this as an advice column for any bad web hosts or designers who just haven't quite perfected the art of truly sucking to the point of being the 'worst ever'.
- [Michael Anthony Groteke 2/8/1992](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-2-8-1992-again/) - It's that sad date again. It's now been 19 years since I woke up to a phone call hearing that one of my best friends at Antioch College had been killed late at night in a car accident on Dayton Yellow Springs road returning from renting movies in Xenia, a trip I had done with
- [Website URL request FAIL on whitepages.com](https://matt.baya.net/website-url-request-fail-on-whitepages-com/) - We live in sad times when websites ask for your website URL but only give a choice between FB, Twitter & Linkedin.
- [Thanksgiving & "Uncle Dave's Grace"](https://matt.baya.net/thanksgiving-uncle-daves-grace/) - After having a short discussion tonight about the 'real' history of Thanksgiving and pilgrims (search for 'Thanksgiving Myth' if you really want to know), Emily said 'Thanks for ruining another holiday' and the following song came to mind. Uncle Dave's Grace Lyrics by Peter Berryman, music by Lou Berryman on their House Concert CD (http://www.louandpeter.com/house.html)
- [I have a theory ... ](https://matt.baya.net/i-have-a-theory/) - I have a theory.... (how many caf conversations have started with that line) But hear me out.. this theory came about while taking Chem 1 with Stan Bernstein back in 1990 or so. Stan was, at least at that time and that class, a real jerk (I had other adjectives but I'm trying to keep
- [My latest thoughts on the 'new' Antioch College](https://matt.baya.net/my-latest-thoughts-on-the-new-antioch-college/) - I wrote the following on the ACAN mailing list last night regarding the current state of Antioch College. For anyone reading this who isn't neck deep in this struggle this probably isn't worth your time reading since it likely won't make sense out of context. I'm including portions of the e-mail I was responding to
- [Basic Website Security and Survival Tips](https://matt.baya.net/basic-website-security-and-survival-tips/) - This post initially began as a post about securing Wordpress but since it got so big I broke it into this one about website security & hacking prevention in general and I'll put the wordpress specific information in a separate post. (coming soon). This post is just a quick overview of basic website security concepts
- [I was such a jerk](https://matt.baya.net/i-was-such-a-jerk/) - I'm 'home' right now, as in back in the town I grew up in. Last night I happened across my mom's 'file' on me that contains report cards, essays, notes, and various other memorabilia that she saved as I grew up, including the few rare post cards or letters I sent while at college etc.
- [Community Involvement & The new Antioch College](https://matt.baya.net/community-involvement-the-new-antioch-college/) - Below are two long long long and possibly very dull notes about Antioch College that I wrote recently. These are probably very boring to just about anyone, including other Antioch alumni, but I meant well when I wrote them and care alot about the ideas contained therein. Really.. don't read these unless you're an Antiochian,
- [M.A.G. - February 8, 1992](https://matt.baya.net/mag-february-8-1992/) - M.A.G = Michael Anthony Groteke, though the reason I know those initials is because that's how he would sign all his n'ar unbeatable high scores on Tetris and other games on my computer. I still miss him. :( Thought about him a number of times today, just never got a chance to post until now.
- [Michael Anthony Groteke 02/08/1992](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-3/) - It's that time of year again for me to tip my virtual hat to my friend Mike. Over the past few years (2004, 2005) I've written an entry in my blog recalling some stories of our, sadly short, time together as friends. Who reads this? - I wrote my original entries in this blog about
- [Michael Anthony Groteke 02/08/92  ](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-020892-2/) - I don't have any new stories or thoughts on this really, it's been 18 years. I still think of him often. So this is yet another virtual tip of the hat in his memory on this day. There is a facebook page 'Antioch Remembers' where people are posting photos & memories of their late friends
- [Modern Man - By George Carlin](https://matt.baya.net/modern-man-by-george-carlin/) - Thanks to the wonders of bittorrent I downloaded and watched PBS special "George Carlin, The Mark Twain Prize" (http://www.pbs.org/marktwainprize) What an amazing man he was, he was beyond funny, he was a genius who used humor as a tool to get his ideas and beliefs across. And, as Ani says, every tool is a weapon
- ["I hate a song that ..."](https://matt.baya.net/i-hate-a-song-that/) - "I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too
- [Saturday Morning Coffee House - January 2, 2010 - Playlist](https://matt.baya.net/saturday-morning-coffee-house-january-2-2010-playlist/) - Saturday Morning Coffee House (Music) with Matthew Baya 01/02/2010 06:00AM to 10:00AM 06:00AM Lui Collins “Rooty Toot Toot For The Moon” from Baptism Of Fire (Folk) 06:05AM Jonathan Edwards “Howl At The Moon” from Man In The Moon (Folk) 06:09AM Nick Drake “Pink moon” from Way To Blue (Folk) 06:12AM Gaelic Storm “Me & The
- [I feel so moved ](https://matt.baya.net/i-feel-so-moved/) - So for some combination of guilt and boredom I feel like I should make an actual blog entry. There have been a number of times when I've been commuting where I had an idea for a short, glib, interesting and inciteful blog entry but by the time I got in front of a computer it
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-05](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-12-05/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-28: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-21: There are fires you have to keep tend... http://bit.ly/5T7833 # Liam, last of the Clancy Brothers, dies aged 74 - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 05, 2009 - http://shar.es/aIJt7 #
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-28](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-28/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-21: There are fires you have to keep tending: I had the honor of helping organiz... http://bit.ly/6ywyQI #
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-21](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-21/) - There are fires you have to keep tending: I had the honor of helping organize & attending a concert with Cosy Sheri... http://bit.ly/2ZXKLI #
- [There are fires you have to keep tending](https://matt.baya.net/there-are-fires-you-have-to-keep-tending/) - I had the honor of helping organize & attending a concert with Cosy Sheridan and TR Ritchie last night through a group of friends I organize concerts with as part of the Downeast Concert Collective. One song she sang particularly haunted me so I wanted to include the lyrics here. This is available on her
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-07](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-07/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18:... http://bit.ly/3w5A12 # still trying to find buttons to set Daylight Savings Time on 2.5 yr old boy, though we're up 10 minutes later than yesterday. #parenting #fb # Hey Mainers - I'm 1:N, 2:N, 3:Y, 4:N, 5:Y, 6:Y, 7:Y. You?
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-01/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-.. http://bit.ly/FCElt #
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-25/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06:... http://bit.ly/4BGlck # RT @brotherM: Mainers: puppets speak the truth abt equality: http://bit.ly/2N7i75 # RT @therichbrooks: If your customers start using smoke signals to communicate, then you better light a fire. #
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-18/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-.. http://bit.ly/4lsQUa # RT @svahacom Attn All Svaha.Com Web Hosting Customers - Moving to new server starting now. http://bit.ly/3shF9k #
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-11/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-29: Blog: Overheard Conversations &#.. http://bit.ly/1LFOHo # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-29: Blog: Overheard Conversations &#.. http://bit.ly/19KdX5 # @royatkinson y? :) in reply to royatkinson # RT @huffingtonpost Paul Hogarth: Why I'm Going to Maine http://retwt.me/vmZn #NoOn1 #MarryME # @therichbrooks should
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-06-2/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-29: Blog: Overheard Conversations & Main St. vs Super Wal-Mart – .. http://bit.ly/HnF1Y # Packing and prepping for several days at the Antioch College Reunion in Yellow Springs, OH. #antiochcollege @antiochnews @indieantioch # just joined a video chat at http://tinychat.com/dofat_21 Make your own video chat at http://tinychat.com #tinychat # just joined
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-06/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-29: Blog: Overheard Conversations & Main St. vs Super Wal-Mart – .. http://bit.ly/HnF1Y # Packing and prepping for several days at the Antioch College Reunion in Yellow Springs, OH. #antiochcollege @antiochnews @indieantioch # just joined a video chat at http://tinychat.com/dofat_21 Make your own video chat at http://tinychat.com #tinychat # just joined
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-06/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-29: Blog: Overheard Conversations & Main St. vs Super Wal-Mart – .. http://bit.ly/HnF1Y # Packing and prepping for several days at the Antioch College Reunion in Yellow Springs, OH. #antiochcollege @antiochnews @indieantioch # just joined a video chat at http://tinychat.com/dofat_21 Make your own video chat at http://tinychat.com #tinychat # just joined
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-29](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-09-29/) - Blog: Overheard Conversations & Main St. vs Super Wal-Mart - http://bit.ly/cqaIV # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-0.. http://bit.ly/1DaWXy # Overheard conversations and Main Street vs Super Wal*Mart: Right now I’m sitting in the car dealership jus.. http://bit.ly/1PKyb # RT @DylanLJMartin: RT @TheOnion: BREAKING: Democrats Hoping
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-09-20/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-0.. http://bit.ly/S8ng5 # @novaren Surely Dani would want you to do better than Carvel Ice Cream on a special day! in reply to novaren # RT @therichbrooks: Gay marriage does not threaten traditional marriage; traditional infidelity and traditional divorce do. #fb
- [Overheard conversations and Main Street vs Super Wal*Mart](https://matt.baya.net/overheard-conversations-and-main-street-vs-super-walmart/) - Right now I'm sitting in the car dealership just down the road waiting for my car to be worked on and just finished listening to two women talking all about the shopping in Ellsworth (as well as their chronic gambling problems, ex-husbands, how scary the internet ('they have maps to my house!') is and various
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-09-13/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-0.. http://bit.ly/P4OT4 # RT @dorfird RT @darthvader I'm about to help you with your Star Wars Christmas shopping. You're welcome - http://bit.ly/h2qMQ # RT @Metafrantic Homophobia makes you an asshole no matter how polite you are about it. Pass it on.
- [TV's George O'Malley, he will be missed](https://matt.baya.net/tvs-george-omalley-he-will-be-missed/) - Ok I admit it, once again here on my blog, that I watch some 'prime time TV'. I'm sure my fellow vegetarian, Unitarian, green party, community radio lovin', Antioch College friends are shocked and now think lesser of me, but it's true. The fact that I'm writing a blog entry about the death of a
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-09-06/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23 http://ff.im/-71jPC # Twitter Week.. http://bit.ly/42yqle # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30 http://ff.im/-7ndLu # @dorfird reminds me of 6th grade giggling about 'Assume Gaseous Form' :) #analDandD in reply to dorfird # RT @Elkanah MASHUPS: Combine Your Favorite Disney and Marvel Characters - http://bit.ly/GRj9g (via @mashable)
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-08-30/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23 http://ff.im/-71jPC # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16 http://ff.im/-6FPEc # Twitter Week.. http://bit.ly/Jk6VL # RT @deargdawn Marriage Equality advert for Ireland http://bit.ly/10fshy It would mean so much for Irish LGBTQ if you could RT! # "@NoOn1Maine ... the correct hashtag is #memarriage" it was #marryme last
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-08-23/) - Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16 http://ff.im/-6FPEc # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16: Matthew is riding the 'movie bus' from Portland. http://ff.im/-6.. http://bit.ly/Pdc4 # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16 http://ff.im/-6FRUU # Me too! :) RT @mgenrich Cool people's mid-life crises involve sports cars and babysitter affairs. Mine? I got an iPhone. in reply to mgenrich #
- [Faux SEO so so ](https://matt.baya.net/faux-seo-so-so/) - Been having problems claiming this so in a desperate effort to make it work, here's the technorati code AGAIN m35f2jpxk2 Nicholas Peterson, a friend from Antioch College, recently told me about a handy tool, website.grader.com, for doing some basic SEO analysis of websites. So I've been making minor tweaks of various sites to up their
- [Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16](https://matt.baya.net/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-08-16/) - Matthew is riding the 'movie bus' from Portland. http://ff.im/-6qbRf # Better Know a District - Maine's 1st - Chellie Pingree | The Colbert Report 05108 | ColbertNation.co http://ff.im/-6stcu # RT @vitriolix twitter is... http://bit.ly/lBOri in reply to vitriolix # quote from my 6 yr old when he was sad he wasnt going to see me
- [More lies, damn lies and bad science from the Heartland Institute](https://matt.baya.net/more-lies-damn-lies-and-bad-science-from-the-heartland-institute/) - Got another "scientific report" (read that with 'finger quotes') from the folks at the conservative thinktank The Heartland Institute. If you actually read my blog much (don't worry, I have no illusions that anyone really does) you might remember an entry I made last December titled Lies, Damn Lies & the Heartland Institute (still love
- [Flashback - My coop in Sunnyvale, CA 1989](https://matt.baya.net/flashback-my-coop-in-sunnyvale-ca-1989/) - My 3rd co-op job in Sunnyvale, CA. A three month long whirlwind tour of debt, friendship, emotions, deception and life lessons... oh and there was my coop job too. Flashback to 1989, Sunnyvale, CA: Housing: I fly out to SF and take a bus down near Sunnyvale and stay in a hotel for a few
- [My magic ability - update](https://matt.baya.net/my-magic-ability-update/) - Back last December I wrote a short note about my magic ability where my presence and actions occasionally have dramatic effects for other folks. My friend Robin () calls this power 'webweaving' but I can't target mine like she can, as she says I have more of 'blast radius'. Well it happened again.. In June
- ["This Bridge" - Shel Silverstein quote](https://matt.baya.net/this-bridge/) - "This bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wonderous worlds Ive known. But this bridge will only take you halfway
- [Using Wordpress - Slides from my presentation](https://matt.baya.net/using-wordpress-slides-from-my-presentation/) - Here are the slides from a free workshop I gave this week at the Ellsworth Libary on 'Using Wordpress to Manage Your Website' that was attended by about 25 people. These are also posted up in ppt & pdf format at http://downeastlearning.org/. Using Wordpress 2009 04 29 View more presentations from mattbaya.
- [Obituary: Warren Watson](https://matt.baya.net/obituary-warren-watson/) - This is the obituary of one of my favorite professors & characters from my time at Antioch College. He was really an amazing man and I wish I had spent more time with him. Our cats, Goblin & Finnegan, are from a litter born in his house. I'll try to write down some of my
- [Attended the Maine LD 1020 public hearing in Augusta](https://matt.baya.net/attended-the-maine-ld-1020-public-hearing-in-augusta/) - I got up early in the morning yesterday (4:40 AM) to get on a bus to go to Augusta to a public hearing on Maine's proposed Law for "An Act To End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom" (aka the ever so scary "Gay Marriage") LD 1020. Through e-mails from EqualityMaine I learned
- [Using Wordpress to Manage Your Website - Free Workshop - April 29, 2009](https://matt.baya.net/using-wordpress-to-manage-your-website-free-workshop-april-29-2009/) - FREE WORKSHOP “Using Wordpress to Manage Your Website” Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the Ellsworth Public Library The Downeast Learning Cooperative will present a workshop on “Using Wordpress to Manage Your Website” at the Ellsworth Public Library in the Riverside Room on Wednesday April 29, 2009 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. This
- [Antioch Record](https://matt.baya.net/antioch-record/) - In the past week or so I've been helping the Antioch College newspaper, The Record, getting an online presence. I set up a wordpress blog, found a theme that worked and some plugins to help things along, I'm actually quite proud with where it's at right now. So far i'm just copying articles out of
- [Knick Knack Shelf - by David Wilcox](https://matt.baya.net/knick-knack-shelf-by-david-wilcox/) - Years ago I found someone giving away some David Wilcox 'bootleg' recordings and one of them included him doing the following poem. I can't find the recording (cassette) anymore but I did find these lyrics and wanted to post them here. Knick-Knack Shelf Written and performed by David Wilcox (http://www.davidwilcox.com/) Unreleased The man with the
- [Vote for my big goofy dog Oberon in Bissell's MVP contest!](https://matt.baya.net/vote-for-my-big-goofy-dog-oberon-in-bissells-mvp-contest/) - Vote for Oberon! Vote for my big goofy, slobbery dog Oberon in Bissell's MVP contest! His sad slobbery face says 'Vote for me so my owners can possibly win a fancy vacuum cleaner that might be able to keep up with the ridiculous amount of fur I generate. Shedding season is coming (not that I
- [Quotes of note](https://matt.baya.net/quotes-of-note/) - Saul Alinski, "to do what you can with what you have." or “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt "Perfection is the enemy of good enough' - Russian Proverb
- [What happened to Downeast.net (and Jordan Networks) ?](https://matt.baya.net/what-happened-to-downeastnet-and-jordan-networks/) - Several friends up here in Maine have been left without an ISP when downeast.net apparently shut down a few days ago. They disconnected their servers and phones and disappeared. Years ago they were run by 2 local very cool people 'Merlin' (Don) and 'Morgana' (Jean) but I heard they sold the ISP part of things
- [My angry letter to my bank](https://matt.baya.net/my-angry-letter-to-my-bank/) - I don't recall exactly when I wrote this, I'm guessing it was 2003 or so. I just found this text in an old 'stickie' on my work mac and figured I'd post it here. Backdating so it doesn't show up as current: Dear Union Trust Representatives; For the the record, I am VERY upset with
- [I'm A Vegetarian Now - Video from 1990](https://matt.baya.net/im-a-vegetarian-now-video-from-1990/) - Found an old video tape that I recorded in my Antioch College dorm room sometime around winter 1990 (willet 236 I think, the end of the hall on the left). Digitized it and put it on Youtube, why not? This is my 'hit', performed at Antioch College coffee houses and part of the 'Pel Show'
- [Halloween dinner 2008 ](https://matt.baya.net/halloween-dinner-2008/) - Ever have one of those 'I think I might be living in a sitcom' moments? Emily: We have 2 bowls of candy and it's crazy trying to keep Owen and Marshall out of them so I hide one in oven when they aren't looking. Owen is home from school and wants to 'sort' the candy
- [Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, And Nobody](https://matt.baya.net/everybody-somebody-anybody-and-nobody/) - This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could
- [Lies, damn lies, and the 'Heartland Institute'](https://matt.baya.net/lies-damn-lies-and-the-heartland-institute/) - I work at a research lab in Bar Harbor, Maine as a System Administrator. My name and title have been in my e-mail signature, not to mention various websites for over 10 years now so the various snail junk mail places can harvest it. Most of the time this just means I get little postcards
- [WERU Full Circle Fair - July 26 & 27, 2008 - Blue Hill, Maine](https://matt.baya.net/weru-full-circle-fair-july-26-27-2008-blue-hill-maine/) - Below is the press release for WERU's Full Circle Fair that is coming up this weekend. I'm on the steering committee for this event and I've put dozens of volunteer hours towards organizing it. This is all volunteer organized and it's a great event. The problem is since it's a fund raiser we don't have
- [Two Wolves](https://matt.baya.net/two-wolves/) - An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life: "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. "One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and
- [Meal or No Meal](https://matt.baya.net/meal-or-no-meal/) - A glimpse of my brother Paul, the cruise director:
- ['How Can I Keep From Singing' ](https://matt.baya.net/how-can-i-keep-from-singing/) - This song is in my head today, so figured I'd add it here. HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING (G) C F / C G / C F C / C G C / C - / C - / C F C / C G C My life flows on in endless song Above
- [Ohio, Shanties, License Plates & Politics](https://matt.baya.net/ohio-shanties-license-plates-politics/) - 1) Just got back from a long weekend in Ohio for the Antioch College Reunion. It's a strange time to visit Antioch, it officially closes it's doors in a matter of days. Buildings are locked, staff is minimal and it's not the way I want to remember it. However, there are two things happening that
- [Bad Google Maps Directions & Monster Trucks](https://matt.baya.net/bad-google-maps-directions-monster-trucks/) - Google Maps was pretty WAY off with some directions last night: View Larger Map Yes... I went to the Monster Jam Monster Truck rally at Speedway 95 in Bangor, basically dragged there by our very enthusiastic 5 year old, Owen, who was pretty adamant that he HAD to go. It was certainly an 'experience' and
- [Owen's Bedtime Story - MP3](https://matt.baya.net/owens-bedtime-story-mp3/) - If you have 23 minutes to hear tonight's riveting bedtime story ... It's Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-man and Hulk vs "Metal Man", "Silver Man" and "Lava Fire Rock Man". GOLLY! story.mp3 and then the next night... more heroes.. more villians... golly! ostory-2.mp3
- [Playmobil Security Check Point ](https://matt.baya.net/playmobil-security-check-point/) - A friend forwarded me this link to an actual toy on sale at Amazon today, the "Playmobil Security Check Point". I'm including the top rated review here so you can see the type of comments that are being posted here. Very funny (and kinda depressing :).. good though). Customer Review 335 of 356
- [Lyrics in my head - Show the Way - David Wilcox](https://matt.baya.net/lyrics-in-my-head-show-the-way-david-wilcox/) - Earlier I mentioned that parts of American Pie had been playing in my head. Now another song just triggered.. signs my optimism is trying to surface out from under the flood of dark anger and sadness. Posting here just cause it's a good song.. and a good poem. I played this song a number of
- ["So this is it. We're going to die." - Arthur Dent](https://matt.baya.net/so-this-is-it-were-going-to-die-arthur-dent/) - "So this is it. We're going to die." - Arthur Dent So 8 months after it was announced that Antioch College was closing, and 8 months of holding on to hope that the Antioch University Board Of Trustees would listen to alumni, pledges and reason, it looks like it's finally over. They are saying only
- ["Oh, my beautiful dreams for the college!!" - Horace Mann](https://matt.baya.net/oh-my-beautiful-dreams-for-the-college-horace-mann/) - A mental core dump of my feelings about Antioch College announcing it’s closing it’s doors on 07/01/08 I’ve been trying to find a way to put into words what I’ve been thinking since I heard Antioch College was closing. I’ve e-mailed and chatted with a number of friends since I heard about this and that’s
- [Michael Anthony Groteke 02/08/92](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-020892/) - It's February 8th again. Another year past..so another post in the series. Not much to say anymore, I think I've written all I can remember. Certainly part of the energy I've been applying to keeping Antioch College open comes from my memories of times on campus with him. Wow.. 16 years gone. I still miss
- [As if I didn't know this already...](https://matt.baya.net/as-if-i-didnt-know-this-already/) - 100% Dennis Kucinich 98% Mike Gravel 82% John Edwards 78% Chris Dodd 78% Barack Obama 75% Joe Biden 74% Hillary Clinton 71% Bill Richardson 31% Rudy Giuliani 27% Ron Paul 19% John McCain 13% Mike Huckabee 13% Mitt Romney 13% Tom Tancredo 5% Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
- [Story of Stuff](https://matt.baya.net/story-of-stuff/) - I received a mass e-mail from Anne Feeney, an activist & musician I admire, the other day and she mentioned the following in here summary of 2007 "As most Americans are wallowing in stuff right now, I'm looking for ways to simplify my life. If you haven't visited http://storyofstuff.com this would be a great time
- [What You Do With What You've Got](https://matt.baya.net/what-you-do-with-what-youve-got/) - Lyrics to a song by Si Kahn that I really really like: You must know someone like him He's strong and tall and lean His body like a greyhound And his mind so sharp and keen But his heart just like a laurel Grew twisted on itself 'Til almost everything he did Brought pain to
- [Imagine...](https://matt.baya.net/imagine/) - A letter I wrote for this weeks issue of The Record, Antioch College's weekly newspaper (who I also help with their website these days) Imagine... I'm an Antiochian and one of the side effects of this affliction is that I have a pretty big imagination. This is a blessing and a curse. The curse in
- [The whole problem with the world is...](https://matt.baya.net/the-whole-problem-with-the-world-is/) - "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. " -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970) lifted from soul_in_flames' LJ entry : The whole problem with the world is...: (Via Shady Backflash.)
- [My letter to the Antioch University Board of Trustees](https://matt.baya.net/my-letter-to-the-antioch-university-board-of-trustees/) - So in the 'ongoing saga of a quack who's gone to the dogs.'. or rather the ongoing saga of Antioch College that's either about to die a loud noisy and undeserved death or about to make a most amazing comeback ever, the kickass CM's have been organizing a letter writing campaign to the Board of
- [Listening to little old ladies at the Subaru dealership](https://matt.baya.net/listening-to-little-old-ladies-at-the-subaru-dealership/) - Sitting at the car dealership this morning. Two "little old ladies" are sitting behind me chatting. A few gems from their conversation: "Oh and the commercials on the TV, there's so many..." "Oh I hear that was Clinton's fault, he changed it so they could put more commercials on the shows" "I hate that" "but
- [My response to an editorial about Antioch College](https://matt.baya.net/my-response-to-an-editorial-about-antioch-college/) - I wrote the following in response to an editorial about Antioch College I found at http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11749 also excerpts from this are posted on this site too http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives … cta_1.html While I submited this to both locations I don't know if they will ever be posted in any public manner, though I hope the author's at
- [Matt's "Keep Antioch Open" letter to Alumni-Chat](https://matt.baya.net/matts-keep-antioch-open-letter-to-alumni-chat/) - On Jun 30, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Sistersara wrote: >Matt, I don't think keeping open is really an option. Thank you for being clear on where you stand on this issue. As I mentioned earlier there are a number of us who are working, very hard right now, towards the 'Keep it open' goal. I
- [WERU - We Are You Radio](https://matt.baya.net/weru-we-are-you-radio/) - I've mentioned a number of times that a volunteer an inordinate amount of time at the local community radio station up here, WERU FM. There was recently an article about them in the Bangor Metro magazine: http://bangormetro.com/media/Bangor-Metro/May-2007/We-Are-You-Radio/ When we decided to move up here we had no idea this was in this area. It's been
- [It's all about trust](https://matt.baya.net/its-all-about-trust/) - I'm going to spare y'all the exact details since I doubt they'd be of interest to anyone not inside my head, but a number of conversations I've had today both online and in person have included discussions about 'Who do you trust?' and how we assign trust. I'm realizing that I care more about how
- [HowManyOfMe.Com](https://matt.baya.net/howmanyofmecom/) - I think perhaps their database isn't that up to date : HowManyOfMe.com There are 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name? Oh really?
- [My father the goof](https://matt.baya.net/my-father-the-goof/) - The following is my father's life update write-up for his college class notes: "My life goes on in endless song....", only sometimes it's the blues. My wife leaves tomorrow.. after 30 years of a close friendship and 5 years of marriage.  I move on Thursday... across town in Abingdon, Virginia, to a little house that,
- [Matt's brain dump on Antioch campus / alumni communications etc](https://matt.baya.net/matts-brain-dump-on-antioch-campus-alumni-communications-etc/) - Below is what I wrote on the SaveAntioch mailing list on 3/14. I'm posting it here for archival purposes since it was really a rant/brainstorm I'd like to revisit more in the future. Probably only interesting to those of you who are famliar with Antioch College. Thanks Bob for joining this list and posting such
- [This is a test, this is only a test](https://matt.baya.net/this-is-a-test-this-is-only-a-test/) - Testing cross posting from my wordpress blog at matt.baya.net to LJ so people might actually read what I write.
- [The Everything Test](https://matt.baya.net/the-everything-test/) - The Everything Test There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all. Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test,
- [Science vs Faith](https://matt.baya.net/science-vs-faith/)
- [Michael Anthony Groteke 02/08/1992](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-02081992/) - No new stories this year, just my annual tip o' the hat to Mike. Still miss him. I wonder what he'd be doing these days if he were around? Where would he be? I'm guessing he might have drifted off west during the dot com boom, perhaps being part of a startup and making a
- [Panda Sneeze](https://matt.baya.net/panda-sneeze/)
- [Marshall Houghton Baya](https://matt.baya.net/marshall-houghton-baya/) - We are happy to announce the arrival of : Marshall Houghton Baya 7 lbs 11 ounces 11:25 AM on January 14, 2007 21" More photos and information will be available at http://baby.baya.net/
- ["i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?"](https://matt.baya.net/i-say-old-bean-have-you-seen-my-hat/) - Random IM of the day. I was in a goofy mood so I responded in kind. No response from the other end. Afterwards I googled the name and found this was something more, more on that below. But first, "our chat"; 2:00 PM johnhatscroft: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat? Matthew Baya:
- [Time Banking epiphany of the day](https://matt.baya.net/time-banking-epiphany-of-the-day/) - Before I get to the heart of this letter let me make a few definitions and updates so people have some idea of what I'm writing about here. Time Banking - A Time Bank is a alternative to cash, where 1 hour of my time is worth 1 hour of someone elses time. For example
- [Year end thoughts](https://matt.baya.net/year-end-thoughts/) - So I'm here at home doing absolutely nothing interesting in acknowledgement of it being new years eve. In fact I'm even going to go to work tomorrow so I can bank a vacation day for later. Yes, I'm that boring.. shh.. don't tell anyone. I figured I'd make a blog entry since online friends like
- [Robert Tucker Retirement Book](https://matt.baya.net/robert-tucker-retirement-book/) - A friend forwarded me this note yesterday so I figured I'd post this up here in case anyone is searching for anything Hastings High School, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY 10706 related. To Hastings High School Alumni: After 38 years of teaching at Hastings High School, our father, Robert Tucker, is finally retiring. Unfortunately, this was necessitated by
- ['Social Networking Websites' and Antioch College](https://matt.baya.net/social-networking-websites-and-antioch-college/) - Here's a copy of the article I wrote for The Record for this week's issue.With the recent popularity of 'social networking' websites such as myspace and facebook it's inevitable that Antioch College communities, including current students as well as alumni have jumped on these sites in an effort network, communicate and socialize. However, you might
- [Compliments from a 3 year old](https://matt.baya.net/compliments-from-a-3-year-old/) - Not that he knows what the word is, but while watching Tractor Tom (yes, we live in Maine, Owen often watches Kid's CBC (canada) instead of PBS, are we bad parents for allowing such influences? :) ) this morning Owen heard Farmer Fi compliment Tractor Tom "You're a Genius Tom!" Owen turns to me and
- [I Paint What I See](https://matt.baya.net/i-paint-what-i-see/) - Just found a book by Gahan Wilson on our shelves and scanned in my favorite cartoon I remember from it. Over the years this quote & my mental image of the associated cartoon (which I swore I remembered as color) has been useful on multiple levels, both reminding me that I may not be able
- [Flashback to way old song parodies about Antioch](https://matt.baya.net/flashback-to-way-old-song-parodies-about-antioch/) - AIM IM with Hope Anne Nathan: 3:23 PM Hope Anne Nathan: I'm at Antioch. I need those lyrics again, because I can't get the phrase "a guitar, a bong, a fake ID and fifteen thousand bucks" out of my brain 3:35 PM Matthew Baya: er.. I dont know if I actually have them anywhere.. I'll
- [Standard Disclaimer](https://matt.baya.net/disclaimer/) - Action figures sold separately; Add toner; Address correction requested; All models over 18 years of age; All rights reserved; Allow four to six weeks for delivery; An equal opportunity message; Any inperfections are inherent in the material; Any resemblence to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental; Apply only to affected area; Approved for
- [Stuff I'm not dealing with](https://matt.baya.net/stuff-im-not-dealing-with/) - There are various things going on in my life that I am 'not dealing with' these days. This is easily done since having a 23 month old kid around tends to eat up most of my free time. In an effort to possibly motivate me to deal with them I'm going to post them here.
- [Ongoing quest for the definition of the word "SVAHA"](https://matt.baya.net/ongoing-quest-for-the-definition-of-the-word-svaha/) - Svaha = "(SVA-ha) The time between when you see the lightning and when you hear the thunder" - (Native American, tribe unknown)
- [Comment Spam](https://matt.baya.net/comment-spam/) - A change to my blog setup, for those of you who care (as if) Due to the HUGE amount of comment spam I get, and the fact that people have been abusing the 'E-mail authorization' plugin I picked to stop this by putting others e-mail addresses in there thus using my server as a source
- [Separated At Birth?](https://matt.baya.net/separated-at-birth/) - Ok geeky reference of the day that only people who had an Apple ][ computer in the 80's will get: Is it just me that thinks of the 'Beagle Bros' whenever I see the new Guinness Beer ads? -Matt Geek
- ["Life is too short to eat bad jelly beans"](https://matt.baya.net/life-is-too-short-for-bad-jelly-beans/) - Revelation discovered last night when sampling some of the easter bunny's wares. For now on we're only buying Jelly Belly's or Smuckers, the other stuff is just complete sugar and has no redeeming qualities. Same philosophy applies to chocolate, stay away from the cheap bulk waxy stuff Deep thoughts from Maine -Matt
- [Matt's April Fools Day Radio Show & Mix CD offer](https://matt.baya.net/matts-april-fools-day-radio-show-mix-cd-offer/) - 2 weeks ago I hosted the Saturday Morning Coffee House at Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME. This was coincedentally also April 1st, and I am a silly person who has way too many funny songs in his MP3/CD collection. In fact my first radio show on WYSO 91.3 FM Yellow Springs, Ohio
- [Strange Social Circles](https://matt.baya.net/strange-social-circles/) - I want, for some unknown reason, to explain my social circles that I travelled in back in my high school days, since they weren't your typical run of the mill. First off, while I had friends in High School, I never participated in a single extracurricular activity with the school. Outside of school I didn't
- [Unitarian Universalist Jokes](https://matt.baya.net/unitarian-universalist-jokes/) - I was raised a UU, and even in 2nd grade I needed to come up with a quick summary of what UU's believe, so I started telling friends it Unitarianism was like believing all the religions rolled into one. That seemed sufficient, most kids what stop asking questions at that point. Even now when discussing
- [Michael Anthony Groteke 02/08/1992](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke-2/) - Well it's that day again, February 8th. Last year I wrote a nice long entry, like this one, only to have the computer maliciously clear it just before I was ready to post. I wrote a shorter one and blamed Mike's ghost for the computer tampering. I'm braced this time, I've been saving regularly as
- [Michael Anthony Groteke](https://matt.baya.net/michael-anthony-groteke/) - Well i was working on this nice long verbose brain dump entry with stories and anecdotes on my friend Michael who was killed in a car accident 12 years ago today when my browser died and lost it all. Ghost in the machine perhaps? Mike.. you fink! I worked hard on that! Anyways.. So I'm
- [Emily & Matt Newsflash - We have a dog now](https://matt.baya.net/seeger/) - Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:36:31 -0500 To: (everyone we could think of that might be interested) Subject: Emily & Matt Newsflash - We have a dog now Ok.. belated news here from the Baya household, for those of you who we haven't talked to in the past few weeks... we have a dog. Seeger
- [David Wilcox & Antioch College](https://matt.baya.net/david-wilcox/) - After seeing singer-songwriter David Wilcox perform at the Cincinatti Zoo in the early 90's, we found out from the program (that we hadn't read since we arrived late) that he had attended Antioch College in the mid 70's. The bunch of us (that I had convinced to go to the show) ran up to the
- [David Wilcox - Burgundy Heart Shaped Medallion & Four Lane Dance](https://matt.baya.net/david-wilcox2/) - Over 15 years ago I first heard of David Wilcox and bought 2 of his CDs. Many of his songs 'spoke' to me at that time and have since, something about his lyrics and way of thinking meshes with mine. As it turns out he even attended Antioch College in 1976, but I've talked about
- [My review of 'Real Wheels - Mega Truck Adventures'](https://matt.baya.net/my-review-of-real-wheels-mega-truck-adventures/) - Yes that's right, I just spent time writing a review of a dumb kids video we bought recently. Not exactly Ralph Nader but hey, I felt so moved, so I'm now published on Amazon (or will be if they 'accept' it) :) ... Real Wheels - Mega Truck Adventures My 2 year likes this but
- [The good(?) ship Jennifer Anne](https://matt.baya.net/the-good-ship-jennifer-anne/) - Jennifer Anne - A Star Island Non-Fiction Story - Perhaps not as funny as I remember it, but an interesting read. I get the most comments from strangers on this story, or other Star Island folks who can relate. I've moved this from several generations of my website to this journal, the story lives on,
- ["Fascinating" Spam Filler Text](https://matt.baya.net/fascinating-spam-filler-text/) - Ok why I actually read some of the spam I get is beyond me. I'm not going to post the actual spam message that went with this for fear of encouraging them, suffice to say it was a 'diploma mill' type thing. HOWEVER, below the cheesy 'Gus, take advice from an old friend and call
- [I wonder](https://matt.baya.net/i-wonder/) - How old does one have to be, or at what stage in life does one have to reach, when snagging a free soda at a meeting is no longer a pretty neat thing? I can say that at age 36 and a married father of a two year old I fall in the 'free soda,
- [Inelegant Design](https://matt.baya.net/inelegant-design/) - Thanks to Holzman (or as I know him, Dio) for posting this. Made my morning. The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject
- [Oh come on...](https://matt.baya.net/oh-come-on/) - Ok so to date we've been a fan of the tv show 'The Amazing Race'. The new season 'The Amazing Race Family Edition' just started tonight and they introduced the families. First off, the fact that 9 of the 10 families are white is rather annoying, nice representation of the US/World. Not that I expected
- [So there were these two horses named Moe & Joe](https://matt.baya.net/so-there-were-these-two-horses-named-moe-joe/) - I just searched around on the net and I couldn't find ANYONE else posting the old joke about two horses named Moe & Joe. This stupid mostly unfunny run-on joke was a staple in the YRUU circles I traversed in the mid 80's and I can't believe it's not on the net anywhere. So in
- [Too funny](https://matt.baya.net/too-funny/) - Christian just pointed me to this link and I almost fell out of my chair laughing A comparison hee hee hee
- [Homophobia memeage](https://matt.baya.net/homophobia-memeage/) - I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian. I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman. I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights. We are the parents who buried
- [Freedom of Speech according to Utah Phillips](https://matt.baya.net/freedom-of-speech-according-to-utah-phillips/) - “The state can’t give you free speech, and the state can’t take it away. You’re born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...� -
- [A totally geeky post about Apple & Intel](https://matt.baya.net/a-totally-geeky-post-about-apple-intel/) - A copy of a note I just posted to the local Mac User group (DEMUG). Warning, not for the non-geeky, it's probably really boring to even those who know what I'm talking about. Having said that: To be honest I'm going to wait and see about all this because I really don't know enough about
- [Brian Jenkin's in my dreams](https://matt.baya.net/brian-jenkins-in-my-dreams/) - My letter to Brian Jenkins this AM about the dream he was in last night. Hey Brian - Long time no chat. So for some strange reason you were the main character in a dream I had last night. Thanks to my stupid dog barking at 4 AM and waking me up I still remember
- [Marriage, So Much Trouble over Such a Little Thing.](https://matt.baya.net/marriage-so-much-trouble-over-such-a-little-thing/) - Other friends put links to this in their blogs and since I liked it so much I figured I'd follow suit: Marriage, So Much Trouble over Such a Little Thing.
- [What Kind of American English Do You Speak?](https://matt.baya.net/what-kind-of-american-english-do-you-speak/) - Your Linguistic Profile: 50% General American English 35% Yankee 15% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
- [Song of the day](https://matt.baya.net/song-of-the-day/) - Check this link to an interview with Richard Thompson. On the left side of this page choose the audio sample of him covering 'Oops I did it again!'. Wow.. if he can make that song sound good he must be amazing to see perform live. Thanks to the Barefoot Blues Hour on WERU FM for
- [Proud Parent Warping His Child](https://matt.baya.net/proud-parent/) - Get this - Owen's favorite things to watch these days are videos of The Blue Man Group. We have a video of 'The Complex' and, while loud at times, it's actually pretty kid friendly. He likes to swing in a swing we have hung from the ceiling in the basement and watch this, while he
- [Simple Pleasures](https://matt.baya.net/simple-pleasures/) - Buying a used 25 cent plastic fire truck only to find out it takes batteries and having Owen figure out how to get it to go when I couldnt (oh of course you roll it back and forth 4 or 5 times, then the lights and siren go!). What's best is he LOVED this truck
- [A few seconds more of my 15 minutes of Fame](https://matt.baya.net/a-few-seconds-more-of-my-15-minutes-of-fame/) - Just a quick mention, I'm quoted in the New York Times today. The author e-mailed me since I had used an e-mail address (spam at baya dot net) which he thought I might have used because I was associating it with the musical's name and he was wondering if I had received any mail to
- [Hancock County Time Bank](https://matt.baya.net/hancock-county-time-bank/) - Just a bit more of a follow up on the subject of time banking. First off you can read more about Time Banks in general at timebanks.org . As I mentioned before the parent site for the Maine Time Banks is mtdn.org Regarding the local one that is already established on Mount Desert Island and
- [The songs in my head](https://matt.baya.net/the-songs-in-my-head/) - In the past few weeks I've been listening to books in my car ride to & from work (45 minutes each way), so the only music I've been hearing has been with Owen in the morning when we watch small bits of Sesame Street, Blues Clues and occasionally a Bear In The Big Blue House
- [Oh and by the way...](https://matt.baya.net/oh-and-by-the-way/) - Great time to go grocery shopping 6 PM on 'superbowl Sunday', especially when your regions team is in the superbowl. There were like a dozen people in the entire store, no traffic. I went to a meeting (see earlier post) just after this and one of the people running it, also oblivious of the superbowl,
- [Time Banks FYI](https://matt.baya.net/time-banks-fyi/) - I went to a meeting tonight for the planning of the Hancock County Time Dollar Network. I had heard of Time Banks before but didn't know there was anything in this area. Turns out there has been one on Mount Desert Island for a while, the MDI Timebank and they are working with folks in
- [OSSL (Owen Sign & Sound Language) ](https://matt.baya.net/ossl-owen-sign-sound-language/) - Well we haven't written an update for about 6 weeks. Owen still isn't speaking 'english' words but his communication has increased exponentially through signs and other sounds. Since we last wrote the most notable addition is the ability to nod 'yes' and shake his head 'no'. This in combination with the ability to point makes
- [John Cleese's Letter to the US](https://matt.baya.net/john-cleeses-letter-to-the-us/) - From John Cleese To the citizens of the United States of America, In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all
- [Owen @ 19 months](https://matt.baya.net/owen-19-months/) - Just a quick update before we leave for our holiday trip. Owen, now 19 months old, been practicing for Christmas for the past month or so by grabbing cardboard boxes out of our freezer and ripping them open. He's quite good at opening boxes and plastic containers now, though he has no understanding of the
- [Quote of the day](https://matt.baya.net/quote-of-the-day/) - "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) Copied
- [Topical Button](https://matt.baya.net/topical-button/)
- [... and it begins](https://matt.baya.net/and-it-begins/) - "I'll reach out to everyone who shares our goals," --- Bush, meeting with the White House Press Corp on his first day after being declared victor.
- [Post 2004 Election Novelties](https://matt.baya.net/post-2004-election-novelties/) - I've been wondering what the post 2004 election bumper stickers etc will be. My favorite from 4 years ago, which I wish I had bought was 'Don't blame me, I voted with the majority'. So I just found this: (Yes I realize it's not new per se, but sadly it's still applicable) American Traveler International
- [Four More Fears](https://matt.baya.net/four-more-fears/) - Four More Fears: "This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it -- that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody
- ["I voted today"](https://matt.baya.net/i-voted-today/) - Well this morning on the way to work I stopped by the polling place for 'Ward 2', "Your Place", the local chem-free community center where NA & AA meetings take place... and I guess other stuff but I'm not exactly sure what, we've only ever gone there to vote. Last time I voted there in
- [Dream Summary](https://matt.baya.net/dream-summary/) - Just woke up from this dream when Owen woke me up this morning. What follows is my best summary of the dream while I still remember it. Might not make much sense, but then, that's not the point. was at the cafeteria of my grade school (Hillside Elementary, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY) but I and my friends
- [A cause even the President (says he) supports](https://matt.baya.net/a-cause-even-the-president-says-he-supports/) - a cause even the President (says he) supports: "A campaign to oppose the draft." (Via Lessig Blog.)
- [October Owen Update](https://matt.baya.net/october-owen-update/) - Here's our latest list of interesting Owen anecdotes. Also, FYI there are new photos up at http://owen.baya.net/gallery/ "Bonk" & "Ouch" - Last week Owen was testing out his new boots and was stomping about the house. He eventually stomped on Emily's foot and she exclaimed 'Ouch!'. Owen immediately stopped stomping and pointed to his head.
- [Follow up to Sinclair Broadcast Group issue](https://matt.baya.net/follow-up-to-sinclair-broadcast-group-issue/) - I love this issue, here's a big media corporation trying to swing it's weight around and ignoring the protests from those whiney liberals. What they didn't take into account was, first the targeting of their stations advertisers, and now, who would have thunk that the shareholders would hit them too. Somewhere there are executives saying
- [Pirates & Emperors](https://matt.baya.net/pirates-emperors/) - Excellent Schoolhouse Rocks Parody about the world today, check it out: Pirates & Emperors Thanks to Totally for pointing this out to me.
- [Followup to yesterday's letter](https://matt.baya.net/followup-to-yesterdays-letter/) - See the power I have? Bwahahaha :) http://www.boston.com/dailynews/289/region/Advertisers_pull_ad_over_stati:.shtml Advertisers pull ad over station's airing of Kerry film By Associated Press, 10/15/2004 09:32 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Several businesses have pulled advertising from WGME-TV in response to the station's plan to televise a critical documentary about John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities. Hannaford supermarkets, the Lee Auto Malls,
- [Regarding your advertising on WGME-TV in Portland, ME](https://matt.baya.net/regarding-your-advertising-on-wgme-tv-in-portland-me/) - It is my understanding that you are an advertiser for a station in my area, WGME-TV in Portland, ME. I am writing you to let you know that, along with many others, am very upset with the actions of the owners of this station, the Sinclair Broadcast Group. As you may have heard in the
- [Six Degrees of voting](https://matt.baya.net/six-degrees-of-voting/) - Yeah it's a silly little meme but it's fun; http://www.sixdegreesofvoting.com/?ref=2862&mac=bfd9cac3dfc0612dfe8480f8273fb2ff
- [Sinclair Broadcast Group to show Anti-Kerry Film](https://matt.baya.net/sinclair-broadcast-group-to-show-anti-kerry-film/) - Instead of trying to summarize this myself, I will poiint you to a great summary about this issue at http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/002985.html Lots of links in there to help you get the full picture and also some ideas about what we, as mere mortals, can do to try to get the message out about this. Below is
- [Presidency 101 - 'Global Test'](https://matt.baya.net/presidency-101-global-test/) - Thanks to: (...: "arikatt) in bush_sucks," (Via CAELIDH's LIFE.)
- [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - News ???](https://matt.baya.net/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-news/) - I just noitced something wonderful last night while surfing the high seas of Bit Torrent. There floating amongst the flotsam and jetsam of the bad camcorder copies of the French version of the Bourne Supremecy, mis-titled copies of other recent releases, and and n'ar endless slew of porn and mp3's of bands I've never even
- [Lost in Boston](https://matt.baya.net/lost-in-boston/) - (Second attempt to write this, obviously the spirits of Boston are sneaky and can crash Firefox at will!) "Unexpected travel plans are dancing lessons from God" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle Ok so here I am in Boston (Ok Newton, for you purists), down here for the week for training with Veritas, and as
- [An Owen Update](https://matt.baya.net/an-owen-update/) - OK here are a few more Owen stories, those these aren't as humorous as the last batch but they are good glimpse into the Owen of September 2004. (16 months) Hitting :( - Much to our chagrin, Owen has recently started hitting things with his hands including us, the dogs, the cats, his toys.. just
- [Dear CBS News](https://matt.baya.net/dear-cbs-news/) - Letter I sent at : http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml Dear CBS News; I've heard from multiple sources in the past few days that CBS has decided to delay the broadcast of a piece on the president's reliance on bad information that led to the war in Iraq. What's worse, I've heard you've delayed this broadcast because it might
- [Flight Is Diverted to Detain Cat Stevens](https://matt.baya.net/flight-is-diverted-to-detain-cat-stevens/) - Hope first told me about this this morning, about 5 minutes before Emily saw it on TV: Flight Is Diverted to Detain Former Pop Singer: "A United Airlines jet was rerouted so that the Department of Homeland Security could intercept Yusuf Islam, the musician formerly known as Cat Stevens." (Via The New York Times >
- [Rapture Me!](https://matt.baya.net/rapture-me/) - Saw this in another person's blog (Jim Gilliam) the other day and I've been thinking about it alot. Very disturbing. Rapture Me!: "Bill Moyers is getting set for retirement, and he gave the speech of his life last week. Forgive me for quoting this huge passage: One of the biggest changes in my lifetime is
- [Muppets](https://matt.baya.net/muppets/) - My highlight today - Putting in a Muppet Show DVD, and having Owen (my 15 month old son), who has never seen it before, immediately laugh, clap and dance on the opening theme. Ahhh... that's my boy. I LOVED the Muppet Show when it was out, I would even take my father's tape recorder and
- [Just so crazy it might work...](https://matt.baya.net/just-so-crazy-it-might-work/) - Below is the text of the form letter this site suggests you send to friends. So rather than flooding the mailbox of all family and friends I figured I'd post it here and let the winds of fate decide who reads it or not. :)
- [These are the people in your neighborhood...](https://matt.baya.net/these-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood/) - So in my office today there are 3 or 4 guys from the company that installs all the heating and cooling and security systems here. These are the installation dudes, pulling wires through ceilings, testing amperages, adjusting thermostats, exposing butt cracks and passing needle nose and wire cutters back and forth. Not so different from
- [Something new every day](https://matt.baya.net/something-new-every-day/) - This is a crosspost from the blog I maintain for my son's Owen's webpage. Thought it was funny enough to post here. In the past few days Owen has done at least one thing that really caught our attention and/or made us laugh. I thought I'd catalog the most recent three while they were still
- [Testing](https://matt.baya.net/testing/) - Fnord. Just testing a piece of software that will ostensibly post to my blog for me. Drumroll please.....
- [Memories...](https://matt.baya.net/memories/) - This meme lifted from who got it from who got it from someone else I don't know.
- [Free Ipod?](https://matt.baya.net/free-ipod/) - Apparently this is legit, the catch being you have to get 5 others to sign up for some free offer on the site too. So .. any friend of mine wanna help me get a free iPod? :) http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html I figured I'd go for it. I found a thread at gearlive where other people have
- [This is the revolution](https://matt.baya.net/this-is-the-revolution/) - Just read this at http://www.jimgilliam.com/2004/08/this_is_the_revolution.php and it really struck a chord. This is the blog of one of the producers of 'Outfoxed, btw. Again, YAY for RSS feeds! Howard Rheingold in an interview with BusinessWeek, blows the lid open on how we change the world. All these [Google, Amazon lists, Wikipedia, open source, blogs] could
- [Welcome Mousepower](https://matt.baya.net/welcome-mousepower/) - Emily (aka my wife and love of my life) now has a journal. Her journal moniker is Mousepower. (or for you LJ folks it's ). Now we can just chat back and forth via our blogs and never speak face to face :) What do you want to do for dinner tonight sweetie? :)
- [Protest Songs Finally Get Airplay](https://matt.baya.net/protest-songs-finally-get-airplay/) - Just saw this on the Folk-DJ mailing list i'm on. I'll write more about 'unpopular music' protest songs that are available on the web soon, but this is interesting none-the-less. Protest Songs Finally Get Airplay By: Randy Dotinga - [San Diego] North County Times Wednesday, August 4, 2004 More than three decades ago, artists such
- [Electoral Vote Predicting - Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics](https://matt.baya.net/electoral-vote-predicting-lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/) - So I've found a neat website that tries to be fairly even in combining various electoral vote polls at http://www.electoral-vote.com/ They seem to do a good job in the summary below explaining the latest polls and such. They also have an RSS feed for those of you who do that, I've just started and it's
- [REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SCHEDULE](https://matt.baya.net/republican-national-convention-schedule/) - Got this today and thought it was worth sharing a giggle. -Matt ---- REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SCHEDULE New York, NY 6:00 PM Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Falwell 6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance 6:35 PM Ceremonial Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd amendment) 6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing
- [WERU](https://matt.baya.net/weru/) - I've mentioned before about the local community radio station I volunteer at, so I'll spare you the long essay. A few things I wanted to mention though 1) We are now OFFICIALLY streaming on the web. This is actually streaming from my basement server, but until a few days ago this was top secret insider
- [I'm so nosy](https://matt.baya.net/im-so-nosy/) - So I'm in the Bar Harbor branch of my bank the other day because in the week prior I brilliantly transferred money from one savings account to the other instead of to checking, and bounced a bunch of checks and got levied with tons of overdraft charges. Ouch!. D'uh. Well anyways, I talk to the
- ['This Land will surely vote for me...'](https://matt.baya.net/this-land-will-surely-vote-for-me/) - My friend Chaostime sent me this link to a very funny animation of a parody of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Was Made for You And Me'. This Land Will Surely Vote For Me Note - This site is apparently getting hammered and you may need to reload a bunch of times to get through. It's
- [Oh No!](https://matt.baya.net/oh-no/) - Back in 1989 I wrote a song for an Antioch Coffee House (in Corry Hall Basement no less) called 'Jim Henson Sold Out To Disney'. I have the full lyrics somewhere but to summarize it basically went something along the lines of... [play arpeggio descending minor chord progression stolen from Stray Cat Strut... slow and
- [Band Name Du Jour](https://matt.baya.net/band-name-du-jour/) - Just about every day I hear or say some phrase that I think 'Hey.. that would make a good band name'. Idea today... Old Yogurt or maybe it'd be better as a group approach like; Rusty Fridge & the Old Yogurts
- [WERU FULL CIRCLE SUMMER FAIR](https://matt.baya.net/weru-full-circle-summer-fair/) - As I've mentioned before I volunteer for our local community radio station up here, WERU FM. First off, if there is a community radio station in your area, I can't recommend enough getting involved with it however you can. It's a great community builder and a great way to hear new voices and music. But
- [More thoughts](https://matt.baya.net/more-thoughts/) - Following my previous claim of lowering the censor sensors on my posts I will now initiate another stream of consciousness core dump. Prepare for a ride on my rusty train of thought, including unscheduled stops and derailments. Non-sequiters and inside jokes & references are par for the course. All Aboard... I'm home as Mr. Mom
- [Blogging & Random Babbling](https://matt.baya.net/blogging-random-babbling/) - I keep thinking of entries I want to add to my 'blog' but never seem to find the time to do them. Guess that's cause most of my hobbies center around the computer and when I'm in front of one, which is like 15 hours a day, I tend to drift towards the bigger projects
- [More stickers I want](https://matt.baya.net/more-stickers-i-want/)
- [Silly Quiz](https://matt.baya.net/silly-quiz/) - 1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says: Em: "I know Aidan's talked of seeing her for years." from 'Tears of the Moon' by Nora Roberts Matt: "As we drove on, I took out the magnifying glass and checked to see whether dad had
- [Spam Prose](https://matt.baya.net/spam-prose/) - A brief history in the ongoing battle between spammers and system administrators, from my point of view at least; Spammers > send mail with similar subjects & content Sysads > Start filtering e-mail based on content, looking for key words like 'viagra', 'cialis', 'penis enlargement', 'breast enlargement', 'make money fast' etc. Spammers > Find a
- [These are the people in your neighborhood](https://matt.baya.net/these-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood/) - From our local paper, the Ellsworth American in the Thursday April 29th, 2004 edition. Section II, page 11; ELLSWORTH - A car rear ended a stopped truck at the intersection of Route 3 and Beechland Road Monday because its driver, an Ellsworth woman, advised police she had been praying and did not see the truck.
- [WERU FM Web Stream Test](https://matt.baya.net/weru-fm-web-stream-test/) - Shh... Top Secret. The community radio station I volunteer at, WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill and 102.9 FM Bangor, ME is streaming on the web right now in a 'top secret' test run. This is actually streaming from my basement to a company called Streamguys.Com who mirrors it out to up to 10 simultaneous listeners.
- [Book Nearest You](https://matt.baya.net/book-nearest-you/) - Grab the book nearest you, turn to page 23, find line 5. Write down what it says, along with these sentences, and post it in your journal. Book Nearest Matt - My Love Affair With The State of Maine by Scotty Mackenzie - "When I struggled to open a crate with a screw driver as
- [See how compatible you are with me!](https://matt.baya.net/see-how-compatible-you-are-with-me/) - I'm a generally unfuckwitted, liberal, disgustingly generous, relatively well adjusted human being!See how compatible you are with me!Brought to you by Rum and Monkey
- [What is my Natural Life Energy?](https://matt.baya.net/what-is-my-natural-life-energy/) - You are a Dynamic Supportive: Charismatic, warmhearted, sincere, reliable, humorous, compassionate, strong yet gentle -- all these words describe Dynamic Supportives. The Dynamic Supportive energy is typified in therapists, doctors, conciliators, clergy, teachers, and communicators. Dynamic Supportives are independent, intuitive, and good at bringing people together, sometimes serving as bridges between Dynamics and Adaptives. What
- [Random Babblings](https://matt.baya.net/random-babblings/) - Below is a letter I wrote last Friday while stuck in a bus station in Portland, Maine. It's kind of a stream of consciousness thing, and quite possibly not that interesting, but hey I wrote it for this journal so here it is. I'm writing this stuck in the Portland Maine Amtrak/Concord Trailways station. Due
- [Feelings at Antioch](https://matt.baya.net/feelings-at-antioch/) - Last fall a bunch of us Antiochians found some current student's livejournals. At first we were just sending them silly stuff and junk mail, but they eventually found out who we were, and we started posting comments in their journals. I doubt they read our journals, though maybe they do (they are bored college students
- [Webhosting](https://matt.baya.net/webhosting/) - I run a small webserver with some friends, Svaha.com. We host friend's sites and various other small websites for small businesses, authors, musicians and hobbyists.. For the most part none of our sites ever get too much traffic, which is fine since our server isn't exactly a mainframe. But occasionally, through some twist of fate,
- [What if Cats & Dogs could Blog?](https://matt.baya.net/what-if-cats-dogs-could-blog/)
- [Letter to the editor](https://matt.baya.net/letter-to-the-editor/) - A friend sent me this link; http://www.georgewbush.com/GetActive/WriteNewspapers.aspx?. Yes ... a friend of mine sent me a link on George Bush's website... why? Well go look.. it's this nice automated system, type in your zip code and it pulls up a list of ALL your local papers. Click on the ones you want and then type
- [Is it evil to trick babies?](https://matt.baya.net/is-it-evil-to-trick-babies/) - Owen, my 9 month old son, loves our cats. He stops doing whatever he's involved in, including nursing, to watch them. Even though he's crawling well these days they seldom let him near them for more than a second, and seeing as his level of interaction is grab fur tightly, pull, bury face in the
- [Star Wars & Harry Potter](https://matt.baya.net/star-wars-harry-potter/) - Just have to share this link a friend just sent me: http://sethm.res.wpi.net/harrypotter.png Well done.
- [(Owen-news) December/January Update](https://matt.baya.net/owen-news-decemberjanuary-update/) - For those of you who don't know me, Owen is my 8 month old son, and Emily, the author of this entry below, is my wonderful wife. We sent this out to Owen's mailing list the other day but I figured I'd post it here too. -Matt From: em@baya.net Subject: (Owen-news) December/January Update Date: January
- [Advanced Big 30 Personality Test](https://matt.baya.net/advanced-big-30-personality-test/) - Results below: Advanced Big 30 Personality Test Results Sociability |||||||||||||||||| 54% Gregariousness |||||||||||| 38% Assertiveness |||||||||||| 38% Activity Level ||||||||||||||| 42% Excitement-Seeking |||||||||||| 38% Enthusiasm |||||||||||||||||| 58% Extroversion ||||||||||||||| 44% Trust ||||||||||||||||||||| 62% Morality |||||||||||||||||| 54% Altruism ||||||||||||||||||||| 66% Cooperation ||||||||||||||||||||| 70% Modesty ||||||||||||||||||||| 62% Sympathy ||||||||||||||||||||| 66% Friendliness ||||||||||||||||||||| 63% Competence |||||||||||||||||| 58% Neatness
- [ARRR! Shantey CD's](https://matt.baya.net/arrr-shantey-cds/) - This week I mailed off the first batch of the 'Trio O' Sea Shantey & Drinking Song CD's' to the folks who requested them from my comments on this entry on anarqueso's journal. Note this offer still stands for anyone else willing to trade mixes or really anything in exchange for these CDs. I also
- [More interview answers](https://matt.baya.net/more-interview-answers/) - This time DowneastMike asked me; 1) How would you describe your religion/spirituality? 2) When/why did you become a vegetarian? 3) What inspired you to learn to play guitar? 4) How did you name your son? 5) If you could choose one superpower, what would it be and why? Answers follow below. If you'd like me
- [State of the Union - Director's Cut](https://matt.baya.net/state-of-the-union-directors-cut/) - The State Of the Union - Director's Cut Thanks to DowneastMike for pointing this out in his LJ.
- [Where I've been](https://matt.baya.net/where-ive-been/) - Maps of the US states and the world showing which ones I've been to. All the states I've been to (Or at least the ones I remember, who knows where my parents took me when before my memory started recording) create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide
- [Brain Usage Profile](https://matt.baya.net/brain-usage-profile/) - Your Brain Usage Profile Auditory : 44% Visual : 55% Left : 55% Right : 45% This quiz available here Matthew, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always. Your left-hemisphere dominance implies
- [How would you survive the end of the world?](https://matt.baya.net/how-would-you-survive-the-end-of-the-world/) - How would you survive the end of the world? brought to you by Quizilla Innocence. Like a child, you seem to think ofthings with more a curious look then anexplanative. The answers aren't important toyou all the time, sometimes it's just enjoyingthe questions and finding new ones. When theend came, you survived through the simple
- [Interview Meme - My Answers to Anarqueso](https://matt.baya.net/interview-meme-my-answers-to-anarqueso/) - Interview questions received from Anarqueso She asked me: 1. How has being a parent differed from what you expected? 2. How do you think growing up in Hastings affected your personality? 3. What do you think the most fundamental quality of friendship is or should be? 4. I don't really know anything about Emily. Tell
- [Quote of the day](https://matt.baya.net/quote-of-the-day/) - Stolen from someones e-mail signature: "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now."
- [At Antioch - Never Assume](https://matt.baya.net/at-antioch-never-assume/) - Below is an entry I put in a comment to one of the our 3 adopted Antioch student's LJ last fall. I wanted to repost it here in hopes other's might see it and have comments to add to it. It's a work in progress, maybe when it's ripe I'll send it in to the
- [The lunch spot at my workplace](https://matt.baya.net/the-lunch-spot-at-my-workplace/) - Wanted to post this here for archival sake. Below is the letter I sent to the person who runs the lunch spot here at my workplace over 2 years ago. I've been boycotting it since I wrote this letter. So, for the record, this is why I bring my lunch and get food delivered and
- [Welcome Chryssfs](https://matt.baya.net/welcome-chryssfs/) - One of my best friends from Antioch, Christian, is now mirroring her journal to LJ the same way I am, so welcome her aboard. She is (or for those of you reading this off LJ it's http://www.livejournal.com/users/chryssfs/) I've been bugging her to blog for a long time now and I'm hoping once she has more
- [ULTIMATE personality test](https://matt.baya.net/ultimate-personality-test/) - Yet another silly quiz or two Protector The ULTIMATE personality test brought to you by Quizilla also just came across this Pick the month you were born and cross out what doesn't match your personality. JANUARY: Stubborn and hard-hearted. Ambitious and serious.Loves to teach and be taught. Always looking at people's flaws and weaknesses. Likes
- [Billy Jonas](https://matt.baya.net/billy-jonas/) - There's an acoustic singer-songwriter that Emily and I really really like, Billy Jonas. He does both children's music as well as "all ages" or "general audience" music (whatever you want to call that), and he's hard to describe (See the picture to the left for a visual clue). Both his musical style and delivery, as
- [Livejournal Friends Ponderings](https://matt.baya.net/livejournal-friends-ponderings/) - I find myself checking my 'friends' category several times a day now during lapses at work. Having a new entry appear there is kind of like getting a personal e-mail message from a friend, even though often they have nothing to do with me or anything I care about or can relate to. I guess
- [Several more silly quiz results](https://matt.baya.net/several-more-silly-quiz-results/) - See below. According to this quiz, you're daylight itself.You're positve and get right to the point.Morbid is a word you don't use very often. what time of day do you connect with? (extremley cool pics) brought to you by Quizilla
- [My Patronus](https://matt.baya.net/my-patronus/) - Another one of those silly quizzes. I'm trying to remember to put them in 'extended entry' so as not to clog peoples mailboxes. Below is what Patronus I'd be (from Harry Potter books). Your Patronus is the Deer or Stag! This was alsothe Patronus of the infamous Harry Potter. Thestag is a symbol of speed,
- [My Movie](https://matt.baya.net/my-movie/) - M00nshadow in Career Interstice (Tim Curry) has made the worst career move of his life. After following a trail of lies that leads all the way to the top, his public image is sabotaged, and , his primary informant (Jennifer Lopez), is seeking vengeance for a prior error in judgement. (Robin Wright Penn) takes her
- [A Trio of Antioch Mixes](https://matt.baya.net/a-trio-of-antioch-mixes/) - In mid-December I made 3 CD mixes for our (antioch92) 3 adopted Antioch first years, Jenna, Dayna & Brittany. I brilliantly got them in the mail (one mix to each) the same day they were all leaving campus. Duh. So they will be finally receiving them either late-this week or early next week, depending when
- [Which Famous Artist Most Reflects Your Personality?](https://matt.baya.net/which-famous-artist-most-reflects-your-personality/) - Fantastic!! You are GEORGIA O'KEEFE. You are a true spirit of nature, and it shows inthe flowing floral paintings for which you aremost famous. You feel the beauty of all thingsaround you, and your friends appreciate you foryour ability to share that extraordinary beautywith them. Which famous artist most reflects your personality? brought to you
- [To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?](https://matt.baya.net/to-which-race-of-middle-earth-do-you-belong/) - Entish To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? brought to you by Quizilla
- [More inane quiz results](https://matt.baya.net/more-inane-quiz-results/) - So basically today tallies up that I'm a; Unitarian Snowleopard Easy-Rider Lincoln who does it like a Gay Girl Who knew? What Famous Leader Are You? What Classic Movie Are You? You'd turn into a Snowleopard! Like a snowleopard you are quiet, shy and not seen much and findit hard to talk to people, but
- [Belief-O-Matic](https://matt.baya.net/belief-o-matic/) - Hello Remember: The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa. Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in the
- [What have I done...](https://matt.baya.net/what-have-i-done/) - In the past two days I've given my mother a crash course in selling stuff on ebay. She is currently listing six or seven items but i spending every free moment listing additional things and having me take digital pictures of pipes, dolls, vases, linens, beaded fruit, etc. She's even said "I can feel a
- [Our long strange trip begins today](https://matt.baya.net/our-long-strange-trip-begins-today/) - We leave on our big trip down to NH, CT, NY, CT, NY, CT, NH (in that order). Returning to home on 1/4. I will be online alot this trip, last year I played 'Johnny Appleseed' of cable modems and installed wireless routers and cable modems at just about every house we visit on our
- [Livejournal & Moveable Type](https://matt.baya.net/livejournal-moveable-type/) - Ok so all my friends who 'blog' pretty much use livejournal, but I hate relying on external servers to do my work, so I'm stuck. Do I stay on my high horse and do all my stuff on my personal site, requiring my livejournal friends to link to my URL when they reference me, or
- [Quote of the day](https://matt.baya.net/quote-of-the-day/) - "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha
- [My Political Compass](https://matt.baya.net/my-political-compass/) - Your political compass: Economic Left/Right: -7.38 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.10 http://politicalcompass.org/
- [wheresgeorge.com](https://matt.baya.net/wheresgeorgecom/) - Ok so my friend Hope pointed me to a really neat site today, wheresgeorge.com. You enter the serial #'s of the bills in your wallet (and ideally subtly tag the bills with the website URL) and when someone else enters that bill down the road you get notified. So you can track 'your' bills as
- [Change the world](https://matt.baya.net/change-the-world/) - "Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. " -- Margaret Mead
- [Explore. Dream. Discover.](https://matt.baya.net/explore-dream-discover/) - "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain
- [TV show pilot 'Dads' marketing scam.](https://matt.baya.net/tv-show-pilot-dads-marketing-scam/) - I got a telemarketing call last week (why I answered it I don't know (we have caller ID for this reason)) asking if I'd take part in a test viewing of a tv show episode. I received this today with materials and a letter from Doris Price from Audience Studies, Inc. of Cincinnati, OH. The
- [My magic ability](https://matt.baya.net/my-magic-ability/) - My presence in this world results in life altering events for those who know me, I am a catalyst for events that don't involve me.
- [mytopo.com](https://matt.baya.net/mytopocom/) - Found a link to this site the other day, mytopo.com. Really nice aerial photos of just about anywhere. We ordered one as a christmas gift, awesome big poster size photo with title and everything. They also make topographical maps. Turns out the photo I ordered had an edge on one side where it went out
- [Radio Thoughts](https://matt.baya.net/radio-thoughts/) - For those of you who don't know, I do a monthly "folk" radio show on WERU FM up here (sorry, no streaming yet, working on that). I'm at the station as I write this, ripping mp3's off new stuff and cool stuff from the library while a mix of songs I've ripped from here and
- [Readers? I have readers?](https://matt.baya.net/readers-i-have-readers/) - Just saw mention in Uni (aka Xydexx)'s livejournal that he reads my blog, and he found the link to Drumsong's livejournal via my site! Not really sure how Uni found my journal, I don't think I made any mention of it to him. I did tell Countryham, I wonder if he passed it on, or
- [Websites, Journals & Sanity](https://matt.baya.net/websites-journals-sanity/) - In a chat yesterday with Totally I was teasing him about being an 'old fart' since he hadn't updated his website in eons. He mentioned somethign along the lines of "I don't update my website 'cause I'm not into the look at me, look at me thing" Personally I think thats just his (lame) excuse
- [Bronze Rat (joke)](https://matt.baya.net/bronze-rat-joke/) - Just moving more of my jokes I've collected over the years into here, this one is pretty good, just change the name at the end as best fits your feelings. -Matt
- ["Wet Dream" by Kip Addotta](https://matt.baya.net/wet-dream-by-kip-addotta/) - Another pun filled song from Kip Addotta My Favorite line in this one... So I pulled into a Shell station; they said I'd blown a seal. I said, "Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay, pal?" "Wet Dream" by Kip Addotta available on: White Boy Rapp, Laff Records 12"
- ["Life in the Slaw Lane"](https://matt.baya.net/life-in-the-slaw-lane/) - In an effort to move more parts of my main site into this journal I'm posting the lyrics to this pun-filled song that I've always liked by Kip Addotta. My favorite line "Her name was Peaches: a soiled but radishing beauty with HUGE goards. My brother had always been a chestnut..." "Life in the Slaw
- [Interupting Cow](https://matt.baya.net/interupting-cow/) - Knock Knock Who's there? Interupting Cow Interupting Cow wh..... MOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
- [Quotes](https://matt.baya.net/quotes/) - "If your dog is fat, YOU aren't getting enough excercise"
- [Mail mischief](https://matt.baya.net/mail-mischief/) - Ok so recently my friend Hope posted a note on the Antioch92 alumni MSN board that she found some livejournals of current Antioch College students. Ok, I'm game, I'm curious what they have to say. So I read Jenna's Livejournal. Kinda interesting to read her online diary, and I wish people had been doing this
- [Ye Olde Blog](https://matt.baya.net/ye-olde-blog/) - In an effort to feel like i'm doing something with this part of my site I'm moving text off some of my static pages into this. So you'll note I have blog entries from 1990. Ok, so that's when I wrote them, so it's legit, right? Next step is to dig up old outgoing e-mails
- [Testing out Moveable Type](https://matt.baya.net/testing-out-moveable-type/) - Ok so all my geekiest friends seem to be using this as their blog engine, so I figured they must know something I don't. Testing out the waters here. Thanks to Mike for having this already set up on our server so I could see what he did to tweak it to get it to
- [Requisite Inane Quiz Results](https://matt.baya.net/requisite-inane-quiz-results/) - Seems like everyone does these silly quizzes and posts their results in their blog, so in an effort to conform and fit in so y'all will like me, I've done a few. Ok so I also took them to see how high i'd rank, lame, I know. I was bored. What else can I say.
- [Captive Audience](https://matt.baya.net/captive-audience/) - This morning I put on my first public guitar performance in years. Ok, so the public was my two sleepy black dogs and my 5 1/2 month old son Owen, but hey, it counts! And they all seemed relatively interested and didn't leave (and it's beside the fact that Owen isn't mobile yet and one
- [Red Sox Fans](https://matt.baya.net/red-sox-fans/) - In the extended entry of this entry is a slightly edited copy of a note I sent to a friend who is an avid Red Sox fan. What frustrates me though is, because he really loves the red sox and really wants them to win, and has watched this team all his life, he's become
- [Antioch College Thoughts](https://matt.baya.net/antioch-college-thoughts/) - Antioch College - I could write a book of all the thoughts and ideas I have had about what could/should be changed at Antioch College so I'll try to be brief (since no one would want to read that book anyways?) I currently (Summer 2002) have very mixed feelings about Antioch College, and I'll try
- [My kingdom for more vacation...](https://matt.baya.net/my-kingdom-for-more-vacation/) - Today I drop Emily off at the airport so she can go on a cruise (on my brother's cruise ship) all next week, while I toil away up here in cold/dark Maine, wishing I had more vacation time. I don't think I'm that greedy in wishing I had enough vacation to take a few days
- [Waylon Jennings](https://matt.baya.net/waylon-jennings/) - And now Waylon Jennings is dead at age 64. They said on NPR he was good friends with Buddy Holly and he actually gave up his seat on the plane so 'The Big Bopper' could fly instead on the flight that crashed and killed them, so he got a good run of life since then.
- [Thought of the day...](https://matt.baya.net/thought-of-the-day/) - Well, nothing really deep, just thinking about this blog thing and how I could use it in some way that might be moderately interesting and or useful. Thought of the day seems like a good start, though it will quickly expose how shallow my thoughts are so perhaps I should stay mysterious. Hmm.. have to
- [Dave Van Ronk](https://matt.baya.net/dave-van-ronk/) - Heard that folk musician Dave Van Ronk died yesterday. :( His style of music wasn't something I enjoyed as much as others when I first heard him but he's been 'growing' on me, and since he did the 'New Jersey Stomp' on the Christine Lavin Laught Tracks CD, I've been appreciating his music more and
- [Default Joke](https://matt.baya.net/default-joke/) - Q. What does a fish say when it runs into a wall? A. Dam!
- [Why I think the Star Trek: Voyager series finale SUCKED](https://matt.baya.net/why-i-think-the-star-trek-voyager-series-finale-sucked/) - Why I think the Star Trek: Voyager series finale SUCKED (or at least could have been better) Hey all - This is my response to a review Demonweasel wrote on the Voyager finale last night (spoilers included below). If you want his original review (very humorous, imho), check his site, but here's my Voyager rant,
- [Invention Idea](https://matt.baya.net/invention-idea/) - This is an old post from an html page on my site, I'm posting it and other's here in hopes to retire that old page at some point. I used to bug my mad scientist friend Ozz about various crazy invention/business ideas I had but he never took my previous ones seriously or used some
- [The Internet is an ocean](https://matt.baya.net/the-internet-is-an-ocean/) - Information = Water.. think about it. OK so it's NOT an information Superhighway, lets just start accepting that. A friend, Nick Szuberla (sp?), gave me an article years ago pointing out that in reality it's more like the Information Railroad, in that its funded by Big corporations, and individuals can 'ride' with them if they

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