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content/My-Child-Is-Not-Catholic-Dawkins-Insists.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Date: 2008-03-09T10:34:27
 Tags: me, atheism, Cal
 Category: Policy and Politics
 
-![Dawkins](/images/dawkins.jpg)
+![Dawkins]({filename}/images/dawkins.jpg)
 
 I had the pleasure of going to see [Richard Dawkins][2] last night at Cal. 
 Although our fourth-row seating probably influenced my judgement, 

content/Thoreau-Would-Have-Found-This-Amusing-or-not.md

@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ It's a pretty useful site because it asks pretty thorough questions,
 and then reports on you vs. historical American, you vs. the world, 
 you vs. lightbulbs, etc. Here's my consumption of energy:
 
-![No alt](/images/wattzon.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/wattzon.png)
 
 Pretty cool right? Who knew that my biggest environmental damage is coming 
 from government? Here's me vs. historical Americans:
 
-![No alt](/images/wattzon2.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/wattzon2.png)
 
 So I'm doing pretty well relative to the average American, 
 and I need to follow Thoreau's advice about not paying my taxes. Got it.

content/a-real-problem-you-should-fix-now.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Category: Privacy and Security
 
 I've mentioned secret questions on my site before, but I never quite realized how much of a problem they are until today, when I discovered <a href="http://uspublicrecords.com">uspublicrecords.com</a>.
 
-It's a simple site. You put in a name, and if it has that person in its database, it gives you their age, middle name, and family members. So far, I haven't found any names it <i>doesn't</i> have.
+It's a simple site. You put in a name, and if it has that person in its database, it gives you their age, middle name, and family members. So far, I haven't found any names it *doesn't* have.
 
 Using this information, I went and checked a friend's gmail secret question, which was, "What is your father's middle name?" I just happened to have that information from uspublicrecords.com, so I put it in, and changed their email password.* 
 

content/amazon-has-mp3s.md

@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ of files from the Internet, and never have I needed a special tool other than
 Firefox. Why now? 
 
 Amazon, if you're going to do something great like this, do it whole hog. 
-Don't make me install junkware. After all, I'm <i>choosing</i> to give you 
+Don't make me install junkware. After all, I'm *choosing* to give you 
 money, right? 

content/an-important-distinction.md

@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 Title: An Important Distinction
 Date: 2007-11-26T17:02:25
-Tags: pedantic
+Tags: pedantry, rant
 Category: Rant
 
 
-For the record people:
-<b>Quite:</b> I haven't <b>quite</b> finished my soup. This is <b>quite</b> a nice restaurant.
-<b>Quiet:</b> This is a <b>quiet</b> restaurant. I enjoy peace and <b>quiet</b>.
+For the record people:  
 
-We recently looked for roommates, and we subtracted points from anybody that wrote in their response email the word "quite" where they meant to say "quiet." It was extraordinary how many applicant roommates think they are "a quite person".
+ - **Quite:** I haven't **quite** finished my soup. This is **quite** a nice 
+ restaurant.
+ - **Quiet:** This is a **quiet** restaurant. I enjoy peace and **quiet**.
+
+We recently looked for roommates, and we subtracted points from anybody that 
+wrote in their response email the word "quite" where they meant to say "quiet." 
+It was extraordinary how many applicant roommates think they are "a quite 
+person".

content/burning-man.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Title: Burning Man
+Subtitle: An attempt to voice my annoyance
+Date: 2014-08-25
+Tags: Burning Man, Rant, Backpacking. Religion
+Categories: Rant
+Status: Draft
+
+
+[TOC]
+
+It's Burning Man season and that can only mean one thing for me: I'm more 
+annoyed with it than ever.  
+
+
+I write this from a point of fascination and annoyance. Fascination, 
+because I can't figure out why anybody cares so damned much about Burning 
+Man, and annoyance because, well burning man is just plain annoying. My hope
+in writing this little post is that I can get some of the annoynace out of 
+my system and at the same time figure out what makes my  
+
+## Some background
+
+I've been mulling Burning Man a lot the past couple weeks and I can't get 
+past the feeling that I *do* get it, and yet I *don't* like it. I feel like 
+I'm venturing into a holy war of some sort, but my sister is very much into 
+Burning Man, and I can't get past my dislike of it, even as a "What did you 
+do last week" kind of discussion. As in, she says,What's 
+really weird is that the more I think 
+about this, the more I feel like BM 
+has become it's own bizarre religion, where talking about it is taboo and 
+criticizing it brings awkwardness. 
+
+Look, I get it, you like Burning Man, and you enjoy going. OK, 
+but let me tell you what it's like not going, and how insane you look from 
+the outside. 
+
+
+## Why I'm annoyed
+
+First, 
+
+
+## Can't we all just calm down?
+
+
+
+An image:
+
+![Alt Text]({filename}/images/han.jpg)
+
+Some links:
+[a link relative to content root]({filename}/article1.md)
+[a link relative to current file]({filename}../article1.md)

content/cheap-metal-bike-stand.md

@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ of the things that have been on my list for far too long. One of those
 things was to build a repair stand for the work I do on the bikes in my life. 
 For about $50, you can build this stand, which works remarkably well. 
 
-![No alt](/images/bike-stand/000-DSC02109.JPG)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bike-stand/000-DSC02109.JPG)
 
-![No alt](/images/bike-stand/000-DSC02106.JPG)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bike-stand/000-DSC02106.JPG)
 
-![No alt](/images/bike-stand/001-DSC02110.JPG)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bike-stand/001-DSC02110.JPG)
 
-![No alt](/images/bike-stand/002-DSC02111.JPG)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bike-stand/002-DSC02111.JPG)
 
-![No alt](/images/bike-stand/003-DSC02112.JPG)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bike-stand/003-DSC02112.JPG)
 
 Essentially, what you need to make this beauty is five pipes, 
 a 90 degree elbow, a 45 degree elbow, and a welder. Since I don't weld, 

content/civic-frustration.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Tags: concord, police, frustration
 Category: Personal
 
 
-I was walking to work a few months ago, enjoying the crisp summer morning air, and I came to a stop light that instructed me to wait to cross. It being a one-way street, I looked left, saw no cars for a block and a half, and casually walked across the road, against the traffic light's firm instruction. I continued walking for another third of a block, and then heard a siren blare behind me <i>on the sidewalk</i>.
+I was walking to work a few months ago, enjoying the crisp summer morning air, and I came to a stop light that instructed me to wait to cross. It being a one-way street, I looked left, saw no cars for a block and a half, and casually walked across the road, against the traffic light's firm instruction. I continued walking for another third of a block, and then heard a siren blare behind me *on the sidewalk*.
 
 Incredibly, I was getting pulled over (so to speak), by a motorcycle cop (now illegally riding on the sidewalk) for defying a traffic light while on foot. I was &ndash; and still am &ndash; in shock. I expressed my disbelief to the officer, "You're kidding right?" He was not. "You have better things to do with your time, right?" He did not. He told me a woeful tale of how he has to call parents in the middle of the night to tell them that their child had been hit while crossing the road. I informed him that I was in fact a professional walker that literally walked halfway across the continent, and that I was pretty much OK crossing the street. He insisted he was doing me a favor, and teaching me a lesson.
 

content/cluster-analysis-charts-fun-trendy-bad.md

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ For the record people, these are bad. They imply that there is some circular rel
 
 Please? 
 
-<i>EDIT: I should add - don't use line graphs for things that don't progress from A to B to C either. For those things, use bar graphs, or column graphs.</i>
+*EDIT: I should add - don't use line graphs for things that don't progress from A to B to C either. For those things, use bar graphs, or column graphs.*

content/destiny-to-have-a-beard.md

@@ -7,32 +7,32 @@ Category: Personal
 I've been doing some thinking, and I think that my destiny* wants me to have
 a beard. Let's take a quick walk through my past, shall we?
 
-First, I was into woodworking. I described it as, "My first great 
-passion." Observe this picture. It's the first hit on google images for
-the word "woodworker".
+First, I was into woodworking. I described it as, "My first great 
+passion." Observe this picture. It's the first hit on google images for
+the word "woodworker".
 
-![No alt](/images/bearded-destiny/wood.jpg)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bearded-destiny/wood.jpg)
 
 Next, after sort of putting woodworking aside for a while, 
 I got really into hiking; thru hiking to be precise. This picture is the 
-third or fourth hit for "thru hiker" on google images, 
+third or fourth hit for "thru hiker" on google images, 
 but I hasten to add that it is the first hit that contains a picture of a 
 person.
 
-![No alt](/images/bearded-destiny/thru.jpg)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bearded-destiny/thru.jpg)
 
 Finally, as you may have noticed, I'm pretty into Linux these days. It's 
 could be a phase as well (we'll see), but observe this image, 
 also pulled from google images. Admittedly it's not hit number one, 
 but I don't count pictures of college kids or penguins out of principle. 
 
-![No alt](/images/bearded-destiny/linux.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bearded-destiny/linux.png)
 
 So. It seems I should have a beard. There is a problem with this plan 
 though, and to illustrate that problem, I have this picture of me, 
 when I tried it for myself. Damn.
 
-![No alt](/images/bearded-destiny/me.jpg)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/bearded-destiny/me.jpg)
 
 What will come after Linux? Will it be Lumberjack or hippie...time will tell. 
 

content/drupal-is-go.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Tags: blog, me, drupal
 Category: Tech
 
 
-Well, I can't say I have had a serious blog before, so with this very sentence, I am forging new ground for myself, and through the strange magic of the Internet, for everybody else in the world (except China, who I will now block from this blog by writing the following word: "democracy").
+Well, I can't say I have had a serious blog before, so with this very sentence, I am forging new ground for myself, and through the strange magic of the Internet, for everybody else in the world (except China, who I will now block from this blog by writing the following word: "democracy").
 
 There's a pressure here of course not to have any typos and to make this post significant and poignant, but if I know me - and I think I do - I shouldn't set high bars like that for myself. I should just enjoy the medium, allow mistakes early and often, and proceed with the reason I am here to write today, which, according to the title of this post is to discuss the software of this very blog.
 

content/eco-tip-2-think-long-term-really-long-term.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Tags: eco-tip
 Category: Environment
 
 
-![No alt](/images/longnowclock.jpg)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/longnowclock.jpg)
 
 Well, somehow two weeks have already gone past, and it's time for another 
 eco-tip. This week is going to be an easy one for me because on Sunday I saw
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ most environmental thinking these days.
 
 So much talk is given to global warming, that it seems like we're forgetting
  the whole point of the environmental movement. The point is 
- <i>**not**</i> that the world is getting warmer, 
- or even that the climate is changing. The point <i>**is**</i> 
+ ***not*** that the world is getting warmer, 
+ or even that the climate is changing. The point ***is*** 
  that if the climate changes very much, we'll probably all die. It's like 
  the joke about having a fear of heights: It's not that you're afraid of 
  being up high - it's that you're scared that if you fall, 

content/exploratory-analysis-of-service-recipients-of-community-services-bureau .md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ a representative sample of the county at large. With that in mind however,
 extrapolations could likely be made by comparing the number of children in 
 a geographic area against the number of children analyzed herein.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/Residential%20Density%20of%20Families2.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/Residential%20Density%20of%20Families2.png)
 
 The data that is used was exported from the Bureau's <q>COPA</q> database, 
 pseudo-anonymized by the Bureau,<a name="ref1"></a><a href=".#fn1"><sup>1</sup></a> 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ caregiver in the child's life, even when there is not. A less pessimistic
 explanation could be that a child is able to develop equally well 
 regardless of whether they have one or two caregivers.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/By%20Secondary%20Caregiver.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/By%20Secondary%20Caregiver.png)
 
 In a similar vein, I examined if there was a correlation between family 
 size and the developmental scores of a child. As can be seen below, 
@@ -78,22 +78,22 @@ could be that the added difficulty a caregiver might experience taking care
 of a larger family might be equally offset by the additional attention and
 stimulus a larger family provides to a child.</p>
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/Number%20in%20Household.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/Number%20in%20Household.png)
 
 Another potential indicator of home stability could be age of the parent, 
 since older parents are more likely to have stable lives. As indicated 
 below, as the parental age increases, so too do the scores of their 
 children.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/PC%20Age.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/PC%20Age.png)
 
 Teen parenting is known to be very difficult, but of the 41 teen parents 
 that were in the data set, their children do not score significantly worse 
 on the developmental measures. An interesting fact that emerged during this
 analysis was that there were no teen-aged male primary caregivers in the 
 data set of more than 6,000 primary caregivers. </p>
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/Teen%20Parent,%20PC%20Gender.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/Teen%20Parent,%20PC%20Gender.png)
 
 A final test that I ran on this data was to see if there was a correlation 
 between the number of hours that a primary caregiver works and the 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ the primary caregiver worked more hours until they began working <em>more
 than</em> eight hours/day, at which point developmental scores begin to 
 rise again.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/PC%20Hours%20Per%20Day%202.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/PC%20Hours%20Per%20Day%202.png)
 
 Ultimately, and much to my surprise, it appears that my hypothesis &mdash; 
 that an increase in parental involvement results in a more developmentally 
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ In looking at the child's English skill, as described by their primary
 caregiver, a very clear trend emerges, confirming this hypothesis: As 
 English skills improve, children score higher on developmental assessments.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/English%20Skill.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/English%20Skill.png)
 
 When the primary languages are broadly binned by geographic origin, 
 clear trends emerge in the average assessment results of the children. 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ it appears that children with African and European languages on average
 have lower developmental scores than those children that speak Spanish, 
 English, Middle Eastern or Asian languages.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/Language%20Origin.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/Language%20Origin.png)
 
 
 ### Hypothesis 3: Gender and race/ethnicity will not affect the development of the children, but disability status will.
@@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ their second language, significant differences can be seen between races,
 but this finding mirrors that above, with non-English speakers performing 
 worse on the developmental measures.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/By%20Race%20and%20Language.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/By%20Race%20and%20Language.png)
 
 Consistent with my hypothesis, differences between child gender and 
 developmental scores can also be considered negligible.
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/By%20Gender.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/By%20Gender.png)
 
 I decided to examine the average development of the children against their 
 disability status in order to determine the validity of the developmental 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ are generally administered by county workers that are aware of the
 disability status of the children, it remains unclear whether this 
 contributes to the extreme results shown below.</p>
 
-![No alt](/images/ehsd/By%20Disability%20Status.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/ehsd/By%20Disability%20Status.png)
 
 
 ## Tool Analysis

content/final-paper-on-metrics-of-sustainability-class.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Category: Environment
 
 
 Last semester I took a class at the UC Berkeley School of Business (Haas) 
-entitled <i>Metrics of Sustainability</i>. It was an interesting class all 
+entitled *Metrics of Sustainability*. It was an interesting class all 
 in all, though frustrating at times because of the emphasis on making 
 sustainability something that businesses will ***want*** to do. Our 
 professor was a jocular fellow, though his history at large companies 

content/final-project-from-interface-aesthetics.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Category: Design
 I had my last day of actual class today, and the semester is really 
 beginning to wind down. I still have at least 60 pages of writing to do in 
 the next two weeks, but somehow it will get done. One class that I 
-<i>have</i> finished my final project work for is [Interface 
+*have* finished my final project work for is [Interface 
 Aesthetics][1], which was a survey class covering typography, color, 
 layout, web design, and a handful of other topics. 
 

content/firefox-modifications-for-real-estate-and-usability.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ real estate, and will make Firefox a little easier to use at the same time.
 
 Once these are set up, Firefox will look like this:
 
-![No alt](/images/Firefox%20Screenshot.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/Firefox%20Screenshot.png)
 
 These changes do the following:
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ functionality, I recommend the [Cybersearch extension][7], which uses keywords
 in the URL bar to complete searches. For example, if I type "wiki windows," 
 it gives me the top ten wikipedia pages for the term windows:
 
-![No alt](/images/Firefox%20Cybersearch%20Example.png)
+![No alt]({filename}/images/Firefox%20Cybersearch%20Example.png)
 
 This also works for Google and Amazon, and just about any other site you 
 can think of.