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ShawnRIN

ShawnRIN's Journal
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August 11, 2013

Why gays should serve in the military

I can't hear this song without thinking of this video.

August 5, 2013

Has anyone installed Joomla! or other similar CMS on a Windows Home Server 2011 SP1?

I have been Google searching for someone who has successfully done this but have came up short. Basically, I want a Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP (WIMP) server on WHS 2011 without loosing the capability of the WHS I have gotten used to.

July 28, 2013

Is abortion eugenics for the poor?

Someone asked me this and I don't really have a good answer so I though I would ask this group. It certainly seems that poor people have more of them. I wouldn't think this plausible but with studies of HIV/AIDs training in the late 80s and reverse redlining for junk home loans it might be worth examining.

July 25, 2013

Arrested Development Season 4: Did anyone actually like it?

The first three seasons were awesome and I was shocked when it was canceled. I was really happy when the fourth season came out but was let down the same way I was let down by Star Wars I: Phantom Menace. They changed the formula to spin each episode around a single original cast member instead of keeping Michael at the center. Michael, George Michael, and to some degree Maybe were the comedic straight people that gave context to the crazy characters in the first three seasons. It was easy to sympathies with their position during the shows banter. In the fourth season the three were all just as self centered as the rest of the cast doing away with the classic comedic formula of straight guy vs. wacko. I didn't really like or sympathize with anyone in season 4.
Perhaps once you make a show that is really great like Star Wars 4-6 or Arrested Development Season 1-3, its near impossible to recreate the working conditions to continue that quality of work especially after a significant time gap.

David Bianculli's review on NPR. I wonder if he got paid extra for this.
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/04/188392731/new-arrested-development-gags-are-best-served-in-one-sitting

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