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Monthly Archives: December 2005

It’s a Brownpau Holiday Extravaganza!

Monday, December 19, 2005

If you’re still wondering about possible presents to give in this last week to shop before Christmas comes, remember that Pandora calendars, mugs, and dog shirts are still available, and BTQ shirts and mugs make perfect gifts for the language curmudgeons and philosophy professors in your life. Raffy and I also have a bunch of [...]

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Photo Retrospective: Westmont Village, 1998-2002

Saturday, December 17, 2005

I moved out of my parents’ home in San Juan when I was 21, just a few months after graduating. I was young and reckless and in love, and needed the freedom to make huge life and career decisions out on my own. The place I chose to live was Westmont Village, a highly-compressed modular [...]

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Photo Retrospective: Memories of Manila, 2000-2002

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Last night I scanned and uploaded several photos I took of Manila from 2000 to early 2002 with my point-and-shoot Canon Prima BF-800. Now, when I say “Manila,” I actually mean “Metro Manila,” the metropolitan area hugging Manila Bay, consisting of various cities and municipalities, from Valenzuela and Caloocan City to the north, to [...]

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More Hosting Issues (updated)

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

My shared server on Affordablehost continues to have persistent database issues, probably from some other user getting DDOS’d or Slashdotted or running infinitely looping database calls. Twice yesterday, my site has jumped into a time warp, first the MySQL databases resetting back to Nov 26, then the whole site resetting back to Dec 12. Then, [...]

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A Candlelight Carol Service

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Early Sunday evening was the Christmas Candlelight Carols Service at First Baptist DC. The choir (of which I am a part), joined the Calvary Baptist Choir, the Friday Morning Music Club, and the Runnymede Singers (no website), to sing such Christmas greats as Gustav Holst’s “Christmas Day” medley (a rather fast and challenging piece) [...]

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Photo Retrospective, 1998: Graduation

Monday, December 12, 2005

(Me Graduating uploaded by brownpau.)
This is my graduation from Ateneo de Manila in 1998. (Yeah, I was pretty thin and slouchy back then.) The graduation “celebration” dinner that followed was something I don’t remember with much fondness.
The next time I would shake hands with Father Nebres would be seven years later.

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Pandora Plays with a Peacock Feather

Sunday, December 11, 2005

(Playing with a Peacock Feather 2 uploaded by brownpau.)
Peacock feathers come a close second to laser pointers for “most effective way to drive your cat crazy.” Styrofoam packing peanuts are a possible third. Are they okay for cats to play with?

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Moses and Jesus Action Figures

Sunday, December 11, 2005

I had originally bought the Jesus action figure for the FBCDC White Elephant* Christmas Party, but Amy thought it was a bit too close to being a graven image of Deity much a trivialization of Christ by turning him into a joke and a toy, so I went back to the toy shop and [...]

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A380 Interiors

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Lots of amazing interior and aerial photos of the new Airbus A380 are up on Airliners.net. It’s a huge, huge plane.
Update: More recent photos from Gizmodo and Airliners.net
Flight deck: 1, 2
Upper deck with ballast tanks: 1, 2
Lower deck with test equipment and cargo: 1, 2, 3, 4 (note the temporary lavatories and champagne boxes)
More stuff: [...]

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Yet More Snowy DC Photos

Friday, December 9, 2005

I admit it: I was holding off posting new weblog entries and photos because I heard about the coming storm and wanted to wait so I could have an uninterrupted string of winter photos. Sadly, when I woke up at 6am this morning, the snow had turned to sleet, and it was just too nasty [...]

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