Wedding Planning; Dvorak Progress; etc.

Posted April 8, 2005, 8:06 p.m.

Wow, I’ve been slacking on the posting lately, haven’t I?

Wedding planning has been moving along reasonably well (which is good, given that there’s only 50 days of bachelorhood left). The rings came in to Kay the other day, and we’re getting the engraving (and Melissa’s resizing; mine was special-ordered in the right size) done now. There’s a bit of upheaval with both the rehearsal dinner and Reception II: The Bedford Reception (long stories, explain later), and there’s one more run of invitations to do, but it’s all moving forward.

My big, outstanding solo projects are tuxes and music. The big, outstanding joint projects are the wedding license and getting Melissa on the lease at my [becoming our] apartment (and thus getting her a parking pass).

Remember how, a while back, I said I was switching to the Dvorak keyboard? That’s still happening. I haven’t regained my QWERTY typing speed yet, but I’m fast enough now that I’m not switching back to QWERTY (as I was for a while) for typing-intensive tasks like long blog entries, coding websites, IM conversations, and so on.

It’s only a matter of time now before I can abandon QWERTY entirely. Bwah hah haha!

Anyway, I’ve also finally started writing some fiction again (now that the poetry reorganization is out of the way). I’m hoping to have another short story ready to go in another month or so—no promises!

Have a nice day!

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Virtue is not always amiable.

If we knew how often we were wrong about our understanding of just about everything, it would be deeply demotivating.

I wish for nothing more than a good government and a constitution under which our liberties will be perfectly safe.

Because writing reflects thinking, if your thinking is obscure and convoluted your prose will be, too.

Philosophy [is] a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.

Science has as many competing styles as painting or poetry.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

As a matter of fact, men and women are not equal in sex; they are quite unequal, and it is only because they are unequal that they complement one another. Each has a superiority of function.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Saints are not abnormal cases to be studied by a modernistic doctor. They were—they are—normal, with flesh like yours. And they conquered.

The political correctness that inhibits cultural comparisons may be as great a danger as secret police in the long run, effectively silencing any defense of the West.

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The mystery of government is not how it works, but how to make it stop.

The liberty of love, therefore, is not license. Freedom implies not just a mere choice but also responsibility for choice.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.

But then I found an astonishing thing. I found that the very people who said that mankind was one church from Plato to Emerson were the very people who said that morality had changed altogether, and that what was right in one age was wrong in another.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

I think there is always a need in any struggle for sensationalists. They get the headlines, they get the ear of the public, they take the race horse chances.

Wherever the poor direct public affairs and dispose of the national resources, it appears certain that, as they profit by the expenditure of the State, they are apt to augment that expenditure.