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Ryan

The Lord redeems his servants; no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him -- Psalm 34:22, NIV

About Me

"These times, they are a-changin'" -- Bob

I deleted my previous paragraph of text because it has become dated since October 2003 when I first wrote it. Its not entirely untrue, just not as accurate as I'd like. I'm still the same person, but I've gained a lot of wisdom, and realized that putting my faith in God is much smarter than putting my faith in the world. So for now I'm leaving this area mostly blank-ish. Enjoy!

My Interests

chainmail, computers, Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy books, hitting on Joni, Linux, music, perl programming, school, sci-fi books

I'd like to meet:

I've been found by lots of people I went to high school with. And apparently they don't have anything to say to me and they don't want to carry on conversations, but they still want to be popular and have 100 friends on MySpace. And I don't care to be part of that. If you aren't interested in actually BEING a friend, then don't add me to your friends list.

Bands, 'ryan-ryan-ryan' clubs, and other junk need not apply to be my friend either. If I'm interested in your band, or your club, or your spam-sexy-19-year-old-blond profile, I'll let you know.

Music:

Atom and His Package, Bad Religion, Ben Harper, Bouncing Souls, Brown Derbies, BT, Counting Crows, Crossroads Community Church band, Dead Kennedys, Dropkick Murphys, Local H, Minor Threat, Perpetual Groove, Propagandhi, The Weakerthans

Movies:

Equilibrium, John Q., Lean On Me, Life as a House, Shawshank Redemption, Shrek, Toy Story, Usual Suspects

Television:

I don't watch much TV. Mostly its DVDs of TV shows. Buffy, Firefly, Highlander, Millennium

Books:

1984, Brave New World, Cryptonomicon, Ender's Game, Gathering Blue, I Will Fear No Evil, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, Prime Intellect, Stranger In a Strange Land, The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls, The Giver, The Glass Menagerie, The Messenger, Worthing Saga

Heroes:

My parents for never fighting in front of us kids and for sticking together for 20+ years (and counting!)

My Blog

To blog or not to blog

The correct answer is 'not to blog', but I already broke that rule!  This is just a general update of the State of the Ryan, July/August 2007 edition (thats right, its bi-monthly!) I'm in South C...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:35:00 PST

cat

No, I didn't purchase a cat.  I just wanted to share this picture I found on Cuteoverload.com ...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:27:00 PST

She said yes

Yup, she said yes. I'm now engageified. Now with more engagification. Engement++The wedding will have a 12 month incubation, so we expect Spring 2008 to be the date.Yeah.. uh.. I'm no longer nervou...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:46:00 PST

Network+ certified

I win.  I'm now Network+ certified, which is a computer industry standard certification.  Huzzah.  I took the test this morning and passed with 20% to spare.  61% (554 out of 900) ...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:27:00 PST

School update

I know I never posted about this quarter's classes, so I figure this is as good a time as any. I signed up for two classes that were supposed to start in early January.  Except the classes didn't...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:20:00 PST

Sunday Sunday Sunday! (baptisms, half off!)

I'm taking the plunge this Sunday.  I'll be getting baptized at Crossroads Community Church at 6:00pm this Sunday.  I've been attending this church for over a year now, and I became a m...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:24:00 PST

Unemployed and in school

Friday was my last day at work.  I'm now a full time student.  I'm scheduled for 18 hours of classes starting in 2 weeks, and this weekend is the last weekend of the current quarter, so I'm ...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:50:00 PST

another school update

I made an 82% on the final for Introduction to Networking CIS1140.  Which gave me an 89% in the class and I spoke with the teacher after I finished the final and he said he would be able to round...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:08:00 PST

Another boring school update..

I've been a slack mofo this quarter.  I'm taking one class and I have 904 out of 1000 points.  The class average is 790.  I'm always baffled how people can do that poorly, but apparentl...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 07 May 2006 09:20:00 PST

Decatur Farmers Market

"Your Decatur Farmer's Market" proclaims the signs outside the warehouse that masquerades as an all-natural grocery store.  Yes, I went in.  Yes, my nose was offended at the various smells -...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 03 May 2006 05:02:00 PST