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My First NaNoWriMo Experience (NaNoWriMo 2013)

Friday, 2013 December 6Tuesday, 2018 July 17 James O'Neill1594Leave a Comment

I have participated in my first ever National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this November and it was a hell of an experience. Out of 312,866 people signed up for it worldwide only about 40, buy 000 or so succeeded. As one of the 40k+ I can count myself as one of the 2013 NaNoWriMo winners […]

NaNoWriMo 2013 (3 Days and Counting)

Monday, 2013 October 28Tuesday, 2018 July 17 James O'Neill1694Leave a Comment

OK,Â everyone there are 3 days and counting before National Writing Month (NaNoWrimo) which runs all through the month of November. It is coming… brace yourself!! I do not have as much prepared as I would like, and I am not sure if the chapter synopsi that I have prepared will work well enough for me […]

I Have Joined the Green Party!

Monday, 2013 September 16Friday, 2018 July 20 James O'Neill2218Leave a Comment

How I Found Out About The Green Party I have officially joined the Green Party. “How did this come about?” you ask. Well, the short of it is that I took a thorough survey during the 2012 presidential electoral cycle which was titled “I side with…?“. I knew who I was going to vote for […]

Attempting to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

Monday, 2013 September 9Tuesday, 2018 July 17 James O'Neill1430Leave a Comment

OK everyone…. I am going to attempt to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) which is all through the month of the November (Nov 1 -30). The challenge is to write a 50k word novel in one month. I think 50k words is technically classified as a novella, visit this site but whose counting […]

The Apology: The Church could start by asking for forgiveness.

Monday, 2013 May 20Friday, 2018 July 20 James O'Neill2385Leave a Comment

The following article titled ‘The Apology’Â is pulled directly from Dr. Stewart Edser’s Website ‘Being Gay, drugs Being Christian’. I felt compelled to reproduce his wonderful article for posterity, if, for some reason, his should go off-line. Please do not read it here. Click on over to his site Being Gay, Being Christian The Apology Here […]

Google Glass Features: How Medical Uses Will Revolutionize Your Healthcare [VIDEO]

Monday, 2013 May 20Tuesday, 2016 November 22 James O'Neill1515Leave a Comment

Here is a great article with videos from Medical Daily (mar 2013) titled ‘Google Glass Features: How Medical Uses Will Revolutionize Your Healthcare [VIDEO]‘ which goes over the ways the Google Glass is set to revolutionize health care.

Reflections on My Grandmother Dying

Wednesday, 2013 April 3Friday, 2018 July 20 James O'Neill1404Leave a Comment

A week or so ago my grandmother had gotten sick with something like triple pneumonia from which she seemed to recover from fine, and then she stopped eating and her kidneys began to shut down. Thus started the downward spiral. I had a chance to say good bye while she laid there unconscious toward the […]

Busy Week for Same-Sex Marriage in the Supreme Court

Wednesday, 2013 March 27 James O'Neill1587Leave a Comment

This week on Tuesday and Wednesday we had the Supreme Court final hearings on California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage of Act (DOMA), page respectively. These are the final hearings prior to the Supreme Court’s final decision which should be given sometime near June (possibly unless they dismiss the cases due to lack […]

Are You Still Bored? – the Archives

Friday, 2013 February 15Tuesday, 2016 February 9 James O'Neill1402Leave a Comment

I have aggregated 2 other “Are you still bored?” posts (original, approved part II) and the 3rd I was in the process of putting together so you do not have to look around for them and their associated links. Let me guess. You are Bored. Let boredom bother you no longer with these educational courses […]

Declaration of Principles from Babylon 5

Thursday, 2013 January 10Thursday, 2018 July 19 James O'Neill3837Leave a Comment

This is the text of the Declaration of Principles as written by the character Gâ€™Kar in an episode from the science fiction series Babylon 5, a Star Trek spin-off. These are powerful words and quite applicable to a liberal theology. I think here is the actual reading from the series. The universe speaks in many […]