I am thankful for many things -- an intelligent, caring, and beautiful wife who is my life partner in every way; three healthy, energetic, and smart kids who challenge me to be a better role model at every turn; a rewarding and interesting legal career; good health; freedom; and this amazing Internet, just to name a few.

Go read Glenn Reynolds' and James Lileks' Thanksgiving entries (yes, I am thankful for them, too).

And I am thankful that this President is leading the war against terrorism.

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I added a link to Troynovant, or "New Troy," a couple of days ago, but failed to mention it here in the body of my blog when I did so.

It's a bit more literary than most blogs, with essays on books, film, and politics.

Be sure to click over and check it out.

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Again via Professor Hall (whose site seems to be rapidly linking up several like-minded neo-bloggers!) I have discovered SFSignal. Click on over and scroll up and down.

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I must have read Douglas Hofstadter's Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid five times or more during my senior year of high school and first two years of college. It is definitely a classic that rewards multiple readings.

Via the inestimable Professor Hall, I am happy to discover The Eternal Golden Braid, which covers space, SF, space, Legos, more space, and more SF. My kind of blog! Check it out.

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I think I need to organize my links better. I've been adding to them pretty haphazardly.

One of my most recent additions is the Vodkapundit Stephen Green, an interview of whom can be found here (link via Instapundit). Read the whole thing, as they say.

I, like Green, found The Fountainhead to be a more enjoyable read than Atlas Shrugged (although I heartily recommend reading both). It's been a few years since I've read either one, but my wife is reading Atlas Shrugged with her book club, so I get to vicariously enjoy it again.

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I have been doing far more reading than writing recently, plowing my way through a 3-month backlog of Analogs, starting the Terminal Experiment, continuing to read The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers out loud to my oldest son, and re-reading Gary Hudson's testimony (see November 5 entry below). Check back soon for expanded commentary. I have to confess that I am also trying again to beat Halo playing solo on the "Legendary" setting ;-) I managed to beat it on Easy, Normal, and Heroic.

My goal is to defeat it on Legendary before the sequel comes out. I am currently stalled at the gravity lift in the "Truth and Reconciliation" level. So that should also account for the lack of free ice cream around here recently.

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Well I finally bit the bullet and taught myself some HTML.

I drafted this site mostly from scratch in plain text (in Notepad), cutting and pasting some bits from the old Blogger template.

Please let me know if you have any comments on the new look.

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