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Ben Wilson

ben wilson This is the blog of a one Ben Wilson, a Louisville, Kentucky native who enjoys baseball, beer, music, bikes, things that fly and good food. By day he pushes pixels and makes the Internet happen for a local advertising agency. His wife, Kelly is an Ironman, and his baby Amelia is the cutest thing ever.

Birthday Gallery is up! Pics of Kelly’s cake for me (tasty!) and pics of Kelly, mum, brother Nick and I at the Bats game!

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Aug 20 2003 ~ 10:54 am ~ Comments (2) ~
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Yeah, i’ve looked at most of the PHP open-sourced content management systems out there… PHPNuke, PHPWebsite, PostNuke, none of them! I mean, PostNuke even has “Post” in the name! If they do have PostgreSQL support, then it’s either half-baked or in a state of disarray. It’s damned depressing as Postgres is very stable and has a lot of things that MySQL doesn’t have… ah well…

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Aug 19 2003 ~ 10:41 pm ~ Comments Off ~
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I give unto thee a Funny parody of those Zoloft commercials with that little dumpy, depressed black and white ovoid creature

Thanks be to Charlie for that one…

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Well, the last vestige of a successful broad-range local bookstore, Hawley-Cooke has been bought by Borders Books and Music. They will close briefly in a couple of months and reopen as Borders. I don’t know how employment will be affected, but I suppose our closest Hawley-Cooke contact Holly will know. Or her legions of HC spies will know.

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Well, today is my 25th birthday. I am now firmly rooted in my mid-twenties, and no rounding error will say otherwise. I’d like to thank my mom, Holly and Geoff for wishing me a Happy Birthday, as well as Jeanette (step-mum), my father Neil, my brother Nick and sister Kristin for wishing me well on my birthday (we went to the tasty Thai Smile 4 for dinner). (Kristin — the Family Guy DVD set was sold out at Target, we have come to find). Even my grandmother called me at work today to wish me a Happy Birthday!

For anyone who didn’t know it was my birthday, that’s cool, because I know I’ve not known/have forgotten plenty of birthdays in the past. I now keep a big list of birthdays (something that everyone should do, but usually rely on their parents for when they are younger). Eve’s birthday was back on the 13th of August, my Uncle Jack’s birthday was yesterday, and Nick Smith’s is the 21st of August, and Jackson Cooper‘s birthday is the 23rd of August.

Oh, I must give a boatload of thanks to my dear, beloved Kelly. She baked me a cake (strawberry cake with cream-cheese icing and blueberries), played “Happy Birthday” on the piano at midnight, and mowed the grass for me yesterday. She left me a message in lip-stick on the mirror this morning, and she also left me a voice-mail exactly at midnight today that I did not notice until just moments ago (I saved it for future playing). She’s so nice and pretty, I do declare.

I get to take a half-day from work today, and I’m going to eat tasty sushi at Bendoya for lunch, and then Mom, Nick, Kelly and I are going out to the Louisville Bats game tonight, and that should be lots of fun…

(11:01:56) jacksoncooper: damn dude. happy birthday! (thanks, jackson)

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Aug 18 2003 ~ 9:59 am ~ Comments Off ~
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Jackson, Kelly and I went to the fair yesterday! Bunnies and rednecks and chickens, OH MY! Note well our “weak shouldered” bunny friend over to the right there… We also encountered rockabilly ducks and some odd memorials to Bob Hope and Desert Storm II in aquarium format! The bunnies were extra cute this year.

Check theKentucky State Fair 2003 gallery!

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Aug 16 2003 ~ 2:16 pm ~ Comments (3) ~
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Holly (she’s no dumbass) sent me an op-ed piece at CNN entitled Believe It, or Not and it discusses the shift in American Christian faith (including Catholics, mind you) where more and more Christians believe in the idea of the Virgin birth and that God is the only key to morality (among other things).

As the author Kristof states: “The faith in the Virgin Birth reflects the way American Christianity is becoming less intellectual and more mystical over time. The faith in the Virgin Birth reflects the way American Christianity is becoming less intellectual and more mystical over time.

Man, that worries me quite a bit. People that don’t know why they should believe what they believe. I know the word is “faith”, but damn! There are ridiculous numbers of pieces of evidence that state that the Bible isn’t “the word of god”, but a constantly edited piece of literature. Many things that are the bedrock pieces of the faith are later “add-ins” by the clergy. (The “why” of that is another argument all together).

I don’t intend to impugn religious beliefs here but faith is indeed turning away from the hard texts and more into an almost oral tradition of mysticism and mythology. Know your faith, and question it. Know more, assume less.

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Many of you may not know about the band Ween, but I think that there song “Where’d the Cheese Go?” might either sum them up, or perhaps give you a good introduction. You see, it was created for Pizza Hut‘s “The Insider” ad campaign, but rejected.

Ween was introduced to me by David Gruneisen, and after listening to the varied tracks he had on his MP3 share at Corvus, I came to appreciate their oddity.

Hey mister, won’t you please help my pony?

Geoff Noles
special thanks to Geoff for pointing this out!

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So, my step-sister Kristin wanted to get her nose pierced. And Kelly, having had a nose-ring for some time and even second time, became the lead conspirator for this journey. Body Art Emporium (chosen by readers of LEO as the “Best Body Piercing” establishment in 2002) was the chosen piercing place. Well, I won’t bore you with details, so here is the gallery of Kristin’s Nose Ring Experience. It was a wee bit painful towards the end, but our man Doc gave it to her for free for the trouble. Nice guy!

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Aug 12 2003 ~ 2:41 pm ~ Comments Off ~
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The Andy Gallery has been updated with a few before-birth photos, and a bunch of post-birth photos (you thought I was going to say afterbirth, but I didn’t).

I’ve also uploaded a shot of my new desk and surroundings.

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