<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138</id><updated>2011-09-22T12:56:19.853-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mud Creek Rim</title><subtitle type='html'>Randomness Leaning Left</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>54</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-6095430743673671589</id><published>2011-09-22T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T12:47:54.603-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/6095430743673671589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=6095430743673671589' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/6095430743673671589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/6095430743673671589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KfojB18ZfRk/TnuQ3cuekxI/AAAAAAAAADY/gUHWAJmGPBA/s72-c/venn-diagram-social-security-ponzi-scheme-630.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-972643066094571207</id><published>2007-05-16T17:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-16T17:38:31.269-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Note to Boomer-aged conservatives:    STAYING IN IRAQ WILL NOT MAKE UP FOR LOSING IN VIETNAM.GET OVER IT.Yes, we're back in another country full of funny-talking brown people busy with a civil war,but this isn't a chance to start the game over and get better results.  It's just fucking stupid, is all.As well, if terrorists want to come to this country to kill Americans ... they're going to.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/972643066094571207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=972643066094571207' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/972643066094571207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/972643066094571207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2007/05/note-to-boomer-aged-conservatives.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-112493814900177699</id><published>2005-08-24T19:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T19:49:20.856-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Chester Wild West Rodeo 2005 photo gallery at Webshots.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/112493814900177699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=112493814900177699' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/112493814900177699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/112493814900177699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2005/08/chester-wild-west-rodeo-2005-photo.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-111016926794314523</id><published>2005-03-06T20:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-03-06T20:22:37.946-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***It's usually kind of crass to say anything along the lines of "The Republican Party is comprised of Corporate Whores," but what the hell else are we supposed to think when we've got crap likeSantorum's Sweatshop Bill getting pushed?I mean, I know Republican politicians are anti-labor (even while many Republican voters, strangely, belong to unions - licking the boot that kicks them, I suppose),</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/111016926794314523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=111016926794314523' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/111016926794314523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/111016926794314523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2005/03/its-usually-kind-of-crass-to-say.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-110491839566267194</id><published>2005-01-05T01:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-01-05T01:46:53.900-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Sweet.  The next logical step from using an inner-tube or an inflatable mattress on a sled hill: The Airboard.Kinda pricey, though.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/110491839566267194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=110491839566267194' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/110491839566267194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/110491839566267194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2005/01/sweet.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-110469356592091742</id><published>2005-01-02T11:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-01-02T11:19:25.920-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***As usual, Fafblog says it best:Some old dead guy once said that a year is a feast of days that we should savor one by one. If that's true then somebody already got to 2004 before Giblets did, probably a large foul-smelling barnyard animal, and it is now sitting in a steaming pile of crap on Giblets's front porch.   ***    </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/110469356592091742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=110469356592091742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/110469356592091742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/110469356592091742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2005/01/as-usual-fafblog-says-it-best-some-old.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109946500393155590</id><published>2004-11-02T22:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-02T23:28:58.210-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***For those who think that Kerry wouldn't have fought as effective a War on Terror ...this man would like to thank you.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109946500393155590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109946500393155590' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109946500393155590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109946500393155590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/11/for-those-who-think-that-kerry-wouldnt.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109946321310097540</id><published>2004-11-02T22:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-02T22:26:53.100-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Well, Richard Nixon won a second term, too.Of course, his misdeeds didn't come to light until afterwards, rather than being obviousduring the first term.*** </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109946321310097540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109946321310097540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109946321310097540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109946321310097540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/11/well-richard-nixon-won-second-term-too.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109929399898247642</id><published>2004-10-31T23:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-10-31T23:26:38.983-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Ah, yes, another resounding success in foreign policy by the Bush administration:Iran Parliament OKs Nuke Enrichment Bill(But I'm sure that, somehow, this is Clinton's fault).***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109929399898247642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109929399898247642' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109929399898247642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109929399898247642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/10/ah-yes-another-resounding-success-in.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109874779032481448</id><published>2004-10-25T16:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-25T18:47:31.656-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***I always find it somewhat amusing, and more than somewhat frustrating, when Republicans I know talk about how the possibility of John Kerry running the War on Terror "scares them." Or how Bush is a real man, who would find his enemies and take them out, like John Wayne. How only Bush can be trusted with defending the country, not the "Jane Fonda" candidate.(Aside from the incompetent, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109874779032481448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109874779032481448' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109874779032481448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109874779032481448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/10/i-always-find-it-somewhat-amusing-and.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109775521675883062</id><published>2004-10-14T05:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-14T05:01:36.440-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***George W. Bush, Oct. 13, 2004:  "I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations."George W. Bush, March. 13, 2002:  "And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109775521675883062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109775521675883062' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109775521675883062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109775521675883062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/10/george-w.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109754075981319955</id><published>2004-10-11T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-11T17:25:59.813-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Kevin Drum quantifies the deceptiveness of each candidate during the second Presidential Debate.Shockingly enough, Bush doesn't come out look better than Kerry....BUSH LIES MORE THAN KERRY....FILM AT 11***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109754075981319955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109754075981319955' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109754075981319955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109754075981319955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/10/kevin-drum-quantifies-deceptiveness-of.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109685604736206834</id><published>2004-10-03T19:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-03T19:14:59.120-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***As Joshua Marshall says, with the situation deteriorating, the President is left with making good news up about Iraq.  This isn't semantics, this is outright lying.It's also nothing new with regards to Iraq, they were lying well before the war.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109685604736206834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109685604736206834' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109685604736206834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109685604736206834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/10/as-joshua-marshall-says-with-situation.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109641881076050252</id><published>2004-09-28T17:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-28T17:50:16.150-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***You'd suppose that in an election year, Bush could count on a certain loyalty, a certain stolid conservative backing, from the town next to his campaign photo op ranch the heart of Texas.Er, no.From Crawford, TXs only newspaper:"He let us down." ***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109641881076050252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109641881076050252' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109641881076050252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109641881076050252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/09/youd-suppose-that-in-election-year.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109633958004500213</id><published>2004-09-27T19:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-27T19:46:48.790-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Thanks for everything, John York.Asshole.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109633958004500213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109633958004500213' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109633958004500213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109633958004500213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/09/thanks-for-everything-john-york.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109581732561226689</id><published>2004-09-21T18:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-27T19:48:17.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Meet Ayad Allawi, our man in Baghdad.Yeah, this guy's a real improvement over Ahmed Chalabi.***Charles Dodgeson on how Bush's so-called "courage" may not really exist.  Well, no "may" about it.One last note, to any Bush partisans reading this: why no, it does not take courage to order troops into battle -- not if you're going to suppress photos of the coffins, underreport the count</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109581732561226689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109581732561226689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109581732561226689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109581732561226689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/09/meet-ayad-allawi-our-man-in-baghdad.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109567780208390618</id><published>2004-09-20T03:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-20T03:56:42.083-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***As Fred Kaplan writes in Slate:Let's Pretend Missile Defense Works***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109567780208390618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109567780208390618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109455716410349558</id><published>2004-09-07T04:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-07T04:42:57.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Matthew Yglesias gives a general breakdown of the President's specific lies,general mendacity, and misdirection from Bush's RNC address; or at leastthose as pertain to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the War on Terror.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109455716410349558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109455716410349558' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109455716410349558'/><link rel='self' 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disabuse you of thatnotion.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109444451446974123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109444451446974123' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109444451446974123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109444451446974123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/09/for-those-of-you-who-still-believe-for.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-109404083497015285</id><published>2004-09-01T05:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-01T05:13:54.970-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> *** I'm planning to come up with ten of my own, but in the meantime, McSweeney's has 105, with more to come:McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Reasons to Dispatch Bush  *** </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/109404083497015285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=109404083497015285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109404083497015285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/109404083497015285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2004/09/im-planning-to-come-up-with-ten-of-my.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-105611711361911205</id><published>2003-06-20T06:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-06-20T06:54:54.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Having stumbled across a number of beautiful landscapes done in what appeared to be an oil-photorealistic style, I started browsing around, and after seeing reference to the "Giclees" method, looked into it.I was extremely disappointed to discover that the "Giclées." method of painting ... isn't painting.I don't dissaprove of the style, not in the least, but it seems to be </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/105611711361911205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=105611711361911205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/105611711361911205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/105611711361911205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/06/having-stumbled-across-number-of.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-94678971</id><published>2003-05-21T03:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-21T03:44:17.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***If anyone has California-centric links, send them my way - I'm going to start putting them together in a link section focused on the state, much like Jim Capozzola has done for Philadelphia at The Lighter Side of the Rittenhouse Review.I may even pattern this blog after that form, just a modest bit of occasional commentary on things of local interest, or those matters that directly touch </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/94678971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=94678971' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/94678971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/94678971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/05/if-anyone-has-california-centric-links.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-94623858</id><published>2003-05-20T01:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-20T14:17:06.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Recent upgrades can be seen to include a prominently displayed PayPal logo, in case anyone particularly charitable/philanthropic/mentally unbalanced should suddenly feel the urge to send me money.Any money contributed to this fund will be used for the noble purposes of buying art supplies, possibly a quality scanner, and seeing movies I can't currently afford the luxury of watching. And</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/94623858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=94623858' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/94623858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/94623858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/05/recent-upgrades-can-be-seen-to-include.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-94623478</id><published>2003-05-20T01:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-20T01:39:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***In lieu of writing anything useful, or even space- filler, I'm slowly upgrading/updating my links section. Posting anything more would require thought - and I don't get paid to think.  Of course, I don't get paid to read blogs, or for anything else I do on the computer ...***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/94623478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=94623478' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/94623478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/94623478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/05/in-lieu-of-writing-anything-useful-or.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-92278129</id><published>2003-04-09T01:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-04-09T01:32:45.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***TBOGG notes that "This won't be another Vietnam...it's going to be more like Russia's Afghanistan adventure."And on that note, cue:"When the highest political leaders of the USSR sent its forces into this war, they did not consider the historic, religious, and national particularities of Afghanistan.  After the entry these particularities proved the most important factors as they </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/92278129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=92278129' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/92278129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/92278129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/04/tbogg-notes-that-this-wont-be-another.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-91644439</id><published>2003-03-30T03:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-31T05:17:01.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Sites for monitoring the war:The AgonistDaily KosGlobalSecurityI have enough of a knowledge of - though little experience in - military matters to make plenty of comments myself.  There is, however, little point in doing so, given the wealth of news, commentary, and analysis (none to be often mistaken for the others) already taking up and/or wasting space.***I am an Insignificant </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/91644439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=91644439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/91644439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/91644439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/03/sites-for-monitoring-war-agonist-daily.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-91644213</id><published>2003-03-30T03:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-30T03:52:59.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Likely Presidential candidate Gary Hart has a blog.I could vote for him for this alone.(I probably won't, but it's still nice to see prominant public figures - beyond Dave Barry - get into the act).He's even got a nice selection of blogging links.***Now abstract painting, is the art of not painting, but of selling nothing, and convincing people of its depth, insight, and meaning. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/91644213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=91644213' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/91644213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/91644213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/03/likely-presidential-candidate-gary.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-91040895</id><published>2003-03-19T21:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-19T21:31:44.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***To further clarify - oil painting is the art of mixing yellow and blue, and not getting green.In fact, it is the art of mixing two colors, and not getting a third, but rather an amalgamation, where the eye can distinguish both colors as distinct.It's also the art of cleaning your brush such that random colors don't suddenly unload in an inconvenient place - such as a blotch of prussian </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/91040895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=91040895' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/91040895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/91040895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/03/to-further-clarify-oil-painting-is-art.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-90979297</id><published>2003-03-19T00:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-19T00:05:37.670-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***For the record:  Oil painting is hard.  Very, very hard.  Unless you don't care about quality, of course.  And in an elitist college "town" such as Davis, most would-be artists don't care about quality.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/90979297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=90979297' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/90979297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/90979297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/03/for-record-oil-painting-is-hard.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-90903125</id><published>2003-03-17T20:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-17T20:56:40.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Is there any creature more annoying than the common crow?  Or, rather, the crow and raven, as I'm unable to distinguish the two, and don't particularly care as to their differences.   There are literally thousands swarming this region, and their harsh calls in the early hours of the morning grate on my well being, such as it is.Come to think of it, there is a more annoying creature - the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/90903125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=90903125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/90903125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/90903125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/03/is-there-any-creature-more-annoying.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-90142832</id><published>2003-03-04T16:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-17T21:02:10.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Good weather is a bit overrated, I'm afraid.  Perhaps this is only because I'm a night person, but I'm usually quite annoyed by overly sunny days, without a wisp of cloud in the sky.  Or perhaps I need to buy some clothes more suitable for warm days, since blue jeans and a heavy sweathshirt get a bit uncomfortable when it's in the mid-seventies.I also, however, enjoy a good rainy day, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/90142832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=90142832' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/90142832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/90142832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/03/good-weather-is-bit-overrated-im.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-89827714</id><published>2003-02-27T00:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-27T01:02:10.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Ye gods, where do these people come from? Deer Feeder Puts Fawns Before Freedom.In the past six months, Minion, 52, has claimed that her Native American ancestry -- a mix of Nez Perce, Cherokee, Choctaw "and a little white man was thrown in there somewhere along the way" -- gives her independence from state wildlife laws. Apparently, it gives her independence from common sense, as well.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/89827714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=89827714' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89827714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89827714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/ye-gods-where-do-these-people-come.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-89825418</id><published>2003-02-26T23:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-26T23:31:45.966-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Nothing like a nice, refreshing weekend away from the Valley to make me feel at least slightly human again.  It takes a few days Back Home to regain appreciation for things like fresh air, absolute quiet, clean water, and the sight of stars like dust in the night sky.I even managed to salvage a few of my old JPL 9x11 glossies, miraculously not thrown away in my mother's enduring efforts </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/89825418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=89825418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89825418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89825418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/nothing-like-nice-refreshing-weekend.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-89426112</id><published>2003-02-20T03:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-20T03:04:46.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***I'm certainly not a Lakers fan - a Lakers hater, more like it - but Kobe Bryant has simply been inhuman in the last eleven games.  I mean ...  damn.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/89426112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=89426112' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89426112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89426112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/im-certainly-not-lakers-fan-lakers.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-89420887</id><published>2003-02-19T23:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-20T00:10:41.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***"The brothers [de Witt] were clubbed, stabbed, shot, hung by the feet from a scaffold, and subjected to a frenzy of mutilation during which the internal organs were cut out, roasted, and eaten.  As an  example of the primal savagery festering beneath the brilliant surface of the wealthiest, most civilized nation in Europe, it is an instructive episode."--Maritime Supremacy, Peter Padfield</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/89420887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=89420887' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89420887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/89420887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/brothers-de-witt-were-clubbed-stabbed.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88970456</id><published>2003-02-12T05:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-12T05:22:33.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***This is the sort of stuff that make cosmologists weak in the knees, and rightfully so.  Very, very big news - we've now got a map of the universe (kind of).  At the very least:  It's 13.7 billion years old; it's flat; we know the Hubble constant - 71; we have a good breakdown on it's composition.  A whole bunch of theories just got real obsolete, real fast.  So did a whole bunch of books, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88970456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88970456' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88970456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88970456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/this-is-sort-of-stuff-that-make.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88957679</id><published>2003-02-11T21:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-11T21:44:50.740-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Well, it took more than a month, and seemed ready to come down to drawing names from a hat, but the Niners managed to pick a new head coach, , Dennis Erickson.I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but he seems like a solid choice.  I'd have a lot more confidence if it didn't have a slight air of desparation, produced mostly by the very roulette-like atmosphere about the whole </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88957679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88957679' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88957679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88957679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/well-it-took-more-than-month-and.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88877523</id><published>2003-02-10T15:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-10T15:31:47.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Via Teresa Nielsen Hayden, I give you ....Viking Kittens.***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88877523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88877523' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88877523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88877523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/via-teresa-nielsen-hayden-i-give-you.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88519142</id><published>2003-02-03T22:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-10T15:32:27.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Some people may be aware that at various points I've attempted to write books, or at least world-build.  Said people are probably aware that this has been more of a daliance than a true effort, given that I'm not good with writing narrative and/or dialogue, and more importantly can never decide exactly which book I want to write.  Will it be the near-future science-fiction?  The Epic </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88519142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88519142' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88519142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88519142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/some-people-may-be-aware-that-at.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88385436</id><published>2003-02-01T10:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-02-01T10:30:54.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>******</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88385436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88385436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88385436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88385436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/02/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88200844</id><published>2003-01-28T21:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-28T21:48:39.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***My room-mate's parents pay her phone bill without looking at it, as far as I can tell.It's also my phone bill....and my DSL bill.I'm going to Hell for this, but in the meantime, free broadband kicks ass.(Of course, they can afford to casually pay a phone bill that includes almost daily, multi-hour phone calls to Japan, so I'm not feeling a whole lot of remorse here).***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88200844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88200844' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88200844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88200844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/my-room-mates-parents-pay-her-phone.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88194709</id><published>2003-01-28T19:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-28T19:47:01.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***If you live in northern California, you should buy this book .***</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88194709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88194709' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88194709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88194709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/if-you-live-in-northern-california-you.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88165950</id><published>2003-01-28T09:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-28T19:46:45.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>***Wonderful how the miracle of modern technology can help bring to fruition our most selfish desires:55-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth .Yes, people are living longer today.  Yes, having children isn't, in and of itself, a selfish act - although I personally think that it is so a good part of the time.This, however, is just blatant.  I'd say it's representative of the generation at hand, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88165950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88165950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88165950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88165950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/wonderful-how-miracle-of-modern.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-88062216</id><published>2003-01-26T13:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-26T13:44:06.730-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Paul Davies likes the idea that the universe has a meaning:The universe is ordered in a meaningful way, and scientists seek reasons for why things are the way they are. If the universe as a whole is pointless, then it exists without reason. In other words, it is ultimately arbitrary and absurd. We are then invited to contemplate a state of affairs in which all scientific chains of reasoning </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/88062216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=88062216' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88062216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/88062216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/paul-davies-likes-idea-that-universe.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87999084</id><published>2003-01-25T00:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-25T14:12:39.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"Wars are the sum of battles, battles the tally of individual human beings killing and dying.  [...] To speak of war in any other fashion brings with it a sort of immortality: the idea that when hit, soldiers simply go to sleep, rather than are shredded, that generals order impersonal battalions and companies of automatons into the heat of battle, rather than screaming nineteen-year-olds into</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87999084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87999084' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87999084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87999084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/wars-are-sum-of-battles-battles-tally.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87889209</id><published>2003-01-23T00:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-23T00:21:44.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>It seems there is something of a surfeit of political blogs, left-right-and-middle, out there.  So there's no point in my making this into more of the same.  Which doesn't mean I won't make political comments from time to time, or throw out the occasional link, usually as found on other blogs.  It just won't be my focus.  Likely, I won't have a focus, beyond perhaps recreation and/or </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87889209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87889209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87889209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87889209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/it-seems-there-is-something-of-surfeit.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87867590</id><published>2003-01-22T15:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-22T15:47:20.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I don't know who was responsible for this,but let's all hope they were soon thereafter put to slow, painful deaths.  (Well, we know at least one of them wasn't...)Via TBOGG.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87867590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87867590' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87867590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87867590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/i-dont-know-who-was-responsible-for.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87841720</id><published>2003-01-22T06:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-25T00:54:53.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Having upgraded, I can now show this stuff here: Mud Creek RimThis isn't a picture from my bedroom window, but rather from the barn window, but it's part of the same ridge-line.... and now you know.(The file is in a much larger resolution than displayed here - in the future I'll have to mind to resize before I upload). </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87841720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87841720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87841720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87841720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/having-upgraded-i-can-now-show-this.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87840346</id><published>2003-01-22T06:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-22T06:10:20.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Beer of the Moment (Well, not right this moment, being 6 ayem):  Belhaven Scottish Ale.  Like Newcastle ... but moreso.  Very good flavor ... kind of  nutty (I don't know the appropriate brewery-type vernacular, sorry).Snack of the Moment:  Snyders of Hanover Buttermilk Ranch Pieces.  Probably the best casual munching salted snack ever made.  The truly best casual munching snack ever made </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87840346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87840346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87840346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87840346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/beer-of-moment-well-not-right-this.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87828947</id><published>2003-01-21T23:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-21T23:18:18.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> I suppose I should explain the title (assuming anyone is a.) reading this and b.) cares). It's generally meaningless, simply the name of a stretch of hill-line visible out my bedroom window Back Home. Back Home being Chester,  California , though I currently live in Davis, California (no link - you don't really want to know more about Davis, trust me).If I wasn't too cheap to pay for </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87828947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87828947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87828947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87828947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/i-suppose-i-should-explain-title.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87828460</id><published>2003-01-21T22:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-21T23:01:44.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Pardon me, it's no longer PacBell, it's SBC.  And the DSL service is, more specifically, SBC-Yahoo, a reality that makes me shudder for some indeterminable reason.Man, HTML sure got complicated during the five years I wasn't paying attention.  I think I'll stick with my basic text formatting and occasionally horizontal rule.  I certainly don't feel confident enough to try to fiddle with </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87828460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87828460' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87828460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87828460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/pardon-me-its-no-longer-pacbell-its.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87828313</id><published>2003-01-21T22:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-21T23:02:23.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Enternet 300 (DSL connection software) is horrible.  Then again, perhaps it's only PacBell's service that's horrible.I plan on writing all my blog entries on paper, initially.  We'll see how this works out.  My motivation is primarily that I spend so much time sitting around in coffee shops listening to the music and drawing - this being for me a creativity inducing environment  Of course,</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87828313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87828313' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87828313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87828313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/enternet-300-dsl-connection-software.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124138.post-87677881</id><published>2003-01-19T04:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-01-21T23:03:03.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Testing, to see if this new attempt at a blog might be going along a bit better than the previous...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/feeds/87677881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4124138&amp;postID=87677881' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87677881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4124138/posts/default/87677881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kmmontandon.blogspot.com/2003/01/testing-to-see-if-this-new-attempt-at.html' title=''/><author><name>kmmontandon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389734172083267833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
