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deviantART: by:raidsilver http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:raidsilver&section=today deviantART RSS for by:raidsilver en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:58:23 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Letter of Correction http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/25330163/ http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/25330163/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:40:53 PDT
I forgot to mention anything about Ashley

and I sincerely apologize. Now under any other circumstances, I would mention to everyone how amazing I think she is, as well as how many times every day she makes me smile. I wish I could show you what I feel like when I am around her and what mood she always puts me in.

Would I want to spend the rest of my life with her? I would not mind that one bit. That one is up to her.

Ashley, I love you with my whole heart. Don't ever forget that

Johnathan Lyman

]]> *raidsilver Coming Up Next... Summer Time http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/25314981/ http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/25314981/ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:24:29 PDT
As summer decides to come around the corner once again this year and bring with it a mass of boring sunny weather, I write this.

It has been a long six months, and as I look back on what I was doing on this sixth month of the 2,008th year A.D., I shutter. Three days from now will mark one year since I was fired for alleged-yet-unproven illegal acts from my first job, I will have been the reason for a court hearing, Slip into a new low in terms of my emotional state and how little I really care, amongst other things. Not to mention find out that someone I loved cheated on me while on vacation with her. Sad.

Besides that, Summer will bring a hopefully uneventful summer.

I went back to my July 30th, 2008 journal entry and noticed that I said I would have my dslr equipment my January of this year. Well that has come and gone and I have yet to get my dslr equipment.

Once I give CaptialOne the finger for the last time hopefully I will be able to actually save up for it. Being summer time and back-to-school around the corner, Staples is going to ramp up hours and such for me. Plus I am in the works for a raise [small one].

My shopping list for my equipment looks a bit like this:

Nikon D200 / Canon 50D
17-55mm f/2.8
100-400 f/4.5-5.6
Wide 17-40mm f/4
About 64gb of SDHC cards [pref. 4x16gb]
Speedlight

The rest is up in the air.

]]> *raidsilver New Journal Skin http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/24820188/ http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/24820188/ Mon, 18 May 2009 10:49:44 PDT
Who knows.

I was on vacation the last four days, and I came back with some good shots. Tell me what you think.

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]]> *raidsilver Please help http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/23263173/ http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/23263173/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:58:36 PST
I need some idea on what to get.

I have narrowed it down to these:

Nikon Coolpix P60
Nikon Coolpix L100

]]> *raidsilver I'm Not Dead http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/22475181/ http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/22475181/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:40:16 PST
]]> *raidsilver I'm Political, So Sue Me http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/20239386/ http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/20239386/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:34:25 PDT
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Dear MoveOn member,
Yesterday was John McCain's 72nd birthday. If elected, he'd be the oldest president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for "inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.

Huh?

Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:

She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.1

Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2

She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3

Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4

She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5

She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered speciesÂshe was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6
How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.7
This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family.

We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here's a sample:

She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. ÂRose M., Fairbanks, AK

She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. ÂChristine B., Denali Park, AK

As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. ÂKaren L., Anchorage, AK

Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.ÂSherry C., Anchorage, AK

She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. ÂMarina L., Juneau, AK

I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position.ÂJennifer M., Anchorage, AK

So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She's a global warming denier who shares John McCain's commitment to Big Oil. And she's dramatically inexperienced.

In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he's made a very dangerous decision for our country.

In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain's vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.

Thanks for all you do.

ÂIlyse, Noah, Justin, Karin and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Sarah Palin," Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008
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2. "McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate," NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008
http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/19680355/ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:35:31 PDT
I really have no idea.

I got a new job.

I met someone. She lives in Utah... a few states away.

She might come up for New Years.

I'm visiting her on her birthday.

It's time for a new life to begin.

I'll have my DSLR equipment by January.

END

]]> *raidsilver Sun... Rain... Moon... Shine... http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/18970415/ http://raidsilver.deviantart.com/journal/18970415/ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:06:21 PDT
As each day goes on I wonder what my summer is going to hold for me. I think about everything going on in my life and I feel that regardless of some situations I feel I was wronged in, I've got hope.

I think about Danniele all the time. Not just because of the attraction I have for her, but because of who she is as a person and how much we really have in common. After thinking and discussing for a few minutes, we found there's only a few small things we seem to differ on... at it's pretty much only what food we enjoy eating. I always wonder what I did right to meet someone who's so amazingly like me and can always make me smile as much as she does.

There isn't much else that I can say about her besides the fact that I wish to someday have a relationship with her. With her family the way they are, it's not something I can just jump into.

I have to earn the trust of her family. It's not something I have a problem with, but I can say that I haven't done it like this before. This isn't a "Mom, Dad, this is Johnathan, my boyfriend" kind of adventure. This is a "Mr. Joe Smith, I would like to have a relationship with your daughter." (obviously with more to it than just that)

How long is it going to take? Hell if I know, but that's ok. I don't have a problem in taking time to really get to know her family and let them get to know me. I'm working on it slowly and if it takes all summer, then it takes all summer. She knows I don't mind.

I'm just so happy knowing I can end my day with someone special to me to talk to, someone I can spend hours talking to about absolutely nothing in particular.

I look forward to my future...

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