Dave Smythe

I live in MN, and typically do systems software for a living.

For fun I play the trumpet (and recently, the bass guitar).

Favorite quotes:

"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- John Adams

"To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--'the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.'" -- Thomas Jefferson

"I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth." -- William F. Buckley

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most exports agree, is by accident.
That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." -- Nathaniel Borenstein

Here's some places I visit:

• News
  • The Drudge Report This page has a lot of good news links, as well.
  • Power Line
  • Buzz.mn and also Lileks.com
  • The Claremont Review of Books
  • Little Green Footballs
  • The Weekly Standard
  • Center for Security Policy
  • Worldnet Daily
  • National Review Online
  • Junk Science
  • FOX News
  • The Onion Note: some of the content at the Onion will probably be offensive. Much of it is still funny...
  • scitech@stanford
• Humor
  

  Dilbert	User-friendly
  Mallard Fillmore	Zits	XKCD
  Dave Barry	Sheldon

  Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Radio Programs/Stations
  • WWTC - AM 1280 the Patriot
    The Northern Alliance Radio Network
    • Laura Ingraham
    • Hugh Hewitt
      Hugh has a lot of good links, too.
  • KKMS
    
    • R.C.Sproul's "Renewing Your Mind"
    • Alistair Begg's "Truth for Life"
  • KTLK FM
    Jason Lewis, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Chris Baker
  • John Piper's "Desiring God"
  • John MacArthur's "Grace to You"
  • James MacDonald's "Walk in the Word"
  • Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll
  • Dawson McAllister
• People:
  

  Tom Nurkkala	Steven and Tricia Christenson
  Don Berryman	Troy DeJongh
  Drew Dean

• Opinion:
  • Charlie Daniels' Soapbox -- WTG Charlie!
  • Magazines I like...
  • The new new math: Information for parents on how to cope with the "new math" in its various forms can be found at mathematicallycorrect.com
• Weather links:
  • The Weather Channel (MPLS)
• Interesting places to visit
  • Urban Legends

Things I've been thinking about...

(I was also N6XLP, but I don't find ham radio terribly interesting any more.)

P.S. If you voted to elect Obama, you are either ignorant, stupid, a fool or a reprobate. You choose.

If you voted for Franken, you are probably just stupid. You shouldn't be voting at all.

P.P.S. If you value your friendship with me, please do not discuss politics. If you agree with me, then there is nothing to discuss. If you do not agree with me, then understand that I couldn't care less what you think and have decided that I simply prefer to be abusive for my own amusement rather than try to convince you otherwise.