So just a quick update here on some projects that are related but on a tangent from this one.

I got the ok from Cimmerian of Rant Radio to transcribe The Tales of the Afternow and post those. Each one takes about 10 hours to write up and I got the first two done this weekend.

Sadly I have listened to the first two episodes of season 3 and it seems Sean Kennedy will not continue the Tales of the Afternow story and instead is using that format of a rogue librarian in a real life sense and creating a Wog following.

His rantings are interesting but if you thought I went off the deep end on some points... Well to each his own views I guess. But I do find some ideas and motivation in his rantings so I continue to listen. That and he is entertaining as hell.

As Cimm was talking about the e-mail I posted on his site and in an earlier talk show I was mentioned in people were unsure on how to pronounce my tag. I originally got the name when looking for an alias to use on the Internet back in about '92-'93. I grabbed my parents huge ass dictionary and I flipped open to a random page to grab a name. There I found this word and definition.

The Meaning of Coign

It reads as follows in case the above link ever breaks.

COIGN: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: koyn
Matching Terms: coigne, Coigue

WordNet Dictionary
Definition: [n] the keystone of an arch
[n] expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

Synonyms: coigne, quoin
See Also: headstone, keystone, wedge

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition: \Coign\, n.
A var. spelling of {Coin}, {Quoin}, a corner, wedge; --
chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position
advantageous for action or observation.

From some shielded nook or coign of vantage. --The
Century.

The lithosphere would be depressed on four faces; . . .
the four projecting coigns would stand up as
continents. --Nature.



Anyways the Afternow site as I work on it will be http://www.vaillife.net/theafternow.htm although that htm page may change to a php soon as I will want to start to include some php scripts in it. But until then stay posted and try and check this page once a week for updates.

May server protect us all.

The below text is just some garbage text I had laying around in a Notepad file so please excuse the many typos and disjointed thoughts. I think I will leave it there for a while because it is kinda neat to see what a first draft of my writing looks like before I spellcheck it and proof it.

And yes, in most case I go through and spellcheck and proofread all my writing, except for the writing I put into the forum. Writing on the forums I intentionally leave misspelled and disjointed in most cases, as I intend that to be perceived as a conversation and off the cuff response. That which is archived and posted on the blogs and rants is meant to be a more polished statement that is larger than I am.

I use blogger as my content manager on the main site and I find it very easy and simple to use. It provides the benefit of having the ability to allow you to customize templates and as a bonus it utilizes atom xml for distribution.

So this quick promo for blogger is just a test to get things started and I will setup a link to this on teh main Wog Army page.

FAQ

Thoughts and Ramblings

First break from Wog. I do not know enough about Rant Radio, SK, and his vision of the Wog Army to get involved. What I do know about them, well I feel that they in thier own way are limiting in what they can do to accomplish thier own mission of free thinking. Just the term calling it the Wog Army as a thumb to the Scientology religion is self limiting. Then people will ask, "What is Wog?" And when you have to expalin the relationship between you and a religion you imediatly lock your self into that mode of thinking and mindset.

So you are against Scientology?
No, we are against those who tell others what to believe and how to think.

So you are against religion.
No. That is a statement and a war that if fought everyone loses.

Don't you believe in God?
I most certainly believe. Until age 18 I was devout practicing confirmed Catholic and much of my raising and background come from that time. Since then I have found my experiences in the world can not be explained away by an 1800+ year old mythology.

And to stave off your arguments against that, I can find as much meaning in my daily horoscope pretaining to my life as I can in the Bible. It is a manner of taking an outside influence and thinking about how you can adapt that knowledge and information to make your own life better. Well taht is what I am all about and I see no reason why a religious person can also not be a free thinker. It is a matter of thinking about what you are being told and finding the self truth within that.