Paul McNabb's Homepage
CONTENTS
- Significant Links
- Who am I?
- A Few Useful Sites
- A Few Interesting, Bizarre, and Amusing Sites
- Funny Videos
- Religion Resources
Significant Links
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The McNabb Family Website
- This is where my family has been building its website. Check out our gallery of photos.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the restored
Church of Jesus Christ. I've been a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) since 1973.
If you don't know much about Mormons, you can find out more here.
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Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research
- The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR) is an
organization committed to helping explain and defend the teachings
and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I've been a member of FAIR since 1999 and I'm currently the editor of the
FAIR Journal.
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Argus Systems Group
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Argus is a company that makes
"trusted operating systems"
(TOS) to secure websites and other servers.
I've worked for this company since 1993 and in the area of
TOS security since 1988.
You can see my company profile
here.
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Japan Kobe Mission
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The Japan Kobe Mission was where I served as a missionary from June 1976
to May 1978.
Who Am I?
- I was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1955; grew up in
Mount Prospect,
a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois; lived in Champaign, Illinois for
three years (college and working); lived for two years in Japan;
then lived for a while in
Frankfort,
Indiana; and now live in
Champaign, Illinois.
- I joined The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in 1973 and served
as a missionary in the
Japan Kobe Mission
from 1976 to 1978.
- I married Nancy Evans in 1978 in the
Washington D.C. Temple.
- I have five children: Evan (1979), Andrew (1982), Peter (1984),
Emma (1986-1988), and Stewart (1991).
- I graduated from Prospect High School in 1973.
- I got a BS and MS in Computer Science from
Purdue University.
- I work for Argus Systems Group
as an expert in trusted operating system security for computers.
- I enjoy reading, playing computer games, eating dark chocolate,
O gauge railroading (MTH/Lionel), astronomy,
collecting odd music and movies, studying religion and science, Tolkien/LOTR,
and a lot of other things.
- I'm currently the bishop of the
Champaign Second Ward
in the Champaign Illinois Stake, but since I joined the Church in 1973
I've had a lot of callings.
- I've been to a lot of temples as I've traveled around on business. Check out my list of visited temples and visited countries.
- I've have quite a bit of genealogy done,
so if you're interested, contact me about it at
paul-genealogy@mcnabbs.org.
- I've included pictures of me here.
- My first computer was an IBM 1620.
- If you're interested in looking at some helpful study aids and interesting reading, check out my Religion Resources area.
A Few Useful Sites
- Babel Fish Translation
- Here is one of many sites that will do some translation for you.
- ISBN.nu
- This is where you can look up books by words in the title, authors, subject, and ISBN numbers. It will also find places selling the books.
- InterNIC
- This is where you can go to get info about Internet domain names.
- Whois.net
- Here is another place where you can look up domain names.
- Evan's enmDespamify
- This is Evan's tool to convert email addresses to HTML characters.
Your address will look right on someone's browser, but spam harvesters very
seldom catch them.
- Google Maps
- Here are google's map resources. You can view both maps and satellite
photos of areas all over the world.
- HTML Quick List
- This is a quick reference guide to HTML.
- HTML Symbols
- Here is a chart of the HTML codes for special symbols.
- CSS Specification
- The actual specification for CSS.
- Anagram generator
- This is where you can go to find all anagrams of a word or phrase.
- ASCII/EBCDIC code tables
- Conversion table showing Dec, Hex, Oct, Char, and description.
A Few Interesting Sites
- Will It Blend?
- A wonderful display of various objects going through a kitchen blender.
- J-Walk Humor
- This has some really funny stuff. The best is probably "The 3rd Annual Nigerian Direct Mail Conference."
- Jack Chick
- Chick tracts are the absolute best. I first read them in the 1970s and I've felt a bizarre and inexplicable attraction to them ever since.
- Fixedearth.com
- This guy has a whole site of info proving that the world is fixed and the center of the universe. Great stuff, especially his discussion of tides!
- Buckle Up for Safety
- Here is a youtube video of the old selt belt ad that I always sang to my kids as they were growing up (although it seems I had changed the word "riders" to "driver").
- You Are an Idiot
- Okay, this one is of limited utility, but when you need to send it to
someone, it is invaluable.
- Church Sign Generator
- This is the site where people make all those fake church signs.
- Optical illusion.
- This is a cool optical illusion.
- Singing horses.
- OK, this is stupid, and yet, somehow irresistible...
- Smilies
- Here is a respository of hundreds of little smilies to insert into your
email and web postings.
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Health Age Calculator
- Calculate your effective age based on lifestyle, diet, and health history.
- Devilfinder Picture Search
- Search the web for pictures, but use the filter!
- The Shapeshifting Reptilian Mormon Brotherhood (SRMB)
- As part of my ongoing therapy, I'm coming clean about my
dirty little secret: I'm a shapeshifting reptilian.
I've tried to give up eating babies, but I just can't control myself (they're
best with a touch of thyme and a hint of garlic).
Unfortunately, I'm not high enough in the SRMB hierarchy to have access
to all the
secret tunnels that the Mormons have dug all throughout the Rocky Mountains.
This hilarious "theory" has been around for years--use a search engine
to find the best story. One site that you must visit is The Secret Underworld of Salt Lake City.
You can find even more startling "facts" on this topic at Beyond the Illusion.
- Accident Eyewitness
- A guy on a cell phone witnesses a minor accident, where the little old
ladies who were hit beat up the guy in the other car.
