Hi there. I am Toby Mackenzie. This is my website. I am a very quiet/shy person, so you'll probably find out more about me from this site than you would with years of direct exposure.

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• My log: has much of the information on this site, including news about myself and writings based on some of my ideas/thoughts (they never seem to come out quite as well in writing).
• More detailed information about myself can be found in my bio page.
• Info on my former band, (the) Yars, which plays on without me, can be found on this site or at the yars homepage.

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News

I finally decided to get a professionally hosted site. I will be slowly moving stuff from here to there.

My roommate, Dwight, will be moving out after a year and a half of living with me. My living expenses will go up just as I am about to lose my job (I have plenty of money stashed away for this purpose though). He will be moving to Texas with his girlfriend, Lindsay, where she got a real job. He'll try to get a real job in nearby Houston.

After three years or more of letting my hair grow out, I've cut it. It's probably three inches at its longest point now. I wanted it to be a little longer than it is, and will have to let it grow out to get where I want it. It can be strange having the short hair, but sometimes I don't even notice it. Read more

My Corolla died after many years of faithful service. I now have in its place another wagon, slightly newer, a 1994 Saturn SW2.

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random stuff to go elsewhere later

I call on all manufacturers to use paper and other more easily recyclable materials for shipping goods in place of styrofoam, or help create a useable recycling community for styrofoams, more exotic plastics, and other such materials you use.

Material goods and their current extreme excess cause many of the problems of today: lack of time due to aquiring, moving, and maintaining all of it; lack of time due to collecting money for purchasing more of it; lack of comfort and space due to the disorganized piles, boxes, bins and shelves full of it.

I have a bunch of toys and other stuff that I want to get rid of, but don't know where to give them to. I'd like to give them somewhere where needy children, preferably in third world countries, would be given them.

Factories should consider GreenFuel Technologies to reduce their CO2 emissions as well as produce biodiesel for a revenue stream, with minimal modifications to current setups.

Here I sit in my cold, grey hell, looking through the window into beautiful, colorful heaven. I burn at the meeting of hope and never.