Archive for February, 2008
A Beautiful Urban Drama!
When I get out of class on Thursdays I like to stop by Rocco’s for an enormous slice of the greasiest pizza on Earth and a $2 mini-pitcher of Pabst. CUZ I CAN. Tonight, a street performer across the street caught my eye, so I took my beer outside to watch this guy do his [...]
Read More..>>The Varieties of Scientific Experience
I rarely post about books I’ve read or am reading (which is why I don’t have a “books” category), but occasionally a good point or passage inspires a blog. In this case, I have just finished and would like to actually recommend a book.
Carl Sagan’s The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the [...]
JESUS SMAAAAAASH!!!
A deceivingly civil debate with a surprise ending. This killed me.
Funny how many times I’ve been threatened with violence for, say, wearing a Bad Religion shirt. Once, several years ago, a group of gung-ho Christian cowboys even threatened to beat up my girlfriend because I was wearing a sweater with Bad Religion’s logo on it. [...]
Read More..>>Hey, Here’s an Idea
How about keeping scripted telephone greetings to about a 15 syllable maximum? Nine times out of ten when calling a business you have a very specific request that could most likely be taken care of in a 10 second phone call, but you have to sit through a 30 second combination greeting/sales pitch.
You: *Calls business*
Employee: [...]
Updates, Etc
Performed a bunch of maintenance-type tweaks tonight. All behind-the-scenes type stuff — upgrading Wordpress to the newest version, removing old files and plugins — nothing that changes functionality or appearance. “House cleaning.” Didn’t need to blog, but Wordpress recommends:
Consider rewarding yourself with a blog post about the upgrade, reading that book or article you’ve been [...]
Jesse
Please explain this to me?
You know, it’s like I get you on at Waffles and this is what you do with it? This isn’t just blatant abuse of my generosity, this is a slap in the face! First this whole cop thing… now Bryan Adams?? I…I just don’t even know what to say. I want [...]
Read More..>>Antennapaedia
I’m just about finished up with Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker, a book that explains how the various dead ends and fuckups along evolution’s path reveal how design-less the universe really is. But I had to take a quick break when I learned, in a short digression of his, about a mutation that is possible [...]
Read More..>>Juno: Meh
In my grand tradition of seeing movies months after everybody else on Earth has (”Hey guys! I just saw Heat!”), I finally watched Juno. I’m not totally sure why I didn’t like the film more…technically it’s not a bad movie. I mean, it has all the elements of a movie I should like: an offbeat [...]
Read More..>>Ben Stein: Expelled
Not everybody is a fan of Richard Dawkins’ borderline militant brand of atheism, but with over 1.5 million copies of The God Delusion sold, you can’t deny the influence he’s had on the debate. And the creationists have taken notice; they needed a high-profile bulldog of their own, and they came up with fucking Ben [...]
Read More..>>Authority Trip
He can get away with this with a 14-year-old because anybody OVER 14 wouldn’t put up with this bullshit. Fucking cops.
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