Guess the title of this drawing. (Click this link for the answer.) This came from Spamusement, a site dedicated to:
I got turned on to the site by my friend Joe. The pictures are almost always hilarious. They used to come out every day, but for the past few months they have been less frequent. Put it in your RSS reader so that you don’t miss a single one. You won’t be disappointed.
Today, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano tacitly supported Darwinism OVER Intelligent Design. Wired just posted a story about it here. The article is a pretty good overview of the subject. Have a read…
This news really pleased me. I am a strong supporter of all constitutional rights (including the unpopular one about guns), and it is clear to me that teaching Intelligent Design in schools violates our constitutional right to separation of church and state. Most people won’t tell you this (and maybe don’t know this), but Intelligent Design is simply a more scientific SOUNDING creationism. They also won’t tell you that the only reason they want it taught in schools is proselytizing.
I don’t know why creationism is necessary to the existence of God. Creation DID NOT happen like the Bible said. We evolved from single cell organisms just like every other living thing on Earth. It is fact! Reasonable scientists do not question Darwinism. In fact, finding proof of creationism would be similar to discovering the Babel fish (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference). The existence of God is based on faith. My God is powerful enough to have created the rules that govern the universe with the foresight that I would be writing this blog post 13.7 billion years after the Big Bang.
Physics does not need God, but without physics faith would be too easy.
I accidentally stumbled upon wikipedia’s entry for everyone’s favorite video game character — Super Mario. It is a pretty interesting read… well… if you’re a nerd like me. A few facts:
His original name was Jumpman.
His full name is Mario Mario, and Luigi’s full name is Luigi Mario. This makes them the Mario Brothers.
He first appeared in Donkey Kong.
Check out the link above to learn more. There is about ten screens of info on the page.
This post is to reaffirm for everyone my inherent nerdness.
Question: What are two things every hipster has?
Answer: An iPod and a big belt buckle.
Put those together and you have a can’t miss hipster product — iPod belt buckle case. This is a great idea even for the non-hipsters. If you wear a belt, you must have a buckle, you might as well repurpose it for carrying something. This is certainly superior to the hip belt pouch both functionally and stylistically.
I had this idea about 3 weeks ago at 2am while driving between Kansas City and St. Louis, but I’ve been beaten to the punch. Engadget just posted about the Tunebuckle. Obviously, they thought of it considerably before me since they already have a company based on it. I hope they are successful, because that would make me feel somewhat successful. I’ll get’em next time. It’s not like this is the first time an engineer has had an idea that someone else also thought of.
A mouse thrown into fire set a home ablaze. Luciano Mares caught a mouse in his house, and to dispose of it he threw it into a pile of burning leaves. The Karmic Mouse, now on fire, then runs back into his, starting a fire that burned his house to the ground.
Guess what Luciano, you got what you deserved! You cruel SOB!
We finally did it; The many threats were not idle. Beginning this week, Sprint will no longer be our cell phone company. For years, I have cursed Sprint for their horrible customer service. Any time I talked to someone from Sprint I came away disappointed. They were either not helpful, not knowledgeable, or not nice.
We are changing to Cingular and receiving 2 of the very handsome Motorola Razr phones. I don’t know if Cingular will be any better than Sprint, but I owe it to myself to find out.
The only thing that has kept me with Sprint is the 15% discount I received because my mother works for UPS and the billing error that gave us some of our service for free. Yesterday, I learned that Berkeley students receive a 15% discount from Cingular. Then, I found a honey of a deal on the Razr phones on Wirefly. The phones will be free with free Bluetooth headsets after rebate. With the billing error I would still be paying about $170 less with Sprint over two years, but my pride is easily worth that much.
Piss on Sprint!
We’re back! The House family just completed a hard core road trippin adventure. Between Dec 20 and Jan 5 we traveled 5770 miles at an average speed of 59 mph during 98 hours of driving. Our average fuel economy was 27.2 mpg. Also, we consisted of 2 humans, 1 dog, and 2 cats. Only the people pulled driving shifts.
We had to stop for bacon twice, once in California and once in Wyoming, and received 1 speeding ticket, 1 speed warning, and 1 driving without proof of insurance citation. In Wyoming, driving without proof of insurance will cost you $410 unless you can prove within 5 days that you actually had insurance. We had insurance, so that one should be dismissed. Therefore, the only ticket that matters is the California speeding ticket, and I will do online traffic school for that one.
There were two major trips in there followed by a few smaller ones. The major trips are the most interesting because the Houses operated as a finely tuned road trippin machine. Oakland, CA to Louisville, KY and Louisville to Oakland, both trips completed in about 40 hours apiece, door to door. Indo.com says that the two cities are 1978 miles apart, but they are actually about 2350 driving miles apart. The only non-superficial stops were one, 1 hour Cracker Barrel meal break per trip. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself.
(picture courtesy of CUTS)
BTW: I’m back to blogging too…