I hate March
I was able to ride my scooter to work on Tuesday and now I find out that we’re going to be getting six freaking inches of snow tomorrow. Why can’t it make up it’s freaking mind? One thing I crave is predictability. If I can get into a nice, stable rut, I feel very happy. [...]
ThirtyPoBlogODayO
Wil has made the call, and I will answer. I’m pledging to do thirty blog posts in thirty days. I realize I’ve been slacking, mostly because there’s so much going on right now. Expect posts on all kinds of things in the next thirty days. I’ll be blogging about my new job, our baby, my [...]
I <3 John Edwards
This is why this man should be president.
Spammers
I’m turning off trackbacks and pingbacks because there’s some spammer out there who thinks it’s “advertising” to post unrelated comments to disreputable websites. Now, I hate normal advertising. But advertising using the server space and bandwidth I pay for? That’s a paddlin’. I’ll be taking suggestions in the comments as to what I should do [...]
Galactica versus Enterprise
A lot of chatter has been raised in sci fi geek circles about whether the Battlestar Galactica could beat the Enterprise. I say, as with most things, it depends. For this comparison, I’m going to use the Enterprise D instead of the original, or the piece of crap that Archer drove. If the Enterprise could [...]
Asplosions
I was reading through some of my old blog posts today and it struck me how much I wrote back when I started and how I didn’t seem to try to write anything of any importance. Complaining about work, complaining about school and life and stuff seemed to take up all my time. I kinda [...]
Blanket Dragging
In his most recent post, Wil pretty much captured my feelings on, well, life asplode. When I was a kid, when I was asked “what would you ask for, if you could have anything you want?” I used to reply, “X-ray vision” or “the ability to fly!” or some other super power. These days, all [...]
This just in: Cutting taxes grows government
From Jonathan Rauch And lest anyone think that this is some loony-lefty moonbat source, the report is from the conservative Cato institute. Here’s a link from the Cato Institute itself: “Starve the Beast” Just Does Not Work
Secularism, Part Deux
If any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from God. But that does not mean that intelligence is worth of worship or responds to prayer.
Confessions of a Secularist
I’m a secularist. And an atheist. Well, no. I’m a nontheist. I see no purpose for a God or god or gods or force in this universe. I see no need for an authority figure to carrot-and-stick me into being a good person. But just like I don’t discriminate against folks who need physical crutches, [...]