Got that not-so-fresh feeling?
Make your own cow music video – I think it’s in Swedish, but you can figure it out.
How to impress your bartender
Test your reflexes… mmmm, tastes like chicken
Ants! Auuuuuuuuuugh!
I swear I’ve seen this Eddie Izzard show about 50 times. The man’s a hoot, no doubt about it. I always get disappointed seeing comics on talk shows, because they plagiarize themselves and rehash material from old shows.
I found this Harry Potter link today. What a crock. I’ve been re-reading the series and am almost through with them. A friend of mine sent me a “Harry Potter is Eeeeeeeeeeevil” email a few months ago and I spent a long time crafting her this reply:
“If we are to ban Harry Potter, we must also ban The Wizard of Oz. And Cinderella. And anything to do with King Arthur, for Merlin is a key figure. And Snow White. And the Christian parables contained in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Hansel and Gretel. We must ban Siegfried and Roy. Heck, let’s ban card tricks. Let’s tear down Stonehenge and forbid astrology. Do we hunt Madame Cleo down like a dog?
“Thou Shalt Not Kill” is one of the Ten Commandments. Let’s also ban any movie or book where someone kills another. We must be consistent.
Furthermore, stating that witchcraft is Satanism is an enormous misconception. The Wicca religion has nothing at all to do with Satan. They don’t even believe in Satan. They do believe in different gods from the Christian God, but so do Buddhists, Hindus, and practitioners of the Native American faith – are they Satanists as well?
Lastly, the passages in the Bible referring specifically to witches and witchcraft are grossly misinterpreted. Consider Exodus 22:18 in the KJV: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” – In the original Hebrew, the word m’khashepah meant someone who uses curses *to harm others*.
There is a great discussion of this, Galatians 5:19-20 and Deuteronomy 18:10-11 at http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_bibl.htm. According to the strictest translation of the Bible, Groundhog Day is prohibited, as it involves augury by observing the signs of nature. In the same vein, my wrist hurts when a change of the weather is coming. God made me this way, so how can predicting the weather with my wrist be against His will?
I HIGHLY recommend www.religioustolerance.org for reading about several different religions. It is unbiased and fair to all faiths, and provides some good substance to think about.
One last point to think about: it is not for Man to judge others. That job is God’s alone. Putting ourselves in a position to presume to know the mind of God is putting ourselves in His place. Like you said, professing to have powers equal to His is against His will.”
…to no avail. I’m 99% positive that this person hasn’t read the books, but has condemned them based on the opinions of others. To me, that’s sad. I try to research every angle of an issue before I make up my mind about it, which is why I love to play Devil’s Advocate (and probably why I’m too damned trusting and compassionate, too).
Did you ever wake up annoyed from a dream?
I had a dream that we went to the store for a particular pen. I needed a permanent fine tip pen for a project I was doing, and we went to 2 different stores to find the right pen. The second store that we went to had just one left, so I grabbed it and brought it home. When I got home, I realized that it wasn’t the right kind of pen, it was one that someone put in there from their pocket, and it was half used and had “LAUNDRY” written on the barrel in Sharpie. I woke up so annoyed about not having the right pen because it just wasn’t worth it to drive all the way back to Walmart to exchange a measly pen.
There are places that I have recurring dreams about. I don’t know whether they are just sets my mind has come up with or places I’ve been or places I will go, but they haunt my dreams. One is a grocery store that seems to have a disproportionately large selection of toilet paper and paper towels. Another is a ranch that I’ve never seen before.
There’s a Joyce Carol Oates story about a woman who sees the house she dreams about, knocks on the door, and goes through some unpleasantness. I don’t know the name of it, but it’s a great story and quite eerie.
When I want to be disturbed, I read Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House is, of course, one of the all-time scariest books ever, but her short stories are so abrupt and slightly off in some way that they tend to make me uncomfortable. But in a good way.
It is mindboggling to me that in the past week I have had people from all around the world look at this web page. Singapore, Sweden, the UK, 4 time zones in the US. I am just amazed. And a little humbled, to tell the truth. Does this mean I have to write things that mean something, now, because I have a world-wide audience? Should I wax profound on the meaning of life, world peace, the cure for the common cold? 100 years ago, people who wrote every day for a living had dreams of reaching such an audience. Now any prat with a computer can babble and reach thousands.
Should I rail against the injustices such as this? Should I dedicate my life to helping people who desperately want to shave their heads but can’t figure out how?
Shyeah, right. I’d rather toss dwarves.
Are you a redneck geek?
Next they’ll refuse to hire people who listen to Britney Spears
The history of the @ sign – be sure to check out what the Dutch call it.
Two Matrix sequels next year, can you stand it?
Worrisome… definitely worrisome.
I’ve just gotten a new video card so’s to play Morrowind, which is what all the cool kids are playing. Basically it’s an RPG that can either be followed through quests or just played with no real purpose. Rather like Ultima Online for single players. Joe Bob sez check it out.
Verisign
Kitty Porn
Douglas Adams’s posthumous book
Mr. T is now apparently hosting the Gong Show.
Mindless putt putt goodness
I really don’t know what to say…
I got the job at answers.google.com! Now I can get paid for being a know-it-all.
What awesome meals we’ve had the past couple of nights.
Friday night we went to Jeffrey’s Restaurant and ate like kings. Then on Saturday we went to Aquarelle, a French restaurant that’s a relative newcomer here. I posted a review of Aquarelle on austin.food, if you want to see how we gorged ourselves.
I haven’t had time to dig up any juicy links since we’ve been so busy. The kids went to visit their grandparents and we went out and did grownup type things… like go to the gun range and play with firearms for a few hours. I hogged the lane and had a generally great time.