Archive for September, 2007

The Game

Thanks to Real Life Comics I have just lost The Game. What’s The Game do you ask? Well fair enough, I’ll answer since you’re playing too after all.
”’The Game”’
* RULE 1: You are playing The Game.
* RULE 2: Whenever you think about The Game, you lose.
* RULE 3: Loss of The Game must [...]

Slave Class

This comment was in a sidebar on an article Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined. (Read the article btw)
J. Craig Venter
Geneticist
“The movie has an underlying assumption that I just don’t relate to: that people want a slave class. As I imagine the potential of engineering the human genome, [...]

Grāpples

My wife picked up four of these Grāpple Brand Apples at the grocery store. She raved about them and told me that when I got home I’d have to try one. I opened the blister pack and was hit with the sweet smell. It was indeed reminiscent of grapes. [...]

That’s Not a Moon

Oh wait, yeah it is and it’s gorgeous.
No single exposure can easily capture faint stars along with the subtle colors of the Moon. But this dramatic composite view highlights both. The mosaic digitally stitches together fifteen carefully exposed high resolution images of a bright, gibbous Moon and a representative background star field. The fascinating color [...]

TITMT – Anything But Ordinary

It’s that time again. Janet’s Tell It To Me Tuesday asks the following.
If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
Feel free to get creative here. No there aren’t any extra credit points involved, but a little ingenuity never hurt anyone, right?
Heroes does a decent job of pulling off the [...]

Conflict of Interest

Heroes starts tonight at 9:00. I love this show. I would have this show’s baby were that possible. It’s not without its problems, but I was there every night without fail in season one.
This year there is a problem. Every other Monday I have this thing at church. It lasts [...]

Civics Test

Take this Civics Test.
College Seniors Failed a Basic Test on America’s History and Institutions.
College seniors know astoundingly little about America’s history, political thought, market economy and international relations.
The overall average score for the approximately 7,000 seniors who took the American civic literacy exam was 54.2%, an “F.” That is consistent with the overall average of [...]

Whymsydoodle

Pegging this one up top for a few days.
My wife’s Etsy store whymsydoodle.etsy.com has a couple of new items up.

This little 12″ by 12″ taggie blanket.

And this very solid, very comfy pillow.
Check them out!

lolthulhu

I hate lolcats, but I LOVE THIS!!!!!
LOLTHULHU

Mathetes Award

By way of encouraging this blogs religious tendencies (a dangerous thing at best) Casey has blessed me with the Mathetes award. According to the blog Management By God who originated it, mathetes “is the Greek word for disciple, and the role of the disciple (per the Great Commission) it to make more disciples. I’d [...]