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It's time to play Jesus

It's time to play Jesus dress up!

I'm going to hell...

Thank god for this. First

Thank god for this. First green, then purple, now mystery colors, the most coolest of which just HAS to be "Totally Teal".

Too bad I don't eat much ketchup - I perfer BBQ sauce. I do like novelty colors in my food, though.

Happy Friday morning to you.

Happy Friday morning to you.

Time tends to pass more quickly for me the older I get, but the last few weeks, in general, have gone very fast. It likely has to do with my employment. Sometimes you wonder if the actors know you're fast forwarding through the movie - it's normal time to them, but it still over and done with more quickly.

If you've never heard (or heard of) Mogwai, check them out.

Yes, I'm an atheist. Yes, I celebrate Easter and Christmas as social family holidays. This year, though, there's no one event on Easter Sunday. Going to my wife's* Grandmother's house for a dinner Saturday, then going to see Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in concert. Next Sunday, my family's getting together for "Easter" dinner.

Just about every weekend for the next month is action packed. No rest for the wicked, eh?

* My "wife" is really my girlfriend, but "wife" is easier to type and more accurately reflects my relationship with her. Read my thoughts on marriage for more information about me and my feelings on the subject.

Damn, my pageviews were up

Damn, my pageviews were up over 600% for Tuesday - mostly thanks to slashdot. I hope all you new readers out there are enjoying the site - I'd love to hear from you. Notes for today:

My first slashdot story submission.

My first slashdot story submission. I'm so proud.

In other news this morning, do you need any new toys? I hear they have a nice clown...

It seems that there's a

It seems that there's a growing movement that doubts the existence of black holes, going against most of the rest of astrophysics. They suggest the existence of gravastars, "star-size agglomerations of "wavelike" substance" (space-time fabric, if you will). Crazy.

Different scientists claim to have created the "wavelike substance" in a lab, called Bose-Einstein condensates.

Impulse buying isn't a problem

Impulse buying isn't a problem if it's chili or a candy bar. But impulse shopping on Amazon.com can be dangerous. Yesterday I bought The Simpsons Complete Second Season (DVD) and UHF (DVD). I almost purchased the remaining 6 Star Trek: The Next Generation seasons on DVD. I need to stop.

In related news, the ST:TNG first season DVD box set arrives today. I've waited for this for a long time. All sorts of good features, and uncut episodes. Beauty.

On the long list of

On the long list of things that are illegal that I don't think should be:

Paralyzed Woman Wins Right to Die

A paralyzed woman who wants doctors to remove the ventilator that keeps her alive should be given the right to die, a British court ruled Friday. The decision was relayed by video link to the hospital bedside of the woman, identified only as B. Britain's top family court judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, ruled the patient had the necessary mental capacity to give or refuse consent to life-sustaining medical treatment.

This is a Good Thing (tm). Why does the government, in general, have the right to tell people that they can't end their own life? The person, of course, should be of sound mind, and the decision shouldn't be one made lightly. But for many people, death is preferable to the alternative...

I dreampt this morning that

I dreampt this morning that "Ballerina" rhymed with "Elizabeth". It's not just that things make sense in dreams, it's that "reality" in dreams is different, because your mind can wrap itself around what it's producing itself. Neat.

From Wired, re Scientology: Hubbard's

From Wired, re Scientology:

Hubbard's secret scriptures teach that 75 million years ago, an evil galactic overlord named Xenu solved the galaxy's overpopulation problem by freezing excess people and transporting the bodies to Teegeeack, now called Earth. After the hapless travelers were defrosted, they were chained to volcanoes that were blown up by hydrogen bombs -- and their disembodied spirits continue to haunt mankind today.

That's even weirder than Christianity!

re: The Northen Magnetic Pole:

re: The Northen Magnetic Pole:

"Not only does the pole change its location over years and decades, but it also travels in a roughly elliptical path each day. This daily wandering can take the pole up to 80 km from where it is plotted!"

I never knew that.

Notes: If I've promised to

Notes:

Will someone in the NYC

Will someone in the NYC area please buy me a roll of ShitBegone and send it to me (I'll pay you back). I've heard good things.

It would appear that this

It would appear that this page, in Japanese, sells purses and sex toys, and requires that you're an "adult lady" to enter.

Strange dreams last night -

Strange dreams last night - very much more detailed than usual, and, for the first time in a long time, a "dream within a dream' experience. I'll attempt to remember what I can, in no particular order, appropriate for a dream.

Most of the dream segments seemed to be college related - I was back at school. At one point I was in a class room (studying some specific area of Japanese art), discussing the fact that I had graduated a year and a half ago. For some reason there was an air of contempt around this fact from some other students. This part of the dream took place in a sunny (yet dark) classroom with desks in a circle, typical of small discussion type classes.

Much of the rest of the dream took place in and around outdoor "squares" - areas with marble/stone/concrete benches around a central area. There were several of these, I remember one with tables, one with grass (or otherwise empty) and one with a hot tub of some sort. The hot tub reminds me much of similar pools at Glen Ivy spa, behind it was natural walling of some sort. This was an area of flirting within the "college" setting. At this point elements of a reunion of sorts were introduced into the dream - an Asian girl I didn't recognize said she remembered me, and was hurt that I didn't remember her immediately. I was supposed to have known her from high school, but didn't. Thinking on her face now, she is not familiar.

Another element involves meeting a girl I knew in college and leaving the scene to make out. Her blonde friend (in a bikini) followed us to an upstairs loft where the girl was staying. The mattress was like a cot, red plaid in color like camping gear. While we made out the bikini girl watched. I thought she might join us. The girl I was with never seemed to get physically into the whole thing, though she did seem to be enjoying herself. This section of dream ended and I awoke in the dream to be home. Here my mother and girlfriend were present, letting me know that because of my dreaming, part of the kitchen was temporarily off limits. My girlfriend was then there but the home was now an unknown apartment (done in reds and browns and greens). A friend of hers was there, and the whole situation was supposed to be "weird" to me, as if I wasn't supposed to be there in that part of her life.

These dream segments are likely not in order, they're just the order I remembered them. I don't see any higher meaning, other than having recently thought about the perks of going back to school, both for an education and for the inherent social perks. The dreams felt as if they lasted most of the night, and did not have the usual breaks as my nighttime dreaming usually does. They also felt compacted while dreaming, as if they took up less time in the night than they should have.

It's pi day! (March

It's pi day! (March 14th = 3 14). Take a minute and think about your favorite math teacher at 1:59 today (3 14 159). Also enjoy the following (I didn't write it, but I found it and enjoy it):



He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line ofthirty cubits to measure around it. -- 1 Kings 7:23

Friends, I'd like to take a moment or two to discuss with you the biggest whopper in the whole liberal lie of mathematics. The liberals like to tell us that pi is what they call a "transcendental number." This is, of course, shameless liberal jargon that has no meaning whatsoever. They are teaching our children that pi goes on and on forever without repeating itself, and that it is not representable by any polynomial with integer coefficients. This, my friends, represents only the latest in a long string of liberal lies meant to undermine God and his Creation.

The true value of pi is exactly three, as evidence by the Scripture quote above. It is universally agreed by all honest mathematicians that there is no evidence for a transcendental pi. Not one iota. Friends, you and I know that the Bible is the wholly inerrant word of God, and that the liberals are barking up the wrong tree. That doesn't stop them from spreading their socialist "transcendental number" propaganda. See, the liberals like stuff like this. They like anything that makes mankind think of itself as small and insignificant. This makes it easier for them to control the minds of our children. After all, why not listen to some liberal, if you are not capable of fully representing a single number?

This is an out-and-out lie.

The whole mathematical system has been invented by communists so that they can gain a foothold in decent society. Along with this comes the damnable "Metric" system, which was invented in the socialist Mecca of Europe. The liberals want us all to use this "Metric" system. They want to force us into conformity so that they can run our lives. They tried it once in the 1970s .. remember, that, friends? They put up all of those speed limit signs with metric measurements on them (kilowatt-hours? hectares? who knows!) Of course, God's good Christians responded warmly by shooting them down. Therefore, I am glad to report that the Metric system has not caught on in decent society, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Really, friends, the only unit of measure that we need is the cubit. This is a Biblical, Godly unit of measure that can be used for everything that the socialist Metric system is supposed to be used for. You can say "The Johnson baby was one tenth of a cubit long" or "It is 78.8 quintillion cubits to Alpha Centauri" (though the latter is a lie, of course; the stars are simply fixed points on a celestial sphere that lies somewhere beyond our planet Earth, which is the center of the Universe.) My swimming pool holds forty cubic cubits of water.

So let's fight the fight, friends. Let's fight transcendental numbers. Let's fight the Metric system. Let's wage a war against the liberals that intend to enslave our minds through obfuscated mathematics and anti-God systems of measurement. Write your congressman and school board and insist that they use books that teach that pi == 3 and transcendental numbers don't exist. We can do it, my friends. We can do it if we all stick together.

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You can also send a pi day card, sing pi day songs, teach pi day to your students, read pi in binary, see millions of digits of pi, and check out "Another Slice Of Pi"

What time is it?

What time is it?

Ah, the joys of WebCollage:

Ah, the joys of WebCollage: Do you need a Plunger Sleeve?

I hope this isn't what I think it is, but I have a bad feeling...

Tacky (The page layout, not

Tacky (The page layout, not the story itself).

More on tabletop fusion at

More on tabletop fusion at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5592-2002Mar10.html.

Interesting stuff - This is exciting science. Not only is it revolutionary material (room temperature fusion), but the issues around peer review are also discussed, and others are looking to replicate the expiriement, with the help of the original team. Good stuff.

You can't pass up a

You can't pass up a chance to see some pastry porn.

(Warning. These are naughty pictures. Thank you.)

'Frozen Dead Guy Days' Tries

'Frozen Dead Guy Days' Tries To Lure Tourists.

Awesome. I remembered when I wanted to be frozen to live forever. I'm a bigger fan of the coming singularity now as a means ot immortality, but things like this are still pretty cool.

Damn, working regular hours and

Damn, working regular hours and commuting keeps you busy. I've been neglecting the page. I'm sorry, all 4 of you that regularly read (there are, surprisingly enough, more of you than that. Thanks).

I'm still looking for something fun and interesting to do with one or more of the cameras. The two at work are interesting in their own right; I'd like one regular one, and the LiveCam! is a big camcorder, so I can't do anything too artsy/creative with that one (as far as physical hacking goes). That leaves the Cheapcam (or one of it's as yet unpacked brothers). Ideas?

Nothing makes you appreciate your time off as working all week. I'd kinda forgotten that, being underemployed for so long. Relaxing is nice.

Here's a cam picture Chris pointed out. "Fresh and Fruity" were the words he used.

I wonder how angry/frustrated/annoyed people get when they come to my site looking for porn and find almost none. Interesting that my keyword list works.

Thanks for reading. Let me know if I don't know you and you're reading this. Really. I want to know who you are.

Michael Moore is smart, funny,

Michael Moore is smart, funny, and politically savvy. Check out his article "George W. in the Garden of Gethsemane, An Open Letter to George W. Bush from Michael Moore" to find out more about Enron, Goerge W., and how connected they really are.

Hot damn, Chris Clark can

Hot damn, Chris Clark can draw.

Damn, I have a lot

Damn, I have a lot of webcams. Check out the Workcam, live from my office in Irvine, California.

I don't usually post too

I don't usually post too many naughty pictures here, but as a student of popular culture and child of the 80s, I felt it to be my duty. Thanks to Ernie for the pics:


Tiffany 1 | Tiffany 2 | TIffany 3 | Tiffany 4

From CNN: Check out tiny

From CNN: Check out tiny bubbles create nuclear fusion -- maybe. Don Ho would be proud.

Leave it to Chris to

Leave it to Chris to bring attention to my surfing habits:

I'm not sure what I was looking at, and I can't tell if I'm disgusted or entraced. Oh well, the picture rules anyway. Remind me sometime to tell you all about "smart people looking stupid".

The Livecam! is back. Enjoy

The Livecam! is back. Enjoy it.

I'm planning a charity dinner/party

I'm planning a charity dinner/party for sometime in the next month. I figure I spend so much just going out to dinner that if all of my friends and I all just stayed in one weekend, having a cheaper homemade pasta dinner (or potluck), we could donate that money to people who can't ever afford to go out, or maybe can't ever afford to even feed their children. Remember, if you're reading this on a computer, you're most likely better off than 99% of the people on this planet. Give a little now and then.

More to come on the dinner as I plan it. If I know you (at all), you're more than welcome to attend. If I don't know you, get to know me now.