Tending to my inner Beavis
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006Because this is what Web 2.0 is all about: Courtesy of YesButNoButYes, it's the Top Ten Fart Lighting Videos. Heh heh. Heh heh. That was cool.
Archive for May, 2006
Because this is what Web 2.0 is all about: Courtesy of YesButNoButYes, it's the Top Ten Fart Lighting Videos. Heh heh. Heh heh. That was cool.
Molly, Ken, and Jesus
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006My favorite comment in the aftermath of the Enron/Lay verdict comes from, who else, Molly Ivins ("Reform the System Or Lose the Democracy"): A Houston jury convicted both Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, despite the fact that Kenny Boy packed his Bible to the courtroom every day. Since it is a long ...
Masturbation cures cancer!
Monday, May 29th, 2006OK, maybe not "cures", but frequent masturbation for men apparently contributes to avoiding prostate cancer: "Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer". How could this have slipped by me when it first came out? Like we needed any other reasons to be in favor of it. Hey, wait: Porn causes ...
Good question, Joey
Monday, May 29th, 2006Joey Ratzo, former Hitler Youth member and the Vatican's Prefect of Inquisition, has asked an excellent question (German-born pope laments Holocaust crimes):Pope Benedict XVI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp as "a son of the German people" Sunday and asked God why he remained silent during the "unprecedented mass crimes" of ...
Confirming prejudice with evidence against it
Thursday, May 11th, 2006A colleague from another university who teaches an intro course exposing students to, among other things, the arguments undermining the existence of God and the lack of good arguments for God's existence, got this bit of feedback at the end of the course from one of his students (spelling and ...
The one where I become a soccer dad
Monday, May 8th, 2006Oz has started playing soccer -- his first foray into organized sports. Although he's not especially good, he's not bad, and is actually seeming to more or less enjoy the whole thing. I, however, waver -- between on the one hand, enjoying seeing him play and run, as ...
The day of the beast is coming
Monday, May 8th, 2006This is only the beginning. Expect much strangeness as 06/06/06 approaches. Kudos to the Times of London for reporting it mostly in the right tone (Mothers expect Damien on 6/6/06), including things that range from the sad... The approach of the sixth day of the sixth month of a ...
Into the light
Saturday, May 6th, 2006The last 3 days have brought the last seminar, last class, last talk, and last major administrative duties of the semester. Crazy-busy should be overtaken by the lightness of transition into summer over the next couple of days.
