I was a big fan of Doctor Who back in the 80′s, watching it as a kid on PBS, being one of only like four kids in my school who had even heard of Doctor Who. (One of maybe five kids total in grade school who also watched Monty Python, played Dungeons and Dragons, and [...]
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Church Requests Special Treatment to Make the Obvious More Obvious
CNN.com – Ron Howard: No need for ‘Da Vinci’ disclaimer – May 9, 2006 I started having more respect for the Catholic Church (as compared to my utter lack of respect for Evangelical Protestant churches, that is) based on their more reasoned approach to science, public acknowledgement of the existance of evolution, etc. And then [...]
READ MORE »Beer as Art, and a Blue Moon Review
In a minute I’m going to review Coors’ “Blue Moon Belgiun Style White Wheat Ale.” But first, a testimonial on beers. I grew up in Colorado. Our family went to Broncos’ games and drank Coors’. Naturall I was curious as a kid as to what beer tasted like, being off-limits. So when I was finally [...]
READ MORE »When The Moon Hits Your Eye… OW!
I’m an amateur, very amateur, astronomer. Haven’t spent much time lately on my astronomy even with my new telescope that my WONDERFUL wife got me for Christmas, mainly because there’s no place in the house to keep it set up, and it’s a small pain, to set up each time and on cold nights waiting [...]
READ MORE »Mission Accomplished! NOT!
Yesterday, in case you missed it, was the 3rd anniversary of the day George Bush stood on an aircraft carrier just off San Diego, in a borrowed flight suit, claimed the major ground offensive of the Iraq invasion was over and we won, underneith a giant banner proclaiming “Mission Accomplished.” On an unrelated note, last [...]
READ MORE »Happy Earth-Death Day
OK, a little late, but I’m behind on my podcast listening. =) The second latest Point of Inquiry program was an Earth Day “special” of sorts. It starts with an essay about how Earth Day, the idea of “saving the world,” is erroneous and dangerous. The Earth abides. It was here long before us and [...]
READ MORE »I Am A Pod-Person!
As much as I’d like to be a bodysnatcher, what I mean is, I’m addicted to podcasts! Podcasts are like audio blogs. Amateur radio shows. Some are music based, like on-line radio, some are interview shows, review shows, etc. I’m a fan of the sci-fi and skepticism shows. There’s a lot that are quite well [...]
READ MORE »Teach the Controversy? 700 Steves would disagree
One of the biggest arguements proponents of Intelligent Design use to try to get their “theories” into schools and bypassing the rigourous testing and scrutiny of the scientific community, is to bring up the “teach the controversy.” They would have you believe that there is a huge controversy going on in biology about evolution and [...]
READ MORE »Silent Hill
Saw the new movie Silent Hill over the weekend. Not bad. It’s gotten really poor reviews, and I can understand why. If you’re not a fan of the games it’s based on, it’s pretty lame dialogue and plot-wise. But as a fan of the games, not bad. The dialogue is very similar to the style [...]
READ MORE »Tribulations of a Systems Admin
So, why have I not blogged much lately? Well, I worked about 70 hours last week for one thing. Why? Because one of our servers got cracked at some point and I failed to detect it for some time. And in addition to my regular work I had to rebuild two new servers and transfer [...]
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