Fri - June 17, 2005
Moving
I'm moving my blog. I've gone over to the dark side.
You can find my latest blog at Angry
Ogre .
Posted at 09:24 PM Read More |
Fri - January 21, 2005
Religion, huh. What is it good for?
Title:
Religion: huh. What is is good
for?
Body: Absolutely nothing. To paraphrase a song.
Is it any wonder the only thing I feel for religion is a deep disdain and intense loathing when one of the most respected religious leaders today, Dr. James Dobson, is saying crap like thisBody:Absolutelynothing.Toparaphraseasong.
IsitanywondertheonlythingIfeelforreligionisadeepdisdainandintenseloathingwhenoneofthemostrespectedreligiousleaderstoday,Dr.JamesDobson,issayingcraplikethis?
There'saregistrationrequiredfortheWashingtonPoststorylinkedtoabove.However,here'sthejist.
SpongebobSquarepantsis,yousee,ahomosexualandhe'spushingthedangeroushomosexualagendatoourkidsandweneedtostamphimout.
That'sright.
Thisguy
isahomosexual.
Uh,huh.Suuuuureheis.
Religion.Huh.Bunchofcrapifyouaskme." target="NewWindow"> ?
There's a registration required for the Washington Post story linked to above. However, here's the jist of what Dobson said.
Spongebob Squarepants is, you see, a homosexual and he's pushing the dangerous homosexual agenda to our kids and we need to stamp him out.
That's right.
This guy
is a homosexual.
Uh, huh. Suuuuure he is.
Religion. Huh. Bunch of crap if you ask me.
Body: Absolutely nothing. To paraphrase a song.
Is it any wonder the only thing I feel for religion is a deep disdain and intense loathing when one of the most respected religious leaders today, Dr. James Dobson, is saying crap like thisBody:Absolutelynothing.Toparaphraseasong.
IsitanywondertheonlythingIfeelforreligionisadeepdisdainandintenseloathingwhenoneofthemostrespectedreligiousleaderstoday,Dr.JamesDobson,issayingcraplikethis?
There'saregistrationrequiredfortheWashingtonPoststorylinkedtoabove.However,here'sthejist.
SpongebobSquarepantsis,yousee,ahomosexualandhe'spushingthedangeroushomosexualagendatoourkidsandweneedtostamphimout.
That'sright.
Thisguy
isahomosexual.
Uh,huh.Suuuuureheis.
Religion.Huh.Bunchofcrapifyouaskme." target="NewWindow"> ?
There's a registration required for the Washington Post story linked to above. However, here's the jist of what Dobson said.
Spongebob Squarepants is, you see, a homosexual and he's pushing the dangerous homosexual agenda to our kids and we need to stamp him out.
That's right.
This guy
is a homosexual.
Uh, huh. Suuuuure he is.
Religion. Huh. Bunch of crap if you ask me.
Posted at 08:09 PM Read More |
Sat
- January 15, 2005
Great Day for the Species
The title is stolen from somewhere, but no less true
for the theft.
Jan. 14, 2005 was, indeed, a great day for the human race. We landed human technology on another moon, aside from Earth's own moon. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency and it just landed the Huygens space craft on the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn. On the way down, the Huygens craft took pictures of what look like run-off channels leading to some sort of shore. No actual liquids, actually, but it looks like the remains of a seashore. It's just wonderful. Enjoy the pictures.
Jan. 14, 2005 was, indeed, a great day for the human race. We landed human technology on another moon, aside from Earth's own moon. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency and it just landed the Huygens space craft on the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn. On the way down, the Huygens craft took pictures of what look like run-off channels leading to some sort of shore. No actual liquids, actually, but it looks like the remains of a seashore. It's just wonderful. Enjoy the pictures.
Posted at 03:35 PM Read More |
Tue - August 3, 2004
Tue - June 22, 2004
Fri - June 11, 2004
Deification
Ronnie's dead, long live the Gipper. If you've not
taken a look at the Bush reelection
site lately, you might want to take a peek at the necrophilia
going on over there.
Prior to the death of Ronald Reagan, a mediocre president at best who presided over the Disneyification of America in which image was more important than substance, the Bush site basically was a place to go to bash John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee and our next president. Well, since the Gip passed, it's become a place to resume the deification of Ronald Reagan.
See, Bush can't run on his record, so he ran on the fact that he wasn't Kerry. Now, he's trying to run as Ronald Reagan. Which, of course, inspired the following.
Sounds like the only team Bush can win with.
Prior to the death of Ronald Reagan, a mediocre president at best who presided over the Disneyification of America in which image was more important than substance, the Bush site basically was a place to go to bash John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee and our next president. Well, since the Gip passed, it's become a place to resume the deification of Ronald Reagan.
See, Bush can't run on his record, so he ran on the fact that he wasn't Kerry. Now, he's trying to run as Ronald Reagan. Which, of course, inspired the following.
Sounds like the only team Bush can win with.
Posted at 11:02 PM Read More |
Sat
- June 5, 2004
We've got cookies
Okay, so I'm a stay-at-home dad, raising three boys
while my wife works. No problem. That means I also have to cook all our meals,
keep everybody fed, all that kind of stuff. Again, no
problem.
Sometimes, however, there are calls or times when fresh-baked cookies or brownies are called for. Well, big, big problem. See, I've never been able to bake. Ever. Whenever I try to bake something, it always burns, falls or just plain stinks. Sometimes all three in combination.
It's not a pretty sight.
However, this week, I had to get some peanut butter cookies made for the teacher of my middle son, Ben. It was part of a present for the teacher. We all sent in a recipe for her to use as part of a cook book and some of us parents got volunteered to actually make what was in the recipe. Well, Ben volunteered me.
The night before they were due in class, I started making the dough. Spooned in the peanut butter, mixed in the two sticks of butter, flour, baking soda and baking starch (who knew there were two of the same sounding thing?), packed brown sugar, etc. Got everything all mixed up, the dough placed in the fridge to cool down and make easier to handle and was feeling pretty good about myself. I started putting everything away and that was when I noticed that I couldn't remember putting in the regular sugar. Brown sugar, sure. Regular sugar, not so much. Took the mixer back out, took the mixer blades back out, poured in the sugar and mixed again.
The next morning I started forming the doug into little balls and then criscrossing them with fork tines. When they came out of the oven, they were actually edible. More than that, they were fantastic.
Three days later, I'm still so proud of myself. I actually baked something. It feels like I've graduated to domestic godhood.
Wahoo!
Sometimes, however, there are calls or times when fresh-baked cookies or brownies are called for. Well, big, big problem. See, I've never been able to bake. Ever. Whenever I try to bake something, it always burns, falls or just plain stinks. Sometimes all three in combination.
It's not a pretty sight.
However, this week, I had to get some peanut butter cookies made for the teacher of my middle son, Ben. It was part of a present for the teacher. We all sent in a recipe for her to use as part of a cook book and some of us parents got volunteered to actually make what was in the recipe. Well, Ben volunteered me.
The night before they were due in class, I started making the dough. Spooned in the peanut butter, mixed in the two sticks of butter, flour, baking soda and baking starch (who knew there were two of the same sounding thing?), packed brown sugar, etc. Got everything all mixed up, the dough placed in the fridge to cool down and make easier to handle and was feeling pretty good about myself. I started putting everything away and that was when I noticed that I couldn't remember putting in the regular sugar. Brown sugar, sure. Regular sugar, not so much. Took the mixer back out, took the mixer blades back out, poured in the sugar and mixed again.
The next morning I started forming the doug into little balls and then criscrossing them with fork tines. When they came out of the oven, they were actually edible. More than that, they were fantastic.
Three days later, I'm still so proud of myself. I actually baked something. It feels like I've graduated to domestic godhood.
Wahoo!
Posted at 11:21 PM Read More |
Thu - June 3, 2004
But do they get a degree?
It looks like my old alma mater, the University of
Florida, is in the news
again.
A "smart bullet" that can be fired at a target and then wirelessly transmit back useful information has been developed by US researchers.
The projectile, created at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is 1.7 centimetres in diameter can be fired at from an ordinary paint-ball gun. The front is coated in an adhesive polymer that sticks it to the target.
Inside, the elongated projectile holds a sensor, a tiny wireless transmitter and a battery. This enables it to report back its findings to a laptop or handheld computer up to 70 metres away. It can also reusable, because compressed gas within the gun provides the propulsion.
Nice to see we're putting all that research money to good use.
A "smart bullet" that can be fired at a target and then wirelessly transmit back useful information has been developed by US researchers.
The projectile, created at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is 1.7 centimetres in diameter can be fired at from an ordinary paint-ball gun. The front is coated in an adhesive polymer that sticks it to the target.
Inside, the elongated projectile holds a sensor, a tiny wireless transmitter and a battery. This enables it to report back its findings to a laptop or handheld computer up to 70 metres away. It can also reusable, because compressed gas within the gun provides the propulsion.
Nice to see we're putting all that research money to good use.
Posted at 11:09 AM Read More |
Mon - May 24, 2004
This man needs killin'
Regional court in Russian city of Rostov sentenced a man
to 10 years of imprisonment for incest. His daughter had a baby when she was 13
years old.
However, the rapist applealed the Russian Supreme Court on the grounds that he had a minor daughter and a newborn son to support.
Thanks, Warren .
However, the rapist applealed the Russian Supreme Court on the grounds that he had a minor daughter and a newborn son to support.
Thanks, Warren .
Posted at 07:23 PM Read More |
Sat
- May 22, 2004
The Auxiliary Cat
So, apparently, we've been semi-adopted by another
cat. The cat's name is Shooter and he belongs to a family that lives on the
street behind ours. However, it seems like he lives with
us.
About a year ago, Shooter, who is all black, began showing up at our house and eating the food we'd left out for our cat, Topper, who also adopted us about four years ago. Shooter seemed to believe that he belonged in our house and we spent several months doing a silly little dance every time we opened the door to try and keep Shooter out of the house.
Eventually, we gave up and let the cat in. Now he spends most of his days at our house and any number of nights here as well. We've talked to his owners and they're cool about it, although the kids miss their cat. We've tried to keep Shooter at his actual owners' house, but it just doesn't work.
Oh, yeah. Shooter thinks he's a parrot. Every time I bend down to pet him, he leaps onto my shoulders. Then he'll stay there, stretched out from right to left, with his head dangling down over my left shoulder. He will stay there as long as I'll let him.
About a year ago, Shooter, who is all black, began showing up at our house and eating the food we'd left out for our cat, Topper, who also adopted us about four years ago. Shooter seemed to believe that he belonged in our house and we spent several months doing a silly little dance every time we opened the door to try and keep Shooter out of the house.
Eventually, we gave up and let the cat in. Now he spends most of his days at our house and any number of nights here as well. We've talked to his owners and they're cool about it, although the kids miss their cat. We've tried to keep Shooter at his actual owners' house, but it just doesn't work.
Oh, yeah. Shooter thinks he's a parrot. Every time I bend down to pet him, he leaps onto my shoulders. Then he'll stay there, stretched out from right to left, with his head dangling down over my left shoulder. He will stay there as long as I'll let him.
Posted at 09:34 PM Read More |
Banners of liberal hate
Okay, so, since I'm against the Unelected Fraud and
believe his war on terror is a distraction to keep us focused on things other
than his failure as a leader, I must be some kind of commie-symp, pinko-leftie.
All right. Fine then.
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Posted at 04:39 PM Read More |
Fri - May 21, 2004
For you, baby, I could be
So I just went and saw
Shrek
2, the superstar follow up to the hit movie
called, oddly enough,
Shrek.
All the original cast returns, including Mike Myers as Shrek, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as Donkey and the crew of the Fairy Tale Irregulars. New cast members include John Cleese as the King, Julie Andrews as the Queen, Jennifer Saunders as Fairy Godmother and Rupert Everett as FG's son, Prince Charming.
To say that the movie works, and is just as funny, if not funnier, than the original, would be an understatement. The first film's gentle theme of being yourself and loving people for who, or what, they are are both present in this film. Again, the themes are reinforced through action and humor, rather than preachy dialogue. Really well done.
But it's with the humor that this film really succeeds. One of the best jokes for the adults involves a prison-break scene which uses Pinochio in a Mission Impossible Tom Cruise parody that left me in stitches.
The best line of the movie comes during the scene when Princess Fiona, transformed back to her human self, comes upon a changed Donkey, now a beautiful white horse. She knows that Shrek has been changed, but doesn't know what he looks like now. She sees Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas, sitting atop Donkey, casually licking himself.
"Shrek?" Fiona asks.
Puss turns around and lifts an eyebrow at the princess.
"For you, baby, I could be."
My kids had to shush me from laughing so loud.
Great movie. Go see it.
All the original cast returns, including Mike Myers as Shrek, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as Donkey and the crew of the Fairy Tale Irregulars. New cast members include John Cleese as the King, Julie Andrews as the Queen, Jennifer Saunders as Fairy Godmother and Rupert Everett as FG's son, Prince Charming.
To say that the movie works, and is just as funny, if not funnier, than the original, would be an understatement. The first film's gentle theme of being yourself and loving people for who, or what, they are are both present in this film. Again, the themes are reinforced through action and humor, rather than preachy dialogue. Really well done.
But it's with the humor that this film really succeeds. One of the best jokes for the adults involves a prison-break scene which uses Pinochio in a Mission Impossible Tom Cruise parody that left me in stitches.
The best line of the movie comes during the scene when Princess Fiona, transformed back to her human self, comes upon a changed Donkey, now a beautiful white horse. She knows that Shrek has been changed, but doesn't know what he looks like now. She sees Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas, sitting atop Donkey, casually licking himself.
"Shrek?" Fiona asks.
Puss turns around and lifts an eyebrow at the princess.
"For you, baby, I could be."
My kids had to shush me from laughing so loud.
Great movie. Go see it.
Posted at 08:04 PM Read More |
Sat
- May 15, 2004
Comics in the bookstores
Today, I went into my local Barnes & Noble and
bought a comic book. Nothing earth-shattering, right? But extremely unusual for
me. See, normally I get my comic fix from the Local Comic Book Store, Rebel Base Comics and Toys . Have done for
the last five years or so, ever since I moved to
Charlotte.
The BN, however, had these classy essential volumes, all in color, of X-Men 94-110. Now, I've got the individual issues (in fact, every X-Men issue since Giant Sized #1), but I wanted to get these so my sons could read the comics.
Barnes & Noble has an exclusive deal with Marvel, publishers of X-Men, to produce the only softcover versions of the Masterpiece editions, which reprint important issues from the back stock. Only $12.95 each. Pretty sweet deal.
So why do I feel like I was cheating?
The BN, however, had these classy essential volumes, all in color, of X-Men 94-110. Now, I've got the individual issues (in fact, every X-Men issue since Giant Sized #1), but I wanted to get these so my sons could read the comics.
Barnes & Noble has an exclusive deal with Marvel, publishers of X-Men, to produce the only softcover versions of the Masterpiece editions, which reprint important issues from the back stock. Only $12.95 each. Pretty sweet deal.
So why do I feel like I was cheating?
Posted at 12:22 AM Read More |
Wed - May 12, 2004
Because I just can't help myself
I got this from Ringwood Rage**** , astericized only because
my kids might be reading this
blog.
*3 Questions
I want everyone and anyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want and I will truthfully answer it. Then, I want you to go to your blog, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.*
So, go ahead. Hit me, baby.
*3 Questions
I want everyone and anyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want and I will truthfully answer it. Then, I want you to go to your blog, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.*
So, go ahead. Hit me, baby.
Posted at 10:30 PM Read More |
Lies and more lies
According to this
article at MSNBC, the Unelected Fraud administration had several
chances to wipe out a terrorist organization acting out of the
Kurdish-controlled area of Iraq. The Pentagon drafted plans to wipe out the camp
and its troops, but the Hand Puppet put the kibosh on the whole thing because,
according to sources, wiping out this terrorist cell would have weakened the
already flimsy pretense for war. Since then, Zarqawi's organization has been
responsible for more than 700 deaths in
Iraq.
Another good call by the Unelected Frauds. Another reason to vote them out of the offices they disgrace.
Another good call by the Unelected Frauds. Another reason to vote them out of the offices they disgrace.
Posted at 06:44 PM Read More |
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