Thanks to some large crustaceans, I’m taking a job in a couple weeks.
{Kids in the Hall on YouTube}
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Link: Fuego erupting again
Instagram has a post with some photos of the ongoing large volcanic eruption in Guatemala.
As a child, on really clear nights, you could see the lava flowing down Fuego from our balcony.
And with that, ladies and gents, I demand you call me “Will, Master of Science.”
Link: Amy's back at it
About time my sister started talking about food again.
Random thoughts while watching “The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo” (2011), having already seen the 2009- trilogy, and also having had several adult beverages
“I am on welfare, I do not administer it.”
Is Harriet supposed to look like Rooney Mara?
I have a man crush on David Fincher, Christopher Plummer, and Daniel Craig. Mostly the first two.
That was the longest “I don’t have a signal” scene I have ever seen.
I don’t mind winter, but I have no desire to live in Sweden.
Is it possible for Stellan Skarsgård to not look like a villain anymore?
Blomkvist is impeccably dressed for a journalist. I guess that’s what happens when you’re Daniel Craig.
The aforementioned man crush also applies to Trent Reznor. Boy howdy
None of these jerks except Lisbeth have their Mac OS X Dock set up to auto-hide, neither is it on the left or right side of the screen, where it belongs.
Apparently Swedish ambulances are Smart cars.
I think half of the Stellan Skarsgård thing is that gravelly voice.
I didn’t realize Sosumi was still a system sound.
I kind of wish I still needed glasses just so I could not wear them around one ear. Wear them only around one ear? Whichever. Maybe both.
“Like an IKEA table.” Burn.
I will never hear Enya the same way again.
Pretty sure I need to get some bearer bonds.
R. I. P. Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury died at the age of 91 today. He has long been the benchmark by which I judge any science fiction, and most short stories. Some highlights of my favorites:
- “The Small Assassin” still gives me the creeps even though I haven’t read it since high school, and as I get older I find it to be an absolutely fascinating take on postpartum depression.
- “The Scythe” takes the same core idea of the show “Dead Like Me,” but takes it from a small, intimate vignette to a global scale by capitalizing on the universality of emotion.
- “No Particular Night or Morning” deals with loneliness and existentialism in a way for which space travel is uniquely suited.
- Fahrenheit 451. ‘Nuff said.
{via io9}
For those of you who doubted its existence, I give you … THE PUPPET COURT. (Taken with instagram)
Today’s afternoon snack. (Taken with instagram)
The Festivus pole stands proud and unadorned.
Answers and Questions
tj:
http://5by5.tv/bw2/42 was a great episode of Back To Work that touched on a lot of things I’ve been thinking about for awhile.
I wrote up the first of my responses over at my “Big Boy Blog” at http://luo.ma aka RhymesWithDiploma.com.
(Yes, I bought a domain name just to redirect it to my real domain name. No you have a problem.)
It touches on both religion and politics. I talk about The Secret, The Prosperity Gospel, the intentional misreading of the Bible to fit our preconceived notions, clichés people say because they can’t deal with the inexplicable, and more.
So if you like that kind of thing, take a look.
A decent piece on a great show. Maybe it’s because he’s a tech blogger now, and therefore a bit less of a seminarian (or perhaps because he’s Presbyterian), but I feel like this was a bit of a missed opportunity. In all fairness, I don’t know if TJ expected Merlin to reblog him, but even if not, here he was given the opportunity to declare the gospel (rather than merely decrying, rightly, the Prosperity Gospel) to an audience that either hasn’t heard it proclaimed, or has poor or mistaken perceptions of it.
Christ crucified has very little to do with productivity, but we all are in need of forgiveness of sins, whether or not we are concerned with our forgiveness. We need He who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, even though his paths are beyond searching out.
Proclaiming personal knowledge of Christ, knowldge that he died to save sinners, knowledge that we have needed, do need, and will continue to need his grace doesn’t imply that we have answers to the other important questions. TJ talks about theodicy a fair bit in his piece, and I am among the first to state that anybody who claims to have a reasonable/acceptable response to the problem of evil is either stupid, lying, selling something, or hasn’t actually gone through any suffering. Acknowledging that we don’t have all the answers, though, should not impede us from responding to the one Important Question for which we do have an answer: “What must I do to be saved?”
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SCIENCE!
While sorting and filing old notes and paperwork, I happened across this gem from an April 1 evening class a few years back.
I was wearing this shirt today. It’s a Mike Monteiro design from Pixelworkers I bought to contribute to Colleen’s awesome 50 for 50 project.
I was in a little taco place in Wantagh, Long Island buying a couple of fish tacos.
A family stood next to me. Mother, father, boy of about ten.
The boy was staring at me. At my shirt. After an awkward minute of me watching me him watch me, he said something.
“What does that mean?” He pointed at my shirt.
His mother looked kind of horrified but I ignored her and turned to the boy.
“It means make things happen. Don’t wait for them to happen.”
He looked at me blankly for a second then his face lit up. “Oh! Yea! Cool.”
His mother rolled her eyes.
I got my tacos and left, hoping the boy would remember this.
A lesson I’m certainly still learning.
{via @Mike_FTW}
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Apparently autocorrect doesn’t care for my verbal exclamations of cuteness.
