here i am sitting at a cafe, working, and the bad eighties music has just been turned off and replaced with christmas music. happy holidays. Technorati Tags: christmas, christmasmusic, holiday, holidays, music, waronchristmas

Theological scholars may have noticed that there are, in fact, no dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible – and here lies the Creationists’ first problem. Since there are undoubtedly dinosaur bones and since, according to the Creationists, the world is only 6,000 years old – a calculation devised by the 17th-century Bishop Ussher, counting back through […]

filling out employment applications has got to be one of the single most awful things a person must endure that doesn’t cause actual physical pain (except, of course, for the cramped hands from gripping the pencil too tightly). i hate this.

i have started pulling at least some of my stuff back out of storage and putting it back into the house. it’s starting to look like someone lives there, again. if nothing else, at least the place gone one hell of a thorough cleaning, eh? 😀 i have started back on zoloft — only been […]

Wired News: The Crusade Against Religion:Prophecy, I’ve come to realize, is a complex meme. When prophets provoke real trouble, bring confusion to society by sowing reverberant doubts, spark an active, opposing consensus everywhere — that is the sign they’ve hit a nerve. But what happens when they don’t hit a nerve? There are plenty of […]

today is gorgeous out: 73°f, sunny. so why am i not playing disc golf, on what is the last best candidate day for doing so? because the winds are up to 30mph, and the disc kept flying into the woods. drat. so now i sit at a cafe downtown, working at a free wifi spot. […]

I certainly haven’t been shopping for any new shoesAnd I certainly haven’t been spreading myself aroundI still only travel by foot and by foot it’s a slow climbBut I’m good at being uncomfortable so I can’t stop changing all the time I noticed that my opponent is always on the goAnd won’t go slow so […]

they say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. the thing is, i’m unsure what i expect the result to be. well, that’s not entirely accurate. i know what i want — but is htis what i ought to want? how do i decide what i ought […]

earlier this evening i found myself standing in borders books with a new friend, looking at art magazines when a person nearby allowed their mobile phone to ring… loudly. some rap song as the ring. a teenage girl answers with “wwhhhaaaat??” when we both had to stifle laughs i figured i was going to enjoy […]

so, the house is going back on the market, and i am not moving to new zealand, at least not in 2006. the original job offer (from waaaay back in january) is apparently still on the table, in the sense that he still wants me out there, when i can. which is awesome — wellington […]

last night i had a dream that was totally out of character for me. it was strange and weird, for me, in that it was completely mundane. i was going on vacation, with someone, and we were in a car, just driving and talking. that’s it. normally my dreams involve surreal plots of terror where […]

Is autism a “disorder”? Is psychopathy a “disease”?:I realize that these are uneasy bedfellows. Autism isn’t psychopathy. The question is, are there many “disorders” that are really “adaptations”? Homosexuality once appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a disorder — now, it’s considered just part of the spectrum of human behavior, considered best as […]