Freitag, November 30, 2007

touché


touché
Originally uploaded by davidgoering
When we were at my parents' place, Joshua loved to "take pictures" with this little toy camera that was lying around.

A subtle reminder that he's a 21st century kid is that after taking each picture, he'd pretend to look at the non-existent digital display on the back of the camera, pressing non-existent buttons. I sure never did THAT when I was a kid taking pictures with a pretend camera.

Mittwoch, November 28, 2007

It has been a long time since I have laughed this hard.

The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses

Rather than write a series of books or give a bunch of boring speeches, Elijah invited 450 Baal prophets to a contest, where both sides would set up an animal sacrifice. Whichever God could rain down fire on its sacrifice would be the one everybody worshiped.

It's brilliant in its simplicity, and we're surprised religious debates were ever carried out any other way after that. You can raise all the intellectual challenges you want about faith and the origins of the universe, but at the end of the day, you have to worship the god who can set you on fire. It's common sense.

We like to think Elijah stood in front of the howling column of heavenly fire, straightened his robes, turned to the crowd and said, "Thus, my opponent's argument falls." Then, he finished the debate in the way that all debates should be finished: by having the losers slaughtered.

Please note that the article does have some bad language and also there are some sexual jokes about passages like Ezekiel 23:20.

Samstag, November 24, 2007

Family Pic 11/07


Family Pic 11/07
Originally uploaded by epaga

Dienstag, November 20, 2007

Quite a clever idea here. Since I don't have sound at work, I hope the dialog is as funny as the video looks. :)

Freitag, November 16, 2007

Just for fun before I go to bed, here's one of my all-time favorite XKCD comics:

Very funny song by Biff. You know, the "Hello, anybody home, McFly?" guy.



Found on the hilarious "Letters from Kamp Krusty" blog.

Mittwoch, November 14, 2007

"Come To Me"


Wow, box.net is nice - now that I can host files and then automatically link to them here, I thought I'd upload a really simple recording of a song I wrote a few years ago called "Come To Me". When I say simple, I mean it: It's just me on the guitar, also, the sound quality isn't the greatest. Here you go...


01 Come To Me.mp3

Test upload


This is a test to see if I can host files and then link to them automatically with BOX.net.


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Montag, November 12, 2007

Along those same lines, saw this quote in my Quotes of the Day feed:
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
- E.B. White
Another funny yet thought-provoking question by Scott "Dilbert" Adams on his blog:

Here’s a question for all philosotainers. Are we better off if Pakistan is ruled by a relatively rational and reasonable dictator pretending to be an elected president, who is an enemy of Islamic fundamentalists, as is now the case with President Musharraf, or by a real democracy that could end up run by Islamic extremists with an arsenal of nuclear weapons?


Now, I know very, very little about the actual situation in Pakistan...what I find so challenging about this thought is more the general idea that maybe, just maybe, Western democracy is NOT the solution for the world's problems (as Bush clearly thinks and has said before in multiple speeches). Because what happens when the people of a sovereign nation come together, and freely vote together...for an Islamic extremist government which supports terrorists?

Samstag, November 03, 2007

Just was listening to last.fm (Stephi wanted the R&B channel) and the song "Nobody" was playing by somebody called Shawn Desman. The chorus is

I don't wanna hold nobody if I can't be holdin' you
I don't wanna kiss nobody if I can't be kissin' you


Good ol' double negative. I had to laugh imagining him singing the logical equivalent "I wanna kiss somebody if I can't be kissin' you."