Very funny satire over at Kamp Krusty about people getting offended by the word "Christmas"...

Happy Wednesday!

No, wait. Check that. You likely know that “Wednesday” really means “Woden’s Day” -- a nod to the Teutonic god.

I, for one, do not worship Woden. I'm not wont to worship Woden, and, well, wouldn't worship Woden. Perhaps you pursue a personal relationship with Woden. But maybe not. So forgive my insensitivity.

Granted, in this culture, the fourth day of the week is, most obviously, “Wednesday” – why, it’s as obvious as, say, December 25th is Christmas – but we shouldn’t simply say things like that out loud because “it’s been that way” for centuries.

It’s time to recognize, and celebrate, our differences. Joining the celebration of religious expression is easy: Simply be offended by everyone else’s religious expression. Celebrate good times, come on.

I love it! Read the rest here.

Happy Thor's Day!

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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.

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.

Family Pic 11/07

Family Pic 11/07
Originally uploaded by epaga

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

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.

"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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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