I had an extremely productive day at work today, but that was because a tonne of things went horribly wrong, and I successfully dealt with most of them. They went wrong due to the carelessness of other people, which made me especially frustrated (didn't discover this until the end of the day, so the middle of my workday was unblemished by this), ( Read more... )

Went cycling for the first time this year. It was awesome, even if I did have to walk 1.5km after the only free air pump I could find in fact let all the air out of the tire.

The pre-Empire Roman Calendar was really, really messed up.

J. Michael Straczynski, the mind behind Babylon 5 (you know, the show with the horrendous acting, but with a ( Read more... )

I really enjoy Classical FM, a radio station here in Toronto (and receivable in KW). It's more consistently classical than CBC2, if less imaginative (sometimes it gets monotonous) but at Christmas, they've actually got a wider array of Christmas music. Unfortunately it has ads, but they're not too bad either, and usually quite a bit different than ( Read more... )

This was a comment I posted in response to an article Sid Schwab wrote at Cutting Through The Crap, his ranty spinoff blog from SurgeonsBlog which I nevertheless enjoy reading. If I had more reliable internet today, I'd probably have put some more effort into properly citing some of the information to which I refer, but I don't think my claims are ( Read more... )

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." ~ Stephen Roberts (thanks to valacosa for introducing me to this wonderful quote ( Read more... )

So I've been playing Space Empires IV lately (and Starfury) and during the long time between turns (and while my dozens of ferrys are ferrying surplus population to new worlds) I just started reading a book by Martha C Sammons examining Narnia. I don't know how good it will be, but it got me thinking about one of the issues I had with Narnia as a ( Read more... )

So, from a long series of blog-hops, I ended up at one of these anti-gay-marriage articles, that tried to phrase things as arguments, so I thought I'd play debater and really pick them apart. It's apparently a summary of a book by Dr. James Dobson, Marriage Under Fire

1)The implications for children in a world of decaying families are profound.So ( Read more... )

I've been really drifting lately. Partly cause I'm really burnt out with physics. My last exam's tomorrow, and then I'm going to get to a whole tonne of things that I haven't been doing. Like housework, and blogging, and mending of clothing, and reading, and maybe even that medieval clock I've been assembling for 5 years or so ( Read more... )

So things have been up and down lately, mostly down, but I'm feeling better now that I've rested up a bunch and I'm back to work. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that old cheddar goes on sale tomorrow at Zehr's for $4.44. We haven't bought any since the last sale, and we've been out for a couple weeks now. I'm going to have to make ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that a lot of people can't think of utilitarianism or a pragmatic organization of society in anything other than the most happiness for the most people ( Read more... )