Through occasional scans of my referrer logs I found Damn Interesting, which is. Even the titles are enough to slow me down–Poland’s Biological Defensive, The Battle of Los Angeles, The Seventh Sense, Professional Farters. I have no idea what’s in the last three of those links, but I read the first one and I’m desperately trying to avoid getting drawn in, because I’m trying to get some work done.
Unconnected to my last post, though I’m sure it looks like it must be: the first panel of today’s Scribs actually happened, the second only happened in my head, and it diverges sharply from reality from then on.
Today I am waging battle with my pride. It’s putting up a hell of a fight.
I’d give you details, but I’m not the kind of idiot who gives specifics about his job in a blog. Just mentally put “dear diary” at the front of this and some frowny face dots over some I’s and that’d probably make the context more appropriate.
Goddamnit I’m just done my 32-oz iced latte and then just got finished learning that I lost a day’s work because the people who we’re told we should make more of an effort to communicate with didn’t tell us there was an environment change and then someone has to go and send me this link:
Daily Progress, Jacksonville, TX - Origin of Man
Starts with one guy saying “You can certainly be a Christian and believe in evolution” and yes goddamnit yes I’ve been screaming that for years. But great. But then we get Billy Wilbanks, chair of the Science Department at Jacksonville College:
“We hear that all life-forms are progressing from one life-form to another, but yet in the world we do not have any life-forms that are between forms. The fossil record has never shown anything to be in a transition state, going from this form to that form…
“There’s a lot of questions right now that I can’t answer. What holds the clouds up? If we throw a whole bucket of water in the air, the whole bucket is going to come right back down, but when it rains, all these little raindrops fall,” Wilbanks said.
Let’s say that again with emphasis: Billy Wilbanks, chair of the Science Department at Jacksonville College. I mean, yeah, JC (hah) is a private junior college owned by the Baptist Missionary Association of Texas, so you kind of expect this. But if I quoted here every stupid thing this guy said, I’d basically be quoting all his parts of the article.
Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush
Even longer than usual. He had a lot to say.
This commentary, and this excellent flashback by Joe, stir in me the memory of how I felt, how the country felt after 9/11. I am conflicted: I want to immerse myself in that, the feeling of connectedness, of a people stricken but united, of my natural cynicism put aside for something greater. On the other hand I need to forget about it right now, because I’m at work, and thinking how the potential of that unique moment in history was entirely cheapened and squandered is literally making my eyes water, and if I consider it for too long I’m going to be weeping at my desk.
When I’m finally getting around to getting some SpinnWebe structure together, it’s a bad time to start reading about Ruby on Rails development.
I like PHP, but it sounds like RoR is pretty cool and easy to program in; but do I stop and take the time to learn it? Or go with what I’ve been working with? I hit this question in various forms in many places in my life, and most of the time I grind to a halt while I delay making a decision.
ugh. Dunno what to do, now.
No, seriously, they’re just getting around to reporting this:
globeandmail.com : Google geeks drop a bomb on Mr. Bush
“Before Google fixes it”? If they haven’t worked anything out in the last three years, I don’t think they’re in a rush.
They should require credit card access to this page. You know this gotta be someone’s fetish.
