There’s something gratifying about playing Rock Band 2 in a Best Buy, and having an onlooking 12-year-old say “wow, you’re good.”

Got this in email from a friend today (or, more specifically, from a friend’s email account):

From: Gary (xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com)
To:
Subject: Emergency Help

Hi,

I’m in a hurry writing this mail. I had a trip to Nigeria visiting the Tinapa opening ceremony. Unfortunately all my money has been stolen at the hotel where I stayed, by some armed robbers and since then I’v been without any money and I’m even owing money to the hotel here. So I have only access to my emails,my mobile phone can’t work here so I didn’t bother bringing it along.

Please can you lend me $2,500 so I can return back and settle the hotel bills I will return it back to you as soon as i get home.You can have it sent through Moneygram money transfer.

I have already spoken to the hotel manager, please let me hear from you so i can collect his full name and address where you can send the money tomorrow please or if possible today. I am waiting for your reply

Thank you.

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Wonder how much turnover they had from people being fired due to fights in the cafeteria.

Okay, I suppose I can see the the writers’ difficulty in captioning this. But still…

These days I understand that trying to correct people’s spelling is like trying to sweep back a badly-spelled ocean with a broom, but I couldn’t resist on this one:

The classic God paradox: “Can God make a rock so big, He can’t lift it?” This one was always easy for me: yes, he can. And then he can lift the rock. You’re starting with the idea that God is omnipotent, so the fact that we don’t understand how he can do both things is irrelevant. Can God do X? Yes. I don’t care what X is.

But today I thought: the more interesting question would be whether God could entirely destroy himself. I can’t comfortably answer “yes” to that one. Because if God could remove His own existence, then how could He do anything after that?

Then, online, Aliasn followed up with a more intriguing question: Could God accidentally destroy himself? Omnipotence does mean the ability to do anything, after all, and it seems like that should include unplanned actions.

On one hand it still seems like the same question: “can an omnipotent God do this thing you can’t understand?” And the answer is yes, because saying “omnipotent” has already stacked the deck. On the other hand, I can’t get my head around it.

This guy found an idiotic Half Life fanfiction, and then animated it:

“My husband doesn’t understand the benefit of a good foundation garment.”

Oh this is gonna waste my morning.

<bob> “In Luke 10:18, Jesus said he watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. This may have been the catastrophe that killed the dinosaurs.”
<Freyja> hehehe
<Freyja> man, I really envy the crazies
<Freyja> science is so much easier when there’s only one textbook
<bob> gah, here’s one for you, mark
<bob> [If God gave us the KJV as an inspired translation, why would God not repeat the process again in modern language in each language?]
<bob> The question assumes that the A.V. was written in common or Elizabethan English. It was not. The English of the A.V. was specifically designed to receive the words of God in a language that could be understood by English readers. It is a pure language, untainted by secular meanings.
* zompist boggles
<zompist> not that it matters, but i wonder how they decide this stuff
<raven> I think it’s a bit much to suggest there’s actual decision-making.
<zompist> i mean, they just pull it out of their ass, but doesn’t anyone say “er, but why is that?”
<bob> heh rave
<bob> yeah, you kinda have to figure whatever voice tells them this stuff, they don’t ask back about the details

Seriously. One guy’s audio is like 250% of the other guy’s audio, so I could hardly bear to listen to the conversation–and for the most part that’s what it was, because only occasionally do they actually comment on the episode they’re watching.

Though it was kinda fun listening to the guy who does the Dr. Venture voice. The character’s voice is essentially his. In fact I heard him doing a Shell radio commercial once, that was kinda entertaining.

I’m feeling a certain inflexibility of thought that concerns me. I was in Target and walked past a Playstation 3 with a bunch of game demos on it, and I just wasn’t interested enough to slow down and look at them, because I’d have to read and figure out and learn buttons and crap. At work they’re finally going to get me a new computer to replace this steam-powered computation-engine, but I’m more concerned that I’m going to have to fuss with re-installing things.

I’ve kinda always not adjusted well to change, but this feels different. It’s a lack of my basic inquisitiveness, which I’ve generally taken as one of my best traits.

Limpetophobia: fear of being turned into a fish

Haven’t posted for a while…work’s been crazy, so I haven’t had the time to post entertianing bits…and the political stuff that normally gets me fired up, frankly, has been depressing me too much to bother commenting on it.

Case in point is this parenthetical from a recent Gleen Greenwald article:

[The most amazing quote was from chief Mukasey supporter Chuck Schumer, who, before voting for him, said that Mukasey is “wrong on torture — dead wrong.” Marvel at that phrase: “wrong on torture.” Six years ago, there wasn’t even any such thing as being “wrong on torture,” because “torture” wasn’t something we debated. It would have been incoherent to have heard: “Well, he’s dead wrong on torture, but . . . ”

Now, “torture” is not only something we openly debate, but it’s something we do. And the fact that someone is on the wrong side of the “torture debate” doesn’t prevent them from becoming the Attorney General of the United States. It’s just one issue, like any other issue — the capital gains tax, employer mandates for health care, the water bill — and just because someone is “dead wrong” on one little issue (torture) hardly disqualifies them from High Beltway Office.]

The post in general is about how our latest Attorney General was swiftly confirmed in the Senate, and how, somehow, the “60 vote requirement” to get anything done in Congress is only when the Democrats roll over and let the freakin’ Republicans get their way god so sleepy need to lay down a minute

Companies renting “smell time” in their office buildings. Say, 11:25-11:40, the sandwich company accross the street can rent the time to push baked bread smells through the ventilation system. 4:45-5:00, supermarket chains can push the smell of roasted chicken.

“Syntactic sugar.”