I hope that amongst the regular stories about some celebrity's boobs and where she was when they popped out in front of a flock of paparazzi, everyone managed to hear about one of the single most important discoveries ever, the discovery of a planet only 20.5 light years away that may be capable of sustaining life very much like we know it.
In case you turned the tv off after the boob story, here's a link.
Hmm, let's see.
Red dwarf star? Check.
Higher relative mass and gravity? Check.
Kryptonite core? Unconfirmed. So far.
In case you turned the tv off after the boob story, here's a link.
Hmm, let's see.
Red dwarf star? Check.
Higher relative mass and gravity? Check.
Kryptonite core? Unconfirmed. So far.
Labels: everything else, superman
If you ever watched Bugs Bunny cartoons you'll remember this one.
You know, one of the Looney Tunes characters digs a hole straight through the planet and ends up in every kids stereotypical idea of what mainland China *must* be like. Everywhere its huge saucer shaped hats, overly exaggerated slanted eyes, buck teeth. If someone even though about airing shit like that now the lawsuits would start. And rightfully so.
Anyway now you can find out where you would actually end up if you dug straight through everyone's favourite mudball, with a little extension of Google Maps. You pick your spot to dig, click 'Dig Here' and you find out exactly where you would end up if you kept digging all the way through the planet.
From my backyard, I ended up just east of Australia, somewhere in Great White Country.
Check it out yourself, for as long as the link works.
And FYI, every place I dig in China gets me to South America, so that pretty much settles that.
You know, one of the Looney Tunes characters digs a hole straight through the planet and ends up in every kids stereotypical idea of what mainland China *must* be like. Everywhere its huge saucer shaped hats, overly exaggerated slanted eyes, buck teeth. If someone even though about airing shit like that now the lawsuits would start. And rightfully so.
Anyway now you can find out where you would actually end up if you dug straight through everyone's favourite mudball, with a little extension of Google Maps. You pick your spot to dig, click 'Dig Here' and you find out exactly where you would end up if you kept digging all the way through the planet.
From my backyard, I ended up just east of Australia, somewhere in Great White Country.
Check it out yourself, for as long as the link works.
And FYI, every place I dig in China gets me to South America, so that pretty much settles that.
Labels: everything else
I usually find my traffic's keyword queries to be fairly bland, but lately there've been some outright ridiculous phrases used to get here. Here's a few of my recent favs, some of which have never been used together in any fashion on this blog:
- watch the life aquatic simpson episode free
- dreaming about cutting one's own pinky finger off
- ghost proof
- quebec separating
- flying spaghetti monster shirt
- funny facebook status
- nothing runs like a queer
- babel fish cause war
Labels: everything else
Ok, maybe not the funniest ever, but definitely the funniest thing that I can recently remember. Its a skit on CBC's 22 Minutes, spoofing Quebec's recent decision to throw a Muslim girl off of a children's soccer team. You'll watch it, laughingly horrified that they can get away with jokes like these until the end when you get who they're really making fun of.
Here's the link.
If the file gets moved, I've mirrored it it here.
Here's the link.
If the file gets moved, I've mirrored it it here.
Labels: funny
Dear Trinity,
This past month with you has been busier than most lately, largely because your Mom and I didn't think we had been exposing you to enough different things. So we took you on as many different adventures as we could think of.
First, we took you to a local Sugar Shack, where they tap and make Maple Syrup, among other things. You tried your first taffy on snow. And you absolutely loved it. The folk singers and the maple woodcut branding you could clearly do without, but you and the taffy got along just fine.
We took you to your first waterpark and that went over better than I could have imagined. If we had the money, we would right now be installing a waterslide at home. You spent the whole time there either running through the kid's pool or laughing your way down the slide. It was a lot of fun for all of us.
We went on a few road trips this month too. We visited your Aunt Becky at her place in London. I don't know what she'll be doing with her life by the time you're old enough to read this, but as of right now she's finishing her massage therapy training. And just in case you're wondering, the free massages have been very few and far between indeed. We also managed to visit my Mom on the same trip. And since that visit wasn't a long one, it was manageable.
And not all of our visiting this month was done at other people's houses. My Dad came to visit us and so did your Mom's parents. Whew. I think the next time we see so many people in one month I'll just tell you who didn't squeak in a visit. Suffice it to say that not one of our visitors wanted to see me or your Mom. You are a very loved little girl.
I ended up getting some pretty good news related to my job this month. I got a better contract at my tech support job, and subsequently I went on an online shopping binge. Your new Super Pal Spider Man doll was just one of the fruits of that labour.
Hearing you sing 'Spidey-Man' is awesome, and totally worth it, but I'll try to keep my spending to a minimum next month so we can continue to afford the other stuff like food, diapers, clothes.
Love Daddy
This past month with you has been busier than most lately, largely because your Mom and I didn't think we had been exposing you to enough different things. So we took you on as many different adventures as we could think of.
First, we took you to a local Sugar Shack, where they tap and make Maple Syrup, among other things. You tried your first taffy on snow. And you absolutely loved it. The folk singers and the maple woodcut branding you could clearly do without, but you and the taffy got along just fine.
We took you to your first waterpark and that went over better than I could have imagined. If we had the money, we would right now be installing a waterslide at home. You spent the whole time there either running through the kid's pool or laughing your way down the slide. It was a lot of fun for all of us.
We went on a few road trips this month too. We visited your Aunt Becky at her place in London. I don't know what she'll be doing with her life by the time you're old enough to read this, but as of right now she's finishing her massage therapy training. And just in case you're wondering, the free massages have been very few and far between indeed. We also managed to visit my Mom on the same trip. And since that visit wasn't a long one, it was manageable.
And not all of our visiting this month was done at other people's houses. My Dad came to visit us and so did your Mom's parents. Whew. I think the next time we see so many people in one month I'll just tell you who didn't squeak in a visit. Suffice it to say that not one of our visitors wanted to see me or your Mom. You are a very loved little girl.
I ended up getting some pretty good news related to my job this month. I got a better contract at my tech support job, and subsequently I went on an online shopping binge. Your new Super Pal Spider Man doll was just one of the fruits of that labour.
Hearing you sing 'Spidey-Man' is awesome, and totally worth it, but I'll try to keep my spending to a minimum next month so we can continue to afford the other stuff like food, diapers, clothes.
Love Daddy
Labels: trinity
I really don't think there is an atheist alive who better expresses how insane it is that the bulk of humanity lets their beliefs about an afterlife dominate every single facet of their lives than Sam Harris.
Sam Harris' latest article God's Dupes further demonstrates exactly why I like this guy's writing so much.
Here's a snippet:
Sam Harris' latest article God's Dupes further demonstrates exactly why I like this guy's writing so much.
Here's a snippet:
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain — from cosmology to psychology to economics — has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture.
Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.
Labels: atheism
