In order to lighten my mood, allow me to relate a cute story about my son. Caleb had developed habit of crying whenever I left after dropping him off at daycare. The last week or so however he's taken to cheerfully saying "bye-bye" when I told him I was leaving. This is of course a refreshing change of pace.
Earlier this week, I went to put on my coat when he ran up to me crying and holding up his hands, wanting to be picked up. I picked him up and said, "I need to go to work. Can I get a kiss?"
He was distracted by another kid crying and ignored me at first, but then absently-mindedly bonked my head with his. This is, for him, a common gesture of affection whose origin mystifies me. He then said "bye-bye," squirmed a bit and then said "Down."
My son had wanted to make sure he said good-bye for the day. :)
I set him down and pointed at the child who had distracted him. One of the little girls in the class was VERY upset her father had left. She's a bit of a drama queen and was lying on the floor face-down screaming. The teachers were unable to console her. I told Caleb that his friend was upset and suggested he go over and try to cheer her up. He walked over, cheerfully patted her on the shoulder and said "hi!"
She immediately stopped crying, looked up at Caleb and got up to get about the business of playing.
Caleb turned around and sad "Bye-bye" to me one last time as I left.
- Mood:
amused
And to top it off, when I got to work my body was soaked to the skin from mid-thigh down, thanks to the rain. This means I'm experiencing a frustrating say barefoot.
- Mood:
frustrated
Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.
For those drinking little - less than a shot of vodka a day for instance - the risk was reduced by 35%. And for those who drank anything from three shots to more than 11 shots each day, the risk worked out an average of 50% less.
The story went on to point out that there were a lot of nasty side effects to drinking large amounts of alcohol like an increased risk of stroke. The message seems to be that moderate drinking is good for you and the damage done by heavy drinking dwarfs any benefits.
This of course means I'm having some scotch before dinner tonight.
- Mood:
thirsty
Swedish scientists have discovered that long life and good health have nothing to do with a man’s education and everything to do with his wife’s
There is a lingering suspicion among girls (as the unpopularity of science subjects demonstrates) that boys don’t value cleverness as an essential quality in a life partner. Given a choice between gorgeous or brainy, there is no guarantee they’ll do the right thing, because men think they’re clever enough for two. Well, it turns out they’re wrong. Swedish scientists have discovered that long life and good health have nothing to do with a man’s education and everything to do with his wife’s. Men married to smart women live longer — simple.
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- Mood:
geeky
Sadly, most places near where I live or work are "temporarily out of stock" but it's a start.
- Mood: amused
This is a parody.
I'm sure it's a parody.
Dear GOD in Heaven PLEASE let this be a parody!
(Remembers the Bibleman and Left Behind Video games)
Sweet Jesus this abomination may actually be a real game. I need a drink.
The basic idea seems to be that a duty to God to not lie takes precedence over your duty to your neighbor. I find it fascinating that a group that claims altruism HAS to come from God and is proof we were created and didn't evolve turns around and comes up with an argument that basically makes altruism a sin.
Some of the comments on the source AiG page make my head hurt. At one point someone brings up the example of the Midwives being ordered to kill all the male Israelite babies during the Egyptian captivity.
First, the relatively sane person:
Wow, you put a lot of work in to that answer Bodie, and from a biblical basis too. I agree with you 100% about lying to protect yourself, that could be interpreted as mere cowardice, and I think most of your biblical examples dealt with that. However there is a scripture in Exodus ch.1 vs. 15–22, in which the Jewish midwives are told to kill all the male babies they delivered but refused to do so. When asked why they hadn’t destroyed the babies, they told the Egyptians the Hebrew women simply gave birth faster than the Egyptian women, and had the babies before the midwives got there. Vs.17 however says that the Jewish midwives saved the male children alive, so here they are lying not only to save the male babies but probably to escape punishment from the Egyptians. Vs. 20 says that God dealt well with the midwives for doing this. I think this is one of the rare examples or cases where lying would truly not be offensive to our Creator. At any rate, I think this scripture shows that not all lies are equal, at least to my mind. In that most lies are done for self advancement, self protection, greed, etc., but some are done at least with the intention of protecting others, their reputations or physical selves. I can’t fault your stance though, your conscience and the Word must be your guide. Keep up the good work.
—M.H.
Emphasis mine. Now the nutbar response:
I looked up the passage about the midwives, and I, personally, don’t believe they lied. Scripture doesn’t really say they did. Please see the context:
Exodus 1:15–22
(Full text omitted in this quote for brevity)
Naturally, their fear of God led them to refuse the order to murder. It makes more sense to me that they could have informed the Hebrew wives what the Pharaoh had commanded, and, thus, many of the Israelite women were giving birth before the midwives would arrive so they would not be in a position of killing the child. Perhaps the midwives took their time to arrive as well. That would allow the children to survive and the midwives to speak the truth to Pharaoh.
What would make pregnant mothers more vigorous or lively to have the child born? Make them aware that if they do not give birth quickly their child’s life may be in danger. There are any number of ways the mothers and midwives could have avoided it.
With humbleness in Christ,
Bodie
That's right folks. He takes the stance that a highly motivated woman will give birth faster. How many of the women reading this have kids? This Bodie character seems to think you would have given birth faster if you were just motivated enough. I'd be tempted to take all the bullshit in the AiG thread and use it to fertilize my yard, but I don't have the 50 acres I'd need to spread that much shit around.
My wife is Jewish. Since it's inherited through the mother's line, so is my son. Bodie Hodge would deem it morally appropriate to help murderers find and kill my wife and son, but a sin against God to lie about their whereabouts in order to save their lives.
- Mood:
pissed off
I hadn't watched Sesame Street since moving out of my parents house. Elmo rose into view and his squeaking voice set my nerves on edge. As a result it was with somewhat fresh eyes that I watched the "Old School" Sesame Street DVDs from the early days of the program. One rather surprising and totally inappropriate realization was just how much my taste in women was shaped by the show. I'd had a HUGE crush on Maria as a kid and on a whim decided to look up some information on her today.
Maria is played by Sonia Manzano. She's won 15 Emmy Awards for her writing on Sesame Street and her New York state performance in The Vagina Monologues apparently drew rave reviews. Yes, I'm having trouble parsing that, and I can't help but wonder WHICH pieces she read. She's very active in efforts to get kids to read and she's a political blogger.
- Mood:
nostalgic
And survives!
- Mood:
surprised
Please note: My slow cooker is just a mode on the rice cooker. The only heat setting for the slow cooker mode appears to be equivalent to the "low" setting on a crockpot.
- Mood:
hungry
That said, it may be wise to add a few extra words to our sign vocabulary just in case.
Soup for example. Medicine for another. Tissues, Toilet Paper...
- Location:Work
- Mood:
contemplative
December 21, 2012 is Mayan date 13.00.00.00.00
December 22, 2012 is Mayan date 13.00.00.00.01
The Mayan Calendar does NOT end in 2012, it just rolls over to the next Baktun. It is, quite literally, the exact same thing as OUR calendar going from 9999 to 10000. A "digit" is being added and no one who carved Mayan calendars 500 years ago thought it necessary to include a space for a digit that wouldn't be used for 500 years.
And before anyone asks, no I do not plan to go into detail about WHY I felt compelled to post this. I will however direct anyone who believes the world will end in 2012 or that some special disaster is in store, to please read or listen to the Skeptoid Podcast episode "Apocalypse 2012".
- Mood:
pessimistic
SATURDAY, NOV 7 10 AM-3 PM: "Teach a Friend to Homebrew" Day.
Sign up by Friday evening to get free ingredients for a batch of stout.
Take a relaxing trip to picturesque Wachusett Reservoir, visit us, take in the scenery--and make free beer while you're at it!
We'll supply pizza and other snacks for you. If you want to bring a beer or two.... Please call us to let us know you're coming. Bruce Homebrew Emporium 45 Sterling Street, Suite 9 West Boylston, MA 01583 508-835-3374 www.beerbrew.com
The link is to the group that owns the Modern Homebrew Emporium in Cambridge. Those of you who have sampled my beers might want to know a lot of my ingredients and equipment came from them.
When antiscience kills: dowsing edition
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The Iraq government is transitioning from bomb sniffing dogs at roadblocks to Canadian dowsing rods. That's right, the jokers protecting US Soldiers are ditching an effective means of bomb detection in favor of magic.
If that's the kind of brain dead thinking that dominates over there, then they were better off under Saddam. You can;t force a superstitious population to trust science and facts over convenient, though useless nonsense.
I'm disgusted that Kerry was one of the asshats responsible for this absurdity.
Birth control is NOT covered, but having a faith healer pray over you will be?????
Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments -- latimes.com
If you want to contact Kerry's office to express your disgust with this brain dead slice of stupidity, Senator Kerry's contact information can be found here.
- Location:United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Mood: pissed off
I am SO bringing this up with my Shadowrun GM
I was still getting Caleb out of the car when I heard a couple of teenage girls walking by a few yards away. One of them was on the phone and from the tone of her voice she was clearly hysterical. She was screaming into the phone, professing her love for the person on the other end and her frustration at being ignored by him. She was doing this with phrases such as "But I want to- I'm talking to you and I need to let you know I- going to be your girlfriend. I'M ON THE WAY TO THE STORE NOW WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS!"
Her friend was walking a little behind her, also on the phone but obviously suppressing laughter.
I loaded Caleb into the cart and made a beeline for the front door. the teenagers were ahead of us. As they turned the corner they saw a teenage boy leaning against the wall. He was smoking and you could see his store name tag. The hysterical girl stopped dead and said quietly "it's you."
She then ran for the door, blushing and half looking over her shoulder as she ran. As she was going through the door, the large iced coffee she'd been carrying knocked against the side of the opening door. It bent and slipped from her grasp, splattering to the floor. Her friend caught up to her a few seconds later. The first girl was staring at the spilled coffee and said "I don't know how- That's impossible!" Clearly the day was not going as she had hoped.
That's when Caleb and I caught up. I went through the door saying "excuse me" as I, without comment, scooted around the two of them. My son however, displaying all the tact and sensitivity of his almost 19 months, pointed at the spilled coffee, called out "Uh-oh!" and started giggling uncontrollably.
The first girl turned slowly towards Caleb. Once she saw him she threw her hands in the air and screamed.
Caleb mimicked her flailing arms and did a passable imitation of her scream.
She dropped her arms, stared at Caleb for a second, yelled "even babies!" and ran from the store, past the boy and across the parking lot.
Her friend was still staring at the retreating teenager's back when I entered the store.
- Location:United States, Massachusetts, Worcester
- Mood:
confused
| Greed: | Medium | |
| Gluttony: | Medium | |
| Wrath: | Very High | |
| Sloth: | Medium | |
| Envy: | Very Low | |
| Lust: | High | |
| Pride: | Medium |
I'm still perplexed by the Wrath score though. I think it was the fact that I'd get angry at my food arriving cold at a restaurant that pushed me over the top on that one.
I disagree with the greed score, but the fact that I counted my Honda Del Sol as a sports car (a stretch to say the least) is what did me in there.
Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz
The Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan's Island theory is quite simple. Each of the seven characters on the island represents each of the seven deadly sins. Now, this theory seems to fit upon initial inspection, there are technical difficulties when you get down to THE MAN himself, Gilligan.
Run with me on this one . . .
1. Most obvious is the Professor, who fits PRIDE to a T. Any man who can make a ham radio out of some wire and two coconuts has to be pretty cocky. His character was later revised and given a series of his own, called "MacGyver."
2. For the sin of ENVY we need look no further than Maryann, who may have worn those skimpy little tops, but could never achieve Ginger's glamor. (As an interesting and completely irrelevant side note, a nationwide survey of college students a few years ago revealed that the professor and Maryann were voted the most likely couple to have 'done it' on the island.)
3. And who could doubt for a moment that Ginger is LUST incarnate? Sure, the kids were supposed to think she was ACTING, but we all know what being deprived episode after episode was doing to her. You know and I know that glazed look wasn't boredom, my friends.
4. What kind of person takes a trunk full of money on a three-hour cruise? Mr.Howell gets my vote for GREED.
We are now left with three characters and three Deadly Sins. We have Gilligan, the Skipper and Mrs. Howell to whom we must match GLUTTONY, SLOTH and ANGER. As you can see, there is a Gilligan problem here.
5. Certainly we can further eliminate Mrs. Howell from this equation by connecting her with SLOTH. She did jack shit during her many years on the island and everybody knows it.
6,7. This leaves ANGER and GLUTTONY, either of which the Skipper had no shortage. He was, after all, a big guy with the tendency to hit Gilligan with his hat at least once an episode. After much consideration, I have decided that he can easily do double-duty, covering the two remaining Deadly Sins.
So here we have the Seven Deadly Sins trapped in an endlessly recurring Hell of hope followed by denial and despair, forced to live with each other in our TVs until the last re-run ends. And who is their captor? What keeps them trapped there? Gilligan.
Gilligan is SATAN. Think about it.
- Location:United States, Massachusetts, Worcester
- Mood: amused
Just in case I don't get online tomorrow:
Happy Halloween!
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