SubscribeWhy do waffles get a bad rap?
I like waffles, usually, but I hate waffling. How else to start a post about religion but with semantics and metaphor?
Okay, here’s the thing. For years now I’ve claimed to be an agnostic. I used to be a fundamentalist, but I got better. I didn’t really give up the notion of a God, though, so [...]
Human Design Flaw
Why don’t we have noses that let us close off our ability to smell? Wouldn’t be hard, just a few muscles that let us slam our nostrils shut if we didn’t want to smell something. If I’d been in charge, I would have added that.
This important design flaw came to my attention this last week [...]
When will it all end?
When I deconverted from Christianity years ago, I went through a long spell of being tired of religious subjects. This included resistance to having to hear about religion or read about it. I had no mental energy for it anymore. This was due largely to how much time I spent during my fundamentalist years studying [...]
When it rains, it pours. And then it gets cold and turns into snow.
Okay, that title is more melodramatic than it needed to be. Things are just crazy at the moment, and it’s odd how it seems like nothing’s happening, nothing’s happening, and then BAM. (Granted, randomness is clumpy, but still.)
Julie’s interviewing in three states and we’re driving all over the place, back and forth. We have two [...]
Poems – What Do You Think?
Please let me know what you think of any or all of the following poems (all criticism and comments welcome from above the 2 year old level)…..
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I sit on this couch, turn off the lights, watch the storm…
The skies are filled with [...]
Finally Won a Contest
I never win contests. Randomness seems to favor not me. However, I finally broke that streak by winning a logo contest for a company I buy hosting services from. They wanted a small ad, and we could enter up to three. I entered these…
I won and got a gift certificate to an online store where [...]
Disappointment, cynicism and expectations…
I’ve concluded that taking the high road is over-rated. Granted, it might cause a small twist of internal spiritual growth, maybe, possibly, in some non-measurable way… but if you’re looking for something truly difficult in life, try not giving in to the first reaction that comes to mind when someone stabs you in the back.
I [...]
It’s not what you know…
It’s who you know. I know that now better than ever, as I reflect on my life from where I was to now to where I’m trying to go. It’s humbling to realize that you owe so much to so many others, especially when you always thought of yourself as a lone wolf type.
Thanks to [...]
Noticed by the Big Boys
Okay, just one big boy. Earlier this month I got a letter from a layer hired by Verizon (both by certified mail and by e-mail) demanding that I turn over the domain name superiorpages.com to Verizon with no compensation. Their claim is that my registration of that name violates trademark law, because they own superpages.com [...]
deja vu
Had the strongest case of deja vu earlier tonight, and I’m sure it’s not from a similar experience in the past and so on. Not that I know what the heck deja vu really is.
I was working on a web site project, creating admin pages that use PHP and MySQL (the dirty programming side of [...]