Let's face it. I am a reformer. I am sure my ideas will not get much support, but every once in a while somebody might appreciate one of them. Here's the latest thing that has been bugging me!

In our English language, we have a lot of words. Of course new words are being invented all the time, and I have urges to resist this phenomenon,... but ( Read more... )

It's "that time of year" again. The time of year when most Christians celebrate "Easter" (named indirectly for a Babylonian goddess--seems like a bad name for a way to celebrate Christ's resurrection, to me), Jews and some Christians celebrate Passover (named in the English language parallel to the way it's named in Hebrew, from taking the verbal ( Read more... )

I was listening to the radio on the way home from work today. The Sabbath had already begun, so ordinarily I "should" perhaps have taken some action to change the station, or even have turned the radio off, rather than listen to my default evening drive-home fare of National Public Radio. I'm not actually a fan of public radio, mostly because I ( Read more... )

I don't like girls.

Alright, admittedly, that's very ambiguous and misleading... but now that I have your attention, let me rephrase and explain.

I have a problem with girls. I don't like the things that I occasionally do while I'm "under the influence", so to speak, of girls. I sometimes make decisions that I later regret... and I can directly ( Read more... )

I promise I try to ignore these things... but they keep bothering me, every time I hear them; and what better place to gripe about them than here ( Read more... )

I just discovered that I am 74 days too old to try out for season 7 of American Idol. I was so going to do it, too! The auditions this year are starting here in San Diego, at Qualcomm Stadium, which is literally a couple blocks from my house--I was going to walk there on Monday morning, to save parking fees! It's not like I thought I would make ( Read more... )

I found the result below (to yet another one of those ubiquitous online "personality tests") interesting. Not so much the result itself, but at the bottom where it said compared to other guys my age, I'm in the 82% percentile at reading women's minds, but only 14% in being romantic. I think that's about right. I generally know what women are ( Read more... )

I actually wrote this up yesterday morning when I woke up, but didn't have time to post it until today:

I just had the best dream. It was short, but awesome. :) As a warning to anybody trying to make sense out of all the details: keep in mind, it's a dream; so not everything does make sense. I am just writing it down how I experienced it. And ( Read more... )

Here's a random thought that I didn't come up with, but I thought was amusing enough to share. I found it in my e-mail inbox a few days ago. I won't bother crediting the original author of the quote because it's from a commercial interest which I am not interested in promoting (sorry); and I've tweaked it just a bit to make it make sense out of ( Read more... )

My apologies to those of you for whom this journal entry may make no sense. It's very technical in nature, and pertains to a particular set of religious beliefs that I happen to be familiar with. It is also very long ( Read more... )