I would never have guessed that this would be the case, but EVEN THE THUNDER IN IRELAND SOUNDS DIFFERENT ( Read more... )

http://friendlyatheist.com/2008/04/04/its-dangerous-for-children-to-know-atheism-exists-says-illinois-state-legislator/Read more... )

Nothing quite like going over all the math three times and seeing that it's all right, though you're STILL getting the wrong answer. I must be using the wrong equation or something.

So after I left Edinburgh, it was down to Birmingham to see the Stanleys. Michelle used to babysit me when she was back in the states, so they're all family friends, and I figured I'd go see 'em. Was a lot of fun, we actually went and walked around a massively windy ruined castle instead of Birmingham though XD ( Read more... )

This place is SO FREAKIN' COOL. It's like the city's practically made of towers and spires and steeples and castles... I've never been anyplace like it. The hostel's pretty nice actually, I was surprised... not too many frills, but it still seems very new and is very clean and well kept up ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Hum

"They also composed the soundtrack for the computer game Age of Empires II."

That would be really frickin' cool, but I don't think it's true... at least, maybe the band members did it, but not AS Venus Hum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmbIgVSyLQA

More youtubed songs, but still... beautiful stuff.

I don't really, but damn those aerodynamic little buggers! They can just stand there, business as usual, in 50 mph wind gusts, laughing at me as I struggle to take a single step.

Bastages.

It's actually quite amusing... every time it gets windy and rainy at the same time like this, there is all of a sudden a preponderance of ruined umbrellas in trash cans around campus ( Read more... )

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