C.S. Lews supposedly said "You ARE a Soul you HAVE a body." Basically this suggests that the soul is the important bit and the body, while nice, doesn't matter overly much in the long run. It is going to be worm food anyway. I have always liked this as a notion of free will. Biology only determines so much, your soul decides what type of person you ( Read more... )

Why is it, that almost invariably when I tell someone that what they are doing is wrong or illegal, their response is to tell me either "Some other place says I can do this" or "This is the way we've done it hundreds of time ( Read more... )

My wife always says before giving bad news, always say whats ok. When I called swiftwind23 to tell him I wouldn't be at dinner and poker because Jasmine had a seizure, apparently I was not clear as to whom Jasmine was and he was worried that a human being had had a seizure and maybe that twelveoaks had. So. I include in the In Memoriam that Jasmine is a dog and not a ( Read more... )

So thanks to a friend I got to try Rift for a weekend. Since I have a number of gamers on my LJ I thought I'd give my impressions.

( MMO Geekery within. )

In an effort to raise international awareness of the Tsunami and Earthquake, Japanese Gameshows are hosting "International Week" and flying citizens from 21 countries to Japan for a week of tourism, visiting disaster sites, and of course, playing their games. Atlanta's own Jorge Diaz was chosen out of thousands of American Applicants, and you can' ( Read more... )

So I dreamed last night that I was on some sort of game show. At just below waist level there were a number of carboard tiles. The tiles had prizes listed on them, mostly cash prizes as I recall. The purpose of the game was to ejaculate on as many tiles as you could in 1/2 an hour. I remember thinking "I might be able to go twice, but thats really ( Read more... )

It saddens me greatly that NPR is under attack again. They are really such a wonderful resource. The breadth and depth of their stories are far greater than any other american news outlet that I am aware of. In addition they have personal interest stories that go well beyond "Missing White Girl" or "The Drug Antics of Charlie Sheen." I listen to " ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the shooting in Arizona a bit. From what I saw, the shooter gave the left little real ammo to use, although that didn't stop a lot of people. If anything, I actually agreed with James Carville who said "this isn't an issue about talk show hosts, it should be about gun control" more or less. Naturally the NRA has been ( Read more... )

If you play long enough... YOU WIN. I refer mostly to economics/employment stuff, butI refer mostly to economics/employment stuff, but it does count in other places as well. I've been winning most of the other games so long I can't really remember losing ( Read more... )

So I have been kinda stressy and anxious for the past month or so. I suspect a lot of it has to do with the season. But a lot of it seems to be comming out of nowhere. That always frustrates me ( Read more... )