Couple things: I've been very sporadic lately. Work's web sense has finally shut off my access to LJ. Between Websense, and other internet losses self-inflicted in the name of productivity, I'm not around much. I figure you could care less. It's not like I've finished brainwashing you yet ( Read more... )

So I was discussing religion, philosophy, investment and economics with an old friend of mine and the topic of free will came up ( Read more... )

I was just idley surfing the web as I sometimes do whrn I should be doing work, and I came across a link to an article about why being a vegitarian is unhealthy and unwise. It goes about examining the most common reasons people cite for being vegitarian and tears them down one by one. I thought I'd post it since I know some vegitarians and I've ( Read more... )

So I was looking online for hammership deck plans and I found this page ( Read more... )

It might not be for the faint of heart, but this comic is pretty cool. This one in particular is completely awesome ( Read more... )

Read this article ( Read more... )

I got some spam recently for generic viagra, cause lord knows I don't get excited by a strong breeze or anything, but that's beside the point. Attached to the bottom of the e-mail was the following story fragment, to keep my spam filter from catching it (a futile attempt it turned out):

looking-glass, it was clear that they understood one another ( Read more... )

So I heard last night on MPR (Maryland Public Radio if you're not familiar) an interview of an illegal immigrant from Mexico. It covered why she had come here and how she had done it etc... etc... It was very educational and I felt sorry for the situation she had been in in Mexico. Frankly, I'm not too big on the illegal immigration issue. I ( Read more... )

An online aquantence posted a link to the site "The saddest thing I own" It's sort of like an open blog where everyone posts pictures and stories about the saddest thing they own. If you're a depression-prone empathic person, it most likely will send you spiraling into depression. Personally, it makes me thankful for what I have. But I came ( Read more... )

Here's a quote ( Read more... )