Today my major accomplishment was to watch the movie _Out of Reach_, starring Steven Seagal. Didn't like it. The battle sequences were interesting, but there were not enough of them. Not that it would have mattered if there had been an interesting plot. But there really was no suspense in this suspense movie ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm back into LiveJournal. Watch this space to see if anything happens.

I've had a few conversations with christians and muslims recently, and it occured to me that I never have those kinds of conversations with pagans ( Read more... )

I just finished the book _Eats, Shoots & Leaves_, by Lynne Truss. (ISBN 1-592-40087-6) The book is about punctuation, specifically it's use and abuse in the English-Speaking World (especially Great Britian and America). (I wonder what Lynne would say about putting the title to her book between underscores, although I'm sure she would be glad ( Read more... )

In the news, the Vatican has "decried" the "Religion of Health". http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=508243Read more... )

I was talking with a Muslim once, who said that he believed that God created sins to tempt us. I said I disagreed, and used the example of gluttony as a case where something is indeed very good (food), but when used to excess is bad (gluttony). I suggested that the other sins were like that, a case not of something evil in itself, but a lack of ( Read more... )

I'm reading Martin Rees's book, _Just Six Numbers_, which makes the argument that the universe is finely tuned to support life. According to his argument, if any of six ratios in physics were changed a little bit, then life would be impossible in the universe ( Read more... )

According to CNN, Rep. Ed Royce (R. California) wants the United States and the world to stop the killing in Darfur. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/01/27/sudan.us/index.htmlRead more... )

I'm still figuring out how to use this Live Journal thing, so let's see what happens when I start another post ( Read more... )

Greetings ( Read more... )