Monthly Archives: May 2010

A Good Time Was Had by All.

Dinner was a hit I think. BBQ’ed Ribs and Pork Tenderloin Roast. I think the Roast got a bit dry and the ribs were not what you could plaus­ibly call “Fall off the Bone”. but the fla­vours were all good and the assort­ments of salads were excel­lent. There were also some last-minute pota­toes that went over quite well. Conversations

Golden, here I come!

I’m going to Golden tomor­row for my par­ents’ anniversary party. I’m pretty sure that there will be much mer­ri­ment and what not. I’m look­ing for­ward to it. I like big fam­ily gath­er­ings, they remind me of how lucky I am to have such a big and close-knit group of people in my life. And this prom­ises to be

Yeah…

No Blogging on Thursday nights. 5:00am comes too soon…

Happy Monkey!

Okay, so the folks at the Apple apple store were quite friendly, I signed in early just in case they could help me out before my actual appoint­ment and spent a good half an hour wan­der­ing around look­ing at all of the Mac toys. Lindsay was there hanging out with me so it wasn’t com­pletely bor­ing. My

Sad Monkey.

Boo000, I now get to exper­i­ence the dis­tinct pleas­ure of get­ting my iPod repaired. Clutzy me leaned over to pick up some­thing and the darned thing fell right out of my pocket! The screen is nicely shattered thanks to my care­less­ness. If I’m lucky the Apple per­son that I talk to will cover the thing under

So, what’s new?

Things change, though not always drastic­ally. The accu­mu­la­tion of small changes even­tu­ally develop into a major change though. I still work for a local Tech Support com­pany, as I have for a little over two years. When I first star­ted, my only com­puter know­ledge was some basics about Linux, minor troubleshoot­ing of Windows sys­tems, and what Mac OS looked like. Now,

Clarity

There was a post yes­ter­day after­noon at Pharyngula, it linked to  a video state­ment by Richard Dawkins about “New” Atheists and clar­ity. I think that’s just won­der­ful. It startles me that there are people who take this kind of clar­ity, this hon­esty, as hos­til­ity. I don’t think that there can be any sort of pro­duct­ive dis­cus­sions on a mat­ter if one

Books?

So appar­ently there exists people who are proud of the fact that they don’t read. I have dif­fi­culty under­stand­ing some­thing like this because so much of human cul­ture is tied up in our lit­er­at­ure. There are people who hear the words “Big Brother” and think of a crappy tele­vi­sion show rather than George Orwell’s 1984 AMZN. Reading

Wherin I breifly address a selection of categories.

I am an athe­ist. Most people will not be bothered by this; some people may be. I am not a “New Atheist” or an “Old Atheist”, I simply do not believe that there is a God or Gods. My reas­ons for this belief is likely very sim­ilar to the reas­ons of other non-believers in these times. There is