Saturday, July 12, 2008
On Bush
I hope that no one I know is still behind W. This came out in 2004. It just annoys me to no end. Carol Coleman is a relentless interviewer here. I agree with the writer of the article.
Carol Coleman of Radio Television Ireland interviews George W. Bush
This is why people of other countries think of us in a bad light. This man is our most visible ambassador and he is incompetent.
Carol Coleman of Radio Television Ireland interviews George W. Bush
This is why people of other countries think of us in a bad light. This man is our most visible ambassador and he is incompetent.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Androids
I'm not sure what is so funny about Jules, but I find him so.
And an oldie but goodie: the breast masseuse.
And an oldie but goodie: the breast masseuse.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Tonight I made Quinoa with Mushrooms and Spinach. It was quite good. It had a wonderful earthy taste from the quinoa and mushrooms. It felt very cleansing. It was perhaps a little bland, but a sprinkle of salt was all it needed. The spinach came out nicely with a dash of salt.
Atheism
I've been reading Atheist Universe by David Mills. It is confirming in that the arguments laid out are those that I came up with during my break from religion after high school. It's gotten me all evangelical and feisty about it again. I think I have too often been an apologist. Organized religion is not ok. It's holding the human race back. We need to realize we are alone and that we need to move forward as a human race. Organized religion is divisive and continues to prevent unity.
None of these are new thoughts to me or to the world. How to implement them is the question. Reasonable arguments do not seem to work.
Also, I ran across this hilarious quote:
"I am an atheist and I have a 'Honk if you love Jesus' bumper sticker. When someone honks, I give them the finger."
None of these are new thoughts to me or to the world. How to implement them is the question. Reasonable arguments do not seem to work.
Also, I ran across this hilarious quote:
"I am an atheist and I have a 'Honk if you love Jesus' bumper sticker. When someone honks, I give them the finger."
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Inspiration
I just ran across a speech given by Richard Feynman that I find most inspiring. I've come across this before in his books, but it's been long enough that I had forgotten.
Too often I forget that childhood wonder that every page of the encyclopedia held. Now, with information so readily available, almost anything I want to know that is known by a human can be found in a few minutes. But why is the wonder gone? I think it might be partially because I have grown into a place in the human race. I can't do everything, be anything. I know my limitations. I don't intend to stay static. It's just that enough dreams have died and enough new ones have grown to take their place, that it takes some brilliant writing to snap me out of everything that I am doing and remember.
I remember the days when I could hardly sleep from the wonder of it all. The complexities involved, the scales of time and space so beyond comprehension, from the bizarre world of quantum fluctuations to the intergalactic spaces. Even now I feel it returning, the wonder and joy of the realization of how insignificant and simultaneously how precious we are as humans.
We have such immense possibilities, and I intend to reach for the stars and the sub-Plank distances whenever I can.
Too often I forget that childhood wonder that every page of the encyclopedia held. Now, with information so readily available, almost anything I want to know that is known by a human can be found in a few minutes. But why is the wonder gone? I think it might be partially because I have grown into a place in the human race. I can't do everything, be anything. I know my limitations. I don't intend to stay static. It's just that enough dreams have died and enough new ones have grown to take their place, that it takes some brilliant writing to snap me out of everything that I am doing and remember.
I remember the days when I could hardly sleep from the wonder of it all. The complexities involved, the scales of time and space so beyond comprehension, from the bizarre world of quantum fluctuations to the intergalactic spaces. Even now I feel it returning, the wonder and joy of the realization of how insignificant and simultaneously how precious we are as humans.
We have such immense possibilities, and I intend to reach for the stars and the sub-Plank distances whenever I can.
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Moroccan Chicken with Lentils
I made Moroccan Chicken with Lentils tonight. Good stuff! More cinnamon next time I think.
Gas Prices
Here's an interesting perspective on the current price of gas. It's interesting to look at it in a way that actually normalizes it logically.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Just for fun
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!
Can yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 out of 100 plepoe can. Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the
ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer
be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? And we awlyas
tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt.
Can yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 out of 100 plepoe can. Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the
ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer
be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? And we awlyas
tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Lentil and Quinoa salad
I just finished making some Lentil and Quinoa salad using this recipe with some minor variations. I am very happy with the results. My replacements were olive oil, key lime juice (awesome!) and a curry paste that I know is delicious all over the place. The key lime sets off the ginger very well, a nice bite, but not overpowering. I pat myself on the back for this one!
Hilarious and disturbing
Some awesome cartoons about warrant-less wiretapping and other wonderful things brought to you by your current government.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Books I have read
From a friend's blog: Bold those you have read and italicize the books you LOVE.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyne Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graeme
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – L M Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time of Cholera – Garbiel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - A S Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyne Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graeme
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – L M Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time of Cholera – Garbiel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - A S Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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