Apologies

I usually use mornings to write blog posts, but lately my routine has changed a little. You see, I've been busily writing my thesis lately, trying to get it finished, and I've noticed that the process is changing my brain and my personality a little bit. Its handicapping my sense of humor and my desire to socialize, which then leads to subtle insecurities. Fortunately my wife keeps thinking of ways to get me out of the house on weekends so that helps keep me from being a total recluse. Anyway, I've retreated to playing video games to help clear my mind on evenings and weekends. I've noticed that it helps keep my mind flexible, which I really need for all this technical writing, as long as I don't get too addictive about it like I used to. Anyway, the video games have led to me staying up later at night and sleeping in later in the morning, and all that cuts into my blog-writing time. That, coupled with the fact that my mind just isn't trained on thinking, "hey this would make a neat blog post" when the daily random vapid things (DRVT) happen, has resulted in fewer blog posts over the past few weeks. So apologies loyal readers (reader? Joe?).

Oh, and my company has asked everyone in my department to move to our facility in Boulder, CO by November 2007. I'm not sure if it will actually happen or not, but it has certainly added to the general feelings of insecurity I've got rocking lately.

I like skiing but I'd miss trees and ocean.

Newsflash: I think logically.

*Yawn*

You Are Incredibly Logical

Move over Spock - you're the new master of logic You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer!

How Logical Are You?

The weekend

This has been a decent weekend. Last Friday Chris and I went to the mall to get some ideas for Halloween costumes from a specialty store. I think we are going as Mr. and Mrs. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four, you know, cus we're fantastic. Saturday I sat around and watched the Michigan - Notre Dame game because some freinds came over (one of which was a Michigan alum). That was really just our pre-game show for the evening plan; Jon Stewart at Merriweather.

Today I just watched more football. Happy to see the Ravens beat the Raiders. I'm sitting here right now really hoping the Patritos can maintain thier lead over the Jets. Its getting dicey but the Pats are still up by 7.

A good weekend indeed.

Idiocracy

If you don't live in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, or Austin, just put this movie in your netflix queue.

Electoral Vote Predictor

As far as I'm concerned this was the best site for tracking the electoral college during the 2004 election. Now they are back for the 2006 Senate elections and btter than ever.

Atheism

"I'm agnostic about God in the same way that I am agnostic about fairies"

One thing the article didn't crystallize well enough but did discuss is the fact that good moral behavior is its own reward. No belief in God, an afterlife, or the literal Bible is needed. If God and the word of the Bible really were the ultimate source of morality, we'd still be practicing slavery (a practice which the bible goes to great lengths to defend morally).

Because I'm just that way...

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If you have trouble with that first link, try this one (the first link will work much better though, but this one will load for other browsers).