We have cats. We enjoy annoying them, as it’s just desserts from them annoying us. We need to try this soon. (No cats were harmed in the making of this video. Just annoyed.)
Monthly Archive: August 2010
Aug 21 2010
RCimT: Weekend science-related coolness
Just a few things in my tabs that you should probably know about, if you care about the progress humanity has made in understanding this universe. Plus my snide comments. The moon is falling! Wait, no, not falling. Shrinking. Very very slowly, mind — only 100 metres in recent geological history, as its core cools …
Aug 20 2010
‘Leaving’
DuWayne Brayton of Traumatized by Truth wrote a poignant piece of short ficton that you need to read. I’ll pullquote the same chunk he did: The only thing I am afraid of now is that you will assume I didn’t love you with the depth and passion that I have always felt for you. I …
Aug 19 2010
Twilight: Breaking Dawn in under 1m30s
I should probably warn you that this is full of spoilers for Twilight: Breaking Dawn. Everything that happens in the video, I shit you not, is canonical. As the movie’s title says, This Actually Happens In Twilight: Breaking Dawn. WHARGARBL Hat tip to Rebecca Watson at Skepchick.org. No, wait, not hat tip. “I hate you.” …
Aug 17 2010
Atheist blogospherics, and beating creationists at their own game
I haven’t done any atheist posts recently. I’ve been so wrapped up in the astrology nonsense that I just haven’t had the concentration to split off onto other topics, like my rampant heathenism. This is a sin, in my books, so I aim to rectify that — by pointing to a few other people’s interesting …
Aug 16 2010
Structured guessology and rewriting history to suit astrology
The “debate” on astrology that I’d hoped to foment has finally kicked into… medium gear, I guess, when two new astrologers joined the fray to provide some anecdotes and a few selected “hits” as evidence. Several of the players have claimed that astrology can’t properly be used to predict stuff, and the man who was …
Aug 14 2010
Women like porn, but Facebook doesn’t like women liking porn
Women like porn too, it turns out. No, seriously. Some really do. Facebook, however, apparently doesn’t like that fact. On July 27, 2010, Facebook removed the Our Porn, Ourselves Facebook campaign page. After the page was removed, anti-porn organization Porn Harms claimed victory and thanked Facebook for the deletion, on the organization’s Facebook page and …
Aug 12 2010
She was a good dog
I was planning on writing about getting up early to try to catch the Perseids before dawn. Plans change. We just had to put our dog Ginger down this evening. Despite seeming perfectly healthy when we left this morning (barring having stolen some food from Jodi’s work bag), her health extremely rapidly hit a crisis …










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