A Pile Of Blog

Going to Extremes

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:36:52 -0500

On the flight back from South America last week, the airline was showing Yes Man, a film starring Jim Carrey. Left to my own devices, I rarely finish a movie, but I watched the first…

Please send Becca to Antarctica!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:58:18 -0500

Just register, click the verification link they send you, and vote. Easy.

http://www.blogyourwaytoantarctica.com/blogs/view/207

Boredom Begets Boredom

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:27:55 -0500

Boredom Begets Boredom:

S.B. left a comment on my last post that I’ve been thinking about all week:

“I don’t think human beings will stay happy very long if they aren’t doing something they feel is fulfilling to…

"…we choose to live like monks anyway (having taken no such vow of contemplation) rooting..."

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:44:36 -0500

“…we choose to live like monks anyway (having taken no such vow of contemplation) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.””

- Rolf Potts, Vagabonding

"Music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. Alone on the open desert, I have..."

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:49:29 -0500

“Music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. Alone on the open desert, I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy. The world has seemed more beautiful to me than ever before. I have loved the red rocks, the twisted trees, the red sand blowing in the wind, the slow, sunny clouds crossing the sky, the shafts of moonlight on my bed at night. I have seemed to be at one with the world. I have rejoiced to set out, to be going somewhere, and I have felt a still sublimity, looking deep into the coals of my campfires, and seeing far beyond them. I have been happy in my work, and I have exulted in my play. I have really lived.”

- Everett Ruess in a letter to Bill, April 18, 1931” - as quoted in Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

Reserve A Spot In Hell - The Only Way to Guarantee Your Spot In Hell

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:01:46 -0500

Hookers for Jesus founder, Christian rocker wed in Vegas

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:40:24 -0500

Hookers for Jesus founder, Christian rocker wed in Vegas

Bush Fulfilled Bible Prophecy

Fri, 29 May 2009 09:17:20 -0500

At least that’s what *he* thought.

Evidently in 2003 he told French President Chirac “This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

And you thought it was all about al Qaeda…..HAH!

http://ping.fm/2SIiD

My desk, courtesy of Pingle…

Thu, 28 May 2009 10:31:39 -0500

My desk, courtesy of Pingle…

Astronauts Spot Mysterious Ice Circles in World’s Deepest Lake

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:19:00 -0500

Astronauts Spot Mysterious Ice Circles in World’s Deepest Lake:

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station noticed two mysterious dark circles in the ice of Lake Baikal in April. Though the cause is more likely aqueous than alien, some aspects of…

Wired.com Reports: How Game Design Can Revolutionize Everyday Life

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:18:59 -0500

Wired.com Reports: How Game Design Can Revolutionize Everyday Life: Everyone complains about “e-mail overload” — getting so much stupid corporate e-mail that you miss out on important messages. But Byron Reeves has figured out a way to solve the problem.

How? By…

Orbitz Fights to Lift Cuba Travel Ban

Sun, 24 May 2009 09:15:14 -0500

Orbitz Fights to Lift Cuba Travel Ban: If you’re an American citizen with Cuba on your “to visit” list, your next stop after reading this article should be signing the travel ban petition Orbitz has created at www.OpenCuba.org. Lend your…

Final Ping.FM test

Fri, 22 May 2009 14:08:49 -0500

and now for the biggie, the ‘blogging’ feature test for Ping.FM. I need to type more than an update so I’ll take this opportunity to talk about Adam from American Idol again. He totally rocked the house with both Kiss and Queen. Yes, it’s a bit lame to see KISS doing their same old shtick, but it was fun. (but was anyone else creeped out by Gene Simmons’ psycho tongue?)

So, I guess that’s enough. Here goes nothin…

Tax GPS to save GPS?

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:40:44 -0500

Tax GPS to save GPS?: There’s news bubbling up about a potential crisis in our GPS systems. According to a new GAO report, a bunch of the satellites up there guiding our cars, geo-shagging applications, and soldiers might…

How to build a dinosaur

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:35:05 -0500

How to build a dinosaur:

I’ve been reading a new book by Jack Horner and James Gorman, How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn’t Have to Be Forever^{(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll)}, and I was pleasantly surprised….

Jesus Phone Can't Have Jesus App, Apple Preaches

Tue, 12 May 2009 10:37:18 -0500

Jesus Phone Can't Have Jesus App, Apple Preaches: Apple has rejected an iPhone app which let anyone plaster their face on a picture of Jesus. Apparently is contains “objectionable material” — your face? — though the only thing we think is…

The foot that may prove 'hobbits' existed

Thu, 07 May 2009 16:09:42 -0500

The foot that may prove 'hobbits' existed: A miniature species of extinct humans, nicknamed “hobbits”, possessed unusual anatomical features explained by their complete isolation from the rest of humanity for thousands of years on their…

Begin With a Single Step: Escape from Cubicle Hell

Tue, 05 May 2009 10:08:16 -0500

Begin With a Single Step: Escape from Cubicle Hell:

There is no feeling that quite describes being stuck in a corporate office, worse yet, in a cubicle, when the sun is burning through a cloudless blue sky.

For seven years, I miraculously managed to…

"Christ the Narc today in drug world nonbelievers Matthew 10:22&25&5:9-13&Romans..."

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:01:03 -0500

“Christ the Narc today in drug world nonbelievers Matthew 10:22&25&5:9-13&Romans 16:11 K.J. parable
Welcome to our Circle!”

- EXACT quote from pens placed on the McDonald’s counter by the local fundy evangelical freak. Closely matches the t-shirt he wears every single day, and his jacket.

Stop whining, start saving

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:03:12 -0500

Stop whining, start saving