A man farting caught on an infared camera.
Though this is black and white and not color, I would like to think in a color world, that my fart is a evil black shadow.
Monthly Archive for December, 2006
Had friends over last night and played a new wii game where I shoot plungers at evil rabbits. It was hilarious and really fun.
You can get a wii today at Amazon today between 7 and 11 a.m. pst. My buddy also saw some on the shelf at target.
Here is a review and some footage of the game I played last night:
The FDA has given to go ahead for cloned animals to be sold for food. They also are requiring no labels. You can bet the un-cloned animal meat will be labeled because they can only gain by advertising that fact.
But your McDonalds burger just got even worse.
There is a whole mix of problems with this. This isn’t just your snickers bar getting smaller or your favorite mexican restaurant discontinuing free chips and salsa. Environmental, health, and social concerns seem to outweigh any benefit to the consumer. Actually this is only good for the manufacturer (which in this case, is what farmers become). They can copy their best animals, to get more beef and more milk. It won’t cost us any less. It won’t make us any healthier. It won’t reduce waste or carbon emissions.
The beautiful part of this system is what you think does have some weight. After the FDA makes a ruling they do accept public comments before they change any standards. Go here to comment. Don’t be too lazy to care because it will be too late to complain later.
EDIT: The docket for this ruling is not up yet, but continue to check back, it should be up soon.
This art piece, makes not one but two Star Wars references. At this point time and space as we know it should have folded in on themselves. Space actually doing the folding, while time would just be giving him moral support.
Supposedly it’s done by this guy, who also has this t-shirt.
*I used the word art twice in that title, which is also the title of the movie this post is about, except with the word art…twice. See I’m just as witty as that guy.
Growing up in a Christian household, the arts were slightly looked down upon. Not being in choir or plays in school but “art” as a job or lifestyle was frowned upon. I’m not claiming my parents held me or other family members back, but the first time I said,”I want to be a movie director”, I can tell you I didn’t get a standing ovation (which is why I want to be a director right? Constant back pats, the “cream always rises” type comments, etc.). The argument against it was that the deeper you get into it, the darker it is. You can enjoy and appreciate acting, but you don’t want to be an actor because then you have to be a weirdo who wants to make movies about rape and murder.
To give my parents credit they might have been right. The more I got into films themselves and film appreciation the more my moral standards had to fluctuate. I didn’t believe in seeing nudity in films, BUT if it was a great art film that was going to expand me creatively, it was okay. This “fluctuation” is chalked up to many as adulthood. You learn the folly of your childish ignorance. Now the occasional drunkenness, that as a child you viewed as wrong, is okay. What caused you to fast-forward is now just a quick boob. Adults can “handle” themselves better than kids.
I recently spoke with a friend about a book I’m reading called, At the Back of the North Wind by George Macdonald. I explained to him it was a children’s fantasy novel and his response was, “really, a kids book?”. I stopped and thought about it for a moment and came to this realization and shared it with him: I find it a much better exercise to read something that requires the imagination of a child, than something that requires the sophistication of an adult.
Why does it seem that there is something dark about adulthood? A loss of innocence and the gain of what? Biased opinion and jaded experience?
It truly does seem the “deeper” we go the “darker” it gets.
On a technorati search for George Macdonald, I came across this post. Ted Tschopp, talks about this as it relates to fantasy/sci-fi novels. He says,
Over the years, I have read and watched some very dark and strange things in the hope of reconnecting with the feelings I got when I first heard that there was a hobbit who lived in a hole in the ground. After a while I realized the foolishness in exploring more adult and darker themed fictions which were said to match my age or demographic. I realized that I was chasing shadows. I would stare at the shapes and marvel how they twisted. I would revel in the way they could make me shudder.
This fascination is why we look, when someones says don’t. Why horror movies are more popular than ever. Why video games are now full of violence and sex.
We feel drawn to touch the darkness. To be “deep”, “sophisticated”, and “adult”.
But when we get there all we want to do is return to “simplicity” of childhood.
Merry Christmas everyone. I am taking a few days off blogging and work to enjoy the holidays. I will be back after the 26th. Thanks everyone for reading. I hope you enjoy it. I enjoy writing and thinking.
Most of us get overwhelmed when thinking about any type of personal improvement. Whether it’s being a better husband or finishing that project you started 2 years ago, we can get so weighted down with guilt that we never do anything about it. The best thing we can do is just take small measures, like taking out the trash without being asked this week or ordering the part your missing for that VW bus (thats not too specific right?) in your garage.
It isn’t easy and it definitely isn’t comfortable, but it’s good and it will actually feel good…once we get past the guilt. But thats the whole battle isn’t it?
Many items on this list are very easy to do. Just pick one or two to start with and go from there. I am gonna unplug my cell phone chargers and shave with the water off.
On a sidenote: I am the biggest procrastinator, so by no means is this post meant to be chastising. I know sometimes I need some inspiration to get going, so I thought maybe others might be the same.
Some professional gambler has offered a challenge to any Christian who sincerely believes that Jesus resurrected himself and that those who don’t believe in Jesus are going to Hell. He is willing to bet $50,000 that he can outscore anyone who fits in that category, with a SAT test.
Ken Jennings, the human internet, has accepted the challenge. One thing is wrong: Ken is Mormon, and a Merman. But he manages to find an exception:
But really. If holding a strictly Calvinist view of the afterlife makes you stupid and irrational…then aren’t there things in all religious beliefs that sound just as improbable? Wouldn’t it be just as dumb to believe that God wants you to wear a yarmulke, or that Vishnu has ten avatars, or that wine can transform into the blood of a Judean carpenter, or that Joseph Smith was given gold plates by an angel? All religions fall somewhere on the Xenu Implausibility Scale, right?
Wrong. Earth was created in seven days and anyone who hasn’t uttered the secret password is baking.
Christians aren’t stupid. We know we’re always right and so nothing you say matters.
