Your morality is 8% in line with that of the bible.
Damn you heathen! Your book learnin’ has done warped your mind. You shall not be invited next time I sacrifice a goat.
Archive for category Internet Memes
Your Debut Album
Jun 19
The instructions are simple: your band name is the first random Wikipedia article title, your debut album is named after the last four words of the last quote, and the album art is the third picture of the most interesting Flickr pictures from the past week.
That said, Government of Ontario would like to announce their debut album, “Really Don’t Want It”. The cover art is La musique des vagues….
106 books: the brad edition
Oct 10
Stolen from Amy, who stole it from Stephen and Misty:
These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. I’ve bolded what I’ve read and italicized what I started but couldn’t finish.
1984
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : A Novel
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : A Novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
The Once and Future King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Oryx and Crake : A Novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
The Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values
23 read, 3 partially read. Here’s why I stopped reading what I stopped reading:
Crime and Punishment: I think this book was written to torture high school students. I bought it at a library book sale for either fifty cents or a quarter, and I think it was overpriced.
Quicksilver: I got suckered by Neal Stephenson into thinking that the paperback was Volume One of three because there were three hardcover volumes. Oh no, it’s one of nine. Neal Stephenson can go fuck himself, I’m not going to read nine bloody books only to get screwed in the end by a rushed and forced conclusion.
The Satanic Verses: I read the first page. Didn’t see the point in continuing after that.
Show Me Yer Ugly Mug
May 25
Following on from PZ Meyers, here are answers to the burning questions of the day.
1. Can you show us your coffee cup?
Sure. 
2. Can you comment on it? Do you think it reflects on your personality?
Going from left to right, the first is a hand-made mug from Chosin Pottery in Metchosin, British Columbia. It’s my water mug. In the centre is my coffee mug that bears the logo from the Joint Astronomy Centre, where I work. On the right is a free mug from Netcraft that I got for reporting some number of phishing emails via their anti-phishing toolbar. This one’s used only for tea.
I don’t think they say anything about my personality.
3. Do you have any interesting anecdotes resulting from coffee cup commentary?
Can’t think of any anecdotes, interesting or otherwise. Although I can say that the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works quite well for getting out tea and coffee stains.
4. Can you try to get others to comment on it?
You scored as Scientific Atheist. These guys rule. I’m not one of them myself, although I play one online. They know the rules of debate, the Laws of Thermodynamics, and can explain evolution in fifty words or less. More concerned with how things ARE than how they should be, these are the people who will bring us into the future.
What kind of atheist are you? |
Time to find an apple…
Apr 2
…and not the computer kind. I need to get one of those pieces of fruit so I can participate in this:
In a nutshell, this guy’s going to make an animation made up of pictures of people holding either an apple or a lightbulb. Apple if you’re a dirty savage who believes in evolution, lightbulb if you’re a god-fearing religious nut who believes in creationism. As he says in the video, anybody can participate and the more the merrier.
