Spam record
A new personal spam record in my gmail:
Religulous
Watched Religulous last weekend. It was entertaining, much like how a football game can be entertaining: 22 idiots trying the shoot a sheep’s blather between two poles and missing most of the time.
Now, I’m not really a fan of religion. It has it’s uses, but it’s been abused so much that it’s not even funny anymore. Plus, people tend to choose the parts that are convenient to them, while ignoring the gist of the matter. Ah well.
Imagine my surprise when in the whole movie the people with the most common sense were in the Vatican? Some quotes:
Father George Coyne, PhD (former Vatican astronomer): “It’s not that the church has the idea, you know, they’re gonna train us up so we can be the first ones out there to bepatize those extraterrastials before the Mormons get at ‘em. The reason is simply historical facts. [Pope] John Paul II, for instance, said evolution in the neo-Darwinian is no longer a mere hypothesis. I mean, he said that. It’s in writing. [...] The Christian Scriptures were written between about 2,000 years before Christ to about 200 years after Christ. That’s it. Modern science came to be with Galileo, up through Newton, up through Einstein. What we know as modern science, okay, is in that period. How in the world could there be any science in scripture? There can not be! Just the two historical periods are separated by so much. The Scriptures are not teaching science.”
I so agree with that last part. Although I think the bible is just a book, like many others, if you do believe it’s holy, take it the way it was meant: As a collections of stories about God. Not Science. Science is in that other book, you know, the ones that have all those difficult equations in them.
SyndicationAgent
So I’m running the beta of Safari 4. But I keep getting messages about SyndicationAgent trying to access some feed for which it needs credentials. I don’t want it to do that. I’ve already disabled the RSS options in the Safari config, but I’m still getting those messages. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Botnet from pirated Windows 7
This is funny in so many ways, I’m not even going to describe it. And people wonder why more and more people are switching their desktop to Linux or Mac OS X…
Getting in Touch with the Past
So playing those old games made me think about the past. At least the parts I can still remember. Last Saturday I hooked up again with a girl (woman, by now) I used to have a lot of contact with. Mainly via internet, but still, she was a good friend. And she actually knows another old friend of mine that I lost contact with. Gave me his email address, but I’m still trying to find the words to say to him to get into contact again. Not sure if he’d even appreciate it. Ah well, time will tell.
It makes me feel old, but not in a bad way. Especially getting into contact with my old friends gives me a feeling of… accomplishment, is the correct term I guess. I’ve lived a life, not been dormant for nearly 30 years. That’s a great feeling to build upon and expand.
