Shit happens
Blatantly stolen from the Shit Happens website. It’s funny though. Too bad it’s in Dutch. The doctor is operating on a guy hit by firework in the face. They had to use another body part to fix his face…
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.
Wolf in the snow
Ok, so she’s not really a wolf. But she did have a lot of fun in the snow. Click the photo for more text (for some reason Wordpress does this a bit strange).
Aagje with a white snout
Hot hot Santa!
Depending on where you work, might be NSFW (mostly because it will probably break your monitor). Still, very funny.
*snip* Removed it because it started playing every single time! Look at it here: Hot hot Santa
A Different Project
The seatbelt of my car is stuck. Very annoying, I always drive with my seatbelt on (you risk a fine if you don’t here in NL) and it feels like driving naked when I can’t use it. So today I brought my car to the mechanic’s.
The car is there now, I just walked to my dad’s house (it’s closer to the shop than my own) and I came across this sign:
Seen in Puth
It’s a photo made with my cell phone, so not that clear. The whole sign is of a kind that we see here often, usually at construction sites. The contents are:
- Project: Rik
- Date of delivery: 23 nov 2008
- Building contractor: Daddy
- General foreman: Mommy
- Supervisor: Luuk
- Interested: www.j3kidsart.nl
Do not give to neighbour
So my neighbour was at my front door yesterday with a package from Apple. She was kind enough to accept it and sign for it. I thanked her and closed the door. I went inside and started opening the package. Then I noticed the following text on the UPS label:
“Do not deliver to neighbour.”
… Okay?
Bill Gates Might Switch to Linux!
After the unexpected Microsoft Linux a few years ago, Microsoft again is in the news because there are rumours about how Bill Gates might switch to Linux in a few months. It’s said that he’s tired of all the blue screens that his beta Longhorn installation is giving him and his favourite games refuse to run in a Trusted Computing environment. Since his games work great with Cedega on Linux, he’s considering a switch to the Open Source operating system.
The industry is baffled, since for years, Gates has been claiming that Linux doesn’t compare favourably to Microsoft’s own operating system, Windows. Which distribution he might use is still uncertain, although sources tell us he might consider Ubuntu and Mandriva.
The power of might is mighty indeed.
Inspired by “Slashdot | Google Might Disappear in Five Years“
