04/30/09 11:20 - 65ºF - ID#48542

Star Trek

Who would like to go see Star Trek, at the IMAX theater in Amherst, at 4:35pm on Saturday May 9th?

I will be pre-ordering tickets tonight, so let me know if you're coming. You'll owe my $14 if you come, I'll front the money to make sure we get a block of tickets.

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04/30/09 09:14 - 56ºF - ID#48540

Yuck.

My ADD medication has mostly stopped working, after 4 months of awesomeness it's started to slowly ramp down. Tolerance, I think? Also it gives me really bad headaches lately.

So the doctor today switched me from Strattera to Adderall, which is an amphetamine and so a different chemical family. We'll see. Hopefully I don't feel cracked out when I'm on it.

I miss being consistent.

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04/23/09 03:25 - 44ºF - ID#48484

AutoTuned News

Go Katie Couric!

(from metafilter:

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And Winston Churchill Singing from the future!

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Category: outings

04/21/09 01:39 - 55ºF - ID#48468

Star Trek

Does anyone want to go see Star Trek at the Imax on May 8th (Fri) or May 9th (Sat)? Friday showtime would be around 7pm, Saturday in the early afternoon or evening.

If you're up for it, let me know. If there's interest and we can agree on when, I'll buy a block of tickets when they're available and you can pay me back at the theater. IMAX tickets are $14 for adults. If no one wants to see it at that price I guess I'd be up for seeing it non-IMAX, which would cost $10/each.

Really looking forward to this!

UPDATE

See this post to sign up:

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Category: politics

04/15/09 11:24 - 48ºF - ID#48392

No words...

So, Blagojevich gets a reality TV show? *head asplodes*

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04/13/09 03:46 - 46ºF - ID#48377

Bacon Lube

From the makers of Baconaisse

Sadly, only an April Fool's Day joke.

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04/13/09 01:37 - 34ºF - ID#48375

Charlie the Unicorn 3

Hooray!

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04/13/09 10:18 - 34ºF - ID#48373

Easter AIG Hunt

Go Wallstreet!

From Wooster Collective via miggi

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04/11/09 11:10 - 34ºF - ID#48355

Neither Have You Tasted My Jesus

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You are either: A person who claims to have experienced God, who says atheism is false because of their experience, or a person who claims to have had no experience of God, who says theism (belief in God) is false because of their lack of experience. Is lack of experience really a good way to form a world view? Atheism is ignorance, nothing more.

Seriously??

How about this.

"You are either a person who claims to have experienced God's non-existence, who says God is false because of their experience, or a person who claims to have belief in God, who says disbelief of God is false because of their lack of experience. Is lack of experience really a good way to form a world view? Faith in God is ignorance, nothing more." -- me, just now

If your argument is such vapid nonsense that you can fill in the blanks with any old abstract thing, maybe you have a problem with rational thought, and the only logic you're capable of understanding is circular.

'Neither have you tasted my Jesus'? I mean seriously. Aaarrgh.

That the argument above is used to justify creationism and Biblical literalism makes my head explode. Ignorance of God is shameful, but not just ignorance but willful ignorance of science is a well formed world view? SCIENCE, HAVE YOU TASTED IT?

I don't think even Jesus ever tasted that Jesus.

/rant

drew writes at 01:32:37 04/12/09 - Comment #47517: I didn't watch the video until now.

Not only is it illogical, it is also unbiblical. and kind of annoying.

and James, you are right.

jim writes at 07:19:28 04/12/09 - Comment #47511: And Drew, my point exactly about the reasoning from experience - which is why I contrasted with my own experiential reasoning. Neither of which is very interesting as a starting point for an argument. A discussion over tea maybe :)

jim writes at 07:10:18 04/12/09 - Comment #47510: There are arguments for the existence of God which aren't based on circular reasoning or a priori assumptions that are far from certain.

I am not particularly swayed by them, but I respect them and could spend hours chatting about them.

This one though caught me off guard and made me angry.

james writes at 11:12:10 04/11/09 - Comment #47509: So you can take one of two paths. You can be a Christian or you can be a sinner... This doesn't sound like the Christianity I remember.

drew writes at 08:49:54 04/11/09 - Comment #47508: I (obviously) think a really good argument can be made for the existence of God. But I also think that argument is a waste of time. Especially arguments like this one, which though it states that experience is the primary way that people come to believe, does not offer an experience, but instead attempts to reason.

metalpeter writes at 04:38:43 04/11/09 - Comment #47503: First a little bit of humor. I would like to start a poll. How many years until that girl is doing an adult web cam, HA I say 5.

Here the thing that gets me upset. Everyone looks for answers of why are we here? What is the purpose for Life? and questions along those lines. You have Science and You Have Faith. Now there are many kinds of faiths and beliefs and some are almost the same and some are very far apart. Most of the time you look to answers through faith or through science and some people can combine both. But for a lot of these people on both sides they think the other side are idiots. But all it really is, is a different perspective. What causes people to believe what that do isn't really important here. What is important is to know that most who think there is no god, or one different then yours can't really change. Yes some of there views might change slightly, and over time things they see might change how the view the world. But here is the big thing YOU AREN'T going to be the thing that changes them. I don't mean people shouldn't try to get people to Join their church, or leave it. What I'm saying is that people need to understand that you don't agree with someone's views, but that doesn't mean you should try to change them to the views that in your mind are correct.

I have to admit that have you tasted my Jesus is at first a funny line. But when you think more about it, it makes sense. The teacher should have said sorry I have not but you haven't tasted my science either. What tasting Jesus mean is that he hasn't tried Jesus he hasn't looked at it and seen if it makes sense. The conflict there is that the teacher and the student don't respect where the other person is coming from, hence the debate. Other wise they could just disagree and not waste the classes time.

paul writes at 04:06:29 04/11/09 - Comment #47500: Seriously, you are my athiest hero. You say all the thing I never say anymore because I am tired of fighting.

You should have seen crazy james versus the numerology people. It was hilarious. He is also quite an outspoken non-believer.

jim writes at 11:16:47 04/11/09 - Comment #47491: Also saddened that I read Youtube comments. I am complicit in making my head explode.

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04/10/09 02:49 - 52ºF - ID#48342

Storm Gathering

Oh, give me a break...

If you are for gay marriage, and you can't get married - you don't get a bunch of explicit, specific, access to tools that greatly help you to take care of the person you're with.

If you are against gay marriage, and gay people are allowed to marry - you don't get to have stuff removed from your sight that you don't like to think about other people doing.

This 'scare' video is laughable.