Ye gads, it's hot.

[silveradept]

And it's humid. Work, luckily, is air conditioned, and when I'm not forced to wear long pants, the room is much more bearable. But yes, I'm drinking lots of water, and no, I don't need to crash somewhere just because it has A/C. I've lived here long enough to handle it. It's really the humidity that sucks more than the heat.

Decorative Mary Jane. Something to act as a decoy, perhaps, while you figure out how to hide the real thing? Or just a way of taunting people? You never know.

Ice cream, by way of a fire extinguisher and a pillow. So it's carbonated ice cream, in a sense. Strange, probably with no practical use, but shows off the type of mindset that can solve adventure game puzzles. Or invent Hello Kitty RFID card sleeves. (By the way, RFID still isn't a great security protocol.)

Diebold machines can be beaten by a single switch-flip. Wonder how many of those machines, if we looked at them on election day, had that switch flipped (for either side)?

Time measurement becoming even more precise. So now we have a clock that if the species lives long enough to need to recalibrate it, we've done very well indeed. Here's hoping the future has to adjust the long clock.

God is a scientist. Or, that if one believes in an Intelligent Designer, one should have the courtesy to believe the Intelligent Designer is, indeed, intelligent, and would thus design his universe in a way that accorded with scientific theories. The current way of thinking about it, according to the article, is really more about Young Earth arguments than the intelligence of the designer. How much does that hurt the credibility of those who advocate for an intelligent designer? Besides, the Big Bang, despite common misconceptions, holds up quite well, thank you. And it was advocated by a priest thinking about Einstein's theories (at least, according to the article). So, really, God is likely to be a scientist.

No relief for the Dobrich family - the Jews who felt threatened by their school's blatant endorsement and encouragement of Christianity. And the solution they have the gall to propose at the meeting - convert - is the worst solution of all of them. This is quite likely what the whole country will look like if too many of those who give lip service to the Nazarene's teachings get into power.

Solar-powered BRIIIIIIIICK!

A heartwarming story of ice cream, popcorn, and killer ducks. If it wasn't fiction, it could very well be true. Speaking sweets, here a way of improving your crane skills... while possibly making your diet work, at least long enough for you to get good - Candy Grabbing Crane Game. So it's not quite a perfect diet supplement, but it may impress some passerby and possibly net you a second date at the carnival.

Also, I've been told by someone else that I'm scary when I'm mad. Is that really true? Do I suddenly become much meaner when I'm pissed off?

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Re: the rest of it. OR I wrote too much and LJ yelled at me.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

The situation with the Dobrich family also really upsets me. How can you teach your children about religious tolerance if you are going to go tell a Jewish family that if you don't like your kid being called names, convert to Christianity? What kind of message is that sending to the kids? Is that school district raising future neo-nazi's and KKK members? Right now it's a problem with a Jewish family, but what if a Muslim family moves into the neighbourhood? How will they get treated? Oh wait, there IS a suit in a neighboring district about the treatment of a Muslim family. Religious tolerance has nevre been an issue for me. I grew up with a Jewish dad and a Christian mom, in an area that was highly populated by Jewish families. I grew up attending church with my mom on Sundays, but then also attending Schul with one of my friends on Friday nights. If we wanted to have a sleepover party on a Friday night at one of the girl's houses whose parent's were Jewish, most likely we all trooped out to the local Synagogue to attend their services. The idea for disliking someone based on their religion just never occured to me. My best friend across the street told me she was Wiccan when we were 15 or so. We NEVER had prayer in school, not even at the start of Graduation. The only time we ever mentioned "God" was during the morning pledge of allegiance, and even that became sort of a joke...we didn't have homeroom the way most other schools had homeroom. We had some clubs and activities that met during homeroom, and you nevr had to check in with a homeroom teacher, unless it was report card day. most of the time during the pledge, we were practicing a song in Homeroom Choir, or there was somethong going on in the bandroom next door that was too noisy to hear it anyway....and speaking of choir, for our concerts, we were NOT allowed to sing a song that was specifically related to Christmas/Easter unless we had a song related to Hannukah/Passover/etc. When I was a Junior in HS, they extended it to also include songs about Kwanzaa in the wintertime. I guess I just never thought of religion as being a problem. I don't pretend to have grown up in an ideal school district, but you have to adimt, it probably was better than most in terms of religious tolerance.

And there I rambled again. oops.