Here is my latest experiment. I have exams coming up, my first being on Friday (uh oh that’s today), and I am recruiting my readers to help me stay at my desk. I had a few people stop by yesterday. It was only my sister, mom and a few twitter followers. I am now announcing this for the big time.
I have started a live webcam feed of me at my desk. All I ask of you guys is pretty simple: If you don’t see me studying, feel free to verbally abuse me to make me study.
Hopefully, this will be up until my last exam on the 21st. I hope it doesn’t creep me out too much. In that case, I might take it down
Here is something that me and my new housemate just stumbled upon at value village. It is probably one of the most rewarding impulse buys that I have ever had.
It is a drink pump that can fill shot glasses on a rotating plate from a resevoir below. Words can’t describe how cool it is!! (ps it is currently filled with fireball)
That’s right, this blog is 100 posts old. Here are a few current stats that show some progress:
First post: August 20, 2007
Google Page Rank: 3/10
Alexa Traffic Rank: 124 057
Unique Visitors since day 1: 53 942
I have enjoyed blogging so far. It is like keeping a diary of all my ideas, but I am forced to express them well because I am sharing it with the public. I think I’m pretty much hooked on this blogging thing. I’m addicted.
I am gaining respect for the CBC
I generally only watch CBC for Hockey Night in Canada, and not much else. Most of their original programming is not very good. I actually don’t watch TV except for sports. That is besides the fact.
The CBC is releasing one of their upcoming shows, Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister, over p2p networks (ie Bittorrent). While this doesn’t make me forget that the CBC didn’t resign Christ Cuthbert, a great hockey commentator, it does restore some credibility by trying something new and progressive. Hopefully more of CBC’s content will be available for download in the future, so everyone go out and download this, even if you aren’t going to watch it. If this is a success, maybe we’ll have hockey games via Bittorrent sometime in the future.[via Michael Geist ]
I have just lost all respect of Ben Stein
I used to be a big fan of Win Ben Stein’s Money, mainly for his dry sense of humour. I recently found out that he is releasing a pro-creationist movie called “eXpelled.” Respect is now 0.
Check out the trailer here. It’s horrible. The comments are being moderated, so mine haven’t shown up. They are definitely being censored. Here are a few excerpts from the comments:
“About time someone steps up.”
“A few of us from our church saw a private screening in Houston and the movie is fantastic! Tell as many as you can to go opening weekend April 18th.”
“Way to go Ben. This has been going on for years. It is about time someone exposed it. Anyone who sees how DNA works cannot help but conclude that there is Intelligence.”
“I don’t understand why we just accept both theories and leave people to their own, each side feels compelled to preach and teach. Just end it. As for people being expelled from education because they don’t agree with it, thats wrong.”
The last comment really bothers me. Many people don’t understand that intelligent design is NOT a Theory. It is a hypothesis, not a Theory. Scientifically, a theory is something that has been tested and can be used to predict things. In colloquial speech, when people say “I have a theory,” they really mean “I have a hypothesis.”
This is exactly why we need more popularizers of science such as Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan. A recent xkcd comic, “Unscientific” agrees with me and portrays my point…check it out.
I’ve cracked under the pressure and have started up a Twitter account.
You can now perv on me at:
Readers: if you have a twitter ‘feed’ (not sure if that’s the right term), add it in the comments and I’ll start following you.
That’s right I’m back. I was away last week and have lots of new ideas coming up.
I realized that I should have wrote some content before I went away and automated it, but….well I don’t really have a good excuse.
I am planning a few new changes here. First, I am going to commit to a regular posting schedule. I am going to take a page out of xkcd‘s book and update every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I will still randomly post intermittently between those days, but there will be new content on those days for sure.
I am also getting a new theme ready to implement here. The current theme definitely needs to be replaced. I’m finding it to be pretty ugly. There’s going to be some fresh new eye candy here by the end of the week.
There was one particularly rewarding part of the week off and not posting. I realized that people actually miss what I have to say. It is good to know that I am actually reaching people. In particular, thanks to the Texan Democrat for letting me know that you enjoy this.
Don’t worry, this won’t happen again. Do you guys agree that I need a new theme?
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