Henry Imler December 29th, 2007
Yesterday, around 3pm, I cleansed myself. It was a wonderful feeling. I had been meaning to for quite some time. I knew I it needed to be done. It was easy to do, but even easier to put off. Yesterday I finally did it - I deleted my Myspace account. When Meredith heard the good news, she followed suit. I encourage you to do the same. Use facebook, use your blog, use email - just don’t use myspace.
When Myspace asked why I was leaving I simply said that I hated the ghetto web. Have friends that you only have contact with through Myspace? Send them a farewell message with either i) your blog, ii)your email, or iii)your facebook. Your browser, your antivirus software, and your bleeding eyes will thanks you later.
Henry Imler December 26th, 2007
I tried to be more descriptive in the title, but couldn’t come up with anything better without getting wordy.
Anyway, as foreshadowed, here is the Heroes finale recap link: Cracked.com :: Weekly Heroes analysis saves backpack, world.
Mohinder, knowing that the world’s most dangerous man is in his apartment and is holding his adopted daughter hostage, decides that he can handle it on his own. I’ve been joking all season about Mohinder’s growing stupidity, but this is actually insane. Did he think even for a second of telling Bob about this? Doesn’t Bob have guys with guns at his disposal? Or an old black lady who can breathe fire or something?
In other news, I am having trouble thinking of things to do to my co-TA’s desks while they are gone on break (I’ll be there the whole time). I know what I am going to do to three out of the seven other TAs. I am going to plaster the Spurs fan’s desk with all of the headlines from the Spurs losses this season. I am going to have a bunch of Scottish stuff mislabeled as Irish stuff for the TA that thinks he is Irish, knows it all, and hates when I confuse the two places. For the “Women and Gender Studies” student, I am going to place a Bratz-styled picture frame with consumerist women-gendering symbols all over it. I found this picture frame on the ground while I was taking out the trash last week. For the other four, I can’t think of what I can do to their desks…
Henry Imler December 25th, 2007
A while ago, I was asked why exactly I believe. I have been pondering this the last few days and I think I can give a semi-intelligible answer.
I have posted the first part over at Theology for the Masses. I have moved the comments over there as well, in the interests of fostering a larger conversation.
Theology for the Masses :: The Basis for Belief Part 1
Henry Imler December 9th, 2007
The sometimes funny WuzzaDem looks at Hitchens’ reply to Romney’s Mormon speech: Shocker: Christopher Hitchens Bashes Mitt Romney Speech
According to the admittedly very contradictory scriptures of the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth warned his disciples and followers that they should expect to be ridiculed and mocked for their faith. After all, how likely was it that God had decided to reveal himself to only a few illiterate peasants in a barbarous backwater?
What better way to make this point than by mocking and ridiculing Christians?
Honzo December 8th, 2007
No, not lusting after the flesh, but after the tech. It is that time of year again where I find myself looking lustfully at the few technological devices that would complete my life and make it whole again.
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0 500GB Hard Drive -Why do I need this? My Xbox 360 recently level up to a L54 Mage and learned the ability to play Divx video files over my network. This makes me want to encode all of my DVDs into divx files and keep them on the 500GB HD. How sweet would that be? Just fire up the Xbox and peruse a digital library of movies and TV shows…. I wonder if you could hook it up to the 360 directly?
Apple Laptop - any kind - As Meredith’s laptop is giving us fits (there is a loose video connector in there somewhere) and I lug my heavy HP around, I am tempted to get a super thin, super light, super slick apple notebook. Only two problems… I don’t need one and I don’t need to spend the money.
Mass Effect, Bio Shock, Super Mario Galaxy, Assassin’s Creed, and Call of Duty 4 - So many video games, so much work to do. I totally need all of these games all at once. You know, because I still need to finish Metroid Prime 3 and Lego Star Wars.
An HD TV - Yea. Because the TV I have now totally still works.
I wonder what else I don’t need to buy?
December 8th, 2007
Our department holiday party is next week. I don’t think we will be going, even though half of me wants to go.Here is the dilemma. On the one hand, I love going to these things. I find them not only to be fun, in and of themselves, but it is a great way to get to know the other people in the department that I don’t usually come into contact with. However, when going into such a social situation, landscape is everything. I am not talking about the arrangement of the tables and chairs, mind you. Instead I am talking about the arrangement of social bulkheads.There will come a point in the evening where I will have exhausted all possible conversation fodder with the professors. At such time, I will need to socially retreat to social spaces were there is not such a limited supply of fodder.
There are select TA’s and nonTA graduate students where our social connection does not need conversation fodder to exist in comfort. They would be the social bulkheads to which Meredith and I could retreat. However, each of the members of this select group will not be in attendance. They either have other holiday parties to go to, or will be traveling out of state by the time the party rolls around.
Given all of the above, Meredith and I would be left with no socially defensible space in which a good time could linger once all lines of TA/professor conversation have been spent. As such, we have sought out time with Holly and Brad as an alternative. We had spoken about getting together before Christmas a while ago, and this seems to be perfect timing. Not only is it great to see them in and of themselves, but as an added bonus, going and seeing them gives us a great “out.” There is now a family function that we are going to instead.
I am not relationally paranoid, I swear. I do not over think social and relational situations, I promise.
Henry Imler December 8th, 2007
As the semester winds to a close, I find myself eagerly looking forward to typing out why I accept or reject Christianity’s claims, a challenge taken up recently by Kyle and Danny (Danny’s reply to Kyle). I simply have not had time to work up in the specific my answer to that question.
However, I did stumble across an interesting post that attempts to refute Russell’s critique of Christianity: Atheism Presupposes Theism: “Why Bertrand Russell should have been a Christian.”
I have just skimmed the post and all I can say is that I need to read it closely after this Friday.
Henry Imler December 6th, 2007
SNOW!- Took Meredith to see
The Nutcracker last Saturday. Did you all know that ballets have no words? They aren’t just plays with a lot of dancing… they are just a lot of dancing! I enjoyed it, however, much to my surprise.
- The Heat are terrible this year….
- I reviewed the most amazing paper I have ever read this week. The paper was 20 pages long and I did not get to a sentence until the third page, an incredible collision of clauses. It was amazing - class handouts were cited; a fifth of the paper was aligned to the right instead of the left; direct quotes were footnoted before the quote; no thesis; no coherence. Words do not do it justice and it was composed entirely of words!
- Colored Gmail labels are sweet! I heart organization! This was seriously one of my highlights of the week!
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The Ultimate Hitchiker’s Guide rocks. Rocks my face off. I have already had one person mistake me reading it for reading a old Bible.
- The Manga Bible is terrible. I was expecting a full comic trade, like the Manga Messiah. Instead I got a TLV Bible with small excerpts of illustrated stories. Don’t buy this one, folks.
Henry Imler December 6th, 2007
I love motivational posters that make fun of motivational posters. I love Star Trek. I wonder if there is a way to combine these loves?
Yes. Yes, there is a way… a wonderful way…
Star Trek Inspirational Posters
via Digg.
Henry Imler December 5th, 2007
Thanks to Brendoman for alerting me to this one. Can’t. Wait.
Henry Imler December 5th, 2007
Go forth and watch history die a short, but painful death.
Sherri Shepherd Doesn’t Get That Whole BC Thing, Insists “Jesus Came First”
She (Trimalcho’s Fortunata?) contends that the Christians came before the Greeks and the Romans…
watch the video, but make sure there are no sharp objects around.
I am off to go slam my head into a garbage disposal… I know that doesn’t work, but it won’t keep me from trying.
via Digg.
P.S. Anyone know what movie that title comes from?
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