Posts from — May 2007

This picture was simply too funny to not post.

Regardless of your opinion of the war in Iraq, if you haven’t heard this song, do yourself a favor and give it a listen.

Listen to it here.  More info here.

HAHA!

Support this great cartoonist!

After it was all over and Noah lowered the ramp of the ark for all the animals to leave, he told the animals to “go forth and multiply.”
 
All the animals left except two snakes who lay quietly in the corner of the ark.
 
“Why won’t you go forth and multiply?” demanded Noah.
 
“We can’t,” answered the snakes. “We’re adders.”

My brother recently got the recipe for my Dad’s tomato sauce. He’s a graduate of the Culinary Institute and has been cooking for his entire adult life, so anything out of his kitchen is worthy of note. This sauce is simple to make and really freakin’ good – true Italian American cooking at its finest. If you guys are nice to me, I may just share his meatball recipe. Its absolutely out of this world!

But, you’ll really have to be nice to me!

Enjoy the “gravy”!

DAD’S SAUCE

Ingredient List

• crushed tomatoes 1 28 oz can
• garlic 8 large cloves
• onion 1 small
• fresh basil nice handful of leaves only
• tomato puree one-28 oz can
• salt and pepper to taste (optional crushed red pepper method)

Directions

1. chop onion and slice or crush garlic
2. sauté in olive oil til just starting to brown
3. add tomatoes and puree
4. rinse out cans with water and add about a half can to tomatoes
5. roll basil leaves together and slice
6. add to sauce
7. add crushed red pepper and salt and pepper
8. cook about a half hour and taste. Adjust seasonings and cook for another half hour
9. EAT!

The Optimus Maximus keyboard that I’ve been drooling over for some time is about to go live with the following schedule:

Production schedule:
Beginning of December 2007—200 keyboards
End of December 2007—200 keyboards
January 2008—400 keyboards

If I remember correctly they will start selling at around $1000. Darn, its almost worth it, eh?

to those who believe differently than I do about this topic.  I’m going to rant a bit…

I was just surfing a forum for some tech information and read a post by someone whose signature said:

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The meaning of life? There is no meaning. You’re just a more complex carbon chain reaction than a dog, a tree, or an amoeba.

Now, I believe that God gave us free will and that this guy is entitled to his opinion.  No problem there.  I just think that it really must suck to live that way!  I mean, thinking that you are just an accident of chemistry, that there is nothing more to life than a complex happenstance of quirky molecular attraction.  How the hell can someone live like that?  How can you live thinking that there is NO meaning??  What keeps you from acting out every tiny whim?  Why don’t people like that stab their co-workers with a pencil when they whine during staff meetings?  How come they actually pay their taxes?  Why would you bother to do anythingother than exactly what you damn well pleased to at that exact moment?  See a hot chick?  Bend her over a barrel!  Like that guy’s car?  Hit him with a brick and take it!  It doesn’t matter! There is NO MEANING TO ANYTHING!

I can hear someone saying now – “Well, stupid, you don’t do that because of the consequences!  You’d get arrested, because in a civilized society people don’t do that to each other.  And those that do, suffer the consequences…”

Ok, good point, sounds good.  But think about it a bit more.  That means that society is the ultimate authority, the ultimate judge and the ultimate standard by which everything is measured.  We live our lives by society’s standards.  Isn’t that a “meaning” to life then?  Isn’t that what a “meaning” is?  If I say, “The meaning of life is to be happy” or “The meaning of life is to serve God” or “The meaning of life is to get rich” – aren’t those all things that one then judges himself by?  Am I happy?  Am I serving God?  Am I getting rich?  Meaning is a delineation – a mark in the sand whereby other things are judged.  So, if we say life has no meaning, but yet live in society, we are making society the ultimate authority and therefore the ultimate meaning.

Don’t you see how horrible that is?!  Society is the ultimate meaning!?  Are you kidding me?  All we live for is civil obedience?  Fitting in?  Keeping up with the Jonses?  Peer pressure is REALLY the best that it gets?

Society is the ultimate meaning???

How on Earth can that be?  Are you kidding me?  People really believe that crap?  Come on! Society produced these people:

And, even

I know, I know…  Not nice of me to throw that freaky drag-queen in with the picture of Hillary…  Oh, um, well um… Never mind.  *SNICKER*  (sorry, couldn’t help that! )

Anyway, my point is that society simply cannot be the paragon of existence and the ultimate achievement of life.  And, there MUST be meaning to life, because we all judge ourselves by something.  Even if you don’t believe in God – something is the lord of your life, and therefore it has meaning.  In fact, I really feel sorry for anyone who pretends that it doesn’t.  I think they are scared of reality with meaning, because they simply haven’t quite figured out what it is yet.  And, if they are wrong, there could be serious consequences.

In fact, I almost feel more sorry for them than I do for the goat pictured above.  No, not Hillary, the other one!  Ahem.  Really, I’m sorry. I’ll stop – honest, I will.  :D