God is an intuitive concept. If you were to take a child raised by agnostic parents (for they would be the only parents that wouldn’t try to impose their beliefs on their children: for the simple fact that they themselves…
If you’ll recall from March 2005, I’m quite fond of anonymous posts. I see them as a broader response of the world than the particular opinions of one individual. I don’t know, however, if I’ve ever written about vague comments…
Gabe the Revolutionary Beaver here at the Lachlan Review (or as I call it, the ‘View) with a review of Conception Day 2005. It seems that every year Conception Days and first years get smaller. Though this year, our day…
Bah. I had a whole post written, but decided it was too emotional, even for my current trend. Essentially the post asked, “why do genders matter in platonic friendships?” Which they do, often to the point where it borders on…
Gabe the Stupendous Beaver here, to enlighten and snub you. Be glad, I usually save that particular combination for Mother’s Day. The question of the week is: Gabe, if you bash the media so much, why are you printed in…
The Concept A competition of wit. We take the concept of the Goodie Grab Bag to the next degree and combine multiple people’s quips into one über Goodie Grab Bag. The Grab Bag will be hosted by different websites depending…
Oh, and speaking of Carnivals, The new Carnival of the Godless is up at Pinoy Atheist (Also here).My current favorite quip is mentioned there.
This makes me happy in the pants: Sales of the perennial best-selling SUV, the Ford Explorer, dropped by 58% compared with September 2004. Its larger kin, the Ford Expedition, which gets 14 mpg in city driving, saw sales drop 61%.…
I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately. Before I left New Mexico, I considered myself to have one friend and a little under 100 friendly acquaintances (and about double that of byte-sized acquaintances). Now that I’ve been here in…
I’ve done and seen this before, but I never noticed how peculiar it is. Have you ever been walking down a hallway or footpath (sidewalk) and you notice someone up ahead who you recognise (it’s spelled correctly here, damn it)?…
Grumble, grumble, grumble. Uni’s back today and I’m back to queueing for compies. So if I don’t update as much, you can blame that on the fact that there’s less than 50 public computers on this campus of just over…
Dear Readers, Writers, and Recyclers, I hope you enjoyed Labor Day. It seems less and less of us actually have a “public holiday”.But maybe that’s because the public sector keeps shrinking! Anyway, here’s issue 8.Features:Run-Down of the Tainted 2005 MUSC…
When I first got here, people said that I would get homesick. “You’ll start getting homesick at around week 3. In the first few weeks, everything will seem new and awesome and everyone’s going to love you. Then, you’ll start…
Welcome to the fourth annual edition of “the Eli’s.” For those of you newbies, “the Eli’s” is an award show that was made up to make me feel better about not getting any other awards. The rules are simple: I…
This grab bag forced by the hands of Seth and Aeger. Lame? You want lame? I made a hierarchy of lame! Ironing underwear, living with your parents, chatting online, Klingon conventions, and finally, making a list of the hierarchy of…
Gabe the Sacriligious Beaver here with an insightful thought experiment. The question of the week is: Do you remember how I told you that sometimes I repeat stories? This is one of those and it’s not something as light and…
I suppose we’ll never know who lucky #5000 was. *sigh* On the other hand, I’m a dollar richer.
Hmm… I didn’t believe I was actually going to make it to 5000 views in 17 days, but now it’s a near certainty. I blame it on the six hundred unique page views of one lonely Saturday (Seriously. WTF? I…