Chris's blog

Worst. Marketing. Ever.

CNN is now, apparently, offering shirts with the day's headlines on them.  Um, why?  Do I need a shirt that says "Clinton urged to reject votes of racists" or "Flying fish stays aloft for 45 seconds"?

Last I checked, no.

New Musical Crush

Witness:

THE DUKE SPIRIT - THE STEP AND THE WALK (single out today!)

QotD: Family Matters

What is your "role" in your family?

Your mom.

New (semi-famous) crush!

OMG so cute and adorable and, also, talented.  Behold!  (The song starts at about 2:35, but the first part is kind of cute, too..)

Soda Shop

Meme Machine

I've been memed into a tag!  Or, um...  I never get this stuff right.

Anyway, I'm to:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences. [Including the fifth or after the fifth?  Damn meme writers. -SC]
   
5. Meme another tagger!  [Er--dammit! -SC]
   

It should probably be noted that I am cheating a little, since page 123 of the closest book didn't have five sentences on page 123...  So, instead, from Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape:

At this stage, around three to four months old, the response starts to be more specific.  It is narrowed down from any old face to the particular face of the mother.  Parental imprinting is taking place.

Latest Musical Obsessions

Lykke Li "I'm Good, I'm Gone"

Little Bit

M.I.A. PAPER PLANES official video

M.I.A. - Boyz (With Lyrics)

Yup.

I hate everyone

So here is the thing: I am so tired of dealing with people's CRAP!  In the last two weeks, I have:

1) been called a racist by someone I work with (DUDE! I hate you cause you are a jerk, not because of the color of your skin)
2) been afraid to go to work because I don't want to encounter said person against whom I am allegedly racist (DUDE! This is my office, too!)
3) been yelled at for things that I haven't done yet (DUDE! That is not what I was going to do)
4) been the only voice of reason at more than one meeting (DUDE! You should listen to me; I am nearly always very close to right)
5) bombed a telephone interview for what is basically my only hope of reasonable escape from this horrible burg for next year (DUDE! I get nervous talking on the phone, okay?)

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That is all.

You there! Yes, you! Read this!

I have been thinking of starting a new blog, and I need help with a name.  You see, I'm going to try to make this a snazzy blog with its own domain name, so it has to be something short, clever, and easy to spell.  (Before you suggest it, I would use Vox, but I want to have more control over user registration and commenting than Vox currently allows.)

The new blog will be targeted at folks who are searching for information about the evolution vs. creation debate, and will present the scientific side in a simple, easy-to-understand, non-confrontational manner.  In my Internet perusing, I often find that the scientific viewpoint is misrepresented or omitted by creationists and intelligent design proponents, and I would like to contribute in some small way to addressing these gaps in their arguments.  Evolutionists are often guilty of simply dismissing creationist arguments without actually addressing them, which just makes us seem arrogant and doesn't provide any basis for the average person to make an informed decision about what to believe, as they don't have balanced information from both sides.  I would also like the blog to be a forum for a respectful discussion of the facts by readers on both sides of the debate.

So, with that said, do you have any suggestions?  It would ideally have 'sci' or 'science' in the name somewhere, and maybe also a reference to design or faith or god or something of the sort.  Please help!

QotD: Let's Dance

Are you a good dancer or do you have two left feet?  What's your signature dance move?

The Benes.

Elaine´s Dance

Required reading

School is back in full swing, including a gargantuan stack of things people apparently expect me to read.  Included in said stack is a statistics book, which does an excellent job at making no sense at all, or are just the damnedest, most awkwardest sentences.  To wit:

"The quality of the characterization of the location of the dataset..."
"Just use one scored score..."
"People will usually not buy brassieres or shoes that do not fit well, even if the brassiere or shoe almost fits a lot of people.... the first size you would select to manufacture is the mode size, because it not only will fit people, and thus potentially be bought, but also will indeed fit the largest audience of potential buyers."

Ugh.