Tales of Ordinary Madness

I can’t tell you how much I hate my iPod. I have an iPod mini. I hate it. It does nothing but piss me off on a regular basis. It has a battery meter that amazingly jumps from half-full to completely empty in seconds. When it is working the database seems to love to corrupt. It often forgets that it has music on it. Today, it decided that it had music but couldn’t figure out any of the song titles that it knew a few hours previously. If I had or could afford another MP3 player, I’d gladly drive over this piece of junk with my car.

Why people flocked to buy the iPhone is absolutely beyond me.

Well — it’s official, I’m a proud daddy.

Raina Anne Teodorski was born at 9:37 AM today. She weighed in at 8lbs 7oz and is 20.5″ in length.

I’m biased — but she is beautiful.

Both mom and baby are doing well.

8 hours till go time…

Our little girl should be making her entrance at 7:30 AM…..

Here is Baby Love…..

Al Roker weather man for the Today show made very disparaging and harmful comments last week on Thursday’s show. Mr. Roker said,

“Remember that controversial Olympic logo for the 2012 Olympics in London? Some folks have complained that the campaign actually sent them into epileptic seizures,”
“Well, we asked you to weigh in on our Web site in an informal poll; those of you who could get up off the floor after shaking around were able to actually log in . . . “

Mr. Roker’s words were harmful, hurtful and poked fun out of people who suffer from an often debilitating neurological disorder. His apology is not enough. I encourage everyone to contact NBC at today@nbc.com and demand that Mr. Roker be pulled from the airwaves. His comments can not be tolerated.

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will

March 30, 2007 – A belief in God and an identification with an organized religion are widespread throughout the country, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. Nine in 10 (91 percent) of American adults say they believe in God and almost as many (87 percent) say they identify with a specific religion. Christians far outnumber members of any other faith in the country, with 82 percent of the poll’s respondents identifying themselves as such. Another 5 percent say they follow a non-Christian faith, such as Judaism or Islam. Nearly half (48 percent) of the public rejects the scientific theory of evolution; one-third (34 percent) of college graduates say they accept the Biblical account of creation as fact. Seventy-three percent of Evangelical Protestants say they believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years; 39 percent of non-Evangelical Protestants and 41 percent of Catholics agree with that view.

Wow. 1/3 of college educated people accept the biblical account of creation as fact. I assume these same people dismiss gravity as lies, radioactive decay a vast left-wing conspiracy, and the simple machines, specifically that evil lever, as the work of Satan. I wish someone would explain to them that they are “throwing out the baby with the bath water” when they make claims about creationism and talk about a 10,000 year old earth. To dismiss radiocarbondating is to dismiss damn near everything we currently understand about radioactivity and half-life. I guess the Atom bomb was a fluke and electron microscopes are merely hocus pocus.

When I read things like the quote above, I am so disheartened. Sometimes I feel like witch burnings, the flat earth and inquisitions are not centuries behind us, but rather something that we should look forward to. The rest of the civilized world advances and we take steps back. Maybe if we are lucky the Christians in this county will bring back the legislation from 435 demanding the death penatly for non-christians. Or even better, the witch hunts of old, now that we have some real weapons, we can make the 40,000 to 50,000 killed as “witches” in over 300 hundred years of persecution by christians seem like a walk in the park.

Oh and let’s not forget the Anti-Semitism of the Christian faith. Maybe we can get that back too — the Justinian Code of the sixth century could have the dust blown off it and once again make a failure to believe in the Ressurection and the last judgement a capital offense. Not to be out done of course by the Fourth Lateran Council which sanctioned the use of torture on those pesky non-believers and prohibited Jews from owning land.

Sure those things are ugly stains on the past — but with figures like the ones quoted above, I can’t help but think that we haven’t left them that far behind. How can we as a human species be expected to advance when we are so willing to dismiss real science for folklore and fantasy. I don’t think Christianity should be outlawed or Christians fed to the lions, but I do think Christianity should be educated into non-existance. I think education is our only hope.

Here are the four inviolate rules of firearms safety as codified by Jeff Cooper.

Commit these to memory.

1. All guns are always loaded.
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
4. Always be sure of your target.