
Atheist, technopagan and vegan.
But that's not all you can find here.
The green thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the…
Continue reading...How Steampunk Can (Help) Save the World
Boldly Into Our Patina’d Future: How Steampunk Can (Help) Save the World
Photo by ’Riding Pretty’
Steampunk is, in part at least, a re-envisioning of humanity’s interaction with the things that we make and how we make them. It’s a non-luddite critique of technology that says “Hey, you’re doing it wrong” without trying to eschew technology outright. And that critique is sorely, sorely needed, now more than ever.
Continue reading...Happy 89th birthday, Dad!
Wolves
Grey Wolf Wolves. Probably one of the least understood nor properly know species that lives on Earth. The first thing many people will think of when hearing the word 'wolf' is probably that of a predator, a nasty child-stealing and people-attacking animal. Thank you, Grimm brothers and other fairy-tale writers, for this misconception.
Continue reading...Oh my God
There you have them. The Christian god, or how it's often seen, and one of the Pagan gods, or how it's often seen. It? Not Him or He? Yup. It. For me there's no god in that way. Of course, there are many people who don't agree with me. They say that there is a god and that god looks after us all, even the sinners who don't believe in him, because he is a…
Continue reading...Trekkies and we know it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNfYz6Yw0W8
Continue reading...Avatar and its computer-array
I am an avid Avatar fan. Not the Last Airbender, but the epic film by James Cameron. My involvement on the Learn Na'vi forum, learning and teaching the language, as well as owning several copies of the film on DVD and Bluray should attest to that. I also love technology that is put to use in a good way. The combination of that goes into Avatar's background. The link takes you to an article about…
Continue reading...Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children
Creationism is not for children. They need to be aware of the real world, the dinosaur bones, and the stars that existed before the sun and the ones that started after that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU
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