Archive for the ‘Nonclassified Nonsense’ Category

Jonah wanted a picture of the massive pile of beans at San Tung. I figured I’d get it after we were done eating, but by then they’d processed most of them. Dave got this one before they were completely done.

When it comes out that the Christian leader of the fight against gay rights has bought gay sex from a gay prostitute (as well as some crystal meth while he was at it) I’m not at all surprised.

Similarly, this nugget is just too grand for me to let it escape unmentioned: There’s a Utah-based company, Clean Flix, that edits and resells Hollywood films after removing all the sex, nudity, violence, and “bad” words. So why am I not surprised that the company’s owner was just arrested for sexual abuse and statutory rape? Also, it seems that the owner also told the girls that Clean Flix was merely a front for a porn studio!

This is not an uncommon pattern. Crazy Christian seeks to restrict or eliminate something which he views as deviant behavior (or likely to lead to deviant behavior), only to have it come out that he himself engages in this very same behavior. One could argue that they want to prevent others from becoming similarly deviant, but I think it far more likely that the restrictive culture tends to cultivate deviants. I don’t mean to necessarily indict Christianity specifically, as I’m sure any ultra-conservative restrictive culture has the same problem, but it seems to be more prevalent in Christianity. This is, perhaps, a result of the “ask and you shall be forgiven” nature of Christianity which leads to the belief that the sin is okay because “We’re all sinners, but we’re going to heaven anyway!”

I just wish we (as a society) could focus more on our real problems, rather than the perceived ones. Why can’t evangelical mega churches be leading the fight against poverty instead of spending so much time, money and effort condemning the gays and converting foreign heathens? Sure, there are plenty of churches doing plenty of good, but no good comes out of breeding intolerance– especially not for themselves.

There really aren’t many. We left the camera in Dave’s apartment on the really photo-worthy day. I posted a few in the gallery, though there’s only one good one. And here Dave iPhoned Jonah.

Velocys is one our favorite clients. There’s an article out about what they’re doing in case you’re interested in what I’ve been doing at work. Velocys is working on

…a portable system that converts coal, natural gas, and biomass into diesel and jet fuel. The military could use the system to convert waste created at military bases–food scraps, paper, wood–into a fuel for military jets and vehicles.

Whether or not this works, it’s great for my bread and butter in the meantime.

The United States has more coal than the rest of the world put together. And while planting corn for ethanol is a ridiculous waste of farmland, making biofuels from waste materials is a great idea, in my opinion.

When someone mentions how we’ve got to do something about our dependency on foreign oil, I love being able to say, “I am!”

(before I forget them)

Me: So, how did Papa Sam have enough time off while in the Army in 1943 to marry you?
Grandmother: Well, it only takes half an hour!

Greenpeace flier person on the streets of Chicago: Would you like to help save the whales?
Jonah: We hate whales.