Sean’s Blog

The Young Earth Creationist website RememberThyCreator.com has a poll asking if creationism should be taught along side evolution in schools.  I’m guessing “Yes” was winning until last night when PZ Myers linked to it.  Now it looks like this:

Let’s see if we can take it under 1% before the admins catch on and lock it down.

Most of the time, creationist polls just serve to depress me since so many people seem to belive that nonsense.  This one made me happy.

We all know how important it is to lock our computers when we walk away, but sometimes we forget.  And some times we have to pay a price for that forgetting.  The other day I wanted to show my fiancee Jess something on Facebook and just logged in with my account.  I didn’t log out.  Well today I logged on and found that she thought I didn’t have enough group memberships.  So Jess went and added me to:

• Zac Efron Bleongs Between my sheets group
• Fishing is the way of life group
• Emo/Goth/Freak …call me what you will I still won’t change group
• Hannah Montana Fan Group
• I Love Scrapbooking Group
• I Love Puppies Group
• Addicted To Cheese Group
• I want to be Nancy Drew Group

Lesson learned.  And it will probably notify everyone when I unsubscribe…

Last weekend was spring commencement at Ohio State.  Jess was graduation with her MEd (Masters of Education).  I’ve never been to a spring commencement having graduated Summer of 00.  It was held in the Horseshoe and was in the nineties and sunny (ie really hot).  Jess’s dad Bob and I dropped her off a little early and got pretty good seats.

I took my Canon S2 and the 12X zoom made all the difference.  Here is a link to the photos on Flickr.

I know it’s been a couple days since I’ve posted anything, which is unusual, since I’ve been pretty good about doing one post per day.  I’ve been pretty busy and we had a big storm that came through and flooded the streets and knocked out the power for almost 24 hours.  We had some water in the house and sent a good amount of time cleaning up.

I also have been working pretty hard on content for the new technology specific blog I am looking to launch next week.  Plus I’ve been twittering like crazy which is just a really awesome service.

I’ll be getting back on to a more normal schedule here in the next week or so since I do have some posts I want to do, but I just wanted to make sure the blogosphere knows I m still alive.

I really like the word whinge. As an American you can’t use it without sounding like a college kid who just came back from a week in London (or Madonna), but it is a good word.
Google defines it as:

whinge:
To complain in a particularly annoying manner.

Actual Poll at MSNBC

I’m really busy today, but I ran across these and I thought they were great.  I totally want Mr Giggles to play with my kids…

Many, many more (14 pages) here.

I’ve always loved astronomy.  I never had the discipline for descent practice of it and my math skills are kind of shaky, but as something casual, i find it a lot of fun.   BoingBoing has a link today about an awesome picture taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looking back at the moon and the earth.

Link to the NASA page with details and a larger image.

So Saturday night Jess and I went to see Iron Man. You know what I thought? Meh. That’s right I said Meh. Now I didn’t go in expecting high art ( the art not the terrible movie), but I had some expectations since THE ENTIRE INTERNET said it was “teh awesome!1!”

I thought that the first part in Afghanistan was really good, but it just kindof went downhill from there. Maybe I’m just not that into superhero movies. I liked the X-Men movies, the Batman with Christian Bale, and Hellboy (but that’s probably because I am a Guillermo Del Toro fanboy), and that is about it. Did I miss something?

I am really looking forward to Hellboy2, as well as The Happening, and I will probably see the new Indiana Jones, but so far the summer movies have left me, well kind of meh.

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