2012 -- Yeah, Right!

Well, it's time again for the insanophiles to pelt us with the latest end-of-the-cosmos scenario. This time it's 2012. The planets are lining up! There's going to be a giant war in the middle east! Niburu (Planet X) is coming!!

Well, even as the Age of Aquarius dawns, let me tell you why nothing is going to happen. Remember Y2k? Remember how the world fell apart because the computers all broke and then the earth fell into the sun? No? Exactly.

In case you don't remember, all the planets lined up in 1992. Wow, that was a diSASter, wasn't it? (or was that 1982?) People predicted earthquakes everywhere, sunamis, the death of California.

In the seventies people were writing about the unusually large number of carrion birds being born in Israel. Must be a huge battle coming the in the next ten years, right?

And if Planet X exists (pretty unlikely to start with), and if its orbit is 3600 years, and if it was last here at the time of Jacob -- let's see, that means it's still got 500 years before it's due again!

So, sorry if your latest doomsday scenario doesn't get me excited. It's just that nothing is going to happen.

Five Different Nachos!

Just created a wacky "mashup" video that cracks me up every time I watch it. If you know of Parry Gripp or Unforgotten Realms, this will have extra meaning:

Are Casual Games for Real

Working on a new video about casual gaming, but it's taking some time to get it right. More later.

Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent Design

Didn't think I could sit on the fence on this one, did you? Check it out:

New video half-done

I've recorded the audio and found half the graphics for my latest video, another in my Philosophy & Religion series. Hope to have it done within the week.

4 levels of pain

I think there are four levels of pain.

From least to greatest they are: annoying, distracting, clarifying and incapacitating.

Annoying pains we ignore, the distracting we treat. A sinus headache is annoying -- a tension headache is distracting. A migraine is incapacitating.

It's the clarifying that most people don't notice. Something that really, really hurts intensely, but you can brave through it (sometimes), those are clarifying moments. Maybe that's why people get tattoos?

Anyway, I've noticed lately that when I have a pain that's sometimes annoying, sometimes distracting -- I actually get more done because it helps me ignore the pain without treating it. Of course, it has to be physical labor -- I can't do this when I'm distracted.

Am I crazy or what?

In finally know why Jesus cursed the fig tree!

We have a couple of acres of land, and we first moved here five years ago, I thought I saw rhubarb growing. Cool. I can harvest it and maybe make a pie or something.

Well, it's not rhubarb. It's a very annoying plant called Burdock that LOOKS like rhubarb. It's not edible, and it creates hundreds of little burrs that get all over everything, especially dog fur. And it spreads like a weed, too.

So, if I thought I could get rid of it by cursing I certainly would. It deserved to be cursed because it's a counterfeit.

So I think that fig tree must've been the same thing -- a counterfeit. I should have had figs and didn't. Keep that in mind next time you are tempted to act like something you aren't.