This week Oprah has the arch-scientologist and loony himself, Tom Cruise, on for two entire episodes. Beside the fact that her "interview" is nothing but a mess of apologetics, double-talk, and outright lies to make Cruise seem sane and scientology less cultish, there is a more fundamental issue. The whole stunt is being done under [...]
Filed under: General, Rambling on May 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just to prove a point in a conversation I had, here is a comparison between "Standard Maroon" (#800000) and "Aggie Maroon" (#821947). The Aggie Maroon definition comes from A&M's licensing office. In fact the Pantone name is "TAM002".
Filed under: General, Rambling on January 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
So I’m thinking about BSG and I wonder, “How many Cylons are there?” We know about 120 battlestars was sufficient to force a cease-fire. So we can guess at the time of the cease-fire there was about the same strength of Cylons.. 120 baseships. We know Colonial forces declined while Cylons increased. We also know [...]
Filed under: General, Rambling on December 21st, 2006 | No Comments »
So I am a registered independant, member of the EFF and the ACLU, voted for John Kerry in 2004, and today I get a call from an organization of concerned familes to stop gay marriage. Besides the fact that it is unconstitutionally illegal in Texas, I just don’t understand why “familes” are concerned. Do they [...]
Filed under: General, Politics, Rambling on July 14th, 2006 | No Comments »
So I am driving down University Ave and I see a bumped sticker on the car in front of me: “Pray or become Prey: National Day of Prayer, 2006″ And I can’t help but thinking what do they mean. Will some rednecks come hunt me down if I don’t? How could you think that this [...]
Filed under: General, Politics, Rambling on June 10th, 2006 | No Comments »
