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I had the thought this morning that I should make love to my wife at midnight tonight so I could literally wish her a "happy f***ing new year."  But she wouldn't appreciate the humor in that.

I'm afraid this is what my LiveJournal has degenerated to.  Things I can't post on Facebook. :-)  You see, here my wife is a nameless, faceless entity, so it's funny (IMHO).  On FB, she has a name, photos, and most of my FB friends have probably met her, so it's too personal.

Something is wrong when it's the unbaptized, agnostic member of the family (me) who spent the most time actually at the church service, including  being the only one of his family there for the for sermon.  Wife and child #1 were preparing for the church picnic.  Child #2 got to go to "children's church" during the middle of service.

Today's "winning" spam subject:  **SPAM** YOU HAVE WON!!!

Gee, that couldn't possibly be a scam, could it?

My apologies for not posting much to LJ any more.  (Not that I did a lot to begin with.)  I'm getting most of my narcissistic needs met on Facebook and the proper blog I've started.  I still come here to read daily, though, so just call me lurker.

Today I got a spam titled "The Internet's best-kept secret."  It's likely I've gotten such a message before, but didn't think about it at the time:  there are no secrets on the Internet!  Putting anything on the Internet is quite the opposite of a secret.  (Yeah, I know what they meant, but still....)

I'm experiencing an odd convergence of cars and boobs lately.  Last week I pulled up behind a car which had a non-vanity plate of "44B00B1".  Which means somewhere out there is the person who was four behind them in line.  Their license plate, on first glance, says "44BOOBS"!

Today, I saw an oval sticker on the back of a car that said "Save the ta-tas!" over a pink breast cancer awareness ribbon.

I went to Taco Bell to grab an extra-large Baja Blast Mountain Dew to get some caffeine to compensate for lack of sleep last night.  I grew disgusted with the drive-thru line not moving, so I went inside.  All I ordered was the drink, but the cashier still asked me if it was "for here or to go?"

First, LiveJournal is at it again.  Here's the userpic I'm seeing this morning.  Same as yesterday.


And on a more amusing note, want to know how out of touch I am?  I kept hearing about Slumdog Millionaire, but never bothered to pay attention.  I'd assumed it was some movie about a rapper.  I finally had the truth revealed to me this morning.

EDIT: Interesting.  As soon as I posted this entry, my userpic went back to what it should be.

My default userpic has changed and I didn't do it. Nothing else seems to be affected, so I'm guessing this a LiveJournal issue and I've not been hacked. Unfortunately, I can't fix it right now because I don't have my userpics with me at work. And I've also upgraded at home since I created them, so I've got to see if I managed to transfer them to the new one or not. Argh!

So, anyone know who the two cuties dressed up as doctors are in my "new" userpic? I assume it's from some TV show I don't watch, which doesn't narrow it down much 'cause there's a lot I don't watch.

I'm on Facebook now -- no, as my real name, not this pseudonym -- and am getting to see previously unseen, old photos of girls I found attractive back then. In fact, some of these "girls" are now my Facebook friends who probably would hardly have given me the time of day back then.

So my question is rather complicated. I am an adult male rapidly approaching middle age. The girls in the photos were under 18 at the time. I knew them then and was also under 18 at the time. All these years later, upon seeing said photos, does still finding them attractive (so to speak) in the photos make me a pervert?

Saw a Jeep Compass with a personalized tag yesterday. It read "N S E W".

For a heroine whose book has been cancelled, She-Hulk sure is getting a lot of face time. I went to get two weeks worth of comics yesterday -- went out of town for Thanksgiving -- and She-Hulk was in four different titles: She-Hulk, Hulk, She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision, and Hulk Family. I picked them all up except Hulk Family. (I probably would have bought it too if not on a limited budget.) The fun part's going to be figuring out the chronological order once the arcs in She-Hulk and Hulk conclude.

There's been another addition to my household recently, so we're talking to start baptism. All fine and good, but now the pastor is inquiring if it might be a pair of baptisms. You see, while my wife and kids (except the new one) are all baptized, I'm not.

( Looong entry behind the cut. I won't insist anyone read it, but I could use some feedback. )
So, to summarize, I'm attending a church almost weekly, but except for the fact I'm not baptized and therefore don't take communion, no one knows I'm not truly one of the faithful. Seems I'm already fairly hypocritical, so why not get baptized? Fear, it would seem. So what now?

This bleme comes via filkertom. Like him, I was a picky eater when I was younger. How picky? I wouldn't even eat pizza in elementary school! I did eventually start trying new foods, but I didn't really start branching out until college.

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

( Rules and list behind the cut. )

Alzheimer's seems to be setting in and I'm not even 40 yet. I just discovered I forgot to put the meat on my sandwich for lunch while preparing it this morning. Cheese and mustard sandwich, yum.

Well, that's interesting. The BBC and AP are reporting on the director of the Vatican Observatory, Father Gabriel Funes, saying it's entirely possible that extra-terrestrial creatures, even intelligent ones, might exist in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper. Unfortunately, it appears that at this moment, the article has not been translated into English. So I took the original Italian article and put it through the Google Translator.

You might remember last month I posted my musings on the possibility of extra-terrestrial messiahs. That, of course, is right out with Catholicism. (And, I imagine, most of Christianity.) Like I said before, it's that whole "only son of God" thing. Details, details.

The article is actually about the relationship of science and religion, but the ET thing gets a little time. When asked if the Genesis creation story doesn't rule out ETs, Funes says, "in my opinion this possibility exists," and goes on to talk about just how mind-boggling big the universe is. Like I did. (Note that this is his opinion, not official Vatican doctrine.) When asked whether they might be as or more advanced than us, he says, "it is possible."

Then it starts to get interesting with the interviewer asking, "and this would not be a problem for our faith?" Funes says it's not a problem, as anything in the universe part of God's creation. I particularly like his quote, "this does not conflict with our faith, because we can not put limits on the creative freedom of God."

Finally, we get to the fun part: "what about redemption?" His answer involved the analogy of intelligent beings as sheep, all part of God's flock. Perhaps mankind was the only group to get lost. Any others "could have remained full in friendship with their Creator." The follow-up was, "if they were sinners, could redemption be for them too?" Funes replied, "Jesus became incarnate once and for all. The incarnation is an event unique and unrepeatable. However, I am sure that they, too, in some way, would have the opportunity to enjoy the mercy of God, as it was for us men." Which, of course, completely blows my lovely little story from last month. But then, I knew no Christian would go for it anyway.

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Because I'm a geek, I decided to graph my music by year/decade. These represent just pop hits, not all songs I have from these years.

1950s *
1960s ******+
1970s ****************+
1980s ******************************************************+
1990s *********
2000s *

Break it down!:
 1980 ***
 1981 ***+
 1982 ***+
 1983 ******
 1984 *********
 1985 *******+
 1986 *****
 1987 *****+
 1988 *****
 1989 ******

* = 30 mins., + = 15 mins.

Now, based on that, care to guess when I was born? :-)

It's kind of scary that I got the exact same score as dvandom, from whom I got this bleme. I started off strong, but quickly found myself going "huh?" and having to guess at answers.

What follows is an odd thought I found lingering in my mind when I woke up the other morning. Probably another good candidate for a bad science fiction story.

( Musings on the Son of Man not being God's only son, with a sci fi bent. )

This entry done just to let people know I'm still alive, quite literally this time. My wife and I were awoken around 3:45 this morning by the nearby tornado siren. I got up and went to the television to see just where the problem was. Luckily for us, the possible tornado was elsewhere in the county. After flipping through the local stations for 45 minutes to an hour, the threat seemed to have passed, so we went back to bed.

When it came time to get up for the day, the news reported 44 people dead across the south, including some from our state. The possible tornado nearest us, however, either wasn't or never touched down, as there was no damage where they had tracked it. Thank goodness we've dodged the bullet again.