Archive for July, 2009

Bigger Than a Bread Box

Friday, July 31st, 2009

It’s a matter of scale. What is? Well, everything. That is we like to think that everything scales up and everything scales down.
We imagine there is a whole universe in a drop of water. We imagine that our whole universe may exist as just a drop of water in some bigger […]

Imagine That

Friday, July 24th, 2009

We have five primary senses, touch, sight, hearing, taste, and smell. That’s the general census, that’s what I was taught in grade school, anyway. Of course we’ve moved on since I was in grade school and added more, well not so much added as acknowledged, but there’s still a powerful cultural bias to […]

Impossible

Friday, July 17th, 2009

The sixth Harry Potter film came out this week, so of course I went and saw it. In particular, I went to one of the midnight shows that are all the rage with blockbuster releases of franchise films. I don’t often do the midnight first-release thing but it seemed especially appropriate to the […]

Lying Liars

Friday, July 10th, 2009

One of the things that I do to pass the time is play poker. I play it with friends, I play it on my computer and on my wii, and I play it with strangers in casinos. I was playing in a casino one time when I mentioned what me hand was after […]

Beer and Wine

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Beer and wine have both been cited as evidence that God loves us and wants us to be happy. I asked God if it’s true. He said that of course he wants us to be happy, after all we’re part of the universe and in many ways God is the universe and so […]