God should be an atheist?

In news, in the Journal of Religion & Society, a new study was published saying there's a strong correlation between religion and anti-social behavior. In other news, there's a journal covering religion and society.

Seriously though, this study is just more evidence for Richard Dawkins to eat up and give out in one if his documentaries and/or books. I'd read/watch it, if I had the time. Of course, according to the study, the japanese are rank one with the most atheists vs the least amount of violent crime. You wouldn't believe that watching their TV shows. hah Of course, the US is near the bottom of this list too, as well as this other survey about evolution belief. We, I mean the crazies probably in the south who among other things voted for Taylor Hicks (I'm sure this is a fallacy but it's funny to think there's a relationship there), just barely beat out Turkey. *sigh*

Star Wars: The Musical, One Season More

Sometimes, there's fan written crap that's well...crap. Then there is actual cream of the crop, rising to the top fan material that's just screams to be watched. Here is one such instance. One Season More. Please watch. I'm not one for musicals but I thought this was pretty good.

State Transition

It seems I haven't posted anything with substance for a long time. So I'll take a few minutes out of my not so busy Sunday night to post something.

Well, where do I begin. I guess I'll start with my job. This week will see my first full month as a full time employee anniversary. I'm stoked. Not really but I'm happy that I have a job which could last a long time. So far it has been all reading with little actually doing anything. That's cool though. The only thing I would change about the position would be the inclusion of more of my peers. I'm pretty much one of a kind there. Again, it's all good. I'll deal and make it into something positive.

We actually left the house this weekend. We went to this park along the Sound in Edmonds. Someone at work let me know about it. He called it a beach and in a technical definition of the word, it was a beach. However, it was really rocky. Very little in the way of sand. And it smelled but it was low tide and seaweed was all over the place close to the water. I took some video of our time there. It wasn't terribly exciting so I think I will collect some more footage of stuff and then make a "super video."

Last weekend I spent some time to get some better cooling in my computer. I found that when I was making that first video I had posted, it would lock after about 3 or 4 minutes into creating the final video. I tracked it down to my CPU overheating, getting above 70 degree Celsius which is bad. The plan was to cannibalize another computer I had for the case (it had a fan port on the back) and an extra fan. I spent that Saturday morning doing it all and it only cost my one dollar to get the CPU temp down by about 4 or 5 degrees. That's enough to where I haven't seen any more locking problems. The one dollar was for the screws to attach the fan to the case. I just walked around the corner to a local computer shop to get them. I think I will buy systems from them should I ever get to that point of doing so.

I haven't really been playing any kind of games lately. I have been playing several hours of Guild Wars a week with Dave, though. My character is weak and dies alot. Without Dave's fighter character, I would die a lot more. It's pretty good for the most part. Though he has this thing for the PvP area of the game while I prefer the RPG side. Is my age showing?

Speaking of age, yet another birthday for me is in sight. The end of the month and I'll be turning 31. Yay. Yay for me. Probably not going to do anything. No party, no gifts, no nothing. Just another day for government statical information. Yay.

Ack, I seem I could be going on forever here so I'll cut myself here and save the rest for another day. Sayonara...

Hate for the FSM

Yeah, it's late, pass my bedtime, but I had to post this now or I would forget. Anyway, y'all know about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, right? RIGHT?! I mean ARRRR?! Ok, good. Here's a nice blog about the hate mail directed to the fine gentleman who created the fictitious character. Some people just aren't rational. Well, here it is. Enjoy!

Presenting: North Creek Park

My YouTube.com directorial debut. After a 13 year long hiatus, I decided to come back to making videos. Here it is, in all it's dull glory. After I get my computer up to snuff, expect some more. ^_^

The Suffering

Because I like to see my readers suffer and I just haven't posted anything in a long while, I present this fine video from YouTube.

The Working Man

Yup, I'm working. My last contract ended just last Friday. But I'll be working again starting on this Thursday. This new gig isn't a contract. It's a full on full time job. teehee! There's a lot of good things that comes along with this new job. First of all, it's along my career path, software engineer. Second, it's closer as it's in Everett. Along with that one is that I probably won't have to worry about traffic as I'll be going into Everett at 7:30 in the morning and not into Seattle or Redmond. I'll also get vacation. :) Man, vacation!! Paid even! That's just a few things that drew me to this position. I'm gonna learn a butt load but it's gonna be worth it. ^_^

Another youtube video

God is a DJ. This was pretty good. Have yourself a look.

Richard Dawkins and the non-thinking

I haven't seen all of this but Richard Dawkins is a man that needs to be heard. I want to bookmark this so I can watch it later. You all can see it at your leisure as well. Here are parts one and two courtesy of Google Video: Part 1 and Part 2.

Feel free to watch and comment.

Stuff and crap

Uno has made it to XBox live for the Xbox 360. I find I'm addicted to it. We currently have two 360 games, Kameo and Ghost Recon (borrowing both), and I'd rather play Uno. It has some problems like I wait 30 or more mins to play a game and when it starts a game, it hangs. Both are annoying specially when they are combined into I wait 30 mins to find other players and then it doesn't start. That angers me. >_<

Dawn is currently ranked high teens while I'm around 560 or something. I strive to beat her at ranked games, but alas I don't think I'm destined to do it. I'm currently ahead of her in the TrueSkill ranking. I'm 26 and she's 25. I have mad l33t skillz. ha

In other news, I finally got a USB cable to connect our camcorder to my computer. I can now transfer video and edit it and crap. The free tools that came with the camcorder sucks major ass but that's all I got to use right now. I'm planning to shoot a very short film with Dave and myself as the stars. It's gonna suck. hahaha Look for it later on youtube or maybe even google video.

Finally, I noticed that I stopped getting hits from search engines. My last one I got was from 5.18. What up with that? My blog isn't a spam blog. It's not! I'm not selling enlargement pills! I'm not! Really!! You gots to believe me!

Ok, this is finally. Remember the Indy 500 is tomorrow. Watch it! Watch it for the kids sake!

Ian McKellen is my hero!

Oh snap is right! I'm gonna go see this movie just for Ian! I love you man!

The best Star Wars/Lord of the Rings mashup you'll see...Today!

Just wait it out. You'll like me more for it. ^_^

E3 Trailers

For those of you unlucky enough to not have an Xbox 360, here's a link to the teaser trailer for Halo 3. For those of you unlucky enough to live under a rock, here's the link to Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii (pronounced 'we'). And because good things comes in three's, here are some links to Spore: Here and here. Thanks E3! See ya again next year!

Double your Star Wars Pleasure

Woooo! I can link to youtube!! Fresh on the heals of some good news, some better stuff comes out! Dave will like this one feerrrr surreeee! o_O

Presenting...

...My new blog! Check it out if you're worthy...or bored. It's on the sidebar just in case you seem to have misplaced this post. Be prepared for more wordy posts.

Weeee! err I mean Wii!

The Revolution is over! Bring on the Wii!

WTF?! Wii? Yes, Wii. The Nintendo Wii. It sounds freaking sweet though! Backward compatible with Gamecube titles and 20 years of older Nintendo, Sega, and Turbo Graphix-16 titles will be available for download. Holy freaking Christ! I can relive my childhood once more! hahahhaha But no school!! hahahhahahhaha!!!!

So, I think I will certainly be getting one of these things long before an Xbox 360. Yeah, all you xbox fan boys can suck it! Ahem...sorry for the fanboyism. But anyway, I'm totally looking forward to Nintendo's new console. The new controller has a lot more going than the stuff from MS or Sony. Some say it will hit in September. We shall see though. I think I will pre-order one though. I'm not gonna be left out in the cold come this fall. ^_^

Klaus - Forklift Maniac

So, I was over at wikipedia, looking at a list of movies where people get killed in. I was surprised to see Agent Cody Banks on that list. I guess Dave won't be watching that one. Anyway, looking down the list, I found this gem called Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day On the Job. It's German, gory, and full of dark humor. I want to see the whole thing now.

Can't procrastinate this!

I think I've seen one too many lame jokes about how I will post about this later (d'oh! I still got one in) so I won't, or try not to. Here's an article about a few tools you can use to beat procrastination. I haven't tried any but to a thinking person, they seem logical. There's certainly lots I can delay doing just because they are my own personal projects with no real meaning other than for learning purposes. However, the time boxing and "begin it" tools seems like they would help me the most. I'll see what they can do.

A new round

Well, it would seem that I managed to get me another contract up here. Just a 2-3 month jobber ( O RLY? ) where I'll be doing testing for a company in Seattle. Should be fun. Their office is all brightly colored. ^_^

I had submitted my resume to a position at Microsoft which I could have had a phone interview had I not accepted the offer today. It would have been with the SQL Server group which seemed interesting. But I figured that having a job now is worth more than only having a phone interview. This way I have a job and getting 3 more months of EXP. I just may go up to level 2! lol

So, that's me right now. I start on Monday. So, here's to working...again!

Staged Dance

Well, I'm not sure what to call this guy, but looking at his videos, he seems really fake. He's Shawn Seamus and he seems like he's trying to audition to get on to a show like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or some other fake thing. I found him off of Kotaku where they had a link to a video showing how he doesn't know how to play DDR at all. Youtube is still down so I haven't been able to see the video but from the description, he seems really lame. More lame than Michael Flatley.

On a related note, does Chris Pirillo like DDR? I don't know. ^_^