Sam Harris is preparing to do an fMRI study on belief and disbelief, and needs help in determining the stimuli. You can help him by answering the surveys linked to on his homepage.
He only wants responses from people who are either dedicated Christians or atheists. I’m not sure if I can respond. It all depends on what is meant by the word “dedicated”.
On the way to dinner on Friday night, I passed a pair of signs that were so amazing that I had to turn around to get pictures of them.
I can take this two ways. At first I thought that if you were actually trying to get rid of rats and ants, you shouldn’t go to this place. You’ll end up with more rats and ants than you can handle!
But it has occurred to me that maybe they really do want to rid the world of pests, and these signs are taunting them. “Come on in, rats and ants! Come relax and have a beer! Not!!!”
On Friday night after eating Korean food with my friends, instead of joining them for the traditional post-dinner hangout session, I decided that, since I was so tired and had to wake up the next morning for a training class at the Seattle Aquarium, I should probably go home and rest.
But, since I was so close to Central Market, I also decided I needed a beer.
After getting distracted by the wide variety of ice cream (and deciding on Mukilteo Mudd), I arrived at the beer section. CM always has an incredible array of really good craft beers, and there is always something for someone with eccentric tastes like myself. I asked my wife to help me find something weird. The instant the words left my lips, I spotted this beast:
Wow! Banana Bread Beer! I didn’t even look at anything else. What could possibly be better?
A lot of things :-(.
The color was like iced tea. Not even very strong iced tea. It had no head. It did smell like bananas, but it tasted like watered down banana water and sour. I couldn’t even finish it. I swear to God, I have never not finished a beer. What a disappointment!
Go see it right now!! It was a really cool movie. But my favorite part happened as I was walking out of the theater. I overheard a middle school-aged boy saying, “Maybe I should try harder in school so I could do that!”
I hope he does.
A good citizen in Portland gave a police officer a parking ticket! And you all know how I feel about parking. Please pass out some parking fliers in honor of the good guys!
A recent conversation with Josiah has given me the following idea: a Japanese restaurant that offers meals organized BY HABITAT. For example:
The Open Ocean Combo. Including such animals as tuna, yellowtail, and salmon, prepared in different ways, both cooked and raw!
The Tide Pool Sampler. An assortment of invertebrates such as sea urchin, abalone, baby octopus, sea cucumber, etc, on a bed of seaweed, natch!
The Tempura Estuary. Fried catfish! And mudskipper.
You know what, this isn’t as funny as it was ten minutes ago. Here’s my friend Greg doing a magic trick:
Mathias has discovered a pioneering restauranteur who’s making a rather odd combination…
I am not too great at expressing mushy stuff. I end up saying the same things over and over again. Really, how can you express something inherently unexpressable?
But Gordon has done a better job than I ever could. Thank you, Gordon. I know EXACTLY how you feel, and I feel it intensely every morning when I wake up and see her sleeping in the bed we share. My wife, I mean. Not Gordon’s.
Yeah, that was dumb. I know.
I went to Starbucks and ordered a Tall and Tan and Young and Lovely Iced Mocha. When I passed it, I smiled, but it didn’t see. :-(
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