Fuck Time Warner Cable. That's all I have to say. My home internet has been out since Thursday, hence no journal entries, not much time on SG. So I'm doing a quick journal udpate from the lab, and hoping that I don't get in trouble with our network admin for accessing 'questionable' sites while at work. Oh well.
AtMinty's request, I am preparing a review of an article in a recent issue of Science magazine discussing pandemic influenza. It's actually written already, but is sitting on m computer at home right now, where I can't access it. Like pictures of the tattoo, which I've actually taken but are languishing in digital limbo.
Speaking of limbo, someone told me the other day that the Catholic church decided a while back that limbo does not, in fact, actually exist. Doesn't that seem sort of bizarre? I mean, the whole concept is bizarre to begin - let's take unbaptized babies who never had the opportunity to learn Catholicism, and not give them a chance to enter heaven, but rather force them to stay in a place that, while it isn't hell, pretty much sucks, forever. Hm... And then one day to say "Oh yeah, sorry about that, it actually doesn't exist after all." Does anyone else picture the "Catholic Science Institute" (CSI for short) full of priests in labcoats, eagerly working away on the fundamental theological questions of our time? One of them, looking through a microscope, yells "Eureka!" and runs to the cardinal (he runs the lab) and says "I think we've done it! Here's actual proof that limbo doesn't exist!" The cardinal gravely looks on as he says "This is really important. Are you sure about this? We have to adjust our entire theoretical model now."
Either that, or some drunk priest one day at a bar just blurted out to a bunch of people that the church had made the whole thing up, and had just been waiting to see how long people would go along with it.
Hope you all had nice weekends....
AtMinty's request, I am preparing a review of an article in a recent issue of Science magazine discussing pandemic influenza. It's actually written already, but is sitting on m computer at home right now, where I can't access it. Like pictures of the tattoo, which I've actually taken but are languishing in digital limbo.
Speaking of limbo, someone told me the other day that the Catholic church decided a while back that limbo does not, in fact, actually exist. Doesn't that seem sort of bizarre? I mean, the whole concept is bizarre to begin - let's take unbaptized babies who never had the opportunity to learn Catholicism, and not give them a chance to enter heaven, but rather force them to stay in a place that, while it isn't hell, pretty much sucks, forever. Hm... And then one day to say "Oh yeah, sorry about that, it actually doesn't exist after all." Does anyone else picture the "Catholic Science Institute" (CSI for short) full of priests in labcoats, eagerly working away on the fundamental theological questions of our time? One of them, looking through a microscope, yells "Eureka!" and runs to the cardinal (he runs the lab) and says "I think we've done it! Here's actual proof that limbo doesn't exist!" The cardinal gravely looks on as he says "This is really important. Are you sure about this? We have to adjust our entire theoretical model now."
Either that, or some drunk priest one day at a bar just blurted out to a bunch of people that the church had made the whole thing up, and had just been waiting to see how long people would go along with it.
Hope you all had nice weekends....
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There will be some other screenings coming up as well. Rest assured, I will be doing plenty of shameless self promotion as the dates approach
And if you're interested in deep space stuff, you should look at the new generation of DS telescopes they are considering. I remember reading about an idea for three telescopes all floating out in space thousands of miles apart, and triangulating to form, essentially one HUGE telescope, thousands of miles across. I am not sure if this is a reality, but NASA does have a cool site for tracking what they call the DS projects.
We catholics (former in my case) just recently decided that the earth does indeed go around the sun, give us a break.
Hurry up and get internet access already.