eat mor chikn!

Ryan: morning

me: good morning sir

i am reading about insular evolution

Ryan: what;s that

me: its about the way things evolve when cut off from external influences

like, the evolution of an ecosystem on an island

it is really awesome

heh

Ryan: that does sound awesome

unfortunately i'm assuming this has to be mostly theoretical?

me: nope

check this

the Dodo

evolved from a regular sized Pidgeon

me: if there's a lot of food on the island, then the animals grow huge

if the food supply is limited, they end up really small

me: there was a giant species of owl in cuba

birds and rodents grow big on islands

while other stuff shrinks

miniature elephants, etc

if there is a ton of food and no predators

things grow giant

giant turtles, etc

i don't know why people think evolution and God have to be mutually exclusive

i think evolution shows the glory and power of God

Ryan: that came out of nowhere

i did see your FB status though

are you being sarcastic?

me: no

Ryan: fair enough

but i thought you didn't believe in God

me: i have no way to know if God exists or not

if God exists, then what he has done

is beautiful and miraculous

elegant and sublime

thinking about the creation of the universe washes me w/ a feeling of awe and wonder

i believe that the origin of the universe is one thing

one thing that has branched out into infinite things

me: its physics - 4 forces (coming from what i believe 1 source, the unified field) causes everything to happen, everything to exist

God didn't have to create everything one by one, he just had to perfect that one tiny part, the one "law" that dictates the way reality works

and everything spreads from there, grows, evolves, takes form

me: i'll tell you something, my research into quantum physics and evolution has turned into a spiritual endeavor

Ryan: that's cool

it's really hard for me to believe

but i still keep a little faith

Ryan: i work with a pretty staunch athiest

he's awesome

me: yeah?

Ryan: but he always gives me crap for eating Chik-fil-a because he says it's a christian organization

i'm not sure about that one

me: lol

are you christian?

Ryan: yeah

me: eat mor chikn

Ryan: i love chicken

lol you try to get all philosophical on me and i turn it into food

:-P

(16:58:04) Eric: there are secret female politics we will never understand
(16:58:15) Dstew: never never ever!
(16:58:19) Eric: (thank god)
(16:58:25) Dstew: true dat

giant slayers

(09:47:18) Eric: i was thinking about the origin story of the DMB finding the excaliber cannon and shit
(09:47:19) Eric: last night
(09:47:45) Eric: like basically they get marooned on a deserted planet for mutiny or something
(09:47:52) Eric: and only have like 2 hours of air
(09:48:04) Eric: so they start wandering the area
(09:48:08) Eric: and find a crashed ship
(09:48:18) Eric: that was a prototype ship
(09:48:23) Eric: and daisy is like "shit i can fix this"
(09:48:38) Eric: so he works on the engines while the bumbler works on the electrical system
(09:49:24) Eric: while hes working on the wiring, he sets off a homing beacon
(09:49:37) Eric: basically they get the ship up and running and take off
(09:49:48) Eric: to find themselves nose to nose with a huge warship demanding their surrender
(09:50:12) PsyonicRutabaga2: nice
(09:50:15) Eric: the bumbler distracts them with rhetoric
(09:50:26) Eric: while daisy looks for a way out of the situation
(09:51:09) Eric: its kinda complicated but the prototype ship has a super engine capable of incredible power that can be used for stealth, weapons, shields, but only one at a time
(09:51:31) Eric: basically they use the excaliber cannon to destroy the warship

another sci fi story idea

i have a really awesome sci fi story idea i may have shared with you before - it goes like this

basically when a ship warp jumps, two versions of the ship are created.  one where the passengers basically blink and they are at their destination and a second one that "ghosts" the entire distance.  nothing on the ghosting ship changes anything that happens in reality but all the crew members, etc. are all awake and fully conscious and aware during the entire voyage.  i was going to write a series of stories of the adventures, romances, crazy murder sprees, etc. ghosting passengers did because their existences were totally and utterly meaningless and nothing they did or said, etc. could ever affect actual reality.

alan said something really cool about it:

so the memory of everyone who has warped is that its instantaneous, but an alternate version of them is created each time and has to pay for the quick travel with some eternal voyage?

EXACTLY and a very poetic way to express it :) nice work alan!

sorry i sent that before it was ready... anyways, one of my hobbies

is to combine anniversaries for any given day and either draw or imagine what the scene would be like:

examples:

1. darwin & lincoln were born on the same day - artwork: idea 1 is an image of monkeys re-enacting the civil war, idea 2 is a finch with a stovepipe hat and a lincoln beard

2. gay flag day and custer's last stand were on the same day - artwork: custer waving a rainbow flag and while fighting off native americans

3. TODAY is the day winnie the pooh was first published AND when chuck yaeger became the first person to break the sound barrier, the obvious artwork is a picture of winnie the pooh flying an expiremental jet craft

see? its fun! :-P maybe if i collect enough I can make some nice artwork and make a calendar

Kids with guns

I know correlation doesn't always equate to causation but ppl need to maybe examine that as we impose more rules and harsher punishments, kids become less disciplined and more rebelious.
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train yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (thank you sensai james)

1: get a composition book, the .99 cent kind, and a good, stout pen that inks well and feels good, have something tangible in front of you if that helps and be prepared for step 2.

(13:05:29) PsyonicRutabaga2: 2: fill it w/flow charts and ideas that pop in your head, write them down so they exit the cranial chamber so you can have room for other shit that you come up with
(13:05:41) PsyonicRutabaga2: and don't get them all jumbled together

(13:06:24) PsyonicRutabaga2: 3: If you have an idea for a scene, related to some idea or not, WRITE IT, nothing gives you a boner more than a scene that rips shit up like jubei

(13:07:03) PsyonicRutabaga2: 4: Be prepared to abandon everything

(13:07:14) PsyonicRutabaga2: 5: Follow your instincts

random story idea

i had this idea for a story where a 6 inch diameter portal to another dimension exists in the middle of a forest and some dude finds it and is like "wtf?" so he throws a rock through and like 10 seconds later the rock comes back.  long story short, he ends up drawing pictures and sending them through and getting drawings back by whatever creature lives in the other world... so they kinda become friends and they start trading other stuff like things that are common on one world are like, the rarest most amazing things in the other world, etc.

i was thinking the progression of the story could be like the portal once the powers that be discover it becomes like this super sought after thing and like the king or whatnot steals the land and builds a building around it and has scientists investigate it etc.  and maybe earth people become amigos w/ the extra dimensional people but the fact that the portal is so small means you can't really send people through it but maybe there's like a camera obscura system that works so they can see the other world.  i dunno just a weird idea i had

some brief thoughts

1) I got some spam in russian:

Закрытый сайт интим знакомств для взрослых
 Анджелина Джоли усыновит африканку

so I translated it and this is what it said (approximately):

The closed site of the intimas of acquaintances for the adult Angelina Joly will adopt the African

AMAZING RIGHT???

2) In his review of "a serious man" Roger Ebert referred to a biblical joke:

"Why, why, why? I'm sure you've heard the old joke where Job asks the Lord why everything in his life is going wrong. Remember what the Lord replies? If you don't remember the joke, ask anyone. I can't prove it but I'm absolutely certain more than half of everyone on Earth has heard some version of that joke."

I don' t know the joke, I asked 3 people and none of them knew it either.  Google yielded poor results due to Job being a common word... so I read the passages myself to see if I could infer the punch line from what actually happened.  My conclusion is this: Satan challenged God to fuck w/ Job, God did it, Job asked God why, God replied, "who the hell are you to question me?  I AM GOD I DO WHAT I LIKE!"

God in the old testament reminds me a lot of Cartman from south park.

3) Roman Polanski should be locked up.  I cannot believe ANYONE DEFENDS HIM - he drugged, raped and sodomized a 13 year old girl!  And people defend him?!?