8:28 AM Mr. Blue
Never seen anyone with more crap at their desk than my cubemate.
8:29 AM Mr. Brown
Oh yeah, it's like the junk desk.
8:30 AM Mr. Silver
My cubemate merely has the Sarah Palin "biography".
8:31 AM Mr. SilverBalanced by “World War Z”...perhaps "Going Rogue" was bought for the entertainment.
8:31 AM Mr. Blue
You have World War Z?
8:31 AM Mr. SilverNo, she does.
8:31 AM Mr. Blue
Who, Sarah Palin?
8:33 AM Mr. SilverI doubt Palin could read WWZ as a fantasy
8:36 AM Mr. Silver
"We need to get back to those values that united us with our old enemies to defeat those zombies in World War II, donchaknow."
"… … … What zombies?"
8:37 AM Mr. Blue
"When a zombie from Tunguska rears its ugly little head, where is it looking? It's Alaska."
8:45 AM Mr. Silver
I saved this one for today: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/10/top-5-suggested-attractions-for-the-ark-encounters-theme-park/
Big scandal inquiries a'comin' on this one.
8:59 AM Mr. Blue
The creation museum would seem like a parody to some but is 100% serious
It shows a stone-age man riding a triceratops
9:03 AM Mr. Blue
All they are doing is taking the bible literally
9:25 AM Mr. SilverTaking the Bible literally would discount both a stone age and riding a dinosaur
9:28 AM Mr. Blue
I guess they're taking the biblical age of the earth literally and trying to fit the fossil record into it
9:30 AM Mr. SilverI don't recall any stone-cultural references of any sort
9:31 AM Mr. Blue
In the bible?
Well, the chronology of the bible says the earth is 6,000 years old.. the fossil record says we had dinosaurs and stone/bronze/iron ages. so they're just cramming all that into a 6000 year period.
9:42 AM Mr. SilverLiteralism is kinda double edged. "Everything is in the Bible" and yet everything clearly isn't
So do you go Literal Denialist or Inclusionist? Do you run with the "All the inconvenient stuff is a test of faith by God or a plot of Satan" school, or the "We'll just cram it in and fabricate explanations, or sweep it under the carpet" school?
9:49 AM Mr. Blue
Or you become one of these fence-riders that refuses to ever connect the dots between their faith and reality. The people that believe in Adam and Eve AND Evolution AND the Ark, and see nothing wrong with it.
9:55 AM Mr. SilverA hard set of three to resolve
9:58 AM Mr. Blue
I think the biggest fear is losing one's family
Showing up to Thanksgiving dinner and announcing you're atheist or agnostic probably wouldn't go over well in most Christian households. They'd probably rather hear that you're gay or dying
10:00 AM Mr. Silver"I'm a gay athiest" would go over well as a bonus pack
A gaytheist!
10:01 AM Mr. Mauve
Agnosticism is less taboo than atheism I would say
10:01 AM Mr. Brown
Aaaaaa! Gaytheists running amok!
10:03 AM Mr. Brown
Agnotheisticchristian
lol
That would be crazy
10:04 AM Mr. Blue
And not possible
10:04 AM Mr. Brown
Right
10:04 AM Mr. Mauve
Yeah, impossible
10:04 AM Mr. Brown
I would like to put that out there and see if somebody would say they are that
10:15 AM Mr. Silver
There's a lot of Agnostichristians and Atheichristians, I’m sure
Does all the stuff, talks the talk, walks the walk, got the whole Sunday thing down and sings in the choir...
But doubts or doesn't believe a word of it
Mother Teresa outed herself as one
10:17 AM Mr. Blue
She kind of hoped it was true, but had her doubts
10:17 AM Mr. Mauve
There's already a word for that: Hypocrite
(At this point I stopped paying any attention as it rapidly degraded to the pointless “balloon juice vs angry questions” tripe I banned from the blog. I peeked back in on occasion. We finally, mostly, got OUT of Sunday School through the masterful timing of Mr. Pink – Mr. Silver)
12:07 PM Mr. Pink
I saw a Sasquatch crossing Main St on my way to work today
12:07 PM Mr. Silver
Mr. Red has one living in his house
12:07 PM Mr. Pink
That explains it
12:07 PM Mr. Blue
He married?
12:07 PM Mr. SilverActually, he believes it used to be his 19 year old son
12:07 PM Mr. Pink
lol
12:07 PM Mr. SilverI told him to try to get a picture.
12:08 PM Mr. Pink
Or some foot prints
12:15 PM Mr. Brown
According to how gravity actually works, we will, in a few trillion years, end up spinning into the sun
12:16 PM Mr. Blue
Less time than that I think, and the sun will supernova and overheat the earth
(I briefly considered mentioning that the solar system is only expected to run only a few more billion years, but decided not to bother. – Mr. Silver)
12:18 PM Mr. Brown
Well if you go on the theory that its bending space and we are caught in that bend and circling it, then we would at some point run into the sun
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
What is bending space?
12:19 PM Mr. Brown
All objects in space with mass bend space around them
12:19 PM Mr. Blue
They bend light around them.
12:19 PM Mr. Brown
No space
(Misters Brown and Blue discuss the stretched rubber sheet with marbles on it model – Mr. Silver)12:23 PM Mr. Silver
I'm unabashedly Newtonian BTW; I'm not a curved-space, relativity kind of guy
12:26 PM Mr. Blue
Wouldn't that curved-space model require a 2-dimensional universe?
12:27 PM Mr. SilverKind of. That's one issue...modern approaches can't be represented, just faked.
12:27 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah they are saying that gravity is just the curved space around an object
12:27 PM Mr. Silver(Note: as has happened before when a complex question comes up and I had to make a snap description of my opinion because of the messenger format, I'm indulging in a lot of expansion in editing because I can. – Mr. Silver)
They can do the math on paper (usually) but they can't comprehend better than an inadequate model. “Curved-space”...omnidirectional curves of infinite extension, huh? That would place us in a universe of “inverse bubbles”, with the “inside volume” of each bubble the size of the entire universe, with a single point with no characteristics except “location” and “gravity” representing the entire “outer surface” of each bubble, and each point is located at the center of each mass in space.
Oh yeah...that makes much more sense than an attractive force between massive bodies in an empty volume of space...
12:29 PM Mr. Silver
And I've seen that sort of unnecessary complexity before: The Ptolemaic Model of the Universe.
The math “works” fine, it was just far too complicated and, when tested, demonstrably wrong.
So it was replaced...and all was simpler, started working and revealing more knowledge, and above all made sense...
And then Einstein et al started messing...
Lo and behold! The physicists added appallingly complicated extraneous levels of math to try to explain their theories for what they hadn't (and STILL haven't) figured out yet, and it all stopped working right or making logical sense.
12:37 PM Mr. Silver
I came up with a thought experiment and did the calculations for it – simple algebra – and invalidated key parts of Relativity very easily.
Einstein can bite me.
1:42 PM Mr. Blue
This guy in the row ahead of me is like the quintessential nerd
1:43 PM Mr. Blue
Clothes too big for him, bowl cut, thick glasses, pale and frail
1:43 PM Mr. Silver
Interesting
1:47 PM Mr. Blue
I want to hand him a stack of books so I can dump them
1:48 PM Mr. Silver
"Hold this."
"A full school lunch tray? Wh- AUGH!"
1:48 PM Mr. Pink
I wonder how much those vehicles cost to make in Batman
1:49 PM Mr. Silver
More than I make a year.
1:52 PM Mr. Silver
Hollywood reporter "What was the budget for this BatPod?"
"I'd like to answer that in terms of breadline attendants that could be fed, if I may. Incidentally we're just going to blow it up and throw it on a trash heap. It's all for fun."
1:53 PM Mr. Blue
I guess the Catwoman stunt double ran over one of those HD cameras a couple days ago
1:54 PM Mr. Silver
Yes. I saw a clip of that
2:04 PM Mr. Brown
I think its awesome that all the movies are coming around Pittsburgh now to be filmed
2:04 PM Mr. Blue
yeah
2:07 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah they can even head through here for some shots
2:08 PM Mr. Blue
Yeah if they're looking for a post-apocalyptic heroin den
2:08 PM Mr. Brown
lol
2:08 PM Mr. Blue
Reminds me of a topic my mom and I had some fun with over the weekend
We were looking at the Batman pictures and then we got on the subject of other movies filmed in the area.
Me: "Wouldn't that be funny if they did a “post-apocalyptic” movie that was basically just our daily habits in the winter time? Scraping off the windshield, shoveling snow. driving in it. Getting salt and crap on your pants."
2:13 PM Mr. Blue
Hollywood's version of "post apocalyptic survival" is just what we call "January"
"Post apocalyptic survival in a dreary, decaying, anarchic landscape" AKA Western Pennsylvania in winter
2:16 PM Mr. SilverLOL
I like it!
"When The Snows Came" - A film of the future, by M. Night Shyamalan
Toby McGuire "Wait...this ISN'T the Apocalypse???"
Some Yinzer in a Penguins jacket "Nah...yinz guys is just visitin' in January."
2:18 PM Mr. Blue
lol
2:21 PM Mr. Silver(audience) "Two and a half hours buildup for THAT?"
2:24 PM Mr. Blue
I’ll bet this guy looked awesome when they found him http://armstrongmywire.com/news/read.php?ps=1011&rip_id=%3CD9P2KGA81@news.ap.org%3E&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCLM_UNEWS
2:25 PM Mr. Pink
You would think someone would smell that
2:25 PM Mr. Blue
Guess not
2:26 PM Mr. Pink
Apparently they hadn’t had their chimney cleaned in a while
2:26 PM Mr. Blue
A lanky, rambling man, Schexnider was prone to wandering at an early age.
"Friends and relatives say he was trying to make a living and do the best that he can."
2:28 PM Mr. Silver
"When it came time for leaving, he said he hoped we'd understand...but we don't understand this one at all."
2:32 PM Mr. Gray
Ran into a couple Jehovah’s Witnesses on my break/walk
That was interesting
2:35 PM Mr. Green
Did you kill them and stuff 'em in a dumpster?
2:38 PM Mr. Green
If not, it's not that interesting...
2:39 PM Mr. Gray
Nah. Actually said "Look, according to your teachings only 144,000 will be saved. Haven't you hit your quota yet?"
LOL
2:39 PM Mr. Green
Nice
2:45 PM Mr. Silver
You ask them how many dates they've already missed?
2:45 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
Should have
Best was when I walked away though...
"Don’t you have faith?"
Me: “Yeah, in myself. Look I talk to God all the time...He just doesn’t like me"
Me: “Yeah, in myself. Look I talk to God all the time...He just doesn’t like me"
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