Quote Of The Day

"I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house."

(Mitch Hedberg)

 

Nerdy Joke

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a banana?

Elephant banana sine theta in a direction mutually perpendicular to the two as determined by the right hand rule.

 

Nigerian Puppy Scam

Bobbee and I have been thinking about getting a baby brother or sister for our little puppy. Since we are both usually not at home all day, we thought it would be nice to get a little play mate for our pup so he is not bored alone at home all day. We found an ad in Tucson classifieds about a 9 week old Yorky pup for sale, so yesterday, I emailed that person asking about details. When I checked my email this morning, I had an email waiting for me in my inbox. Here is an excerpt from the email:

"Due to the nature of my job & my religion,i am a pastor that works for pastor chris oyakilome and i work for him part-termly & also i am into international contracts (sales and supply of Fabrics)so i'm in Nigeria, the puppy is also here with me and because there is nobody to take good care of the puppy for me here, so I decided to sell the puppy. So if you are interested let me know by forwarding your full name and address so that i can arrange for the shipping and i want you to promise me that you will take good care of the baby and you will keep me update with current pics. Puppy will be deliver nextday after shipping, with express shipping service."

This is so sad. I mean, first the Nigerian government froze the assets of rich uncles with unpronounceable names and now people have no other choice but to sell their puppies. What kind of a world do we live in?


P.S: I did notify the Secret Service and Yahoo customer service (because the scammers were using a Yahoo account) about this puppy scam. Hopefully they will disable that account before some naive old woman transfers her whole life savings to those Nigerian a-holes.

 

The Crusades Agaist Religion

I read an interesting (but incredibly long) article in Wired magazine about Atheism. Though I do not classify myself as an atheist, this article does make a few good points about religion and religious people:

- How can people believe in their religion when science has disproved so many of its claims (such as Evolution, the creation of earth, etc etc)

- Can the human civilization survive unless all religion are eradicated? If you think about it, nearly all the wars and conflicts (except for the North Korean issue) in the present time have religious under text (Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Bosnia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Philippines etc etc).

- Would people be less inclined to be religious if they were not pressured by the people around them?

Anyways, it's an interesting article, but I won't recommend reading it if you are sentimental about your religion and don't like it if people disagree with your opinion.