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Well, it seems that my razor-sharp logical reasoning as to why I can’t be a bachelor is rather popular. Here it is in expanded form:

I don’t think I could ever be a bachelor because I’d work myself to an early death and get fat and ugly. Fat ugly redhead bachelors aren’t popular with the ladies so it would perpetuate the vicious cycle. Because I’d be inside all the time I’d grow afraid of the light and try online dating. I’d meet some girl named “Jennifer” who would send me a picture of herself and she’d look just like Jeri Ryan, except I’d know better than that because being cut off from all social interaction my perceptive abilities would be sharpened. I’d send Jennifer an e-mail and say, “You are probably fat and ugly like me and not at all like Jeri Ryan,” and she’d never talk to me again.

This wouldn’t help matters at all, and I’d withdraw from people further. Soon I’d lose all ability to talk and instead I’d built a little voice synthesizor that attached to my wrist, has blue and green LEDs, and make me sound like Stephen Hawking … but with a twinge of Darth Vader.

Since nobody would ever come and visit me, mainly cause I can’t talk, and I’m fat and ugly, I wouldn’t need any furnature where I live except maybe a chair and a pile of newspapers. The newspapers would be like a sofa, except a short sofa. They’re also biodegradable.

I’d also have lots of computers … and probably tables for those … but I wouldn’t have to heat the place because of the computers and in the summer all I’d have to wear would be a pair of shorts. I wouldn’t really need to work because I’d live so cheaply, and I could sell junk on eBay and stuff.

Without work I’d get really bored and start reading massive amounts of works of liturature. Because of that I’d become brilliant and patent things like self-inflating air mattresses and glow-in-the-dark keyholes, but nobody would want to be around someone so intelligent. I also wouldn’t be able to tell anyone about the great books I’ve read because I can’t talk, remember?

So, I’d probably take up playing violent video games and yell at people things like, “j00 n00b wut up u gt n0 skilz” and “u ply lk ur m4m4 llama”, and also start calling people “ratface.” Because I call people “ratface” they’d avoid me also.

So, that’s why I can’t be a bachelor. Just simple logic and reasoning. None of this love crap.

Class schedule for Spring 2004.

TAR had a booth at the Astronomy Days event at the NC Natural History museum. 17,000 people attended. Lotsa good publicity.

I think this semester is going to really difficult. Some fun stuff, but really difficult.

I’m debating whether I should fork out $200 for a student edition of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 or pay $150 and get a cool new CD/MP3/WMA receiver for my car. The only thing that works on it currently is the radio … and that not very well as the aerial is broken off. I think I’m going to go with Studio MX though. That way I can have a decent editor for my websites. I’m also working as techsupport/webmaster for a local business broker. I need an editor to work on his sites. I guess I can just wait on the receiver, but it would be really nice to actually be able to listen to music in the car. Oh well.

It snowed. Cold.

Me, Sam, and Stephen went to EB Games today and bought two SNES games from the past … Street Fighter II: Turbo and ActRazer. Those games are so cool … I remember them from years back and how much fun they brought me. I played them for a while today.

The router is on the fritz so I managed to get connected for a while when I read this news story. That is the happiest news I’ve heard in a long while.

“The company now plans to stop making the electronics and movie tie-in products and return to its core mission: producing colored plastic building blocks for children.”

If I was motived I’d go back and find my older post ranting about NBA LEGOs. I could have predicted it would be a horrible year for them … but they wouldn’t have listened. Now they’re finally going to get it right and go back to what worked. The only problem is that they might kill LEGO Mindstorms. That would ruin everything. Really, if that goes you have no idea what will be at stake in the hobby robotics area.

This Monday night I was at my monthly Triangle Amateur Robotics meeting where geeks and weirdos of all shapes and sizes come to discuss robots and all things related (and not so related).

With the recent meganews about the landing of the Mars rover Spirit (or was it opportunity … ?) we were discussing it and watching some video footage and such. I think we watched the PBS Nova special about it. Since for some reason I can’t get PBS at home it was all new to me. One of the quotes on that tape stuck out to me.

It was quote by one of the lead dudes on the project who basically explained the reason to go to Mars was to find out, “where we came from and how we got started” – “We” as in humanity. And then the thought struck me, “This man is trying to answer a fundamentally religious and philosophical question using science!” Get this folks: The question of “Where did Humanity come from,” and “What started it all,” ARE NOT ANSWERABLE BY SCIENCE! If you can grasp this you will be much better off in life.

Science is only able to answer things 1) in the physical realm and 2) that are “observable”, “testable”, and “repeteable.” The origin of life and humanity is a singularity. Singularities are science’s bane. You can’t have multiple data points, you can extrapolate, you can’t “try it again.” You can’t alter variables.

But, the point is that NASA is spending billions and billions of dollars every year of taxpayer money, in the guise of science, to answer their own religious questions. Sure, we’ve gained a lot from what NASA has done, but what ever happened to “speration of church and state?” (That’s a completely myth folks, btw). How can NASA spend MY money to perfect their Religion of Evolution and Humanism?

And what if life is discovered on Mars? Then what? They’ll just push the question past Earth and onto another planet. That still won’t solve their problems. Truely people have “exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” (Rom. 1).

It’s the Holy Church of Humanism, with the supreme god of ME, and the holy sacrament of “Finding Life Evolving.”

Ok, so many condoms wasn’t such a cheery holiday subject. How about angry badgers?

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I was hoping to get a good rest in over this Christmas break. So far it’s been more busy than the semester. I’m too old for this.

On a happier note, I managed to pick up a few choice items from benevolent relatives, one of which included a digital postal scale. Now that is a premo Xmas gift. And, after being a Nickel Creek fan for a couple years, I finally got one of their CDs. In this case, This Side. The title song is probably my all time most favorite piece of music. I don’t really know why. But that mandolin lick hauts my dreams … it’s just … beautiful.

I’ve got a week until school starts. Gotta live it up while I’m still out … ha!