Author: theazureshadow

Thesis 1: Morality Exists Regardless of God's Existence \”Are you telling me that the only reason why you don't steal, rape and murder, is that you're frightened of God?\” -Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil If you can answer this question \”no\”, you're saying that regardless of whether God exists or not, you're not…

I hate those times when you wish something terrible would happen so you feel justified being depressed. I hate wanting to cry, but being unable to summon tears. I hate being a footnote. *shiver* This will pass shortly. But it is how I feel at this precise moment. Ugh. I think I'm going to go…

Aaron just told me a story about his childhood. It's not important what, but it is important that in the end he burned a poem in a jar, closed the lid, and wrote \”Broken Dreams\” on the top. I say \”You're so emo, Aaron.\” \”Shut up!\” I gesture up and down at his completely black…

Three minutes ago, the phone rings. I pick it up. \”Hello?\” \”This is Cami. Can I speak to the lady of the house?\” in a rather ordering tone. (Not, obviously, the usual Cami.) *brief pause while I think of how to respond* \”Can I speak to the lady of the house!\” same tone. \”Well, actually,…

If any of you still think our country is holding to the high moral ground, you should read this. If you are not physically sick throughout a large portion of the article, there may be something wrong with you. I have a fairly strong ability to suppress revulsion, and it was entirely overcome. The article…

Stupid bloodsucking such-and-suches… So, we were experiencing very slow internet for a while now. We'd get speeds of 10kb/s consistently. I didn't really think about it much, because the internet has always been somewhat up-and-down in that way. But today we all were annoyed at it, so I logged into the wireless base station and…

For my birthday, Cami got me a book of short stories titled sunlight & shadows. I read it on a camping trip shortly after recieving it, and I was struck by a number of stories that made me think of particular people when I read them. Here is one of those stories, which I felt…

I just updated all my Flickr pictures to add location data. Most of them I was able to get down to the street, but some were definitely guesses. My favorite location is Rock Lake, which took quite a while to find because it's so small and you can't search for geographic landmarks. So, if you…

Mark's comment on my last entry reminded me of a techie poem by Steven Brust that I encountered a few years ago when reading his weblog at dreamcafe.com. I thought I'd bring it up again: I dreamt that I was windows free And data flowed in streams From you to me, my ISP All flawless…

This is my new flat-panel 19\” monitor. In ancient times, holy places were sometimes judged by the wealth of their idol or altar. If there is something that embodies the form of a computer more than a beautiful monitor, I don\’t know what it is. I\’ve certainly moved up on the shrine scale.