I just recently learned about Tim Minchin. He has to be one of the best atheistic musicians out there. I still haven’t heard anything of his that I don’t absolutely love. Here is a YouTube video of his beat poem, Storm. Tell me that this isn’t absolutely brilliant.
Well, I’ve had several ideas mulling around in my head, and I think they’ve reached the point where I’m ready to start actually working on them. I’ve had two ideas for regular articles: a “What if?” column, and a column of “Maple for Mythbusters”. The first column will be articles where I look at different ideas and say “What if this idea were real? What would it mean?” The first one is going to look at homeopathy, and make the assumption that it is real. Starting there, what else do we have to accept, by logic, due to accepting that homeopathy is real. I’m going to look at a different idea for each article. The second column is going to look at different experiments that the Mythbusters have done and see how we can use Maple to do some scientific computations around those experiments. I really like Maple, and I think more people should be supporting a Canadian made product.
These two columns are going to run on alternate weeks, starting with “What if?” this Friday. If you have any ideas for either column, things you’d like to see covered, please let me know.
I’ve just started playing around with fvwm-crystal on Ubuntu, and I’ve run into an issue that others may have, too. Out of the box, I didn’t have any application menus showing up. It turns out that fvwm-crystal is sensitive to what version of python you are running on your system. Once I changed the symbolic link /usr/bin/python to point to /usr/bin/python2.5 rather than /usr/bin/python2.6, all of the scripts to generate the application menu worked. This should be stated somewhere in the documentation. If you run into this issue, you can simply delete the old symlink with
sudo rm /usr/bin/python
and create a new symlink with
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/python
Hopefully this helps other people in the same boat.
Well, I just deleted the first couple of spammer accounts on this blog. Yoohoo! Does this mean that I’m starting to get real traffic now? 
This video is hilarious. But it does point out a serious problem. What will you do when the vampires come for you?
The more I learn about Bertrand Russell, the more I wish he were still around. Here is a clip from an old interview done on the CBC:
OK. Just how stupid are Christians? Haiti has been completely devastated. They desperately need food and water, and medical aid. So instead of sending food and water and medical aid, what is being sent? Talking Bibles! This is not the time to be wasting what little capacity there is to get real aid into the country. After we’ve actually rebuilt homes, and gotten people fed and treated their wounds, then sure, go ahead and try to brainwash them. But now, when they are at their most beaten, is not the time to go down and shove this type of garbage down their throats. Unless, deep down somewhere, they know that the only way to get a convert is to pounce on people when they are at their weakest. Bunch of parasites. Can you tell this pisses me off a bit?
Well, Pat Robertson is now officially douchebag of the century. He should be ignored by everyone, and yet he is still on TV, still sucking money out of gullible people, simply because he claims to be a man of god. Well, hopefully Zeus strikes him down soon for such blasphemy. Oh wait, is he talking about a different god? Maybe he’s talking about Mithras.
If you want to see what I’m talking about, check the YouTube video below:
Feel free to ignore this test. I’m trying to make sure all of my social networking stuff is working the way I expect them to. This should go to Twitter, and from there to Facebook. Let’s see.