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I had a very strange dream involving a palatial mansion, someone I know who recently acquired some real estate, a great deal of male nudity, and me going around from point a to point b to point c, with the goal of accomplishing useful things, and in fact getting very little done.

If I got ‘s voicemail right, and I think I did, though there were some sound clarity problems with it, Nausicaa was sold out over 24 hours in advance. Not terribly surprising, given that disney owns, and has shelved, the rights to the film. But still disappointing. Better luck next year, I guess (assuming they show it then).

I require consolation.

Route map

in response to ‘s post

Ya know, this got me thinking about just why the creationists object so to evolution. And it’s not the central thrust of the theory that gets to them. The idea of evolution as a mechanism working is pretty much irrefutable on scientific grounds. What they object to is the notion that it contradicts creationism, which, in truth it doesn’t.

If god did his whole 6 days gig, evolution could have taken over from there, and modern day evolutionists would be none the wiser. A little revision of the fossil record here, a little there, and voila. And then the species in question can start there procreating and mutating and natural selecting and so forth and so on.

I imagine that that notion would seem about as sensical to most evolutionists as it does to me. (Put an elephant in a dress, and call it “Martha” if you like, but he’s still an elephant).

The unimaginably complex ‘just happening’ (over the course of billions of years) is a pretty hard notion to wrap one’s head around. Someone else (a most impressive Someone at that) ‘just doing it’ (over the course of a week) is somehow easier to accept.

In June of ’01 the CGMC had a concert (I have it on video tape, but the sound quality just sucks.) with the Heartland Men’s Chorus. During the Heartland Men’s Chorus’s segment (which I liked much better than our own), they sang an absolutely beautiful song, which I was never able to find the lyrics for on the web. Turns out they modified a traditional prayer. Here’s the version I heard, as best I can reconstruct it (without listening to the tape)

Can you hear the prayer of the children on bended knee, in the shadow of an unknown room?
Empty eyes with no more tears to cry, turning heavenward toward the light.
Crying, “Who will help me to see the morning light of one more day?
But if I should die before I wake, I pray my soul to take?”
Can you feel the hearts of the children aching for home, for something of their very own?
Reaching hands with nothing to hold on to, but hope for a better day.
Crying, “Who will help me to feel the love again in my own land?
But if unknown roads lead away from home, give me loving arms, away from harm.”
Can you hear the voice of the children softly pleading for silence in their shattered world?

The original is much more Jesus-tastic. Everywhere you see “Who will” replace it with “Jesus”. Also, there’s a closing stanza

Angry guns preach a gospel full of hate, blood of the innocent on their hands.
Crying, “Jesus, help me to feel the sun again upon my face.
For when darkness clears I know you’re near, bringing peace again.”
Dali cuje te sve djecje molitve?
Can you hear the prayer of the children?

http://www.woodyulmer.com/prayer.html — has flash page with a musically much better version, but fully jesus-tastic, lots of crying and american flag waving, and a political slant you can expect based on that. I still like it.

On the composer’s website, he recommends substituting “crying softly” for “crying jesus” “enabling people to subconsciously substitute ‘Jesus’, ‘Allah’, ‘Yahweh’, etc. This way his universal message of love can be felt without any barriers or limitations”. I think I still prefer “who will”, but a) it’s better than ‘Jesus’ and b) I’m a questions kind of guy.

The word is ‘pectacular’. This one just came without any particular inspiration.

The phrase is “aggressively clueless”. This one, sadly, did have inspiration. We were discussing the effects of inflation on housing investment choices in class today (the overall topic was taxation of housing). But there was someone who clearly, desperately wanted to understand. And didn’t.

I tucked my shirt into my pants, put a belt on, looked in the mirror, and realized that I really am skinny. Go fig.

I’ve had this 6GB laptop harddrive hanging around for awhile. I got a 40GB laptop hard drive awhile ago, and swapped it in when I got the new laptop. The 6GB has been hanging out on my desk unused for quite some time now. Anyone want it? It’s an IBM travelstar, if that matters.

Oh, and my screen futzing seems to have taken better this time. Hopefully I won’t have to disassemble it again any time soon.