Nov 10 2005

Just Your Average Meme

Category: blogging, miscellaneous — Steve @ 10:42 am

Hokule’a posts another great meme, courtesy of Fire Ant and others. It’s based on Kevin O’Keefe’s The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation’s Most Ordinary Citizen. According to the book, a majority of Americans:

  • Eats peanut butter at least once a week. Nope. Every couple of weeks I’ll snag some as I’m making the kids’ lunches.
  • Prefers smooth peanut butter over chunky. No again. Definitely chunk style.
  • Can name all Three Stooges. The originals? Larry, Moe and Curly. Shemp, Joe and Curly Joe were the also-rans after Curly died, and Shemp (Moe’s and Curly’s brother) was the better of that lot, but I never found his stuff as funny as the originals. They should have pulled the act after Curly passed.
  • Lives within a 20-minute drive of a Wal-Mart. At least one.
  • Eats at McDonald’s at least once a year. Once a year? We try not to eat there more than once a week.
  • Takes a shower for approximately 10.4 minutes a day. Longer if I can.
  • Never sings in the shower. Never? Well, sometimes…
  • Lives in a house, not an apartment or condominium. Yep. I have been domesticated.
  • Has a home valued between $100,000 and $300,000. Yes
  • Has fired a gun. Why, yes, don’t mind if I do. Git yer grubby hands off the Second Amendment.
  • Is between 5 feet and 6 feet tall. Nope. Missed that one on the high side (just short of 6′3″).
  • Weighs 135 to 205 pounds. Let’s just say I missed that one on the high side as well.
  • Is between the ages of 18 and 53. Yep, 46 last week.
  • Believes gambling is an acceptable entertainment option. Only if you have a set limit and can push away from the table when finished. Most can’t and spend money they shouldn’t.
  • Grew up within 50 miles of current home. No, grew up in Illinois and now live in Colorado. (Just short of 850 miles away, as the corvus brachyrhynchos flies.)

    • Nov 10 2005

    Common Sense Rearing its Ugly Head?

    Category: faith, news and politics — Steve @ 09:11 am

    My hope is not in men, but this was encouraging nonetheless:

    Senate votes to allow prayer at military academies
    By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
    November 8, 2005The Senate voted 99-0 Wednesday to allow voluntary, non-denominational prayers at official events at the U.S. Air Force Academy and other service academies.

    The amendment to a pending defense authorization bill was inspired by the recent controversy over religious tolerance at the academy’s campus in Colorado Springs, Colo., where complaints about alleged proselytizing by top officers prompted a Pentagon review and series of new restrictions.

    Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., complained at a recent academy Board of Visitors’ meeting that new, draft regulations could squelch religious expression.

    Nov 10 2005

    Google Despairs

    Category: faith — Steve @ 09:10 am

    I don’t know where the personalized Google pages get their Quote of the Day, but they seem to be uniformly pessimistic. Here’s their offering for today:

    “We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
    - Maurice Maeterlinck”

    Well, gee, why don’t we just go open a vein and end it?

    Hmmm, I know why. How about this instead?

    Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will live in hope,
    because you will not abandon me to the grave,
    nor will you let your Holy One see decay.Acts 2:25-27 (NIV)

    I’ll take hope of eternal life over black despair any day.