Here’s why I love walking by the riverside on campus:
Common wildlife on the St. Joe. Click to enlarge the preview, or click here for a hi-res version with no captions.
This is on the bank of the St. Joseph River at IPFW, looking west. On the near side is a little parkland with a few [...]
Posted in Freethought, Humor on Sep 16th, 2008
(NOTE: This was originally published for Freethought Fort Wayne’s blog. I think it is totally appropriate and fun to re-post here. - Andy)
My friend Dave is an outspoken atheist and lived in Indy. He out this hilarious email last night to a bunch of friends, and gave me permission to share it with you:
About 2am [...]
Posted in Sci-Fi, Star Trek, Web Videos on Sep 16th, 2008
So for Waffles’s next achievement, I know he’s been talking about learning some more advanced video editing techniques. Well, here’s an example of something homemade (from YouTube user dwlieu) that ought to serve as a motivational example of, um, that:
Battlestar Galactica Intro / Star Trek DS9
Shot by shot, it’s perfect; it demonstrates an appreciation [...]
Posted in Blogging about Blogging, Freethought on Sep 15th, 2008
Congrats to Waffles for becoming a celeb in the blogosphere today. He’s achieved the most popular thread to date at the Freethought Fort Wayne blog by getting a positive endorsement from PZ on Pharyngula. Waffles’s atheist coming-out story is honest and moving, and reveals the real perils of religious education. If you [...]
Posted in Doctor Who, Web Videos on Sep 12th, 2008
This is absolutely adorable — a fan video featuring some pretty good homebrew special effects, with kindergartners running around as the Doctor, Captain Jack, Davros, and a dalek. It’s great.
Posted in University Life on Sep 9th, 2008
For my grump du jour about superfluous technology in the classroom, I need to talk about the actual consequences of that value-added bullcrap they shrink-wrap with textbooks. This semester I bought about half of my books from the Amazon marketplace, whose sellers often have new copies for the price the campus bookstore charges for used. [...]
Posted in Web Videos on Sep 8th, 2008
I’m not a particularly big fan of heavy metal, or zombies, but this video is really fascinating. It’s a music video for a song by ANJ, a Russian metal band. It’s a tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, which includes big-breasted women and zombies, and Gorbachev as some sort of Conan the Barbarian hero, cranial bird-poop-shaped birthmark [...]
Posted in Freethought on Sep 8th, 2008
From the sharp-witted people over at cectic.com. Click to enlarge.
Posted in University Life on Sep 8th, 2008
I’m going to bitch again about misuse of technology in the classroom. In one of my classes today we were dismissed a few minutes after arriving because the prof couldn’t get the desktop PC that projects the Powerpoint slides to boot. This despite the fact that almost all of the students had printouts of the [...]
The kid is Betty in First Presbyterian Theater’s production this summer of Mister Roberts. She was about five weeks old here, and going through the climbing on things and leaping off them stage.
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