Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Wednesday Wandomness (And Awful Alliteration)
Just stuff...
- House In Da House
Last night's season premiere of House was very good. I hate to find myself caught up in a television show, but I can justify it for a program as well written and well acted as House. I still don't watch as much TV as Wendy. I don't watch the plane-crash-tropical-polar-bear show and I don't watch the happy feet show and I don't watch any "reality" shows or one single sitcom, with or without laughtracks… but I do watch House. And, judging by the ratings, so do a great many other people.
I enjoyed last night's episode, and even though I just knew that we'd see the guy in the wheelchair take a step out of it by the end of the episode, I was still moved by the way the story worked. I also liked what they did with House himself, how he seems to be struggling to learn to live without his two addictions (Vicodin and pain), and how even after having had his leg fixed he still can't figure out how to relate to normal people. I loved how the episode ended… and that the scenes from next week's show seem to imply about Cuddy and Wilson's decision not to tell House about how the Cortisol injection effected Mr. McNeil. The weirdest thing about last night's show was that Cameron seemed about ten years younger than she did last year. - Another Internet Quiz
Jimmy Akin posted a link to one of those internet quizzes… with the standard qualifier about not taking any of it seriously. The topic this time? Which theologian are you? I'd hoped for Thomas Aquinas (or, at the outside, C.S. Lewis), but it turns out that I'm Augustine of Hippo:You scored as Augustine. You have a big view of God and also take human sin and depravity very seriously. Predestination is important for you. Augustine
73% Jonathan Edwards
67% Friedrich Schleiermacher
60% John Calvin
60% Anselm
60% Martin Luther
53% Charles Finney
47% Karl Barth
47% J�rgen Moltmann
40% Paul Tillich
27%
Which theologian are you?
created with QuizFarm.com - Found A New Blog
Speaking of Lewis, his words provided the quote of the day at Evangelical Catholicism, a blog I just discovered today and that I really, really like. I can see this ending up in the blogroll. - Leftists And Jews
By the way, when did it officially become the stated and accepted leftist position to hate Israel and Jews? The last I checked, the left was so politically correct that they were afraid to offend anyone of any race, color, creed, religion, sexual persuasion, national origin or underwear preference (briefs, by the way). Now, seemingly out of the blue, the left just can't get enough of bashing the Jews. And I don't mean in a drunk-driving, talking out of your mind kind of way… I mean in a hateful, politically precise way. Read this outstanding article at Front Page Magazine. (Hat Tip, Cube.) - Upsetting Video
Wendy and I talked about this the other night. Since he died filming a TV program, was Steve Irwin's death actually captured on video? Sadly, it was. Don't worry, that link isn't to the video... just to this story:CROCODILE hunter Steve Irwin pulled a stingray barb out of his chest moments before he died, a witness said yesterday after watching film of the freak attack that killed the wildlife daredevil.
The revelation came as politicians and thousands of fans of the garrulous television icon and conservationist paid emotional tributes to Australia’s best-known ambassador a day after his shocking death at the age of 44.
Irwin’s close friend and Crocodile Hunter television producer John Stainton said he had viewed film of Irwin’s chest being punctured by a powerful blow from a stingray’s tail during the filming of a new underwater documentary on Monday.
I hope to never see the footage… but I'm sure it'll be on the 'net before long. - I'd Make Her Kessel Run In Less Than 12 Parsecs! Har Har Har!
I was always under the impression that comic conventions and sci-fi conventions were full of nothing but guys like me: fat, goofy fanboys who wander from booth to booth paying too much money for comics and collectables and semi-valuable artifacts from this or that event. Otis knows better:Move over Princess Leia. Nobody gives a crap about your slave girl outfit anymore. Femtroopers are here!
Thats right, Femtroopers. Female Stormtroopers. Complete with Britney Spears midriff.
Apparently it's the latest craze at the Sci-Fi convention circuit and I love it.
If only George Lucas had the insight to include these hotties in the original Empire Strikes Back movie, it would have drastically changed the entire saga.
Indeed. The force is strong with this one. - Patriotic… But Creepy
The United American Committee (I've never heard of it) is staging a pro-America rally in Culver City, California for September 10th. And that's fine… but something about this particular rally just gives me the heebie-jeebies:Rally in Commemoration of 9-11, on Sunday 9-10-2006. There will be a public hanging from gallows of bin Laden effigy…
Let's commemorate 9-11 in the grassroots spirit of our forefathers on Sunday September 10th in front of the radical King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California as we hang Osama bin Laden in effigy from gallows.
Yikes. I just don't like the aesthetic of hanging and/or burning people in effigy. Not that I'm in any way, shape or form defending Osama. If anybody deserves to be abused in effigy, I guess it's him. It's just that I associate the hanging and/or burning of people in effigy with radical Muslims and leftist nutcases. I'm aware that it's a form of protest with a much longer history than the things I've seen on the six o'clock news… still, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. - She's Suri 'Nuff Cute
Remember this old joke?
Q: What do you get when you cross a crooked lawyer with a crooked politician?
A: Chelsea Clinton.
Get it? Get it? Hillary is a crooked lawyer, Bill is a crooked politician… and when you cross 'em you get their daughter, who is named…. Ah, fugeddaboutit.
Anyway, what do you get when you cross a Hollywood nutjob and a girl young enough to be his daughter? Well, you get what I must admit is an adorable baby:
Tom and Katie have finally allowed their daughter Suri to be photographed for the cover of Vanity Fair. And, I have to agree with Wendy, she is precious looking infant.
Then again, pretty much all babies are adorable. I bet even Dan Rather was cute in his baby pictures.
And, again, being fair to Tom and Katie, Suri is really not the weirdest possible name for a baby. Below are some weird celebrity baby names. Can you guess the baby's nutty celebrity parents without clicking the link?
Pilot Inspektor
Apple
Jermajesty
Fifi Trixiebelle
Satchel
Daisy Boo
Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily
Moon Unit
Rebel Antonio
Blue Angel
Banjo
Spec Wildhorse
Reignbeau
Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q
Kyd Miller
Oh, well… maybe if I go back and tweak my answers a bit I can be Saint Jack himself next time.
Speaking of blogrolls… is yours like mine? By that, I mean does it exist to serve your own purpose more than anything else? Here's how I go about my daily blog reading: The first thing I do is load by own blog in Firefox. Then I scroll down to the blogroll and right click on the blogs, one at a time, opening them in new tabs. Then I read 'em, one at a time, closing them after I read them and leaving open specific pages if there's something at this blog or that one that I want to mention in my post for the day. I must admit that, once I get going, I can disappear into the PC for what seems like hours on end. Click one link and then click another and the next thing I know I have about five-hundred tabs open. I can't help but wonder if other bloggers do that or if this is one of the many things that makes me a weirdo.Permalink -- Posted by Darrell at 15:55 
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I tested out as Anselm, but I don't have a clue as to who he is.
;+ )
Anselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period.He sees man's primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read 'Cur Deus Homo?'
Anselm
100%
Karl Barth
80%
Charles Finney
67%
John Calvin
67%
Martin Luther
60%
Augustine
53%
Jonathan Edwards
40%
J?Moltmann
40%
Friedrich Schleiermacher
13%
Paul Tillich
0%
;+ )
Anselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period.He sees man's primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read 'Cur Deus Homo?'
Anselm
100%
Karl Barth
80%
Charles Finney
67%
John Calvin
67%
Martin Luther
60%
Augustine
53%
Jonathan Edwards
40%
J?Moltmann
40%
Friedrich Schleiermacher
13%
Paul Tillich
0%
Wow! you can do that with your blogroll? OK, I'm starting that! Those are three beautiful people on the cover of Vanity Fair, and wasn't that a surprise? Actually, more surprising was your having access to the magazine---it doesn't seem like something you'd seek out. I, on the other hand, read it from left front cover to left back cover. And love it. Except the ads.
it's not so much "Jew" bashing as it is "Israel" bashing. And oddly enough, a lot of that bashing comes from left-wing self-hating Jews.
pretty much the left is all about hating things and people that are successful these days, except for the rich politicians and trial lawyers that they vote for.
pretty much the left is all about hating things and people that are successful these days, except for the rich politicians and trial lawyers that they vote for.
Gosh, you left off Shiloh Pitt from your list of celebrity baby names.
They didn't even consider what would happen if you exchanged the first consonants...
Piloh Shitt.
Oh, the humanity.
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They didn't even consider what would happen if you exchanged the first consonants...
Piloh Shitt.
Oh, the humanity.
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