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(forward from my good friend Geoff this morning)

God is sitting in heaven when a scientist prays to Him.

“God, we don't need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing - in other words, we can now do what you did in the beginning.”

“Oh, is that so? Tell Me...” replies God.

“Well,” says the scientist, “we can take dirt and form it into the likeness of you and breath life into it, thus creating man.”

“Well, that's very interesting...show Me.”

So the scientist bends down to the earth & starts to mold the soil into the shape of a man.

“No, no, no...” interrupts God, “get your own dirt.”

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Fellowship of the Peeps is good clean Easter-time fun, regardless of what you think of the little marshmellow ducks.

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A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten. We all looked at each other, and another customer asked, “What is a seven-hundred-ten?”

She replied, “You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I lost it and need a new one. It had always been there.”

The mechanic gave the blonde a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like. She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710.

He then took her over to another car which had the hood up and asked, “Is there a 710 on this car?”

She pointed and said, “Of course, it's right there.”

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Posted by TjL at 09:56 AM | Permalink

Well this was a different story: Quacking Preacher Leads Ducks To Water....

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South River Technologies released version 5.2 of WebDrive.

WebDrive is awesome. It lets you setup an FTP site (or WebDAV or HTTP Servers supporting Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions) as a drive letter on your computer. For example, I can edit/copy/paste/delete files to and from TnTLuoma.com as if they were on my local computer.

This means that I can use whatever editor I want (such as TopStyle and CSE HTMLValidator) to work on my web site without that tool having integrated FTP support.

This works best with a high speed internet connection (well, duh, of course). TopStyle also uses temp files in the same directory, so that can mean a lot of excess traffic (I wish TopStyle would let me use c:\temp)

Anyway, the WebDrive folks were extremely helpful with me trying to diagnose some problems I was having. After a fresh reinstall, it is working flawlessly.

Posted by TjL at 05:31 PM | Permalink

Opera released Opera 7.10 for download for both Windows and Linux.

(Update: some of the download sites seem to be asking for passwords. Try the Australia Planet Mirror via HTTP... that one seems to be working, for non Java at least.)

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Whoa. Hold onto your hat of the shock of this surprise, but according to the Belief-O-Matic my beliefs match “Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants”!!!

I love their disclaimer:

Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing.

Warning: Belief-O-Matic assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul.

Here is the full list of my results:

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Orthodox Quaker (92%)
3. Liberal Quakers (78%)
4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (77%)
5. Unitarian Universalism (71%)
6. Seventh Day Adventist (64%)
7. Eastern Orthodox (57%)
8. Roman Catholic (57%)
9. Reform Judaism (56%)
10. Secular Humanism (53%)
11. Neo-Pagan (51%)
12. Mahayana Buddhism (50%)
13. New Age (49%)
14. Theravada Buddhism (49%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (48%)
16. Hinduism (44%)
17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (43%)
18. Jainism (42%)
19. Islam (41%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (41%)
21. Taoism (41%)
22. New Thought (39%)
23. Sikhism (39%)
24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (36%)
25. Nontheist (35%)
26. Scientology (35%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (33%)

I find it interesting that two versions of Quaker ranked higher than Conservative Protestantism.

Posted by TjL at 05:41 PM | Permalink

Scale: 6 out of a possible 10
Should you see it? YES
How's the writing? Good
Any gaping holes in the plot? NO
What stands out? Moves right along without dragging on

When I saw the previews for this movie, I thought it was going to be terrible.

I was amazed when I started to see all the good reviews start rolling in.

It's a good movie. It's a tightly written plot. They didn't try to do too much with it. I won't give you the plot (that's what going to the movie is about, right? And besides, if you want someone to give the plot away, you can read one of the other reviews) but they kept it right on target and moving along.

So go ahead, get to the movie, get your popcorn, and enjoy the ride.

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Yep, black balloons for my 30th birthday (3/28). With friends (and a spouse) like this...

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