Name's Jason. I'm an IT guy, skeptic, and atheist, and love OSS, science of all stripes, and debating on-line and off. Just read my stuff, you'll get the picture.
| By jthibeault, on February 8th, 2010 | 100 views
If you thought the Haiti quote was horrible, and had to be a one-time slip, here’s proof that it is entirely Robertson’s MO.
Pagans and abortionists and gays and feminists and ACLU are all responsible for natural disasters. Sure. It has nothing to do with Jesus’ insane fan club. If anyone is responsible for bringing down the wrath of a loving, omniscient god that designed all these humans to be the way they are, it’s the intolerant fuckers like Pat. Never mind that we actually understand how these natural disasters happen and they have absolutely nothing to do with us humans (except for climate change, I guess).
| By jthibeault, on February 7th, 2010 | 137 views
I uploaded Teri’s photos to Picasa. I’m also in the middle of processing some images from Shannon’s camera, and I have Sam’s video of the wedding that I still need to export and crunch, though because everyone decided to stand through the ceremony proper, you won’t really get to see all that much sadly. I understand there’s another video of the ceremony taken from halfway up the hall by one of Mark or Sara’s aunts, so hopefully there will be a better video coming.
Here’s some us-centric highlights from the stream I uploaded, but feel free to browse the rest if you’re interested in some of the “alternate shots” for each pose, or if you want to see Mark and Sara’s side of the double ceremony.
| By jthibeault, on February 6th, 2010 | 125 views
The wonderful @JSWadley and @Cyberlizard each put up picture streams (here and here), and live-tweeted the proceedings. Here are some pictures from the wedding taken by Jodi’s sister Teri. I’m working on getting my Gallery installation working, so these pics will have to whet your appetite until I manage to get it working properly. I might also give up and post them all to Facebook later.
The brides-to-be hugging
Me, sitting. Exciting!
Husband and wife to be
Our first betrothed kiss
I’ll hopefully have Gallery working before bed. Hopefully.
| By jthibeault, on February 5th, 2010 | 191 views
Today, we’re getting married. Tomorrow, I might post about it. There will be videos up as soon as possible. And yes, I scheduled this post in advance, because there’s no way I’d have time otherwise.
If you want to reminisce, start here. The original blog trail is also cached here.
Thanks, Stephanie, for your help in starting this ball rolling. Wish you could be here to see the wedding.
And Jodi: when you finally read this several days from now, this is just a reminder that I love you. (As though you need a reminder.)
I felt the same WTF moment when I first learned the Final Fantasy game series was so messed up in being brought across the Pacific. If Angry Video Game Nerd hadn’t already said it all about the stupid sequel naming conventions that video games and movies have made seemingly ad-hoc over the years, there would have been a post about it at here eventually.
| By jthibeault, on February 3rd, 2010 | 157 views
After a ridiculous comment over at Le Café Witteveen, it occurred to me that a graph might help explain why the fundie-who-must-not-be-named is just pulling this crap out of his ass, as usual. I know he said Christianity specifically, but honestly, any religion is as good as any other in my books and the studies I found didn’t differentiate.
I pulled the numbers into a spreadsheet from this survey on religion for various criteria to compare against a number of different metrics for societal well-being, specifically life expectancy, self-reported happiness rank, GDP purchasing power parity, and income equality (richest 10% vs poorest 10% ratio). There were only so many countries that had numbers for all the variables, so I only included those that had numbers for all of them.
| By jthibeault, on February 3rd, 2010 | 118 views
As long as we keep posting or disseminating his debunkings, Carl Sagan’s zombie will continue smiting pseudoscience. This is a strange golem we have constructed with Youtube and digitally converted VHS tapes.
This is epic. A shame there are so many problems with the ball’s momentum… I’m thinking a mini puck on an air hockey table might work better. Must… not… start… new… project…
| By jthibeault, on February 1st, 2010 | 142 views
I have absolutely no idea whether this guy is for real or not. I have to assume he is a troll, because nobody could possibly be this confident in his wrongness.
Anyway, you can make a game out of counting the ways he’s wrong. I just about lost it at “this is how many people are connected to Google”.
| By jthibeault, on January 31st, 2010 | 126 views
I’m going to be in wedding mode for the next week. Work needs to be brought to a position where it can coast for the duration of my time off, and I’m going to be far too preoccupied with other stuff to blog regularly, so there’s a chance I won’t be able to post anything major for a while. I’m sure you won’t mind. I’ll do the standard Blog Cruise Control thing and link to various Youtube videos I find amusing or galling or what have you.
I hope to have videos of the wedding up on the 7th at the very latest, ripped from ReformedYankee’s camera and converted to something for public consumption, barring any unforeseen circumstances. There’s also a good chance @CyberLizard and @JSWadley will be live-tweeting the wedding proceedings. If we set up a picture feed I’ll of course link it here as soon as it’s ready to be used.
Kindly keep an eye on the intertubes for me in my absence, folks.
Jodi and I respectfully request donations toward our potential honeymoon -- come hell or high water we are going to CONvergence in Minnesota, but we'd like to be able to eat something other than Mr. Noodles or warm ourselves by setting our cats on fire between now and then!
Please feel free to donate whatever you can. It will be greatly appreciated, believe us.
(Just think... if even just one person were to donate a million dollars... think what kind of difference that would make in our diet!)
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