I never thought a hippo would be bigger than a car, so when I saw it wallowing around in the national zoo I was quite awestruck:
Silverback Moon
I went to the National Zoo last Saturday and took a few pictures (of course). Here’s a silverback gorilla sitting around.
April 27 2005, 23:20 | Filed under: Photography | No Comments |
Pear blossoms, up close
I took this two days ago; The period for pear blossoms has gone but there’s plenty more pictures to remind me of them for the rest of the year.
April 21 2005, 22:06 | Filed under: Photography | 1 Comment |
I Flickr now
Thank you Rhe. So much. This thing is addictive. Heck, I post pics there ahead of when I post here.
Flickr lesson #1: I find tagging photos a chore; verbalizing what I capture in pixels is a wrenching experience. Anyone else find the act of tagging pics demystifying?
April 21 2005, 0:11 | Filed under: Photography | 1 Comment |
Sometimes I freaking hate pop culture
I just discovered that the storyline for something I’ve been writing has already been done in a Star Trek: Original Series episode. I have the tough choice of stopping all work now or making a self parody with a short dialogue between characters, like so:
“Hey, isn’t this similar to a Star Trek episode?” the investigator asked.
“Hard to say. But if I get your drift right, we won’t have a Spock to help us with this one,” the coroner replied.
“Who knows; maybe we do?”
“Eh.” With that, the coroner shrugged and went back to work.
All the good stories have been told. The next thing I’ll work on will be a romance novel. Intiendes?
April 20 2005, 22:06 | Filed under: TV and Film | 1 Comment |
Best food blog I’ve ever read
If I ever enter politics I’d make sure to have this guy‘s dining expenses (see here, here, here, and here just for starters) written off as tax-exempt. His reviews of the dining scene in the Seat Of The Empire are a service to all who haunt the area, and have saved me plenty of money on where not to go as well.
April 19 2005, 17:03 | Filed under: Food and drink | No Comments |
Water
Taken from one of my regular walks around my area, water going down a rusty drain:
And here it is in black and white:
April 19 2005, 0:02 | Filed under: Photography | No Comments |
Love the sinner and hate the sin
Best ever, non-lofty, nitty-gritty easy-to-understand-in-no-uncertain-terms discussion of the role of the Christian churches and Christians towards homosexuality and homosexuals I have ever seen in months. A snip:
While The Bible teaches homosexuality is a sin, this doesn’t mean you should be anti-homosexual. It is not a Christian’s place to judge and condemn. It is a Christian’s place to serve God and serve mankind as an example. A Christian should educate and accept. A person’s relationship with God and sin is personal. A homosexual who considers themselves to be a Christian doesn’t answer to the people or the Church. They answer to God. A Christian’s place is to accept all without compromising their own beliefs.
How does this fit with a secular government? It means Congress can’t legislate religion. Period. People get confused on that issue, though, and different people hold a different interpretation. Anti-Sodomy laws? UnConstitutional. Anti-Same-sex marriage laws? It depends on your interpretation of the founder’s intent, and different judges have a different interpretation. Anti-Civil Union laws? UnConstitutional.
I grew up at a turning point in the Philippine Catholic ethic: it was a time when “Go to Hell” was replaced with “May God forgive you.” Too bad not all Christian denominations ascribe to that attitude.
WTF is this?
As seen in my referral stats (replacing [bracketed] items with applicable info):
http://images.google.[country TLD]/imgres?imgurl=[the URI of an image on my site]
I already banned the Google Imagebot from my robots.txt; what’s this about?
April 18 2005, 10:20 | Filed under: Blog news | 2 Comments |
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