The Sci Fi Catholic Yak Module
I've never had anyone come to my blog looking for naked men pictures. I did have someone end up at my blog searching for 'mi estas hundo kaj virino en la angla', which means 'I am a dog and a woman in English'. I'm not sure what they wanted but I find it a tad disturbing.
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I can say with all sincerity, I didn't find your blog in a search for naked men pictures. That's not to say I didn't have a flash of desire for the Indiana Jones jacket.....
As far as I can tell, I don't get a lot of hits from search engines that I'm aware of, although I've noticed a few hits from people looking for images from the movie Frogs. Figure that one out.
That is nice jacket, but that's not what I was paying attention to. Am I the only one who giddily scans the shelves for interesting things whenever someone posts a picture of their bookcases? So, just how do you survive a robot uprising?
At least now you've given them a reason to be linked here in the future, even if you're still not within the first 50 pages of results. Out of curiosity, how does it log links from iGoogle (blog feed)?
Also, that is a sweet jacket! Raiders was the first movie I saw when I was a year old. My parents hoped I'd fall asleep, but I didn't and instead remained completely memorized by the man in the leather jacket. Man, I haven't seen those movies in ages, I'll need to rent them now.
Also, why is it that you look 12 in the picture at the top of your blog and 30 in the picture above?
Am I the only one who giddily scans the shelves for interesting things whenever someone posts a picture of their bookcases?
Nope, I did the same, but quickly became frustrated that it wasn't organized and in alphabetical order. It is, after all, a sin to have Star Wars on the same shelf as A Case for Faith and 2000 Leagues under the Sea
Although, now that you mention it, how DO you survive a Robot uprising?
I once did a series of carefully worded google searches solely in order to have somewhat embarrassing-sounding search strings come up for a friend's website. That was amusing.
Moral: having "naked-eye astronomy" on your website is asking for trouble.
(Not that I did that for yours, mind you...)
Do I look twelve in the picture at the top of my blog? Are people under the impression this blog is run by a twelve-year-old? Do I write that badly?
I was 26 when the picture at the top of the blog was taken. I was 27 when the picture with the bookcase was taken. So there you go.
Xena, it is perfectly natural to feel a flash of desire upon seeing the Indy jacket. It's normal, and you need not hide these feelings. Incidentally, it is an excellent jacket, the company (linked in the post) that makes them does a great job, cuts them to your measurements and specifications, and produces them at a cost not much greater than an off-the-rack leather jacket from a department store. It feels good and looks good and the lambskin is really high-quality. I recommend the Temple of Doom jacket, the one I'm wearing, which most of the Indyfans agree is the most comfortable and best looking.
The only place you'll get hammered on the price is on shipping. They come from Britain. I ordered mine while in Canada and payed a hefty tariff.
EegahInc--envy my shelves! Envy! As for How to Survive a Robot Uprising, that is a really good book by a grad student in robotics. The humor's cheesy, but the info on robots is real. Basically, its a humorous entry-level text on robotics. Lots of buzzwords mixed with robot B-movie cliches. Very handy for the science-fictionist.
Christina--admittedly, my shelves are disorganized, but I actually put the texts you see here intentionally where they are for the purpose of showing that I really am a Sci Fi Catholic. It is not a sin to have Star Wars on the same shelf as The Case for Faith. It is awesome.
I find this greatly amusing.
Especially since you searched for "naked men pictures" in the first place.
Who searched for naked men pictures? I didn't, someone else did. I'd give his location and IP address, but that would be going too far.
sorry, I read that wrong. But it is still amusing.
After posting this, however, I have gotten at least two more hits from people seeking pictures of naked men. This is a good way to sideswipe people, apparently. I'm going to post a big essay entitled "Repent, Sinners!" and pepper it with search engine-friendly pornographic references. "Repent, oh sinner, who dares to search the Internet for naked men pictures!"
Now I need to morph back into a twelve-year-old for my next writing project, and this is definitely not an appropriate subject for that age group, so you'll have to excuse me.
Wait--you have a post on Bone?! I'm heading there right after posting this comment.
I, too, scanned the books on your shelf (I find it fascinating to see what people read). I haven't read any of the "Case for..." books--are they worth getting? Any idea how they compare to Josh McDowell's books?
I didn't find your blog via google. Somehow I linked to it from another blog on my RSS reader (I can't remember which blog--Libertas maybe? Or SF Signal or Show Me SciFi? Anyway, I'm enjoying your blog and I'm glad I ran across it....
Thanks, Cathy.
Well, the Case for... books are from my days as a Fundie. I haven't looked at them since then. I remember being sometimes impressed but mostly unimpressed. Partly it's because the author and all his sources are pretty much Fundamentalist, which means they get sidetracked into non-issues such as why different biblical texts disagree with each other on, for example, whether Jesus was entering or exiting Jericho when he did something or other. They come up with harebrained explanations for how the contradicting texts don't really contradict. Even when I was a Fundamentalist, I read things like that and said, "Who cares? Who cares which way he was walking at the time?" I don't know why anyone considers that kind of thing important, but maybe that's why I didn't make a very good Fundamentalist.
Ya know, I should really edit that post on Bone. It has at least one factual error I need to take care of. Otherwise, I think I'm still mostly pleased with it, but I haven't read it in a while, so it probably needs some editing.
You're right, it is awesome. It would just drive me nuts. I think my shelves looked like that for about a week before I sat down and sorted them. I still have mixed material on the same bookshelf, but very carefully organized. Ok, so the Tangram puzzles are beside CS Lewis, but at least the Captain Future magazines have been moved away from my apologetics section.
I had the same opinion of a Case for Faith, only coming at it as a Catholic made it more pronounced. At times I liked it, at other times I found myself at odds with what he said, knowing it was false, and finally most of the time I just didn't care what he was discussing. Although I don't feel worse off for reading them, I prefer Chesterton's Orthodoxy or Lewis's Mere Christianity.
It's been so long since I read them, I don't remember any parts I would object to doctrinally. I just remember them nitpicking over nothing. I also remember that the only non-Fundamentalist viewpoint he addressed comes from the Jesus Seminar, which is like the Dan Brown of historical Jesus scholarship. Using them as the only opposing side just isn't fair. Beating up on them and pretending you can out-argue the experts is like beating up on Jack Chick and then pretending you're some big-shot apologist. I mean, please.
What I find disturbing is that those bookcases look identical to mine - not the books on them (there's remarkably little overlap) but the bookcases themselves. Oh globalization, working so hard to make every part of the world look just like every other part...
I note with approval that you have books stacked horizontally in front of the vertical ones, but I must chide you for allowing your books to lean at an angle. The fact that they have room enough to lean means you don't have nearly enough books! Ideally they would be wedged in there tightly, with books on top of them and books in front of them, and books stacked on top of the bookcases as well, and perhaps some on the floor too.
PS: I guess Wyoming is not really that far from Manitoba, but on the other hand our bookcases all probably originated in China anyways. So I still blame globalization.
PPS: Hmm. I never, but never, hear *anything* about Wyoming on the news. In fact the other day I was trying to think of all fifty states, and couldn't, and was asking myself "What about Wyoming? Is that really a state, or just the capital of some state?"
So, it's gonna turn into a "mine is bigger than yours" thing, is it? Need I remind you youngins that I've probably got a decades worth of bookcase filling on the rest of you. I don't sort by shelf, I sort by room.
Poor Wyoming. As evidence of your decline, I remind you that you went from being the filming location of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in 1977 to that of Starship Troopers in 1997. Ouch.
Well, I have books in every room of the apartment except the bathroom, but you're probably right, EegahInc, that my collection is much smaller than yours.
Elliot, I threw certain books in front of the camera and let others remain where they were (I should have gotten my religious books out of the bedroom for this shot), but the shelves are hideously disorganized partly because a large part of my library is always inevitably in the middle of the living room floor.
Wait a minute, EegahInc, do you have books or just a DVD collection?
What's all this Wyoming talk? I'm in Utah now. The bookshelves were photographed in Utah, but the shots of me with the trees and grass were taken shortly before I left Wyoming.
I knew were in Utah now, but I wasn't sure if you were actually living there. (Your profile still says Wyoming.) Everybody knows about Utah, because of Mormons. But Wyoming doesn't get much publicity.
Ah, I see what you mean. The too-many-books are there, but just dispersed. Books DO have a habit of sprawling out all over one's home, on the floor, the kitchen table, the couch, by the bed, the toilet, etc. When that sort of thing gets bad I'm reminded of the computer fragmentation/defrag process and wish there was simply a program I could run.
I guess it's time to update my profile. Maybe I'll do that today since we're snowed in.
I've sometimes thought I should organize those bookshelves, but I know they can't hold all my books anymore. If I get rid of the couch and armoire, I suppose I could buy a couple more bookcases.
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