Walking the fine line between code and cooking since 2003
Indiana Voters who are completely uninformed about even basic candidate knowledge You know, people are people wherever you go. But having said that, sometimes I'm still happy as hell not to live in Indiana anymore.
After 10 years I've finally found my friend Cao Xuping. Cao and I met at Clayton's restaurant in Valparaiso and became quick friends. Unfortunately we lost contact over the years and her contact information was lost permanently and the only email address she had for me was disabled. Through some nimble searching I finally found a working email address for her and we are in touch again. Cao is a professor at Zhejiang University in Zhejiang near Hangzhou on the Yangtze River. I have never been there but it is...
I was looking at the arguments for the new Intelligent Design movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed when the complete misunderstanding of the theory of Natural Selection just about pushed me over the edge. I am always astounded that people continue to look at science as some sort of boogie man that's coming to take away your god. As usual, Carl Sagan summed it up best: How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger...
I'm blown away that they actually filmed this much. I'd figure it would be chopped into pieces.
So there are a lot of things better now. For one, my father is starting to feel better after bypass surgery number 2 last week. I'm still unsuccessful at getting him to go to a real hospital but at least he's doing better. And I, amazingly enough, have been out of restaurants for over a month now and I'm not looking back. For the first time I really have a life and am enjoying every minute of it. I've tried a couple times before to escape but it never seemed to stick. This time I think it is. I'm getting very...