tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55561019118676239252024-02-19T00:23:07.583-06:00The OverflowA place for whatever thoughts happen to overflow from my brain onto the keyboard on a given day.Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-6111567239799566632017-06-07T09:57:00.001-05:002017-06-07T09:57:20.847-05:00Giraffe Puts His Head Through Sunroof!Short little video I took while my wife and I were on vacation in Pine Mountain, Georgia!
Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-85733577111477928682012-11-25T22:09:00.001-06:002012-11-25T22:09:33.602-06:00I Was WrongI was wrong, it isn't women that I miss while in Africa, on the EG compound, it is just youth and genuine laughter.
Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0Ybor City, Ybor City27.961432 -82.436005tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-83604212085439639002012-10-12T11:23:00.001-05:002012-10-12T11:24:00.084-05:00Crowd Full of Cowards!The original article can be found here: http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/11507-anti-johnson-crowd-is-full-of-cowards
Not a day goes by when I get a message from a conservative telling me that I must vote for Mitt Romney, not just because a vote for Gary Johnson (or anyone other than Romney or Obama) would be a wasted vote, but that we must vote for the one guyTrassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-62014927892312360862012-08-28T09:20:00.002-05:002012-10-12T11:24:38.171-05:00How About the Physics of Sex?
Physics and sex - of all the things that make life awesome, they might be my favorite.
Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-58638696613570641962012-08-26T07:43:00.000-05:002012-08-26T07:44:50.707-05:00Pre-RNC in Downtown Tampa
I don't have a ton of time to post this morning, as I'm about to walk out the door for my Level 1 Krav Maga test (nothing like 4 hours of getting your ass kicked to start a weekend). But I wanted to get some pictures put up real quick that I grabbed Friday afternoon, in downtown Tampa. These were taken about 72 hours before the start of the Republican National Convention (and the arrival of mostTrassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-46165597237384206762012-08-15T16:56:00.000-05:002012-08-15T20:23:46.827-05:00Conservapedia: Guaranteed to be 99% Bullshit
Today I want to write about a little gem-of-ignorance over at Conservapedia.com I was introduced to today.
Even their logo is ridiculous
If you've never heard of Conservapedia before, they are a fundamentalist run, Christian-right biased, version of Wikipedia. Anti-intellectual would also be a fair label to attach to their website. As should be obvious from that description - I'm Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-33200538335553252902012-08-13T12:34:00.000-05:002012-08-13T12:36:54.710-05:00Magic Underwear and Evil Condoms
These pretty well sum up my feelings towards Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate.
Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-66035475542602647312012-08-06T09:50:00.001-05:002012-08-06T15:42:26.185-05:00Curiosity has Landed!
For over four thousand years of recorded history humans have stared at a distant red dot in the night skies; We have wondered what it might be and what it could tell us of our lives here on Earth.
Starting today, a car sized, one tonne, engineering marvel will enable us to explore Mars in ways that were never before possible. We will learn more about the composition of the Red-planet, in the Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-56349218152129136852012-07-26T10:16:00.000-05:002012-07-26T10:16:02.311-05:0010 Questions The Stupid Atheists Can't Answer
We've all probably seen some variation of this graphic before:
Personally, I've seen many different versions of it, containing a varying numbers of questions, always with the overall purpose being to provide evidence for the existence of God.
While my friend, who posted it on my Facebook page, meant it as a joke (one which I definitely laughed at), the actual points that it Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-23579347457193059012012-07-24T13:29:00.000-05:002012-07-25T12:01:21.369-05:00Atheism: Some Common Misconceptions
I've posted this before (or at least something similar) but it seems that there is a need for it again, based on comments and messages I have received from people over the last 24 hours or so. Below are responses to various ideas and beliefs I seem to continually have sent my way in response to either being an Atheist or commenting on something posted by a Theist.
Beyond the belief that Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-35620635524807762252012-01-11T08:59:00.001-06:002012-01-11T09:00:21.277-06:00Today's Lesson: Children's socks were created to frustrate parents.As every adult knows, the laundry dryer eats socks. You put two matching socks in and only one of them comes out. Somewhere in between pushing the start button and the buzzer letting you know that you have clothing to fold, Sock Gnomes open a secret door in the dryer and collect their weekly sock harvest.As an adult, this is a bit frustrating and usually results in having one extra sock left overTrassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-89181735054147356002011-11-05T14:59:00.003-05:002011-11-05T15:05:28.566-05:00Learn Something New Every DayI learned something interesting last night. I was reading the copy of the constitution at the end of my Federalist Papers book. It has footnotes which tie back into specific sections of the federalist papers that were meant to argue in favor of the various constitution sections. I never knew it until late last night but fear of voter fraud isn't the only, or most signifigant, reason that the Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-27208132452819952392011-06-14T16:01:00.003-05:002011-06-14T16:03:09.497-05:00Gary Jonson GrassrootsThe grassroots effort to help see Gary Johnson elected POTUS in 2012 is up and running over at http://garyjohnsongrassroots.com !Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-25128895990140595862011-05-19T11:44:00.006-05:002014-09-25T13:52:37.020-05:00Post-Rapture Pet Sitter
Dear Christians,
As an Atheist, it is pretty much guaranteed that I won't be joining you in the rapture this Saturday. As such, I'm offering my services to all good Christians to take care of their pets after they are gone. For the low fee of $10,000 I will guarantee that if you are raptured on May 21st, I will travel to your home, any where within the lower 48 states, pick up your pet, and Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-59389120557050598032010-01-08T08:16:00.008-06:002010-01-08T08:44:43.958-06:00Techno-Chicken!Morning world, here's your daily dose of WTF? Hope you enjoy the hell out of it! If I owned a club, this would so be a nightly feature!Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-80869359246765778202009-12-08T11:45:00.004-06:002009-12-08T12:28:36.258-06:00Poorly Written Science ArticlesI posted this to my facebook wall a moment ago but it got truncated so I'm reposting it here...First, the crappy article: HereAs a fan of science and, in particular, evolutionary science this article seems to be exceptionally poorly written, especially for Science Now (I sort of expect science writing like this from NPR and other mainstream news sources who seem to think evolution is a living, Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-12095178305917989222009-12-03T07:18:00.007-06:002009-12-03T07:52:32.219-06:00Online Comic Strips You Should ReadOne thing I've noticed about a lot of my new friends here in Tampa is that they seem to not read any of the online comic strips that I so love. In an attempt to remedy this, I figured I would do a quick post highlighting some of my favorite individual strips from my favorite comics. (click on the images below to see the whole thing).First up, Penny-ArcadePenny-Arcade is probably the most popularTrassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-356434443196371492009-12-01T08:43:00.002-06:002009-12-01T10:36:24.117-06:00Life in Tampa!To say I'm loving my life in Tampa would be a drastic understatement. Besides the fact that it is just a cool place to live, with a ton of stuff to do every day of the week, I've also...bought my first homemade some amazing friendshave a good joband am dating a great girl!Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-46266678509471522352009-10-28T08:51:00.002-05:002009-10-28T08:57:01.539-05:00Woot! Pandora Widget!As most people who know me know, I love Pandora! Just wanted to write a quick post that they now have a widget that you can add to your Blogger sidebar (to the right there) by going to your profile page within Pandora. Pandora also added the ability to post what songs you are listening to onto your Facebook page, at some point in the last few days (I just noticed it this morning). Thank you, Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-27945304209896148882009-10-08T14:02:00.004-05:002009-10-08T14:44:51.628-05:00Buying a Townhome!Woohoo! I'm finally going to have a place to call my own! I've been regretting not buying my own place for about three years now, ever since I got out of the navy and settled for a crappy apartment in Edwardsville, IL because I didn't give myself enough time to find a place to buy there before starting my new job there. So finally, two jobs and three years later, I'm going to own my own place!Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-10113556501858077672009-09-16T08:36:00.002-05:002009-09-16T08:38:07.583-05:00Playing Soccer Again!I coached soccer for a bit over the spring / summer but I'm finally going to start playing in a league again, two leagues actually, for the first time in about ten years! Just one more reason that I'm loving my life in Brandon, FL so far.Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-9604172583483841712009-08-27T13:54:00.002-05:002009-08-27T14:09:29.746-05:00I Should Be Looking In South Korea?I recived the following from OkCupid about a week or so ago. Like everything else on their site the "% match" is based on my answers to various questions vs. the answers of my chosen intrest group (in my case single, bi/straight women) and what percentage of the answers match up.I didn't find anything to suprising about the U.S. Map portion. I get along well with girls the northeast and pacificTrassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-66539933182579691072009-08-13T08:14:00.003-05:002009-08-13T08:17:16.746-05:00More from the 1st annual BEB ExpoI didn't realize that these videos were online till yesterday. Having found them now though, I feel it is my duty to share them with the world. If you don't know Nate or Elliott than some of the funny may be lost to you. For everyone who does know them though, these two clips are pure gold.Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-1649749627444166942009-07-23T12:55:00.002-05:002009-07-23T12:59:34.520-05:00Flow Chart to my HeartLast post for the day, I promise. OkC selected me as one of their users to try out their newest feature.Here is the result: Flow Chart to my HeartTrassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556101911867623925.post-84711622108007218012009-07-23T11:28:00.005-05:002009-07-23T11:52:43.620-05:00New Job!I finally got myself a new job about a week or so back. It's with a company that I almost had a job with a few months back, before I decided to go to school for the summer, Rev1 out of Tampa, FL. This, of course, means that I'm moving... once again. As much as I'm looking forward to not living in Illinois any more, I really had hoped to not have to move once again so quickly. As I've said Trassinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12310188289840336277noreply@blogger.com0