atoms into suns

Me: Hang on, I want to listen to this.

Small Child: Why?

Me: Something awful happened today.

Small Child: What?

Me: <pause> Some people killed and hurt a bunch of people in London.

Small Child: Why?

Me: <long pause> I don't know.

Small Child: <pause> Let's snuggle.

We're back, and boy oh boy did we have fun. We ogled mountain ranges, got caught in a sandstorm, got hailed on, and splooshed though a stream. And that was all within 15 minutes! Pictures and stories to come.

In a couple of hours, we're all going to pile in the car and zoom off to New Mexico for a wedding. I love, love, love New Mexico (or is it the high desert I love?), so I'll probably post some pictures when we get back.

In the meantime, I leave you with this quote:

To die of hunger is an intellectual absurdity and morally repulsive.

     --Bob Geldof

• Everything is gray or dark blue. Even the sky.
• All buildings are concrete or gray stone.
• Men's hair is slicked back. Women's hair is pulled back into a tight, headache-inducing bun.
• Furniture has only square corners and mirrored surfaces. It all looks uncomfortable. Desks have no drawers.
• Men and women wear identical clothing, which looks like a loose suit. They all have either exaggerated collars or Nehru collars. Gray or dark blue.
• Nothing is plastic.
• No one has friends. No one has family besides a spouse and two children, preferably a boy and a girl.
• No one eats or drinks. This is handy, because there are no plants or animals to eat anyway. (Or maybe they live on Soylent Green?)
• Regular doses of state-distributed drugs help to maintain order. Everyone takes these drugs without question.
• Everyone lives in the city, which is composed of a huge mass of high-rise buildings. People are the only living things in the cities.
• Everyone has a white-collar job.
• Everyone has steely eyes, chiseled cheeks, and twitchy jaw muscles.
• Emotion is best dealt with by splashing water on one's face, then looking in the mirror.
• The Great Leader never exists, but is only a mythical figurehead.
• Ceilings are always at least 50 feet high.
• Walls are always bare. No artwork exists.
• However, the real leader always has artwork and colored walls.
• No one has personal possessions besides clothing and a watch.
• Everything is always in perfect order, even though no one ever cleans.
• No one talks unless it's required to advance the plot.
• There is supposedly never any crime. Any criminal activity is dealt with immediately by a squad of heavily armed riot police with a really imposing vehicle.
• Propaganda is constantly playing in the background in public places and workplaces, and no one ever has trouble concentrating.
• Everyone has identical pajamas, which look nearly identical to daytime clothing minus socks and shoes.
• No one needs sheets or blankets.
• Beds are all twin-size and look uncomfortable.
• Guns apparently synthesize their own ammunition on the spot, since they go through vast amounts of it without having to reload.
• Guns are fine for most of the fighting, but the last fight is always with bare hands or samurai swords.
• No one has hobbies or interests. No one reads or watches TV.
• There is no music.
• Everyone works every day, without vacation or weekends.
• Everyone is in excellent physical condition, with chiseled muscles, despite never exercising (or eating). No one ever gets sick.
• No one has a soul or a life.
• There is an underground resistance movement that breaks nearly all of these rules and is therefore considered a dangerous menace.

Update (9 July 2005 0048): Anumod (neurohavoc) is trying to come up with movies that defy the list above.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Bibles-Oil.html

Seems someone has decided that

a passage from Genesis that quotes Jacob telling Joseph that God will give him "blessings of the deep that couches beneath"

refers to oil.

Call me crazy -- or heretical, or lacking in faith -- but I suspect God doesn't care much about oil.

My question is, if they don't find oil in Israel, will these people finally give up their overreaching literal interpretation of the Bible?

The link is to an NY Times article, which requires registration or a trip to bugmenot.