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But if you’re a creationist, you aren’t a scientist. Or, very likely, worth anything.

I mean, seriously.

We learned that Ray is an arsonist, as well as that I’m simple, heartwarming, and brutal.

Your Score: Ray Stantz

157 Heart, 160 Genius, 126 Cool, 160 Excitability

Dr. Raymond Stantz - (Dan Aykroyd)
Ghostbusters (1984)

You are Ray Stantz! The heart of the Ghostbusters. You’re well-meaning, smart, and you have a childlike sense of wonder about the world. You might get taken advantage of, every once in a while, but it’s okay… You’re doing your part to help save the world.

“Gozer the Gozerian… good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.”

Other scientific possibilities:

Gary Wallace

Wyatt Donnelly

Peter Venkman

Jordan Cochran

Egon Spengler

Doc Brown

Newton Crosby

Paul Stephens

Ben Crandall

Wayne Szalinkski

Winston Zeddemore

Ben Jabituya

Lazlo Hollyfeld

Ray Stantz

Buckaroo Banzai

Chris Knight

Your Score: The Arsonist

You are 61% composed, 33% stylish and 77% intelligent.

You’re not the most stylish of people, but you definitely know how to kill someone. If you were to murder someone, you’d set fire to their house, probably using gasoline and rubber to produce thick, toxic smoke that would kill the victim in minutes. This is a very… thorough… form of murder, because it also destroys loved ones and possessions.

Aaron’s parents own a couple of Subways, and they have a camera system in both. Recently, after a power outage, one of the camera computers started acting funny. Roughly every 4 minutes, the software for the capture card restarts itself.

So, I try reinstalling the software, cleaning up the machine, and so on. Next, I try it in a different machine, and voila, same problem. So, the card is likely fried somehow, but I contact their tech support, just to check.

Here’s part of the email I got back from them today.

–begin quote–

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PC Spec

Dear Sir,

Thank you for submitting to GeoVision Technical Support.

The Dell PC you have here is Dell 2400, which might not be compatible with GeoVision capture cards.

If possible, please try one of pc spec or non-Dell pc as an attachments. Sorry for the inconvenience.

*** GeoVision have an incompatible issue with motherboards, which have nVidia 590SLI/6100/6150 chipsets.

*** GeoVision capture cards are not compatible with some of Dell Dimension PC.

*** In addition, GeoVision product isn’t compatible with VIA or ATI motherboards.

–end quote–

How do you make something that has trouble with nVidia chipsets, ATI chipsets, AND VIA chipsets? The best part is that this particular Dell is an Intel chipset, which they seem to think is a problem.

So… they support SOME Intel chipsets. In any case, the card has ran in this box for at least a year and a half that I know of, so that isn’t it.

Still, as a product and a company this thing is fail.

Aaron, the most awesome roommate/landlord in the world, bought me a 19 inch Hanns-G lcd monitor, and it looks lovely.

If it weren’t for the dip in my desk, from the heavy assed CRT I had, this would be perfect.

Thanks Aaron!

Listen, don’t screw around with us, ok, just suck it up and stay married. If you aren’t married, then you better change that.

Otherwise the planet will DIE!!!!

Ahem.  I get what the study says and all, but really, I think people should just shoot each other more. We need to really ramp it up people, and also, start moving your gun arm up the slider towards geriatric. They aren’t contributing anyway.

It’s interesting that the people behind the study, while they do seem to be strongly in favor of staying or getting married, they also advocate the idea of just living with people, but the way it was presented in the various media outlets running the story is different. Cnet, where I first saw it, actually said something like “The study didn’t mention if living in sin had the same impact”, though it has since been re-written. All of these articles are written in a similar fashion though, with the headline being this inflammatory “Divorce makes Jesus cry”, and about two thirds of the way in they switch up the wording a little so that people who can’t stand other people, and lefties, either go “Oh, well, the writer of the article thinks this is ridiculous too” or they see a line about roommates and go “Ah, yes, perfectly sensible alternative.”. So, they piss people off, then placate them, with the net result being that it all seems very leading and forgettable.

I wonder if the news was ever just the news. It isn’t just that you report only facts, there’s tone to consider.  “The dirty junkie forced his way into the house” is a much different story than “Driven by addiction, the man forced his way into the house”, despite describing the same event. You almost never see a story reading “A 34 year old man broke into a Sunnyvale house” unless there’s more, shall we say emotional descriptors to follow. That’s just the written word too, if we get into speaking then there is literally a factor of tone, as in pitch of voice, as well as wording.

Blogs, like this, are different. This is me, reacting to the world. Some blogs are very factual because they focus on just one thing, like the awesome insectopod, but topical blogs are always personal reactions. This makes them interesting, because they aren’t, well, shouldn’t be designed by a sort of marketing committee, with every phrase tuned to generate a specific reaction and garner a specific audience, so that you can charge 10% more on a certain kind of ad.

The news is handled by businesses, and that’s fine, but you need to realize that the people bringing that news to you are there to make money, and there is a system in place to refine that money making. This will tint, sometimes even obscure, everything presented to you, so if something shows up that makes you happy or angry, you better damned well not take it at face value.

Wow.

I mean, holy hell wow.

Ok. So, anyone that get’s to know me soon realizes I’ve disowned my family a long time ago. However, it’s always been tough for me to really explain why, because frankly I can’t describe how messed up they all are.

Tonight, I saw a missed call from a Phoenix number which wasn’t familiar to me. I googled it. Wow.

This is my sister (biologically my aunt, yeah, long story). If that link is down, try searching online for 602-423-1244. She seems like a very busy lady, so I’m sure you’ll turn up some weird stuff.

So, I read this little gem, and my first thought was “What about human children?”. I’d have to dig up information on the actual study, but from this article it doesn’t sound like any human child/human adult comparisons were made, or human child/chimp adult comparisons for that matter.

So… you know, what the hell damned guy? It’s interesting stuff, but I don’t really agree with the presented argument of us losing eidetic memory, as a common trait anyway, because of language. That’s putting the cart before the horse, and the position is further weakened by the study results saying that adult chimps tested about the same as adult humans.

I’m calling shennanigans on this, barring further study yielding anything to offset this news piece.