My Happy Medium

Sony loves to shoot themselves in the foot sometimes, so its good to see them finally doing something right for a change.

It finally rumbles!

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I like the caturday threads on fark. How can you not laugh at this:

The rest of the world welcomes you to join us.

Système International just makes sense.

First of all, its not my father, but that doesn’t mean I do not admire him.

Anyway, a while back I was having dinner with my friend Don. We sat diagonally across from what I gather was a father with 2 young children, about 4 and 5. I really was amazed at how well their dinner went. My mental image of dining out with kids is usually of unending high pitched wailing. As honoured SNL philosopher Jack Handy said it, “The face of a kid says it all, especially the mouth part.” Nevertheless the kids were well behaved and sat through their meal nary a shout.

What really amazed me was how much time and devotion the dad put into his kids. He attentively went through the colouring books with both his kids, and when the meal came, took his time to divide the meal between the two of them, making sure they were eating and not playing. He basically served them hand and foot for the entire meal. Now I know this is really what is expected of a parent, especially one without the help of their partner, but I guess it was a realization of how much goes into being a father. I only hope I could demonstrate such patience and love.

Those who know me know I’m not a theist by any means so I found this link a good read. The author responds to many typical questions a religoius person has for an atheist.

An Introduction to Atheism (1997)

EDIT: I just realized my last few posts have all been about religion. Heh.

I found this on reddit today: http://shatterthefog.blogspot.com/2007/07/elephant-in-room.html

Its an interesting read on third world countries and their high birth rate. I sometimes forget people in poorer countries have no access to birth control at all. So the question is why not?

I don’t agree with everything he says in his post, but I do agree to some extent that religion has played a role in preventing people in these countries to have access to sex education and birth control. These are the kind of things that bugs me about religion; we really don’t have room for these archaic ideals that are diametrically opposed to a better modern standard of living.

Having written this, I am reminded of the following: (Visit the original here: http://www.bizarroartist.org/gallery/bizarro/left-handed.jpg/view)

This was too fregen funny. Original here.

Rachel got some amazing seats for The Phantom of the Opera tonight, we were 4 rows from the front and when the chandelier was coming down, it was pratically right over our heads. We could see all the expressions on all the performers, including their microphones haha, in the end of one scene, I could literally feel the heat on my face from the pyrotechniques; we were THAT close.

We got Sarah Lawrence as Christine Daeé instead of Marni Raab whom is the regular and has performed the role of Christine all over the world, but we both had no complaints for Sarah, she was amazing. We got the good Phantom - John Cudia - which I felt was almost a bit too powerful in Music of the Night (maybe his mic was just turned too high) but other than that, we enjoyed his performance very much as well.

Such an awesome show, I hope it comes back soon. Thanks Rachel!

Oh, I got the CD

Some people know I’m always curious about cultures, middle eastern culture is one I particularly like to learn about so I read this article right away when it appeared on digg.

In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil

The American female author to a Saudi woman:

“Maybe you don’t want to vote,” I said. “But wouldn’t you like to make that choice yourself?”

The response:

“I don’t need to,” she said calmly, blinking slowly and deliberately. “If I have a father or a husband, why do I need to vote? Why should I need to work? They will take care of everything.”

I really really don’t fregen get Islamic culture.