Z.Monkey’s Blog

I have not written anything in a while so I shall. I guess I have not had anyone mock me in a while (with the possible exception of Mrs. Mucus and Captain Caveman).

This Friday the wife and I leave to spend a week in San Diego. I have meetings four days of the trip but I will be spending three days and several nights living it up. Possible excursions include: the Zoo, Sea World (across the street from the hotel!), the beach and possibly a bar or two. If you have any suggestions on place to go let me know.

After I get back from San Diego I have to plan a plugfest, which starts Monday. Goodbye weekend. After plugfest it looks like it will be backpacking time! A perfect response to sitting on my ass for a week.

Z.Monkey

P.S. I really wish they had internet on the plane, because then I could play GW! I image the lag would be terrible.

This weekend was relaxing. I went kayaking, played Guild Wars, played disc golf and went out to the Brickhouse after a delicious BBQ. It is beddar with cheddar. I did not really want to come back to work today, but here I am! Sigh. I really do not think I have anything new or exciting to add here today but I will make sure to update if something does come up.

Zipy The Monkey[DTM]

[update]

http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/mmeoww/

You may recall me complaining about this. Well I was shown another example of Intelligent Design. As my wife says, “Thinking about insignificant you are really allows you to put things in perspective.”* If something put you here with some design, then that something is to blame for all your faults, or, you are only answerable to that something. Option one allows you to not take responsibility for your actions and option two allows you to do some fucked up things in the name of something (i.e. the end justifying the means). Go weekend! Woooo.

Z.Monkey

*This is not a direct quotation and it may not represent the views of my wife. Also my wife does not have a total perspective vortex.

So we have a long weekend coming up and the weather is supposed to be nice. I guess this means that we will be doing lots of stuff. Right now I kind of just want to hang out at home, perhaps pick up Guild Wars, perhaps read, perhaps have a few drinks. But I know that there will be hiking, BBQing, flogging and the like. Perhaps, I will feel more energized tomorrow.

Also, I think my brain may already have gone on vacation. I am currently sitting here trying not to get any work done. I know that everyone here will be taking off as soon as they can… probably right after lunch. Blah.

This is something that I ran across this morning on /. The topic is something that we went over ad naseum while I was at school to fulfill my ultimate dream. It is probably something that will more most everyone I know.

It seems that our civilization is creating more and more digital documents but not actually thinking of ways to store them. Now so many documents will be lost! Woo are we! I do not really think that losing these documents is the biggest issue. It seems to me that not being able to get access to the documents right now is worse (Government secrets are bad. How will I know who to vote for if all relevant data are hidden?). What good is keeping something if no one can use it? If these institutions focus on giving access to the documents and use system redundancy I think the major issue of storing the information in an archival manner can wait. My humble opinion.

Anyways, on a completely different note, tonight should be fun as I will probably be playing two hockey games. Also, Mr. Wilson will be filling in for me at softball this afternoon.

Z.Monkey

Ah, Wikipedia! I think that this post is really just an expansion of the last post. In my readings yesterday I was somehow directed to Occam’s Razor. This has basically become the idea that the simplest theory is usually the best; assuming that it takes all evidence into account.

I think this is the theory that I, unknowingly, used when I was a kid. Back then I was often brought to Church and I was probably as strong a believer as a little kid can be (This brings to mind the Anabaptist argument that a child cannot be a believer). Anyways, I was a avid reader and, like many children, I loved dinosaurs. This is where I got in trouble; the stuff I was learning in Church did not make room for dinosaurs (many of whose remains I had personally seen). So, I took it upon myself to see if I could figure it out. I asked my mom and others whether it was possible for the 6 days of creation to actually be billions of years. I was flatly told “No”. There was no discussion, there was no explanation. This forced me to actually look at the creation myth, which I will admit is a fascinating story, and decide that it did not take everything into account and must be wrong. Of course, once you stop believing that a god did not create you, you have a hard time following any of the rituals.

I think my argument here is that creationism becomes ridiculously complex if it tries to take everything into account (i.e. God hide the dinosaur bones in the earth), therefore it is probably not correct. I do not know why this is bothering me so much lately. I think religious people just frustrate me.

Z.Monkey

P.S. ‘Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity’

I just finished reading this article in the New York Times. I really find it difficult to believe that people have such a hard time reconciling religion and science. I personally think that a god that created species based on evolution, or something similar, would be much more impressive than a caretaker god (one that makes something but has to keep fiddling because it didn’t get it right in the first place). It just seems like they are unwilling to accept anything new, which is why I stopped going to church, stopped believing in god, stopped have faith (in god or man) and started feeling better about myself. Just be a good person and stop worrying about specifics.

[Name calling time] Pigheaded nutjobs!

If evolution is not taught in school then a whole bunch of people will be deficient (sort of like I am with grammar as I was taught none until I got to College).

Some interesting resources: http://nationalacademies.org/evolution/, http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=NEWS_letter_president_03042005_BA_evolution, http://skepdic.com/intelligentdesign.html

Z.Monkey

P.S. Delicious flood of death sweeps through Manhattan.
P.P.S. Actually, after thinking a bit it seems that I could not reconcile the two. I guess I am upset that people are willing to work so hard to disregard something… isnt it easier to go with the thing that makes more sense?

I will be posting again soon with something substantial, but right now I am catching up with work and tonight I am playing softball. You will have to wait for the violent Canadian story, more photos, videos and me complaining about missing my flight.

Yatta!

Nothing like nearly getting into a fight with some drunkin’ Canadians to livin’ up you night! If you live in Korea with your brother and your brother is a spaz, do not let him freak out and start a fight!

More tomorrow… I need to drink some sweat and get some sleep. Er.. argh!

Hizzah to three hours of sleep!

Fuck off!