OMD, you guys should have seen the other message board I belong to last year, around this time. It's a hodgepodge of a bunch of individual groups (originating on Salon, mostly) but we share the same URL. Anyway, lots of peeps pop in and out of different communities, and for the most part, it's very cool. But in one thread last year, I was in a discussion about how I was moving from Agnostic towards Atheism, mostly in a joking way about how I really just needed to make up my mind. But the discussion was a good one, with a lot of people chiming in.
Then, in another, unrelated, thread, I wished everyone "Merry Christmas!!" and someone actually said, "but Java, you're an Atheist. You're a giant hypocrite for saying that and you owe all Christians an apology" or somesuch. And she was very serious. I can't begin to tell you the hailstorm that greeted her by all of the other posters. Thank goodness my internet skin is pretty thick AND she was so ridiculous that I couldn't really be bothered. She's not been back since, and she had been posting there for years.
Merry Nothingness, javachik!
I have a new netbook! It's wee and tiny and I can just stick it in my backpack and take it anywhere! It's also black, and I'm nearly positive that the one I ordered was blue, but it also comes with Windows 7 installed, while the one I ordered came with a form to send in to get Windows 7, so I'm not complaining about the color.
I interupt this mockery of Christmas to announce, they finally fixed the elevator at work. Woot. And rumor has it, I will have a phone by noon tomorrow! Progress!
Carry on with the Christmas discussions. Have we mentioned Jesus was a Jew? So, what's the harm in one Jew celebrating anothers "birthday"? What? Just an observation. I'm surprised Hils office mate didn't mention it.
w00t for Hil's netbook (does it have a name yet?) and o_a's elevator (does it have a name yet?)
For now, it's named Scops. That might change later, but I seem to have an owl theme going with my computer names, and Scops seems to fit.
The guy I was having this discussion with wasn't my officemate, it was someone else.
Skipping to the end to share the funniest wedding email ever. Billytea, of course, upon realizing that we did not yet own BSG and requesting our registry info.
It is done! Congratulations to the both of you. Please accept this gift of deceit, mistrust and betrayal, the only way to start married life.
forgive my ignorance. what is BSG?
