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Man, I love Real Live Preacher! My next longish, “serious” post will be linking there. I just read his take on FoxFaith, and simply had to immediately blog about it. Go read it! I’d love to quote his punch line, but I don’t want to spoil it for you. (This is especially relevant to, or [...]

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What exactly should one do with “strong, passionate feelings”, when they’re at odds with your friends’ opinions? Well, sometimes, if your opinions are strong and passionate enough, you don’t exactly have perfect control over what you utter… it just comes out. And afterwards you’re maybe a little concerned about how offensive you came across. Nearly [...]

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I should be away for just over two weeks. Back on the 26th. Then I should write a “review” of “An Inconvenient Truth” (well, a post about it, anyway), which I saw last Friday night (a week ago). Attended a great dinner party tonight, with Darian and Frances. Steve and Dalene were also invited. Steve [...]

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I used to be a Lost fan. When it came to the third series, though, I more or less stopped watching (I think I’ve seen the first two episodes). My interest seemed to wane, but I thought it was just generally the waning of my interest in TV series. Reconsidering, it is obvious that it [...]

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Take a look at this Hubble Space Telescope photo of a galaxy cluster. Looks almost fantastical, like an artist composited a bunch of fictitious galaxies into one pretty picture… It took my breath away! Also, read some info about the photo. I got this link from Auke’s website.

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My next race will be the Cape Argus / Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour, on 11 March. No, actually, I lie. I’m also doing the “Mountain Bike Argus” the weekend before that. It’s gonna be fun! However… I had a good base on 6 January, thanks to the Totalsports Challenge. However, since then, I’ve climbed [...]

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I thought long and hard about what I wanted to write in this post, wrote various sentences, deleted them again, and in the end, I think I’ll just stick with “this is interesting”. My thoughts on the matter will have to come out through comments or later posts. Most Americans oppose violence spurred by religious [...]

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The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence of contact with such civilizations. (That sentence was shamelessly borrowed from Wikipedia.) Of course there are many different theories trying to explain this paradox. The paradox becomes most interesting when it [...]

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