The Happy Moron

I want one.
Why not? I think the advent of wireless keyboards and mice make it practical and my cubicle is exactly the right size.
Let’s do a comparison:

Chair
Hammock

Is expensive
Cheap, Cheap, Cheap!

Has fiddly levers that break
Lever free since 400BC!

Makes my back hurt
Provides safety from disease, insect stings, and animal bites. Very comfortable, too!

Is made of awful manufactured [...]

What does it mean for a country to be Christian? Can you even call a country, ‘Christian’?
Well, a country doesn’t exist. It’s not a real thing; it’s just a thought we made up. So I guess a country could be Christian if we believed it was (depending on who we are).
That being said, a church [...]

No new Gretel episode yesterday. There is another piece, though.

And an alien spacecraft appears above the earth.
The earth prepares to welcome our galactic neighbors. Global leaders come together to prepare a landing site, complete with red carpet. They handpick a team of ambassadors from around the world.
The media has a field day. Headline writers work overtime.
BBC: A Bold New Era for Humanity
NYT: We Are [...]

I’m trying out a little game I thought up. The game is to retell a fairy tale or children’s story while omitting one of the major characters.
This is Hansel and Gretel, and we’ve lost Hansel… just not in the woods. This is Part V; Part VI arrives next Monday. Part I. Part II. Part III. [...]

… but it’s the comments that break my heart.

Is nice because it’s simple. But when it fails, it can fail big.
Yesterday I took the train at a different time than I usually take it. It just so happened that this was the rush hour train and so we were all tightly packed – squish, squish, squish.
Given the abnormally high level of solidarity on [...]

From Luther’s Commentary on the Galatians:
Train your conscience to believe that God approves of you. Fight it out with doubt. Gain assurance through the Word of God. Say: “I am all right with God. I have the Holy Ghost. Christ, in whom I do believe, makes me worthy. I gladly hear, read, sing, and write [...]

I’m trying out a little game I thought up. The game is to retell a fairy tale or children’s story while omitting one of the major characters.
This is Hansel and Gretel, and we’ve lost Hansel… just not in the woods. This is Part IV; Part V arrives next Monday. Part I. Part II. Part III.

If [...]

It’s too bad he’s evil. This hack is marvelous!
Explanation of the hack for the non-technical:
Have you ever noticed that after you visit a link, your web-browser displays it as a different colour? (The default colors are blue for unvisited and purple for visited.)
Well, the hack is to write a web page that programatically inserts a [...]