Bay of Fundie

(Image from 9Gag)
I have three quick notes worth mentioning this morning.
Note 1: Oops!
I found this amusing inconsistency over at Futility Closet:
In The City of God, Augustine raises a curious question: How did Methuselah survive the flood? According to the Septuagint, the patriarch was 355 years old when Noah was born, and the deluge occurred 600 [...]

(Super-awesome photograph by Ron Britton)
I haven’t been trying to neglect the blog lately. I was hoping to cut back to two or three articles per week, not two or three weeks per article. It’s amazing how merely re-prioritizing the blog from #1 hobby to #2 hobby has robbed it of so much attention. [...]

[I wrote this article last night, then decided not to run it. I was going to rewrite it this morning with just a mention of the carnival and a recommendation for another article.
However, the last two comments made me decide to run this as is. The article only addresses those comments peripherally, but [...]

In our efforts to make the world safe for retards, we have removed all of the fun from life. That includes the most awesome toy of all time: The Atom!

(All images from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection)

This bad boy comes to us from 1959. It [...]

[I had to run away to St. Paul, so here is an article I wrote in advance.]

[You can read Part 1 here, if you haven't yet.]
I rarely watch TV news. Much of it is very poorly done. The few good stories are sandwiched between garbage stories about celebrity divorces and the missing white [...]

[Note: I have to go to St. Paul, Minnesota on business for a few days. I’m leaving my blog addiction at home for these few days. I won’t be checking in to make sure the spammers haven’t taken over or to fish your sorry asses out of moderation. You’ll just have [...]

Charlie Butts at OneNeuronNow always knows reality when he sees it, so let’s look at his latest article, “She searched, God found”:
Lulu Auger has written a book titled Lulu in which she chronicles her encounter with the occult.
Usually when somebody is screaming about the occult, you think of Satanists and baby sacrifices and poodles (not [...]

This is my “8-hour excursion pass” from Saturday. I know time flies when you’re having fun, but I’ve never had eight hours go by in only one minute.
Let me tell you a joke. I heard this a few years ago. The joke is now outdated, but it’s still funny:
You’re a photojournalist. [...]