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Monthly Archive December, 2012

Quick Review: The Creators

At times the writing itself makes me feel less bad about my own, but it reads quickly enough and it’s quite decent if you don’t expect too much from it. Admittedly, the action is largely an excuse to get the reader to the final chapter, but at least it makes a point of the need […]

Why Santa? Why Lie to Children?

Saw a recent comparison posted by a militant Atheist between Santa Claus and God, trying to show that the two are nearly identical and doubling that with a comment stating that he makes no distinction between imaginary friends when I mentioned deities other than the Christian God listed in the chart. However, something else I […]

Phone Turns Ten!

My phone is now ten years old, which I thought was something worth mentioning, considering how quickly things break down these days. Actually, I should say I’m sure it has been in use for ten years, but there is a chance that it was actually bought slightly earlier. Don’t know for sure because I know […]

The Apocalypse Isn’t What It Used to Be

Even though, as a recent BBC Future article quite nicely put it, there are “a lot of people who don’t just think the world revolves around them, they think it stops around them too”, seeing as one in seven worldwide and one in four in the United States believe that the world will end during […]

Winter Solstice Update, 2012 Edition

That the winter solstice saddens me because I don’t want days to get longer isn’t anything I haven’t said before, for example in the similar post I wrote in 2009, which references what I had written a year before as well. It’s also a part of a longer post I wrote back in 2007, which […]