Monday fighter!
OK, so today’s Memorial Day, and you’re probably not working. But if you are, you need that extra mental inspiration…
Ow, my eye!
AMO’s Complete MoisturePlus, a contact lens solution, was recalled. It’s been linked with a severe eye infection.
So that’s the second time in the last six months this has happened. Interesting.
One could argue he’d make a poor preacher
Pretend you’re an aspiring leader for a religious organization. You’re 19 years old, young and energetic, and eager to prove your worth. Which of these activities would not fall on your list of things to do?
- Study the scriptures
- Learn from older, experienced leaders
- Burn your infant daughter in a microwave*
The hero of the story, Joshua Mauldin, decided on the third course of action (it’s not clear whether he bothered with the first two). I suppose an advantage to this route is that spending 5 to 99 years in prison will toughen him up for the real world.
So what’s the mother say about this? “Satan saw my husband as a threat. Satan attacked him because he saw him as a threat.” She even set up a MySpace page called “Joshua Mauldin is not a Monster” (either MySpace took it down, or I couldn’t find it. MySpace has horrible search capabilities). Undoubtedly, Satan’s next step was attacking Maudlin just before communion, making him spike the wine or grape juice with psilocybin. I’m sure the congregation would have been sympathetic.
She also “described [his] weaknesses as an undisclosed mental disability, and that her efforts to get help for him have failed.” Any church that’s looking for a preacher who’s stupid and/or crazy, look no further.
(By the way, the baby survived, but did need hospitalization.)
Houston Chronicle: Mom blames Satan for burning baby in microwave
*If the baby’s an infidel, this may be acceptable for aspiring Al-Qaeda members.
Sequels
Spiderman 3: There are very few movies in a given year that I actually look forward to seeing (and by extension, actually see)–this was one of them. Recommendation can be made very succinctly:
- If you liked the first two, you’ll like the third.
- If you didn’t like the first two, you won’t like the third.
- If you didn’t see the first two, watch them first.
It’s a shade below the “there’s nothing to complain about” level. 8/10.
Starcraft 2: If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the scoop: Starcraft 2 is a guarantee that, the day it is released, millions of people worldwide will not eat, sleep, or move away from their computers for the next 24 hours. This may not even be an exaggeration.
One of my friends was surprised–and slightly disappointed–about how similar the appearance was to the original. However, the game probably won’t come out until I’m 30, which should be plenty of time for Blizzard to tweak whatever they want to tweak. (Remember how ugly it started out?)
