Staring at the sky…

You no longer have to be registered and signed in to leave a comment. I am however still reviewing comments before they get posted. It’s nothing personal… I just hate the clutter of spam.

For example, 2 spammers commented on my Bio with the following:

- “When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.”

and

- “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.”

Now, in response to these, I want to be clear that I am not the Messiah, and I do believe in airplanes (though I am a physicist, so I do not believe in bumblebees), so neither of these posts gets to stay, except in this format, where they will be emblazoned on my blog forever.

My theory about what separates man from the animals has always been that what we see as evil in animal kingdom is survival (well, except for cats, who are a little evil, but cute so it’s okay), whereas humans do things just because they can, for their own petty stupid reasons.

Not sure what benefit posting these two comments on my blog in an unread section would have on the world, as though someone would see it and say “Oh my God, Lord Kelvin said that? I simply must go to your porn site to see more of his foibles!” So I don’t see how this will benefit the spammer.

Maybe I’m just giving my readers too much credit, but I don’t think so.

Comments welcomed, and on this one post, I will okay any comment from any one, spammer or otherwise, provided that it doesn’t completely creep me out.

So, this has nothing to do with fiction, but as I own a few shares of Nintendo stock, I’m going to mention this anyways…

Alright, so, after 6 months of waiting, and trying, I’ve finally gotten a Wii. I stood in line for over an hour at the local Toys R Us, with some lovely people. I got up early on a Sunday for this thing.

I don’t get up early for anything on the weekends, ever since the networks stopped showing as many cartoons. If there was ever a zombie attack on a Saturday, I would likely still sleep in until noon, be attacked, and still not be ready to go out to harvest brains until late that afternoon.

So, again, with full disclosure that this could benefit my retirement fund positively, I have to say it was totally worth it. The Wii is awesome, and it was worth the wait. This would be because I’ve been too busy lately to play games.

At any rate — buy them!