Something has always puzzled me about the model for the evolution of man. Our current best-guess model based on the fossils we’ve found shows that we got taller for a while, and then the neanderthals which likely co-existed with humans got a lot bigger, stronger, thicker bones, and smaller brains. The problem is that in [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in December, 2004
This is a test…a test of the emergency blog repairing network. If this works, my sick day was not in vein….even though I did sleep from 9pm last night till 6am, and then off and on till noon. Most the time I spent very feverish, with a nice bit of chills in my extremities. Don’t [...]
Well, it appears that it is the Catlin’s turn to be sick. I don’t know why I came into work. If I don’t feel better by lunch I’m going home. I want to take Ibuprofin, but my throat hurts and I’m afraid I’ll start coughing again if I do. And once you start coughing it [...]
Well, lots to report. I’ll just run the whole trip down here. ( Christmas in California – Day 1 ) ( Day 2 ) ( Day 3, sick and still no In ‘n’ Out ) Well, that was the trip, and we get to do it all again in two weeks. Glad I get a day off for New-years eve, that [...]
I’ve been thinking about the method of scientific inquiry a lot lately, mostly due to my other post about scientists. I came to a conclusion that sums up why a postmodern is right in saying the idealism of modernism (or science specifically) is doomed to leave us holding the ball without really making life better [...]
Well, if you haven’t heard this before, you will hear it now. There is such a thing as being Catlin-esque. I didn’t invent the term, in fact, no one in my immediate family did. One of my aunts did. The term takes on different meanings for different members of the family, but mostly it has [...]
So we opened presents for eachother tonight. I came home with cinimon bread and a cinimon roll for Lauren, and a bagget for me, so I can drink wine and eat cheese. I got Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, which looks friggin awesome. Unfortunately I’ve vowed not to play it until I beat the first one, [...]
You ever notice how sometimes if you read a book at the right time it sounds waaaaay better. It kinda makes me wonder if I would have read “Purpose Driven Life” a few years ago, would I have liked it better? At any rate I’m reading power healing right now (I snagged it from Jeff [...]
This is to keep you entertained Ellen Yesterday I almost died…I spun my car around on the slick ice that formed on the street, and was staring down on-comming traffic from the lane I was in. This was better than the cross-traffic that just started moving at the light that changed at exactly the wrong [...]
I have this odd feeling of inadequacy lately. I feel like I don’t measure up in the church plant team, at my job, as a husband, or much anything else I do, even stuff I used to be good at like being a friend. It’s odd, but I think it comes from not knowing where [...]
I’ve been thinking a bit about pride lately. This is because at some point (I forget when) I decided to be completely un-apologetic about seeing myself as “good” or “talented” in some areas, and completely un-apologetic about sucking at others. I thought this was a good way to prevent denial and false humility. But I [...]
Yesterday was the Christmas party for our company. I learned that my co-workers like to drink. Big surprise right, well that means we just get along swimingly, cuz I like to drink. We went bowling, I sucked bad…the lanes were really oily, so the spin I usually (uncontrolably) put on the ball did absolutely nothing. [...]
So today I noticed that there was an icon on the bottom of my screen indicating a link to a news feed while I was checking my Gmail. I click on it, it allows me to add a “live bookmark” (like I talked about before) to my gmail account. Then live bookmark appears in my [...]
