BigCat’s Blog of DOOM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sciuridae_jocularis/37505360/ This is the 87th sign of the Dinkpocalypse. We’re in for some serious trouble now.

There was lots of crazy excitement today surrounding my wife, her bike, and a big truck. I’ll leave that to her to detail in her own journal, and just say that she is doing OK. But, after I picked her up and we had a really nice dinner in the south suburbs, we went back [...]

This is a weird one. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/birth-control-unruh/ I’ve heard some arguments against birth control, and other arguments against just certain forms of birth control (besides just the morning-after pill). But this one is particularly out there IMO. Check it out if you have the chance. This site has the video and the transcript.

It is no surprise that if you buy bananas while they are still kinda green and then try to eat them while they are still somewhat green, they don’t taste as good as if you let them ripen longer. But, oddly when they taste the best the outside usually has enough bruises to make me [...]

You may have wondered why I didn’t blog about this before the BBC and other major news outlets picked it up. Well, to be honest, it is half disbelief, a quarter from me peeing my pants in excitement every time I think about it, and a quarter that I just have been busy with other [...]

Current Mood:  weirdSometimes I feel really oddly like a powder keg just waiting to explode. Not in a bad or angry way, but in a ball of energy, or potential good sort of way. But it is mixed with this odd feeling of inadequacy, because (to continue the metaphor) it is like I don’t know [...]

Current Mood:  scaredhttp://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5854663?nclick_check=1 Someone should do something to stop the terrible uprising from the squirrels. The horror….oh the horror.

As a midwestern male, and possibly as an American male, there are really only a few instances where it is socially acceptable to cry in public. The most obvious one is the death of a close friend or relative. Most the others can be summed up into some type of birth taking place (again mostly [...]

When I first heard of Jesus Camp I was excited to see what would come of it. I was hoping for a fair and balanced view of what Christians are doing in terms of helping kids. As I read more about it, I started to get worried that it was actually an attack piece going [...]

Dirk and Val arrived at about 9pm on Friday, and the fun just kept rolling from there on out. ( Saturday Brief recap ) ( Sunday ) ( Bargaining at Retail Places, and the blatant sexism of technology salesman ) And that about wraps up my B-Day weekend excitement.

I did a lot of bitching about Dave Ramsey and all the little things I didn’t like about his talks during the 13 weeks I was in his personal finance class called Financial Peace University, most of which was focused on his latent sexism or the over-emphasis he had on financial security (using only proverbs [...]

My birthday party is on Free Comic Day!!!! How sweet is that. I’m totally going to have to stop at a comic shop sometime before I go see spiderman 3 and pick up the Transformers movie prequal comic.

I was looking for something to fix my VBR mp3′s issues when playing them on my ipod when I stumbled upon some much more ‘high-powered’ editing tools available for linux (both programs), as well as OSX 10.4 (only ardour is available for OSX) http://ardour.org/ http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Also, I found a list of a bunch of neat [...]