#57264: Jesse — 01/10  at  03:15 PM
if I had a squirt of squid ink, it'd be like three whole phyla trying to have a party in my mouth.

Not counting the bacteria, who add somewhere between one and a hundred phyla...

#57266: FishyFred — 01/10  at  03:19 PM
I dub that picture "Dennis Nedry's final moments."

#57272: Johnny Vector — 01/10  at  03:54 PM

Remember, remember when Apple came out with the MacBook Pro? That was cool.

I believe the line is "That was awesome!"

Course now you can just d/l the appropriate SNL episode from iTunes and check for yourself.

And yeah, dual processors on a Mac laptop. And built-in iSight. And I love the magnetic power connector. Plus that whole Reality Distortion Field!

#57275: Johnny Vector — 01/10  at  04:07 PM
Oh, and speaking of squid... This one time? In Sagamihara? I stuck a squid in my mouth.

A real, dead, unboned, raw squid. Ink and all.

Don't ever do that.

Beer won't fix it. Shouchu won't fix it. (And mind you, the appropriate application of shouchu will fix nearly anything.) There's no way you can get the taste out of your mouth.

Technically, it may have been a cuttlefish, but who's counting? It was a little guy, just nicely bite-sized, and I figured how bad could it be? All I can say is if, in any game of "what can we get the gaijin to eat?", if you are offered little squids, be afraid. Be very afraid.

#57280: DouglasG — 01/10  at  04:30 PM
I have a Powerbook 150 I could let you have for cheap. I'd even throw in MS Word 3.0... Huh? The battery might not last very long, but what would you expect for such a powerful machine?

#57286: — 01/10  at  05:17 PM
Arrrghhh!!! You know, one of the worst thing about Sweden is an old tendency to go for consensus (much as Japan, I hear). Which makes things like separation between state and church nearly impossible.

Todays news tell me that I need to be a member of the former state church ("Church of Sweden") to stay overnight on a nice island called Hallands Vadero. The CoS has owned the island since ~ 1300.

The problem is that it's a nature reserve and so everyone should be able to stay.

The solution? The local priest says that they don't look to close. He suggests a nonchristian can find a christian registered in the CoS, and get permission to use that name.

The _priest_ wants us to _lie_ to please his religion. Arrrghhh!!!

#57289: — 01/10  at  05:29 PM
Following on from comments about whether there are any reasonable theists (ie if you include being a theist at all as inherently unreasonable!), I suddenly realised there was a fairly natural grading scheme for rationality / reasonableness:

A = Atheist (which includes an Agnostic base position)
B = Believer in name only
C = Cognitive Dissonance (Controlled by separation)
D = Dogmatic Die-hard
E = Evangelical Extremist
F = Fundamentalist

With only A to C being passing grades on the old-fashioned grading system. There was also sometimes a U for Ungraded, which could plausibly represent here those who are frothing at the mouth so much that they are Unintelligible.

#57292: — 01/10  at  05:37 PM
those new macbook's suck!
damnit, who am i trying to kid - i'm just bitter that i recently spent out on a vaio (*smacks forhead* stupid, stupid, stupid...)

#57296: DaveScot — 01/10  at  05:55 PM
Ths f y tht my nt knw, hlp t rn ncmmn Dscnt, Dr. Dmbsk's blg n ntllgnt dsgn. jst wntd t lt y knw tht w r wtchng y rbs hr nd t th Pnd's Thmb. f y r fnd mkng smrmy cmmnts bt Dr. Dmbsk r dsprgng D y wll b smmrly bnnd frm ncmmn Dscnt. rn tght shp nd I will not tolerate two-faced phonies.

[same here, DaveScot. You've been told you aren't welcome here; you can do your Captain Queeg impression elsewhere]

#57298: DaveScot — 01/10  at  05:59 PM
Fr ths f y wh my nt knw, hlp t rn ncmmn Dscnt, Dr. Dmbsk's blg n ntllgnt dsgn. jst wntd t tll y tht w r wtchng y rbs hr nd t th Pnd's Thmb. f y r fnd mkng smrmy cmmnts bt Dr. Dmbsk r dsprgng D y wll b smmrly bnnd frm ncmmn Dscnt. rn tght shp nd wll nt tlrt tw-fcd phns.

#57299: — 01/10  at  06:00 PM
PZ,
I think you need one of these T-shirts:

http://bofhcam.org/co-larters/tracing-spammers/index.html

#57305: — 01/10  at  06:22 PM
oy.

I thought Dembski's blog had been mothballed?

Apparently, not only is it back up, but it has a new head bouncer who bans people from posting there if they say unkind things about Dembski's work somewhere else on the web.

That's rather sad, I must say. Banning people for profanity or abusive behavior is one thing. Banning people proactively because they might disagree with you on your blog sometime in the future seems like an unwillingness to face any challenges to your opinions. I guess the walls of the echo chamber just moved in a little...

#57306: — 01/10  at  06:26 PM
Re Dave's preemptive comments,

"On the tight ship Uncommon Descent
You may not be allowed to comment
If you fail to kowtow to Dembski
And don't sing paeans to ID!"

#57309: PZ Myers — 01/10  at  06:33 PM
It's worse than that. DaveScot is banning people for things they say on other blogs. He's also kicked off several of the regulars over there...I think for stealing his ice cream.

He puts the capital pee in "petty tyrant", that's for sure.

#57312: HP — 01/10  at  06:44 PM
Hey, DaveScot -- Oh yeah? Well, you know, it's a shame, because I'm going to have a big kegger next weekend while my parents are out of town, and I was planning to invite you and Dembski, but, well, you know.

And you're just going to have to suck it, because there's gonna be beer and a live band and my cousin is bringing some hot chicks from his high school, and you guys are just SOL.

I just hope you "have fun" sitting all by yourselves while everybody is at like the Best. Party. Evar.

See ya in third period study hall. Dickweed.

#57313: — 01/10  at  06:47 PM
Uh wow, did any of you guys notice this game thing that's on the uncommon descent site? http://www.uncommondescent.com/darwinalia/panda-monium.swf

propaganda if I've ever seen it.

#57314: — 01/10  at  06:49 PM
PZ you banned me from PT.

#57315: — 01/10  at  06:51 PM
How can you blame DaveScot for being intolerant?

#57316: Wally Whateley — 01/10  at  06:52 PM
Now I wish I could read what he said. I take it it's something like "You guys suck, and God -- umm, I mean, the Intelligent Designer is gonna git ya for making fun of Dumbski. Yer all banned from my gets-no-traffic site, so there. I WIN, INFINITY PLUS ONE, LOLLERZ"

Am I close?

#57317: — 01/10  at  06:53 PM
For what it's worth, the mouse on fire incident is an urban myth.

#57319: HP — 01/10  at  06:59 PM
Hmm... DaveScot got disemvoweled while I was writing my snarky reply, which is now just sitting out there without any context. Had I known the original wouldn't stand, I probably wouldn't have bothered.

Did I mention that I got inked by a squid last summer? It was a real treat in my normally land-locked, indoor life. It was a little squid, no more than 10 cm, but it still got ink everywhere. He grabbed onto my finger and bit down. I went "Yeow!" and shook my hand, and he let loose with the ink. I made him into a sandwich later, so I guess we're even.

#57320: — 01/10  at  06:59 PM
yes, I caught the bit about it being on other blogs. In fact, you might want to follow the links through to see what was posted at Panda's thumb that was considered so offensive. Apparently merely disagreeing is all it takes.

#57321: — 01/10  at  07:00 PM
An intelligent design lawsuit for California!!

Yeah!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/10/state/n160010S80.DTL

#57322: — 01/10  at  07:01 PM

Fr ths f y wh my nt knw, hlp t rn ncmmn Dscnt, Dr. Dmbsk's blg n ntllgnt dsgn. jst wntd t tll y tht w r wtchng y rbs hr nd t th Pnd's Thmb. f y r fnd mkng smrmy cmmnts bt Dr. Dmbsk r dsprgng D y wll b smmrly bnnd frm ncmmn Dscnt. rn tght shp nd wll nt tlrt tw-fcd phns.

What happened to the vowels?

#57323: ajmilne — 01/10  at  07:08 PM
Hey, DaveScot -- Oh yeah? Well, you know, it's a shame, because I'm going to have a big kegger next weekend...

(Holds sides...)

HP, that was positively artistic.