100 Million Sinfest Each Day!

Tatsuya Ishida is the man. Kudos if you know who he is. If not, click here, then go here, read the comic, click 'next' and repeat until you get back to the comic which is currently on the front page. No, really, it is that good.

I started reading it sometime in 2002. It was one of those things Seth introduced me to back in our dorky days in room 17 of Willamette Hall (aka "the lab"). Amazon rankings seem to suggest that Sinfest is not as popular as Dilbert or Calvin and Hobbes. This has always surprised me for I think Sinfest is at least just as good. Nevertheless, Sinfest seems to have been gaining quite a bit of terrain over the last few years. According to Alexa about 100 million people read Tatsuya's brilliant and hilarious politically-incorrect social commentary. Maybe there is still a little bit of hope left...

Theorizing About Religion

This interview with Prof. Steven Weinberg is number 48 on reddit right now. It is getting an up vote from me! I've never heard my views on religion echoed so much by someone else's. No surprise, though, Weinberg is a theoretical physicist. :-)

I have been trying to decide whether I call myself agnostic or atheist for a few years now with the period of the oscillation between the two labels being on the order of months. A little bit because of I'm not sure exactly what I believe, but more so because of the social repercussions the later one may have. There must be some Latin America left in me!

However, after the interview I think I can safely say I know which of the two a-words I am going to start calling myself now. I'll let you figure out which, though... oh mira las cosas q me haces llajta querida!