The PE Report - 30 May 2008
Good
Some days, I’m pretty convinced that I am the shit. Today is one of those days because I think that I cooked up some spectacular entires for the latest Cracked Photo Shop competition, which is for The Most Ill-Conceived Superhero Movie Ideas. As always, you can see them on the Cracked forum or on the Underculture bucket of all things PWOT which is right here.
On other Internet-related news, I’ve updated my list of linked Blogs on the navigation bar. As in life, there’s some creepy ones and some delightful ones but I’m not going to tell you which is which because, well, that’d spoil the fun of finding out. I will, however, point you to Smoke and Mirrors, which is a South African skeptic site. It is both educational and good reading.
Danni and I went to Mauro’s again last weekend, for the first time in what seems to be an eternity. We went there for Jame’s birthday. It was a set menu with some great wine. I can honestly say that I haven’t had such a delicious meal in a significant time. It really is good to see that they’re making an effort to bring the restaurant back up to its once awesome standards.
I had to take Anton, my house-mate, to the Livingstone Hospital, this week. And while it was overall poor and over-crowded, I did find the staff very helpful and supportive, much more so than I had been led to expect. You’re doing a good job, guys.
Bad
A while back, I ranted about greeters which still stands proudly as a woefully stupid idea. It no longer is alone in its massive retardation, however, as the Walmer 6th Avenue Pick n’ Pay now features wiper dispensers to clean the trolley handles.
I listen to Gareth Cliff quite regularly because I find him funny, well-read and in possession of both critical thinking and reason (qualities that are exceedingly rare in media personalities). Lately, though, I have found him to be stepping off into woo-woo land, like this week when he started talking about how cell phones might cause damage to your brain or testicles because it makes a noise when you put it near speakers. So far, there has been no consistent evidence to support that cell phones cause cancer or brain damage. To state otherwise is just bad science and fear-mongering.
Ugly
Sigh. I don’t even know why I am surprised any more. Once again, the EP Herald features a torrent of short-sighted, pro-Christian arguments in their letters column. It is a collection of the same old and oft-ridiculed arguments, including the one that atheists are just atheists because they don’t know enough about not-in-any-way-filled-with-murder bible, and (I kid you not) C.S. Lewis’s outdated apologetic arguments. All of this in response to the argument that you don’t need to be Christian to be moral. It’s laughable and embarrassing what our local paper considers worthwhile to spend its precious page space. I think I should start demanding a place to argue the relative differences between elves and dwarves.
In other weird news, I was accosted twice in one day, and in two different parking lots, by what I can only assume was a homeless man with bottles of soap. He approached me to inform me that I was fined for not smiling to which, of course, I just laughed and told him “no thank you.”
He was upset by this and promptly left with a frown on his face. I’m willing to bet that he didn’t fine himself.


