Kail Panille

• 17:56 Rapture for nerds (scroll down to the second footnote): bit.ly/11tD42 #

• 16:57 Laptop linux brain transplant... success! IT LIVES! (Also, it tweets, but that doesn't get the allcaps treatment.) #
• 16:58 Had a great idea for a sport come to me in a dream. Competitive Civil War Reenactment. The time traveller who wins it the fastest wins! #

• 18:33 Watching a potential tornado in HD and twittering about it. Futurey. #

• 16:30 @OhKansas I feel your pain. Flute's one of the only instruments I can almost never stand, and badly played flute is just hell. #

• 12:57 I've decided to live each moment like it is my last, starting now. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! #

• 11:37 "Mister Torquemada, I'm from the Inpector General's office, here to look at your-" "WHAT? _NO ONE_ INSPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!" #

• 17:33 Out of context: J: What are you laughing at? A: Those homeless people on the left. #

• 14:20 Volunteering at the health and wellness fair involves nonstop sitting and snacking. #

• 16:35 "The trick is... To know when to be vague and when to be specific." Thanks, conflict management chapter of my communications textbook! #

• 16:55 Dear phone system hold message guy: We know what "website" means, you don't have to prepend "Internet." #

• 18:51 So, the episode of Dollhouse that's supposed to turn everthing around guest-stars Patton Oswalt. *pause* *pause* *pause* *shrug* Ok, I'm in. #

When religion goes awry or becomes corrupt, it often results from or results in an emphasis on one of those two aspects to the neglect of the other. Corruption A: Emphasize the hope for eschatological justice to the neglect of justice in this world and you end up with the "pie in the sky when you die" opiate used to justify every oppressive caste system from Bombay to Alabama. Corruption B: Emphasize justice in this world to the neglect of the hope for eschatological justice and you begin thinking that you can impose perfect, infallible justice here in the temporal realm -- an idea that quickly gallops off into oppressive theocracy of one form or another.

Our history books and newspapers are so full of examples of both of those errors that it can be tempting to think that maybe religion itself is the problem. If we could just stamp out religion, we could end oppression and establish perfect justice. See again Corruption B above.

• 10:57 Our FLGS was robbed. Again. Same guys, looks like. They stole the same stuff, just more of it this time. #

• 18:16 Slumdog Millionaire tonight at Liberty Hall! #

• 15:18 tinyurl.com/bcakrs -- Geeks, your duty is clear. #

• 12:00 Got two gifts today: one from a friend and one from a soulless corporate bureaucracy. Thanks! #
• 14:54 Dear computer retailers: I get it, parallel printer cables are old tech, and I am worthy of scorn for needing one. *finger* #

• 18:09 Going to string practice tonight. I will need lots of practice if I'm going to become the next busking billionaire. #

• 13:31 Just got back from lunch at Mongolian BBQ, glad I didn't have to setle for something lame like pitas. #

• 22:54 Decided to go ahead and enable my phone for Twitter, since im updates don't look like they're coming back any time soon. Nineteen chars left #