BWOAK 2.0

I thought this was pretty nifty. The selection above was my personal favorite.

Maybe a gander at the gallery will have you selecting another.

http://nhatkyviet.com/2007/12/15/coffee-bukkake-man-arrested

This led to the arrest of 26 year-old Yoshiro Sumiyama, who admitted attacking the girls. Sumiyama told police that he was irritated after having been dumped by a woman and carried out the spitting attacks to relieve some stress.

Don’t count on seeing a Venti Bukkake at Starbucks anytime soon.

Austin Man Marries Plasma TV to Spite His Wife

Is there a scientific name for this kind of behavior? Technophelia perhaps?

Hatton explained:

“She would always say, ‘You love that TV so much, the two of you ought to get married.’ So I took her up on it. I says to her, ‘Well maybe we will get married.’ And she’s all like, ‘Yeah, well I don’t think you have the guts.’ And I’m like, ‘Just you wait and see lady!’ And one thing led to another, and now I’m married to my TV.

He showed her. The only problem is if the TV wants to be away from him, it can’t have him sleep on the couch.

They hit the nail right on the head with this one.

How to Shower: Men vs Women

Here’s a good gift for the Mario enthusiast.

$13.00 @ http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00396

I stumbled across this today. It took me a second to realize why Garfield wasn’t saying anything.

I got them from this website. There’s a whole bunch more where that came from.

Exhibit B

…in case there was any doubt that it wasn’t just me.

I just thought this was a pretty awesome version of the Mario music we have all come to know and love from Super Mario World. Simply put, it kicks ass. Here’s a sample:

The full version can be found here.

So I don’t have any clever links to post up (yet) in the style of my two hetero-life-mates (yay double hyphenation!) but I do have something to discuss.

Mainly that I’ve been reading this book called “The Tao of Physics” and it’s interesting, but some people find it controversial.  The basis of the book, is that it is “an exploration of the parallels between Quantum Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, which to me sounds more of a pondering or…and exploration rather than a diehard “this is how it is!!1″ mode of thought.

Most people who’ve refuted the book in my Religion & Science class this past semester, used phrases to suggest they were of different ballparks and shouldn’t be compared. Well I doubt that if they were really two different ball parks, there would be any parallels, let alone enough to fit into a book.

The main issue people have is that science feels comfortable, because there are “results”.  Though the difference between science and mysticism/spiritualism (not talking about organized religion, that’s all about politics) seems to be that science takes a phenomena and studies it to find out “who, what, where, why, when and how” essentially the physical material data whereas mystical/spiritual thought tends to lean in the realm of accepting the phenomena as is.

More to the point, science seems to focus on the quantitative reasoning behind things while spiritual/mystical tends to focus on the qualitative.

Let me say however, I’m not preferring one over the other. At this point in my learning, I’m all for the idea that Science and Religion can learn a lot from each other.

Isn’t it odd though, that the Newtonian model of which we still learn in school (do we? it’s been so long since I’ve had a science class that dealt with it) is no longer the prevailing theory? Quantum physics has been around for a while, but the more science digs into the nature of reality (cause let’s face it, that’s what quantum physics digs into) the more the scientists realize that nothing it solid and mostly everything is empty space.

The atom is about 99% empty space, and then to think of the electrons and protons and whatnots being made up of smaller particles that seem to bend to different laws than we are familiar with has a sort of poetic balance to it. As far as you can stretch your imagination to the infinite cosmos the same can be said for considering the infinite microcosm of quanta. We have a hard time envisioning the infinite either way you look at it, and paradoxes seem to be the recurring theme when dealing with questions of the infinite.

Do I believe that every Eastern Mystic is a quantum physicist? Absolutely not.

So I believe that quantum physics is a replacement for mysticism? Nah, that’s pushing it.

I do believe, however, that quantum physics and mysticism are relating to the same ultimate questions, just in different ways, and though they are different, people could learn from the otherside of the fence once in a while.