reachsneaker: Destiny is overrated. Do what you want.

:IM conversation with a friend (J)

People should not be allowed to fuck with time!

:Me talking to Brandon when we’re trying to figure out how to deal with all the freaking variations in time, time zones, daylight savings and all the other variations on time.

People confuse me.

“Parapsychology is a farce and a delusion, along with other claims of wonders and powers that assail us every day of our lives. Knowing what I do, and holding the opinions that I do, has not made this world any the less exciting and wonderful and challenging for me, nor should it for you. On the contrary, to know that you are an individual not put here for some mysterious reason by some supernatural means, and that you are not protected by unknown powers or beings; to know that you are a product of millions of experiments in the evolutionary process and not the result of a seed thrown on this planet by extraterrestrials– that to me is very exciting. I am a responsible member of a race that reached out into space and walked on the moon, folks! In a small way I also walked there, and so did you And I’m thrilled about it!

Throw away the Tarot deck and ignore the astrology column. They are products offered you by {sic} charlatans who think you are not the marvelous, capable, independent being you are.

Nonsense has reigned too long as Emperor of the Mind. Take a good look. The Emperor has no clothes!”

:James Randi (“The Amazing Randi”) in the Epilogue for Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions. Well said. It’s one thing to use faith and belief as a moral-crutch. It is completely another to delude yourself into irrationality.

Education online is like sex on the Internet.

You can get in online, but it’s a lot better in person.

:Person interviewed on CBS 60 Minutes regarding online education. Having taught via distance learning, and in the classroom, I couldn’t agree more!