Last night Chris and I went out to an early Mother’s Day dinner with my mom and Michelle. After some discussion this afternoon, we had decided on Zed451 in Schaumburg. It turned out to be a very good decision.
The first bit of goodness came when I reserved a table using OpenTable.com. Normally, reservations are just 100 points each; however, with the relative newness of Zed451, the reservation was 1,000 points. This reservation pushed me over the 2,000 point mark, the lowest number of points required to get a gift cheque from OpenTable.com.
When I got home today, not only did I find a fresh set of Yokohama tires for Chris’s car, but I also found a box from Amazon. That could only mean that I now have Mario Kart Wii! I have only been playing it for about 90 minutes, but it is loads of fun.
If you have the game, add me with friend code 2535-4100-9655. Post your friend code in the comments, and we’ll race online!
The Florida Senate recently passed SB 2692 with a vote of 21-17. One Democrat voted for the bill, while five Republicans voted against it. SB 2692 is yet another proposed piece of legislation favoring teaching creationism and intelligent design as science (what I will call CIDS). A similar bill is in the Florida House, but a bill must pass both the House and Senate with identical language before it can go before Gov. Charlie Crist (I’m hoping it’s pronounced with a short ‘i’ and not a long ‘i’).
I’m not going to pretend that I understand Florida, because I don’t. However, I also would not have pegged the home of NASA as being a state in support of CIDS. I can only hope that the bills do not pass the Florida legislature. I could not agree more with Florida’s Senate Democratic Leader when he says, "In 2008, it is embarrassing for us to be debating evolution." When will this idiocy stop?
My mother-in-law told me about this. Next week on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, Baskin-Robbins will be selling 31¢ scoops. There are a few catches to the deal. The scoops are smaller than normal at 2.5 ounces (I think normal scoops are 4 ounces), and there is a 10-scoop limit per person, per purchase. That’s more than ¾-quarts of ice cream! Baskin-Robbins will then donate $100,000 to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
Go get yourself some cheap ice cream next week. Oh, and I guess you’ll be helping out a charity.
Perhaps with the thought of putting off a few things that I have to do, I decided to rearrange a few things around the house. I moved around the garbage cans, some of the Christmas boxes and a few other things. I also made a little more room on the side of the driveway, moving a large object that hasn’t been used for several years.
On Saturday, we were planning on hitting up a few of the local car dealers to get some information about some of the cars I have been looking at over the past couple of weeks. I had planned on visiting Toyota, Honda and Subaru, then finishing the day at CarMax. Since we planned on visiting CarMax, Chris’s dad suggested that we stop there first. It ended up being the only dealer we needed to visit that day.
I’m not going to pussyfoot here: intelligent design is anything but intelligent. I have a clear bias on this one. Here are some videos that show what’s wrong with those that believe in intelligent design (not all creationists believe in intelligent design):
There are 19 videos in all. The series was created by YouTube user Thunderf00t. I’m in the middle of the third video right now, and so far I find the videos quite entertaining. I know most of the science in the videos, so there isn’t much educating happening for me.
Tell me what you think of the videos in the comments.
When I got home today, not only did I find a fresh set of Yokohama tires for Chris’s car, but I also found a box from Amazon. That could only mean that I now have
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