Well, no, it's a problem I have with Christians because they say what Jesus says is the truth.

Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

A Christian says, "See, Jesus said it so it must be true."

A person may then ask, "Er, so why should we trust this Jesus person?"

There follows a fair bit of circuitous reasoning from the Christian that usually ends with the assertion, "Because Jesus said so."

And there you stand along side the Muslim telling us that "Mohammed is the way - because Mohammed and I say so."

And along side the member of the Peoples Temple who says "Jim Jones is the way - because Jim Jones and I say so."

And you all sound just as bat-shit crazy.

In other words, as is always the way with Christians, it doesn't matter what you believe, if you don't believe in what they do, you're damned.

I have an hour long commute by car to get to work, and again to get back home. But I chose the commute to, as said in the video, own my own home and be able to get a bigger home than I would have had I bought closer to work.

Here's why I don't consider it stressful...

I work 12 hours four days a week, so that's one less day I need to commute. I also have the luxury of being able to work from home two of those days.

On the days I do have to go in, half of the drive is back country roads which I often get to myself. I find a nice country road quite soothing to drive on. And the half of the commute spent on city motorways I reduced the stress on by upgrading to a car that does a lot of the driving for me. I set the top speed I want to go and the car takes care of the accelerating and braking and keeping in the lanes.

I load up the car stereo with audio books and have a nice relaxing drive to and from the office. Now the most stressful part of the journey is having to get up at 5am. Which really does suck.

After watching that I have an odd desire to go build a Lego model.

15.5 kHz @ 48, though there was an undertone that continued longer. I guess I'm not a teenager any more.

It's a pretty good test of my cheapo Logitech computer speakers as I got the same result with fairly high-specced headphones.

I'm not sure we should be sympathetic to convicted pedophiles, even if it is a brain disorder.

There was a scene in Nymphomaniac where the main character forces someone to admit they were a pedophile. When she's telling this to someone else later, her listener says something along the lines of "I hope you made him pay for being a pedophile."

She disagrees. When asked why, she says, "If someone is sexually attracted to children, and knows they're sexually attracted to children, but doesn't act on it because they know it's wrong and keeps it hidden, he deserves a medal."

At the end of the day, the convicted pedophile acted on his sexual desires, and forced themselves on a child. If the crossed-wire theory is true, this is akin to a man being sexually attracted to a woman who isn't interested, but forces himself on her anyway.

The problem of seeing it as a mental illness is that we're in danger of letting slide the fact that this person decided his desires were more important than the health and safety of another person. That's where the crime lies.

I think they overdid the colour grading there. It's not that vibrant.

Except a bus doesn't go where you want to go, it goes where it wants to go and you have to hope where it wants to go is somewhere near where you want to go.

And that's if the damn thing wants to go somewhere near to where you live so you can hitch a ride with it in the first place.

And all this at times that it chooses. Yeah, not much like a self-driving car. :-D

Hmmm, seems to be another in a long line of trailers that give away too much of a film's plot.

Still looking forward to watching this movie, but I think I can guess most of the story from this trailer.

I wonder if there's a correlation to age. Some of the notable action movie failures are ones made by directors that have also made notable good action movies; George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, The Wachowskis. The difference is the not-so-good movies were made when the directors were older.

A couple of my favourite authors also went this way. Their earliest books were great reads, their later offerings less so, as if they lost touch with what made their earlier works so good.

I guess sometimes wisdom does not always mean better.

Was severely tempted to buy a Phantom, but there are so many drone crash videos around, not to mention too many reports/videos of them just flying off into the sunset and ignoring all commands, never to be found, that I just said no. Especially with the cost of replacing some of those components. The camera gimbals alone reportedly cost $700 and they're the first to break in a crash.

Drones are just too unreliable for me to invest that kind of money in one.

Not as much as you might think. Half-life levels have markers at the exit points that match up with markers on the map the exit point leads to so the transition from one map to another (other than the Loading freeze) is unnoticeable. It's straightforward to just place the maps based on those markers using code.

I don't think anyone truly understands cats.

My personal opinion is this is a cultural thing rather than a tipping thing. The times when I've interacted with customer-facing Americans, from memory, it's always been a pleasant experience, even though there's no tipping involved.

On the flip-side customers in NZ restaurants are often just as unfriendly as the staff which doesn't make it particularly rewarding to serve them. I think just having a table of people who really appreciate the effort you're putting in to serve them by being very friendly back and joking with you can go a longer way than a generic tip which, as the video pointed out, seldom changes based on the quality of service.

Kiwis are just grumpy. :-)