Quote of the Week for 6/28/2009

“Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.”
–Unknown

Quote of the week for 6/21/2009

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
–Oscar Wilde

Proudly serving the Scurvy Space Dog community

 
 
We are all born of the far-flung debris
Of ancient lights that have gone from the night.
We and the trees, the rocks and the soil:
All brothers brewed in a cosmic cauldron.
 
We race our way along the expanse in
A seething tempest, too huge to be seen;
Strewn wide like seeds through the boundless reaches
And reunited by gravity’s [...]

Quote of the week for 6/14/2009

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
–George Orwell

Quote of the week for 6/7/2009

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole
one and prayed for forgiveness.
–Emo Phillips

Fun with the bible!

Ephesians 6:5-9
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving [...]

Lead

The gunfighters raised their own pantheon
Of martyrs and saints up to the heavens,
It was the grave alone that could place them
Firmly beyond the reach of challengers
And all their blood-thirsty aspirations.
Their tortured headstones riddled with vein
Pot-marks of bitter grapes from later comers.
Living practitioners were but touchstones,
Their cold professional blood a prized ink
For others to scribe their [...]

Over and Over–Over Again

I destroy you over and over,
Unmake you with every thread I tug;
I see you unravel before me.
Should I fear your dismantlement?
Or shrug, as I do, indifferently;
Unconcerned as a mayfly with time.
I create you again and again,
Re-thread you like an eager needle
That knows no industry but mending.
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A Walk Through The Catacombs With My Love

Ghastly, horrid, in tattered shrouds;
Their features ravaged by decay.
Though their faces haunt you at night,
They are only the dead, my love.
Lifeless they lay, fettered to doom.
Unable to taste of our world.
Though their eyes seem ever to stair,
They are only the dead, my love.
Wretched husks, devoid of all sense,
They taunt us with our mortal fear.
Though they [...]

Equations

A life’s work rendered in coarse white chalk;
A monumental undertaking
Of intricate construction, wrought on
A wide plane of slate hung from a wall.
Endless labyrinths navigated–
Thought surging through the darkened future
For the surface and promised daylight.
The numbers boggle me, leave me dry;
My math-happy friend swims their ocean
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10 things I like about christians

In the interest of fairness and amity, here are ten things I like about christians:
1 ) They don’t get reincarnated.
2 ) They’re biodegradable.
3 ) I never have to wait behind them in line at the book store.
4 ) They often kill each other.
5 ) They are flammable.
6 ) They always know where to score the [...]

Dark Matter: Fact or Fuck You?

First off, in the interest of full disclosure, let me start off by saying:  My math skills are limited.  I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide; the latter of which causes me to cry tears of blood.  I took and passed all the math classes in HS and let the information die a quick and [...]

“Iceni Queen: A Pirate Yarn” Free online novel!

 
“Being scourge of the galaxy involved more work than he counted on as a young lad; still, he did get to kill the customers and was his own boss.”
 
 “Iceni Queen: A Pirate Yarn” ©2009 Jason Maffettone
  

Plot Summary:  Julian McAllister, son of an escaped slave, is a favorite son of the Riftward Marches; a loose confederation [...]

Is SETI a Waste of Time?

The SETI program, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, started back in 1960 with astronomer Frank Drake from Cornell University, who used a 26-meter radio-telescope to examine the Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani systems.  No luck.  Today, SETI projects survey the sky for transmissions from distant civilizations.  The soviets took an early interest in the 1960’s [...]

Why I Loath Christians

In 415 CE, the Great Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground by a mob of christians led by the future saint Cyril, after they mutilated and killed its last curator, Hypatia, in broad daylight on a public street.  She was flayed alive with abalone shells.  Their reasons:  The library contained information contrary to [...]