Eric Scheske

I saw Noah last night. I give it a "6." Enjoyable enough, but certainly worth waiting for the rental. And of this I'm convinced: All the "controversy" surrounding the movie was nothing but a PR stunt. The movie was simply silly. "Methuselah Meets

H.I.F. You judge a tree by its fruit. The inverse is equally true: You can judge fruit by its root. If you have a bad root, you probably have bad fruit. I commented on this a few weeks ago in connection with Gore and Maciel [https://thedailyeudemon.com/

H.I.F. I find this fascinating . . . and flattering: "A group of Czech researchers has conducted a study in which they determined that the perceived intelligence of men correlates strongly with their actual intelligence ”“ but the same doesn't hold true for women." Link [http://www.theregister.

Spritz This might be the most exciting thing I've seen on the Internet in five years: Spritz reading [http://www.spritzinc.com/#]. By breaking down reading materials into one word at a time, the software allows you to read 500+ words a minute with virtually no practice or

A new study on unemployment shows that it is now harder to get a job at Wal-Mart than to get accepted at Harvard. Of course, it's a lot easier if your dad went to Wal-Mart.

If you like goofy humor (the last thirty seconds isn't very funny, but the first part cracked me up):

H.I.F. And people wonder why I resent girls' athletics . . . and the federal government: "The U.S Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has forced a school in Michigan to tear down a brand-new set of bleachers for its boys' varsity baseball team

H.I.F. 10 Total Tyrants From The History Of Rock And Roll [http://listverse.com/2014/03/28/10-total-tyrants-from-the-history-of-rock-n-roll/] . Sample: "In his desire for control, [Colonel Tom Parker] acted against Elvis's interests. For example, Parker (who was

Gardening Update What's a gardening nerd to do? I plant a lot of sweet peppers. It's the only food that almost everyone in my family enjoys, plus they thrive in self-watering containers. Because I have an army of both (family members and self-watering containers)

A Random Passage "We lose ourselves in crowds, yet a terrible fear of anonymity haunts many Americans: we want to be known, remembered, thought of, and except in the tawdriest sense this is only possible in small communities and networks of families. Those cut off from such possibilities are