{"id":2355,"date":"2011-12-05T08:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2011-12-05T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:10:28","slug":"bombs-and-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2011\/12\/bombs-and-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombs and Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, 30 December 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Browsing through Amazon.com today, I happened upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000P5TUKG\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=allpods.com-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000P5TUKG\">this power generator<\/a>. I think any home owner should have one and, with free shipping, this one looks like the one to buy. The reviews are excellent &#8211; 5 out of 5 stars from three reviews &#8211; and I can&#8217;t really find anything wrong with it, especially since it can be affixed with solar panels.<br \/>\nThe price is a bit more than I&#8217;d like to pay, so if any of you other homeowners out there would like to go halfsies with me, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>And here are my kids feeding some goats:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiOB6egAESo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In other news,<a href=\"http:\/\/slatest.slate.com\/posts\/2011\/12\/01\/wwii_bomb_discovered_half_a_german_city_to_evacuate.html\"> half the German city of Kolenz will evacuate this weekend due to a bomb dropped on their city&#8230;during World War II<\/a>. That&#8217;s just amazing to me. To think that the lives of thousands of people will be disrupted this weekend due to a war that ended over 65 years ago&#8230;wow. I just hope nothing goes wrong. I&#8217;d hate to see World War 2.1 start up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 01 December 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nToday I once again hosted Atheists Talk.<br \/>\nDuring part one, I interviewed Scott Lohman on the secularism of Star Trek. Scott is the chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversicon.org\/\">Diversicon<\/a>, a science fiction convention held in the Twin Cities each summer and is the President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanistsofmn.org\/\">Humanists of Minnesota<\/a>. Scott gave a historical overview of the erstwhile science fiction show, from its origins in the mind of Gene Roddenberry, to its becoming a phenomenonal hit. Scott gave examples of how religion was treated in the series, and how the show&#8217;s writers and directors were able to circumvent the network sensors.<br \/>\nIn part two, we talked about specific episodes that dealt with the themes of belief and nonbelief, including the original series&#8217; &#8220;The Cage&#8221; and &#8220;Return of the Archons,&#8221; <em>The Next Generation&#8217;s<\/em> &#8220;Who Watches the Watchers?&#8221; and &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Due,&#8221; <em>Deep Space Nine&#8217;s<\/em> &#8220;In the Hands of the Prophets,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-8r3uLbgO40\">Death Wish<\/a>,&#8221; from <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> (watch that clip &#8211; it&#8217;s great). Scott also noted the treatment of omnipotence and heavenly bliss as interpreted in the Star Trek motion pictures <em>The Final Frontier<\/em> and <em>Generations<\/em>, respectively.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/atheists-talk-cable-show-audio\/id157915351\">CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW&#8217;S PODCASTS<\/a>, although the latest episodes (including the one from tonight) are not loaded up yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, 02 December 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nI picked up Owen from school today. It&#8217;s kind of a tradition now; me picking him up on Fridays.<br \/>\nToday, his teacher told me that the class will be having a science demonstration on Thursday (the 8th) and that I am welcome to come join them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/\">You may recall<\/a> that Owen and I, along with a classmate and his dad, attended the U of M&#8217;s &#8220;Math and Science Family Event&#8221; a couple weeks ago. Well, while there, I picked up a brochure that provided information about grad students coming out to local schools to provide science demonstrations to students. The brochure said they had programs for every grade level &#8211; from Kindergarten to 12th Grade. I gave the brochure to Owen&#8217;s teacher back on Tuesday. On Wednesday, she called the number. Yesterday, they responded to her with the names of the volunteers and a date set for next week.<br \/>\nI asked the teacher if this was going to take place in the cafeteria, and she said no, it&#8217;s just a special, small program for her students, so it will be right in the classroom. Which is absolutely fantastic for the kids, I think.<br \/>\nOn the way home, I asked Owen if he&#8217;d like me to attend the program next Thursday and, in stark contrast to how I would have responded to my own parents&#8217; similar requests, he said yes.<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8211; and here&#8217;s my wife&#8217;s photo-essay of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM\">making pie from scratch<\/a> with our kids: <a href=\"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/kinder\/?p=1866\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 30 December 2011 Browsing through Amazon.com today, I happened upon this power generator. I think any home owner should have one and, with free shipping, this one looks like the one to buy. The reviews are excellent &#8211; 5 out of 5 stars from three reviews &#8211; and I can&#8217;t really find anything wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}