Unexpected Benefits of Train Travel

Nine Unexpected Benefits of Trains is up over on the ecogeek blog, and it's an interesting read. No nagging! Legroom! Seats that actually recline! and...

If you want to pee, go pee.. There’s never a time on a train when you can’t stand up and do whatever you want. And that includes having a nice lunch in the dining car, which is what I’m going to go do now.

I really enjoyed a train trip my (then soon-to-be) wife and I took from Chicago to Dallas years ago, though certainly a plane ride would've been much faster. But for trips under, say, 250 miles or so, it looks like you won't loose anything but aggravation.

Maybe those proposed high-speed rail lines along the Trans-Texas Corridor are an even better idea than I thought.

Rock and Roll as Fast Food Burgers

Okay, I know this stuff is like the fast food burgers of the pop music world, but...

Journey has a new album! Time to queue them up on the old iPod along with some REO Speedwagon and Boston ;)



[and a big "whoa, dude!" to John Scalzi for the news]

QotD for 4 June, 2008

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something. --- Lyle Lovett

QotD for 31 May, 2008

Charitable feelings are of no use
without acts of charity.
Compassionate feelings are of no use
without acts of compassion.
Loving feelings are useless
unless they lead to acts of love.
The Priest and Levite may well have felt sorry
for the wounded man
as they steered a course past him,
and the Samaritan who stopped to help
may have been muttering
under his breath
at the inconvenience
the whole time.
How they felt
was immaterial to the wounded man.
--- the Rev. Br. Tobias S. Haller, BSG

[via In a Godward Direction]

QotD for 30 May, 2008

When I say that X seems to be true, I want that statement to be coherent with our observations of the reality that God wrought, not just with the reality I conjure in my head. --- D.C. Toedt

Ahhh yes, good ol' Reality Based^® Theology. Something the American Church could do with a lot more. For add'l such goodness, visit D.C.'s blog The Questioning Christian.

Classical Music LOLCatz

more cat pictures

Subtle (for a change) LOLCatz humor with that tinge of intellectual eliteness that only classical music can impart ;)

Remixed Political Poster Art

This and other great political remixes of retro poster art at the Old American Century.