still very much alive....

i took a small break from blogging to do a little introspection....

turns out am a big deep empty hole... kidding, i am star stuff! ...working on some new shit.

i hate you if u do this!

The Dragon In My Garage by Carl Sagan

"A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage"

Suppose (I'm following a group therapy approach by the psychologist Richard Franklin) I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you'd want to check it out, see for yourself. There have been innumerable stories of dragons over the centuries, but no real evidence. What an opportunity!

"Show me," you say. I lead you to my garage. You look inside and see a ladder, empty paint cans, an old tricycle -- but no dragon.

"Where's the dragon?" you ask.

"Oh, she's right here," I reply, waving vaguely. "I neglected to mention that she's an invisible dragon."

You propose spreading flour on the floor of the garage to capture the dragon's footprints.

"Good idea," I say, "but this dragon floats in the air."

Then you'll use an infrared sensor to detect the invisible fire.

"Good idea, but the invisible fire is also heatless."

You'll spray-paint the dragon and make her visible.

"Good idea, but she's an incorporeal dragon and the paint won't stick." And so on. I counter every physical test you propose with a special explanation of why it won't work.

Treatise on Morality... . BRILLIANT!

random quote....

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

Ground Zero Mosque... just had to share this....

"Like all decent people, I am horrified by much that goes on in the name of 'Islam,' and I consider it a duty of all moderate Muslims to recognize that many of the doctrines espoused in the Qur'an and hadith present some unique liabilities... at this moment in history. Our traditional ideas about martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, and the status of women must be abandoned, as they are proving disastrous in the 21st century. Many of Islam's critics have fully justified concerns about the state of discourse in parts of the Muslim world--where it is a tissue of conspiracy theories, genocidal ravings regarding the Jews, and the most abject, triumphalist fantasies about conquering the world for the glory of Allah. While the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity also contain terrible passages, it has been many centuries since they truly informed the mainstream faith. Hence, we do not tend to see vast numbers of Jews and Christians calling for the murder of apostates today. This is not true of Islam, and there is simply no honest way of denying this shocking disparity. We are members of a faith community that appears more concerned about harmless cartoons than about the daily atrocities committed in its name--and no one suffers from this stupidity and barbarism more than our fellow Muslims. Islam must grow up. And Muslim moderates like ourselves must be the first to defend the rights of novelists, cartoonists, and public intellectuals to criticize all religious faiths, including our own."

- Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. (he is the moderate muslim spear heading the building of the 'ground zero mosque' as it is affectionately known).

old english, new english....

irony

wat does your email address say about you?

this is you, this is me, this is us, is this the way we love?

on my home i happened to chance upon this mad woman, my first instincts were to swerve away, obviously to avoid the oncoming blast of horrid smell, and the odd chance of psychotic violence directed at my person (more stereotyping...i know!). As i made my quick turn, something odd and unexpected happened, i looked at her face & all i could see was a mixture of fear and desperation. i tell you, it broke my heart nearly brought me to tears, she was more afraid of me than i was of her. (i felt like the villainous feign she thought me to be).

her suffering touched me, it reached out and touched me! i felt i wanted to die. 'This is us, this is how we love' (a song by Keyshia Cole playing in my ear buds on my ipod). i found myself asking, IS THIS US, IS THIS HOW WE LOVE?

i couldn't help her (no idea where to start) i can't even begin to imagine the shit she has been through. i left religion primarily because i could not reconcile how a loving kind god could be so uncaring, how he could allow so much suffering. if he exists, he intentionally created a design so flawed it was always destined to fail. (just doesn't make sense).

wait a minute, i thought your default line was there wasn't insufficient irrefutable evidence to support the existence of a god or gods? well that's part of it, but to be 100% honest with you, my de-conversion arose from my heart, my feelings, my simple questions, my reason & my logic. most people claim that atheists are the guys who got the short end of the stick, the ones who god didn't allow to win to the Lottery. (mistreated and ignored). well you couldn't be further from the truth, speaking for myself, i won the freaking Lottery. (have pretty much all i need and some to spare). if anything i should be very happy, thing is, i wish everyone could be as happy as me, lucky as me, sheltered and protected as me. but alas, they are not. (such is life i guess).

i can not and will not shield myself from their suffering. empathy is something that defines us as human beings. i cannot help but find myself grieving when i see others suffer, i feel their pain, i wish i could help, i wish i could make their pain and suffering go away. all i can do is try, all you can do is try... all we can do is TRY.

this is you, this is me, this is us, is this the way we love?

blogging....

click here for original.

he he he....

adapted from; http://xkcd.com/683/

Kimansulo Un-special

The Lure;

Man Philo, this place is amazing! These chics do really kinky weird stuff on stage. One day one squatted and pulled her ‘stuff’ all the way to the ground and released it and it snapped back like a rubber band! and get this after dancing for a little while she wet herself thoroughly with cum. (I figure she pissed, wat do I know?)

Gwe! This other time, chic comes over to our table and we were like, wah! No money! So she picks up my club beer bottle (the long neck 500ml one) and squats a little and pushes the entire thing up her meow!

(At this point am staring at Hassan with a look of shock and bewilderment! Then it hit me… wait a minute, isn’t that where babies come from you dimwit! So of-course the bottle can fit! But why… oh why?).

You’ve got to admit, Hassan is really good at baiting. (fine I was officially curious!).

Taking the bait;

After a lot of coaxing and contemplation (looking for a hoodie, baseball cap and dark sunglasses for the nite) I finally decided am going!

My good friend Hassan organized for us along with a number of other friends to visit this little dingy bar on rubaga road. (name withheld for obvious legal implication, this shit is still illegal in Uganda).

The show was by ‘Desire angels’ or some awkward name of the sort, can’t really remember. (Guinness is good for the soul but treacherous to the memory). The fee at the door was a measly 3,000 UGX (about a 1 dollar and 50cents) that should have been my first daunting warning of things to come. (cheap tends to beget cheap! I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best).

The Show;

It all started well, poorly lit, fairly clean loos and a really simple interior (plus a fussy bouncer who led me out coz I was making a call while inside) and the odd MCs who in-spite of being louder than the resident Muezzin 1km away still managed to be un-inspiringly inaudible. (oh wait, it was a Luganda only event… wah! Am fluent and I still couldn’t understand what they were saying half of the time).

Around 11pm a lady clad in a tight black number hit the stage. She danced and mimed (more like motioned her lips) to some salsa song, nothing memorable (well she did have all her clothes on!). However what I did find most peculiar was the rosary in her hand (kinda too late to be repenting don’t you think? ….nice stage prop!). just I was still grumbling and mumbling to myself at the obvious lack of nudity (yelling REFUND! REFUND! in my head), the power went off. The other customers seemed rather smug about it, in-fact almost patient and understanding. (Perhaps it was all part of the act…).

After what seemed like an hour they finally diagnosed the problem, ‘faulty wiring that couldn’t be identified!’ Just perfect YAY! So much for the curtain raisers (don’t these chumps do rehearsals?).

Another 30mins or so, they got everything fixed up and running, FINALLY! Next act can only be described as SHOCKING. This baby hippo hit the stage, am not trying to butter things up. Lads and Lasses, this madame was the re-definition of BIG-BONED! Everything about her body was in more than ample proportions. Though I must add, her composure and confidence on stage were all together quite impressive and admirable. (she knew her shit…!)

She went on to wow the crowd with not so careful dancing and undulations of her more than busty figure. She jiggled about and made a concerted effort to do the dutty whine. I did find her performance mildly erotic, especially when she’d squat with her thighs wide open revealing a well maintained poontang. (well at-least she took the time to shave).

What you don’t know, can hurt you.

Scuffle, Random shouting, Flash of a phone, MC shouting in luganda- ‘if you take pictures, we take your camera!’ Looking carefully it was really close to where Sam and Ritah were sitted.

I figured better to check up on them and make sure everything is copacetic. I arrive to see Sam in full bitch-fit mode! Whoa…! You do not want to mess with this lady, she can definitely hold her own!

Turns out, you’re not allowed to take pictures (it’s a PSYCHIC INVISIBLE NOTICE written on the door as you get in. how could she have missed it!).

but a nearby customer was kind enough to warn her and she quickly deleted the photo. Apparently the MC’s inability to make coherent conversation was the least of his impediments (he was high as a kite!). So he comes shouting at Sam, in coming the bouncers who literally man-handled this fair damsel (one un-necessarily pulling her by the arm). We tried to help quell the situation, but the bouncer was being most unreasonable, rather than lead her out, for some strange reason the numnut bouncer wanted to take her to some back room. (the picture was deleted, there was no notice to warn the patrons… and his handling of a lady like that was just crass. Sam was not happy at all… with very good reason too!).

Our numbers helped, soon they realized she was not alone, plus she also threatened to call the police. (mention the police and everything changes). The manager owner actually came to calm Sam down personally. On the upside, he made the offending MC and bouncer come back to apologise (halfwits!). he even threw in a VIP performance (free) for us on Monday night. (Alas the damage was already done, personally I don’t think I’ll be going back to that place anytime soon).

ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. (a little optimism never hurt anyone).

HOW WAS IT?

Horrible HORRIBLE HORRIBLE! The models on stage were nothing short of FUGLY. The waitresses were way prettier than the dancers on stage. The acts were poorly planned, robotic, and lacking in any artistic form or character. The crowd was ur typical taxi drivers, boda-boda guys, conductors, frustrated husbands/bachelors and the odd slut (excuse the stereotypes but am just telling it like it is). The beer price was friendly (the bar man was nice to me, the first Guinness I bought was flat and he readily swapped it without a fuss). The toilets were clean (then again, it was still rather early). The security leaves a lot to be desired, the service was shit, the bouncers psychotic and the MCs incoherent probably rabid.

The experience was a bit of a culture shock for me, but I can not lie to you, I was fascinated by Uganda’s booming sub-culture. (I didn’t expect to find that many people there, believe you me, it was packed like hell!)

K.I.S.S ...(keep it short & simple...)

from; xkcd

don't be so quick to judge....

why atheism? why not Islam? or 'worse', couldn't you just have become a Jehovah's witness?

It amuses me the way most people are typically more comfortable hating what they do not understand as opposed to trying to learn more about the issue in-order to understand. (i suppose such is the appeal of ignorance).

I did not choose to be different, i simply have always been different (perhaps it's a genetic disposition of some sort).

Even as a theist i always had questions that no pastor, bishop or apologetic could reason out. i mean with all the evidence how can one be a scientist disregarding evolution all the while proceeding to make postulations and draw conclusions using axioms upon which evolution is based? (how can you not practice what you 'teach'?)

Self-contradiction hurts. (if you know me you probably have noticed the 'just believe' line has never been enough, i simply have always needed more than that). I simply found to have less confusion i had to excise the source of my confusion and contradiction. (religion... all of them).

I have found i am now much better suited to function with this new found clarity. ( a naturalistic world view consistent with logic, reason, and rationale based on critical thinking).

what is it like being an atheist?

Well it sucks! (sometimes...) i spend half if not sometimes the whole day battling ignorance, spreading truth, logic, reason, and common sense. i labor to share the benefits of critical thinking and scientific reasoning to a hateful judgmental crowd.

Once in a while, it's nice when i meet an open-minded theist who in-spite of their worldview still manages to formulate wonderful ideas. (once in a blue moon!) more commonly than not am treated to TROLLS, dimwitted numnuts and the odd emotional nut-jobs. it's amazing how many people can be interested in 'saving' you.

With time i have come to realise most people honestly believe beyond a doubt what they are doing is right and correct (true?), perhaps it could also just be them trying to pass on an innate fear for which they have no rational explanation for. (thanks mom for caring...).

Goes without saying, when am not so busy being an atheist, am busy working, studying, living, loving, learning... sharing and caring. (my world-view is just a small part what defines me as a person).

noah's ark discovered....

and my response.... AGAIN? (wasn't it discovered already and then refuted... oh well, here we go again).

here is a narrative from PZ Meyers a science blogger i luv to follow....

If Fox News and Wing Nut Daily say it's true, it must be so

Posted on: April 27, 2010 3:52 PM, by PZ Myers

Ho hum. I'm getting lots of mail about this ridiculous story on WND and Fox claiming that Noah's Ark has been discovered atop Mt Ararat. No, it hasn't. This is yet another mob of incompetent evangelicals hiking all over a big hill in Turkey and credulously interpreting every rock formation and every chunk of wood as proof that they've found a big boat. It's the same BS Ron Wyatt was peddling for years. It's always the same stuff: distant photos of a rock formation that is vaguely boat-shaped, but nothing close-up to suggest that it is anything but a rock formation. Or sometimes it's a photo of a glacial ridge, with the claim that the Ark is buried under that.

Then there are the occasional close-ups of something — this latest account has lots of those — that look more like recent construction: a cabin, a mine shaft, the reinforced walls of a well. Again, nothing competently photographed to show context or extent or overall structure, nothing that even looks like a boat. In particular, though, it looks nothing like a 5,000 year old boat left exposed on a mountaintop or churned up by a glacier.

They do have one other novel claim this time around.

The group claims that carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old, meaning they date to around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Mt. Ararat has long been suspected as the final resting place of the craft by evangelicals and literalists hoping to validate biblical stories.

Oh, yeah. Now the creationists are willing to say carbon-dating is valid.

i can speak science me!

am so old.... remember the 90's?

ever find urself... technologically challenged?

What if URA was this zealous...?!??

kinda reminds me of a supervisor of mine... he he

time to go on a well deserved holiday.....!

oppression...?!??? ...give me a break!

yo... henry, this is my reaction to your surprise that am atheist... (ps, i no longer get insulted when people try to 'save' me... it's actually quite amusing).

interesting question...

you know what this means.... ALIENS ALIENS... yay!

First-Ever Animals Found Living Without Oxygen in Marine Dead Zone

by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York

Photos via the BBC

Life Will Find a Way . . .
You're likely familiar with the ever-growing marine dead zones, areas in the ocean where no life was believed possible due to depleting oxygen levels. But in a truly startling discovery, scientists have stumbled upon the first animal that can survive without oxygen--a feat that until now was only possible in bacteria. This has a number of implications: both regarding the possibility that life may yet adapt to more severe conditions on earth, and on whether life is possible on other oxygen-free planets--and may be more abundant than we thought.

It looks like a tiny jellyfish in a protective shell. It measures around a single millimeter. And it can survive and reproduce without any oxygen at all. The new species of Loriciferan, named already named Spinoloricus Cinzia after the wife of the scientist who discovered it, and it could be the biggest biological discovery in recent times.

The BBC reports that scientists from the Marche Polytechnic University in Italy found the creature in the Mediterranean Sea's L'Atalante basin--which is "about 3.5km (2.2m) deep and is almost entirely depleted of oxygen, or anoxic." They collected some specimens, which they incubated in an oxygen-free environment--and the eggs hatched successfully in the complete absence of oxygen.

The Oxygen-Free Animal
From the BBC:

"It is a real mystery how these creatures are able to live without oxygen because until now we thought only bacteria could do this," said Professor Danovaro, who heads Italy's Association of Limnology (the study of inland waters). "We did not think we could find any animal living there. We are talking about extreme conditions - full of salt, with no oxygen." The discovery of the new Loriciferans represents, he said, a "tremendous adaptation for animals which evolved in oxygenated conditions".

This discovery is especially important when paired with the facts that these marine dead zones are doubling in size around the world every 10 years. This is happening largely because of human activity (of course); it's the result of nitrogen-rich sewage spewing into the coastlines across the globe.

A partial map of marine dead zones--where oxygen-free creatures may yet flourish. Via NASA

Marine Dead Zones
The New York Times has a good explanation of what happens:

Nitrogen from agricultural runoff and sewage stimulates the growth of photosynthetic plankton on the surface of coastal waters. As the organisms decay and sink to the bottom, they are decomposed by microbes that consume large amounts of dissolved oxygen. Most animals that live at the bottom of the coastal ocean cannot survive as oxygen levels drop.

And this is happening all around the world (global warming has been found to play a major role, too). With oxygen-deprived areas expanding, it therefore becomes imperative for sea life to adapt to survive without it--which may be what has happened with this Loriciferan. We'll have to see what details emerge about the creature's life cycle, but needless to say, this could be big. The scientists say that it could additionally help them better understand the possibilities of life existing on other planets with radically different atmospheres. In other words, this probably helps the case that it's out there

Liberators turned heartless pigs! shame on you...! big f*ckn' SHAME ON YOU!

Collateral Murder

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.

After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement".

Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing these rules before, during, and after the killings.

WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.

WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a number of military whistleblowers. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the information it receives. We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly involved in the incident.

WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work.

....to be honest as i read this post, i felt challenged to question the core of humanity. is this what we are? ...all around the world, we are only consumed by greed the urge to dominate and the insatiable thirst for blood... every where you go it's the same trend! is this it? ...is this what it means to be human?

am in a very weird mood today...

too tired to rant....

well i have been in argument on the Freethought Kampala blog with this tool called 27th comerade and just felt like taking the easy way out....

(open pic in new window to see bigger size)

i was this close....! ha ha

the beginning of life!

I hold that science can answer the question what existed before our universe began, at least in principle. We don’t have a good answer at this time but we can formulate scientific theories and distinguish outright fantasies.

desertification... sad but beautiful.

friendship....

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Uganda in the news.... Kasubi tombs...

check out this video... pretty much sums it up for me!


nice ring to it too.... you can't do that on a sunday! (monday was free!)

ever felt out of the loop...?

silly things that make me smile n laugh...

a cat scan... like literally!





help wanted!





and this last one is to remind you that not all you read is true, more times than not you will find that the authors tend to have their own agendas (sometimes hidden and other times rather obviously blatant!).

Australia's Top Scientists Conclude Global Warming Still Happening

Australian Scientists Evidently In On Plot to Socialize America
According to an article in the radical left-wing communist pamphlet known as 'Reuters', Australia's climate scientists have convened in order to file a 'State of the Climate' report. Their findings? Three guesses, and the first two don't count. Yes, Australia's climate is changing--both its surface sea temperatures and mean temperatures have risen over the last 50 years. And this report was issued by Australian scientists--who have nothing to do with Michael Mann, Al Gore, or anyone at the CRU. But I'm guessing there's something sinister afoot anyways . . .

Here's the meat of their report, according to Reuters:


* Since 1960, the mean temperature in Australia has increased by about 0.7 degrees Celsius, but some areas of the country had warmed by 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years, the report said.

* Australia's warmest decade on record is 2000 to 2009.

* While total rainfall in Australia had been relatively stable, the geographic distribution changed significantly over the past 50 years, with rainfall decreasing in southwest and southeast Australia, the major population areas.

* Sea levels around the island continent since 1993 have risen 7-10mm per year in the north and west and 1.5 to 3mm in the south and east, said the report.

* From 1870 to 2007, the global average sea level rose by close to 200mm (8 inches), sea levels rose at an average of 1.7mm a year in the 20th century and about 3mm per year from 1993-2009, it said.

* Sea surface temperatures around Australia have increased by about 0.4 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years.

* The scientists said global carbon dioxide concentration in 2009 of 386 parts per million (ppm) was much higher than the natural range of 170 to 300 ppm that existed in the atmosphere for the past 800,000 years and possibly 20 million years.

* The scientists said that based on their monitoring of the nation's climate for 100 years, Australian average temperatures are projected to rise by 0.6 to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030.


Hm. Seems pretty compelling . . .

But wait, climate change is a global conspiracy to take away American freedom, right? Surely the Australians are in on it! Sneaky Aussie bastards, trying to abet the plot to socialize America. Quick! Plug your ears, go back to the Drudge Report, lest you be indoctrinated! Science, what? I can't hear you! La la la la la!

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rihanna should have featured chatroulette in her video... me thinks.

the first time i visited chatroulette i run under my pillow in shock from the gruesome images that were thrown at me. muppets wanking! (graphic; u may find Mosspuppet's pierced nipple incredibly disturbing, there is surely nothing worse than that! or is there...?) trust me it gets worse... much worse. which is also what makes it such a fun site to visit when bored. (i like being shocked back to life he he...).

Recently i checked out a chatroulette pianist, improvising songs based on people's looks and actions... not too shabby...


usually ur treated to scenarios like the one below...

not sooo ayoba..... ;-(

When I get problems or seriously bad news like today… my body tends to respond the same way a mountain gorilla in Bwindi would…





My first instincts are to run and secondly to respond to a sudden urge to respond to a rather abrupt bowel movement…(am telling you, it’s crazy but thanks to a recent vegan diet its also a very smooth ride… fiber fiber FIBER).


Wish I could just huff my problems away. Guess to get a handle on any problem one first has to get perspective. The way you see things determines to a great extent the success you will have with dealing with them. (years of self-help books finally paying off...). You see a mountain, I see an adventure to conquer. You see a roadblock, I see an opportunity to test my people skills (hey you don’t get far in life by always playing nice. Once in a while you have to do what you have to do…).






Well waiting for the afternoon to see how my brother's little run in with the law works out. When it comes to things you can’t change it takes a great discipline to realize that really there is not that much you can do. (i do like to try… sometimes it does make you feel better).

here i am trying to keep an open mind. (hoping for the best and preparing for the worst).

i found this Übercool....

check out this slide show... showcases some nice animal shots...