Browsing February 2010

A new project

Saturday 02.27.2010 04:00PM

I have a new fun project – my friend Jeremiah and I started a podcast. It's called Late Night Toast and it is basically the two of us talking about things that interest us, late at night, with our brand of wit and humor mixed in.

Our friends Rachelskirts and Skittle_Brains started a podcast a few months ago called Bacon Famous and they put out two episodes which were pretty funny. Jeremiah and I have discussed making a podcast off an on for about a year, but in January we got more serious about it after talking about Bacon Famous and their apparent lack of episodes. We had the idea that we could make our first episode a friendly challenge/call out/one-up to their podcast; we would make it video instead of just audio; we wouldn't call them out by name, “but let's just say it rhymes with Facon Bamous.”

“Begun, the podcast wars has.” I said.

Jeremiah and I are usually up late and have some pretty funny discussions on IM, so it seemed perfect to capture for a podcast. Since we're fans of late night television (particularly CoCo) we settled on the name Late Night Toast and came up with this cool logo idea to have our faces on toast. Thanks to Jeremiah's artistic skills, we have the awesome logo below. We think the whole endeavor is worth it for the logo alone. :)

Thus, episode 1 “Facon Bamous” is published. It's a long episode, coming in at 56 minutes, but future episodes will be shorter and we will have an audio version as well. We would love if you'd check it out and give us your feedback. You can subscribe in iTunes, leave us comments on the blog, and send us email at latenighttoast@gmail.com.

Late Night Toast logo

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Quick Thought: Valentine's Day

Sunday 02.14.2010 02:35PM

I read a comment on Facebook about how Valentine's Day can cause negative feelings in those who are single, and it got me thinking.

I think that outlook is pretty dis-empowering. We do have a choice in how we react to things. An arbitrary day cannot make us have negative feelings. I know it's tough sometimes. Trust me, I don't always have positive feelings about the day, either. It has been tough for me at various times this year, though I try not to be vocal about it. I try to make the best of things and choose to have a more positive outlook. It really is amazing to me sometimes how such a choice can improve my mood.

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Tolstoy

Thursday 02.04.2010 02:26PM

I really need to read some Tolstoy, apparently. I came across this on the Live Free or Die blog and it really resonated with me.

From The Kingdom of God is Within You:

“We may dispute upon the question whether the nestlings are ready to do without the mother-hen and to come out of the eggs, or whether they are not yet advanced enough. But the young birds will decide the question without any regard for our arguments when they find themselves cramped for space in the eggs. Then they will begin to try them with their beaks and come out of them of their own accord.

It is the same with the question whether the time has come to do away with the governmental type of society and to replace it by a new type. If a man, through the growth of a higher conscience, can no longer comply with the demands of government, he finds himself cramped by it and at the same time no longer needs its protection. When this comes to pass, the question whether men are ready to discard the governmental type is solved. And the conclusion will be as final for them as for the young birds hatched out of the eggs. Just as no power in the world can put them back into the shells, so can no power in the world bring men again under the governmental type of society when once they have outgrown it.

”It may well be that government was necessary and is still necessary for all the advantages which you attribute to it,“ says the man who has mastered the Christian theory of life. ”I only know that on the one hand, government is no longer necessary for ME, and on the other hand, I can no longer carry out the measures that are necessary to the existence of a government. Settle for yourselves what you need for your life. I cannot prove the need or the harm of governments in general. I know only what I need and do not need, what I can do and what I cannot. I know that I do not need to divide myself off from other nations, and therefore I cannot admit that I belong exclusively to any state or nation, or that I owe allegiance to any government. I know that I do not need all the government institutions organized within the state, and therefore I cannot deprive people who need my labor to give it in the form of taxes to institutions which I do not need, which for all I know may be pernicious. I know that I have no need of the administration or of courts of justice founded upon force, and therefore I can take no part in either. I know that I do not need to attack and slaughter other nations or to defend myself from them with arms, and therefore I can take no part in wars or preparations for wars. It may well be that there are people who cannot help regarding all this as necessary and indispensable. I cannot dispute the question with them, I can only speak for myself; but I can say with absolute certainty that I do not need it, and that I cannot do it. ...“

Whatever arguments may be advanced in support of the contention that the suppression of government authority would be injurious and would lead to great calamities, men who have once outgrown the governmental form of society cannot go back to it again. And all the reasoning in the world cannot make the man who has outgrown the governmental form of society take part in actions disallowed by his conscience, any more than the full-grown bird can be made to return into the egg-shell.”

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