Um, WTH is up with everyone’s twitter avatars right now? They’ve disappeared and been replaced with generic little tweety birds.
I’ve been reading The Portable Atheist lately, and i’m enjoying it quite a lot. It’s basically collection of writings from throughout history on the topic of non-belief.
At the risk of igniting a new string of impassioned comments, i’d like to just point out a couple of things i saw in the text:
1. Albert Einstein called belief in a personal god “childish”.
2. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology, called people who believe in a god “illusioned”, and suggested that they could also be referred to as delusional.
August was long and short in different ways. I’ve been job hunting, so that’s a little tedious. I created a new portfolio site for that, which you can check out here. In fact, i was told just today that my portfolio is pretty sharp and that a lot of applicants “don’t seem to get it” and submit bad portfolios. The summer seems to be coming to an end much too soon, though. It’s starting to feel like fall already, and i’m not too happy about that. I love fall, don’t get me wrong – it just really shouldn’t be fall yet.
I took photos of my nephew for his senior portraits a couple weeks ago, and i’m pretty happy with how they turned out. Here are a couple of my faves:
He’s good at being a model and striking different poses. 
No word yet on which shots are his faves, but you can go see the full set on flickr if you like.
I’m taking a pretty extended break from running… Not sure if i’ll get back into it at all, but fall is pretty much the perfect time for running, so we’ll see. I wish i could find something like dance-for-exercise around here, but it doesn’t really exist. Maybe swing would do.
This week i started two night classes at DMACC: programming logic and dynamic HTML. That means i’ll be learning really basic concepts for programming but no actual languages on the one hand, and mostly Javascript on the other. I’m heavily considering dropping the first class while i can still get my money back, but probably i should just do it and be done with it and it will be a good foundation for further programming knowledge. The Javascript class is going to be a lot of fun, i think. The classes are three hours each, two days a week, and DMACC is twenty minutes away, so the beginning of my week is pretty packed right now.
Nathan’s b-day is this month! For a few more days we’ll be the same age, and then he’ll surpass me in age and wisdom once again for eleven months to follow. Also, we will celebrate our one-year anniversary this month. Things just keep getting better.