“In God we trust” – 1,900,000 search results on Google
“In Allah we trust” – 286,000 search results
“In Satan we trust” – 183,000 search results
“In Buddha we trust” – 107,000 search results
“In Zeus we trust” – 79 search results
“In Thor we trust” – 75 search results
“In Odin we trust” – 63 search results
“In Loki we trust” – 51 search results
“In Cthulhu we trust” – 50 search results
“In Bacchus we trust” – 48 search results
“In Shiva we trust” – 48 search results
“In Osiris we trust” – 46 search results
“In Flying Spaghetti Monster we trust” – 44 search results
“In Gaia we trust” – 44 search results
“In Ra we trust” – 43 search results
“In Athena we trust” – 31 search results
“In Krishna we trust” – 31 search results
“In Anubis we trust” – 26 search results
“In Baal we trust” – 21 search results
“In Poseidon we trust” – 21 search results
“In Kali we trust” – 19 search results
“In Minerva we trust” – 19 search results
“In Confucius we trust” – 18 search results
“In Quetzalcoatl we trust” – 18 search results
“In Brahma we trust” – 15 search results
“In Isis we trust” – 14 search results
“In Artemis we trust” – 10 search results
“In Dionysus we trust” – 10 search results
“In Ares we trust” – 9 search results
“In Apollo we trust” – 8 search result
“In Aphrodite we trust” 8 – search results
“In Atlas we trust” – 8 search results
“In Hephaestus we trust” – 4 search results
“In Chronos we trust” – 3 search results
“In Ishtar we trust” – 3 search results
“In Fenrir we trust” – 2 search results
“In Hera trust” – 2 search results
“In Ymir we trust” – 2 search results
“In Thanatos we trust” – 1 search result
“In Lugh we trust” – zero search results
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Logging off Facebook,
Off to bed by eleven.
Healthy lifestyle sucks…
Here’s a great example of the difference between Russians and Americans. My yuppie American neighbors took down all of their pretty pretty decorations right after Christmas. In Russia they’d be left hanging for at least a month before somebody finally bothered to put them away.
“The war on Christmas” – 3, 790,000 search results on Google
“The war on the war on Christmas” – 458,000 search results
“The war on the war on the war on Christmas” – 31 search results
“The war on the war on the war on the war on Christmas” – 9 search results
“The war on the war on the war on the war on the war on Christmas” – zero search results
“Dead man walking” – 3,100,000 search results on Google
“Dead man running” – 412,000 search results
“Dead man waltzing” – 87 search results
“Dead man crawling” – 72 search results
“Dead man marching” – 60 search results
“Dead man wandering” – 40 search results
“Dead man strolling” – 27 search results
“Dead man hopping” – 24 search results
“Dead man jogging” – 21 search results
“Dead man hiking” – 9 search results
“Dead man hitchhiking” – 4 search results
“Dead man pacing” – 4 search results
“Dead man tap-dancing” – 4 search results
“Dead man square-dancing” – zero search results
“Don’t shoot the messenger” – 6,270,000 search results on Google
“Don’t stab the messenger” – 10,600 search results
“Don’t strangle the messenger” 35 – search results
“Don’t drown the messenger” – 7 search results
“Don’t run over the messenger” – 5 search results
“Don’t defenestrate the messenger” – 2 search results
“Don’t poison the messenger” – 1 search result
“Don’t irradiate the messenger” – zero search results
I had forgotten how much I missed the stars. The other day I looked up as I was leaving for work. (Before the sunrise, as I always do.) The sight above shocked me: beautiful points of pure light scattered across the low, dark Texan sky. Those were the first stars I had seen in years…
That was quite likely the biggest reminder of just how much Nevada had changed me, altered me in ways I can neither imagine nor comprehend. That is something most people do not know about Las Vegas: it has no stars. The overabundance of light pollution from neon signs and casinos blocks out everything except the moon. The self-proclaimed city of sin is separated from the rest of the world by the desert; from the rest of the universe by its ego. A microcosm. A snow globe filled with sand.
I cannot help but wonder what subtle, hidden impact the utter lack of stars has on city dwellers. Is it at all possible that the Bronze Age sheep herders enjoyed more balanced, happier (though infinitely shorter) lives simply because they could fall asleep beneath the beauty of the Milky Way? Most of the world may never even know such view exists. The price of progress…
“They weren’t the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren’t as pretty and don’t get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.”
Jim Butcher, “Small Favor” (Book 10 of the Dresden Files)
People come and go.
Empires rise, fall and crumble.
Bacon never dies.
My favorite thing about living in Texas so far: starting messages to West Coast friends with “I’m texting you from the future!”
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