This is the weblog of one Anush Emelianova. I live in Austin, Texas and am 20 years old. Sometimes I
make websites. You can reach me at
anush@emelianova.com .
Currently, I am on my way to law school, if they will have me. I have been known to post
photographs.
Garfield Minus Garfield
Dreams of Flying : a series of photographs
1 Out of 4 Homeless Are Veterans : a study
The winner of the Nobel for literature is less than impressed
Some delightfully awful graphics
Good Housekeeping : some useful tips for the 1950s woman
8848 - 1.86 : an artist chops off the top two meters of Mt. Everest and displays it
Short film : wherein a man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast
Musicians\' Real Names : I am crushed to learn that Alicia Keys\' real name is Alicia Augello Cook
A classic economic problem : map of single men vs. women across the U.S.
“The appeal of dinosaurs to kids is of particular interest to evolutionists since it allows them to gain easy and willing access the minds of our children (”for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” [Gen. 8:21]).”
let’s see… creativity is evil. I’m going to show that to fort when she tries to make us creative-write.
either the world’s servers have gone to a hot place deep underground, or this internet connection is really screwed up. oy. that link appears to be broken.
so ick on them
(yeah, i finally got to the site)
but i do wonder where they got those silly finds….
your life in these posts and in the archives seems a lot um…. emptier, depressinger, morer, than it seemed when i temporarily dived into it, or belly flopped and rebounded as the case may be….. ew, that sounded perverted, whoops…..
yeah, anyways, you just keep bein’ happy…..
i’m sorry for insulting caffeine if i did….. it seems to do you good……
Yeah, so i’m gonna try to find something to do when i get home tomorrow …..
any suggestions?
you know, after the repeated lake thing i find it hard to have fun enjoying nature alone…. well, that’s life and lack of teleportation. hope they come up with it soon.
totally meaningless comment:
there is no point to this comment except to get ye to respond to it.
i have nothing to write except that i wish i had a place other than your site to post stuff….. but everything’s down cause of the blackout, or cause of lackage of perl or cgi can’t be used or because i need a keyword for livejournal or something….. ok, EOR (END OF RANT)
=]
Avi, you’ve heard of email, haven’t you? Hope you’re having fun in Papikland. And I am not depressing. Say that again and I’ll depress your face.
No Avi, don’t listen, Email doesn’t work.
-whee, food
*gag*
I love the part where he cites the bible as scientific evidence. Especially because he doesn’t even get it right. Let me count the ways…
–1–
He tries to pass the “giants” mentioned in genesis 6:4 off as dinosaurs, which he calls “the lord’s gentle behemoths.” This is ludicrous because the _next_ sentence of genesis 6:4 says “they were the mighty who, from old, were men of devastation,” which means they were a) human and b) not gentle.
–2–
He claims “pre-noachian man tried to tame the dinosaur, wishing to use its might for evilness and arrogantly thinking himself as mighty as the lord. This grieved the lord, and he brought the flood upon the earth [gen. 6].” I don’t know what translation of the bible dr. paley is using, but mine (the 1996 stone edition tanach, in case you’re wondering) is “newly translated and annotated” straight from the original hebrew, and it definitely does not mention anyone trying to tame dinosaurs, behemoths, giants, or other largish creatures. Not even a footnote. As for the lord’s reasoning behind the flood, it seems to be more about the whole “robbery and corruption” shtick.
–3–
“Scholars theorize that some of these descendents of [dinosaurs brought aboard] noah’s ark were used to aid noah’s progeny in building the tower of babel. After that fiasco, the lord felt that man was clearly not worthy of associating with his most powerful creation anymore and ever since dinosaurs have been hidden from us.” Those are some very creative scholars. I sense a religious fiction / conspiracy novel bestseller waiting to happen.
–4–
The closest paley comes to sanity in this article is when he argues that the behemoth described in job 40:15-24 is a dinosaur. This colossal creature does indeed posess dinosaur-like qualities, but there are some serious holes in paley’s logic. First of all, he contends that “in the Book of job, the lord clearly describes dinosaurs.” Plural. The hebrew word “behemoth” (bet-he-mem-vav-tet) is clearly singular, and the context of the passage confirms that there was only one behemoth. Second, he goes on to state that the supposed dinosaurs were “called ‘behemoths’ by adam.” According to the index of my bible, the behemoth is not mentioned anywhere but job 40, and a quick perusal of genesis 2-3 turns up no reference to gargantuan animals.
That pretty much covers the biblical inaccuracies in dr. paley’s article. Now it’s up to dedicated researchers like the ones at talkorigins.org to uncover paley’s scientific gaffes, of which i’m sure there are many. Meanwhile, i hope y’all enjoyed my humble two cents. Thanks, anush, for the entertainment. ¡Hasta luego!
actually, i was trying to make you feel better because you seemed thingy-which-i-shall-not-say, but ok, whatnot….
unto bilal (whether that be first or last and/or half of name), i say simply “knod knod”, in response to “email doesn’t work”….
not that i wanna sound icky or mean or whatever which it seems to me i am right now, but when you peoples were probably hanging out in that big-state thingy down there, i was in the northeast where we had an utterly humungulous power outage that cut off power to 8 states and part of canada, and this blackout thingy i should think you’d probably have heard of…..
except didn’t for long affect some regions including papikland (which i left from on friday back to home@teaneck,NJ, FYI) but that meant i could use computers there but not my mail server, which belongs to bergen net, run by my school, and which needless to say lost power, and wasn’t up for like another day after said blackout.
and thus goes the tale.
byebye
would appreciate email correspondence from anyone here, or anyone at all as a matter of fact….
am bored
please send 2 abrras@bergen.org which has happily come back 2 life after loss of power thingy…..
and patch ur comps against the blaster virus if you’re usin windows 2000 or XP go to microsoft’s thingy search on google for the security bulletin blaster or something
yeah you peoples help fill my inbox with spam
thanx unto y’all iff ye comply….
hey, aaron, online use bible.ort.org
has hebrew and english and spanish and russian and commentary and trop…. it’s great…. i use it from school sometimes….
but any of you others too can use it 2 try to sort out that thingy if you want to….
ooh, nice online bible. thanks, avi!
That’s pretty cool. You Jewish types always seem to know the deal. On the blackout, have you seen these pictures? I wish I lived in New York.
checkin out them pictures you mention…..
yeah, ok….. you (”you” meaning anush) seem to have rather hi regard for, ahem, ::clears throat:: us “Jewish types”….
anyhows, yeah, do you mind that we all keep commenting this post, or ye wanna keep usin email?
i prefer posting here, although i may have my own back up soon….
btw, aaron, what’s yer email?
utterly awesome pics…..
yeah, i was still in papikland, but everyone i know from nearby was in bergen county or some of my friends/family in new york city itself…..
apparently part of it was cool, like shop owners giving away beer and ice cream for free because otherwise it would spoil….
but the part i regret about not being nearby is that the sky here sucks. (remember i told ye about the pink clouds?) but according to my dad, who was at home in the NJ suburbs of NYC at the time, it was the first time in a long time that you could see the stars well. I was dreaming (not actually, but ye know what i mean) about that kind of thing happening for a long time, like nyc’s lights going out and then my being able to see the stars and milky way and stuff that you can’t see for hundreds of miles around, just from home. but i missed it. i was in papikland. oh, sux0r.
Go ahead and commandeer this entry for your nefarious purposes.
Buy more veal!
“meh”, to steal your phrase. and don’t tell me the comma’s on the wrong side
ok, this is getting a tad hostile. therefore, i shall supplement this post with the following::::
:)
actually those are smiley faces, not the other way around….
just that this thingy for some reason deletes extra spaces which i used to delimit the smileys…..
aha!!!! ok, that’s my new name: DelimitTheSmileys…
never mind, maybe not…..
here it is, what i meant:
:D
what font didja use in the second (flare) button??
note de shmileys…..