{"id":137,"date":"2002-10-06T19:20:35","date_gmt":"2002-10-06T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/good_and_evil"},"modified":"2002-10-06T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2002-10-06T23:20:35","slug":"good_and_evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/10\/good_and_evil.html","title":{"rendered":"Good and Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it looks like the Twins have knocked off the A’s<\/a>. This year’s baseball playoff schedule, I think, constitutes ironclad proof that God does not give a rat’s ass about baseball. A kind and merciful deity would not have permitted a schedule that forced the two worthiest teams in baseball to eliminate one of the other so early.1<\/a><\/sup> Well, I’ll be rooting for the Twins, then, assuming that the Giants get rolled by the Braves as is customary at this time of year. (The Giants are beating the Braves 7-1 at the moment, so they’ve still got a shot, at least.)<\/p>\n

In Other News: via the brilliant and learned Garrett Moritz<\/a>,2<\/a><\/sup> I learned about a wonderful MIT parody of the Fellowship of the Ring<\/cite> prologue<\/a>. It’s a big download, but well worth it. Deleriously geeky. My only concern is that the current generation of MIT students apparently thinks that Maxwell’s equations in integral form<\/a> are a representation of pure evil. Are the students just saying that they prefer Maxwell’s equations in their somewhat-more-aesthetically-pleasing differential form<\/a>… or is this a larger statement about physics itself?<\/p>\n

<\/a>1. Then again — the Angels smote the hell-spawned Yankees pretty early this year. The Lord works in mysterious ways.<\/small><\/p>\n

<\/a>2. I agree with Moritz that the latest Two Towers trailer<\/a> looks fantastic. And no, I don’t know why Legolas is being made up to be such a stupendous bad-ass. I mean, I’m all for defeating the pernicious stereotype that Elves are nothing more than limp-wristed fops, but this is getting ridiculous.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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