Shout-outs/Updates

First of all, I have an update on the Atheist's Nightmare. In case you didn't see Jamie's comment, here's what an actual, grown in the wild banana looks like (actually, there are about a billion varieties, but this one is typical):

That's right, tiny and chock full of seeds. You know what that means, right? The banana that the guy was demonstrating as absolute proof of God's great design? It was genetically engineered. Years ago people realized that eating natural Atheist's Nightmares was difficult, so they developed strains that were bigger, tasty when ripe, and had no seeds. Therefore, this guy was saying that God's perfect plan gave man a fruit that couldn't replenish itself. This is a level of idiocy that I didn't even consider during the first post, because this isn't even a theory debate- it's a factual error. By the way, you can check out wikipedia or even Purdue's horticulture department for more info than you ever really wanted on bananas.

On a side note, Saturday morning Jamie and I were flipping channels looking for cartoons when we saw the banana guy on the religious channel. Apparently he has a regular show- in this episode he was ambush interviewing people in a mall, asking various ska8tr bois if they thought they were living in accordance with God's plan as they looked around uncomfortably, thinking "Wait, you aren't from MTV!"

The second update is that my brother Howard noticed my good tech/bad tech post and pointed out that the bathrooms in Chicago O'Hare have a fantastic automatic seat cover thing. Good call! I spend a lot of time in airports and long ago deemed O'Hare to have my favorite facilities, on account of the seat covers and the fact that the stalls run almost floor to ceiling for excellent privacy. And if you think this is the first time I've had this conversation, then you probably don't know me very well.