Pirate Bard's Blog – April 2010 Archive (4)

5 yr old FTW!

My son, who turns five in a couple of weeks, rocks!



We were doing some yard work with my parents (who are religious) this past weekend, and I heard about the following conversation between him and my mother from my wife. Sadly I was not there to witness it.



We are tilling out some old sod from the side of my yard and he was "helping" by picking up clumps of sod and tossing them into a pile.



Son: Why does the grass stick together like that?

Grandma: Because that's… Continue

Added by Pirate Bard on April 26, 2010 at 11:49am — 4 Comments

Building a sandbox

This has nothing to do with atheism. Just bragging because we're building my kids a new sandbox.

They had a "sandboat" from Costco that my son got on his 3rd birthday from his aunt and uncle (my brother). Unfortunately, it has no lid, only a blue mesh sort of thing that doesn't even entirely cover the surface of the sand.

This year for Solstice we got two kittens. More unfortunate, the kittens have learned to use the dog door and have decided the sand box (even with mesh cover)…

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Added by Pirate Bard on April 7, 2010 at 2:31pm — 2 Comments

Something I noticed that's kinda funny...

A lady I know on another forum who happens to be a bible-thumpin, libertarian, creationist of the highest order, has as her signature the Lord Acton quote including the phrase, "...power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely..." yet I am dead certain that she does not see the implication that such a statement coupled with the belief in an omnipotent god has about said deity (and would of course do all sorts of mental gymnastics to excuse such implications if they were pointed out to… Continue

Added by Pirate Bard on April 5, 2010 at 10:51pm — 2 Comments

Happy Birthday to Me...

I live in a tree
I'm descended from monkeys
and I'm a father of three.

Thankyouverymuch.

Added by Pirate Bard on April 3, 2010 at 11:00am — 8 Comments

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