The Christmas Tree – A Family Event

Merry Christmas from the Minters from Brent Minter on Vimeo.

This family (I have no idea who they are, I just thought it was a cute video) was a lot more productive at putting up the Christmas tree than what we were. Heck, we are basically doing the advent approach, and we are only doing that because I just made that up.

The Geeding Advent Christmas Tree Assembly Protocol

Week 1 – Get the tree out of the attic and assemble.
Week 2 – Decorate with lights.
Week 3 – Add ornaments.
Week 4 – Add star/angel to top of tree.

It’s a divide and conquer method and takes out the overwhelming frustration of getting the whole thing set up in one day. Or in my case, it just fits my procrastinator lifestyle. Now if I can just get WifeGeeding on board.

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Dear God, please confirm what I already believe

God may have created man in his image, but it seems we return the favour. Believers subconsciously endow God with their own beliefs on controversial issues.

“Intuiting God’s beliefs on important issues may not produce an independent guide, but may instead serve as an echo chamber to validate and justify one’s own beliefs,” writes a team led by Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers started by asking volunteers who said they believe in God to give their own views on controversial topics, such as abortion and the death penalty. They also asked what the volunteers thought were the views of God, average Americans and public figures such as Bill Gates. Volunteers’ own beliefs corresponded most strongly with those they attributed to God.

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Netflix under the microscope…literally

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) – Rent what you want, watch when you want, and exchange as often as you want.  Idea is catching on.  Netflix now boasts 11.1 million subscribers.  That’s a lot of people, who may or may not be washing their hands as often as you’d like.

We, literally, put Netflix under the microscope.

We delivered six different sealed Netflix envelopes, with six different Netflix DVD’s inside to the pathology lab at the University of Texas Health Science Center of Tyler.

What did they find?

The sleeves were more contaminated than the discs.

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