Saturday, December 15, 2007

oh the drama

sitting at a dunn bros and reading about MySQL query optimizations and this girl behind me is saying this on the phone.
just because i'm pregnant , doesn't mean i don't want to date anyone.
and just because i'm pregnant doesn't mean i'm not human.
and just because i'm pregnant doesn't mean i'm not single.
i once read or saw somewhere, that sitting in a coffee shop is the best way to get ideas of a movie or book or whatever.

why are lolcat so fun to look at!?

Saturday, November 10, 2007

fuck the USD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply

here is the section describing factors to help analyze the circulation of money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Scope
The Federal Reserve ceased publishing M3 statistics in March 2006, explaining that it costs a lot to collect the data but doesn't provide significantly useful information.[1]
M3 includes repurchase agreements. which seems like when the government sells china our land or prints more money (need to re-read...). and i bet M3 is growing so fast it would cause wide spread panic if they released current figures. kind of like in inconvenient truth when gore used the mechanical ladder to should how high the carbon will be in twenty years on our current trajectory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repurchase_agreement

and if you haven't seen this. watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAwvlDJgJbM

ben bernanke you are a fucking piece of shit! al greenspan you are a fucking piece of shit! i want my money back you fucking pieces of shit. i wish i believed there was a hell.

Friday, October 19, 2007

remember

remember remember the 5th of november.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

i'm waiting for the phone revolution

Reason H. Logic, people are tards. he makes google sound like
it's a few LAMP servers run a couple dozen php scripts that they
downloaded from some script kiddy website.

"Running a Web site and a search engine is one thing," said Mr. Weide of IDC. "But developing a phone is a whole different game. It will not be easy for them."


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/business/media/08googlephone.html?_r=3&ex=1349582400&en=3c1ad530d7b1c3a2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

funny thing is 99% of phones are complete garbage, so at worst the
gphone will be as bad. would be crazy if google fucked it up more
then the current majority. Mr. Weide has people skills damit! He's
good will people!

it all came to this

eat up so you can die in one of these!

Goliath Casket Inc. specializes in 20 Gauge Steel, OVERSIZE caskets with quality, endurance, and strength.

fucking disgusting! hrmmmm i wonder if there is a youtube video of someone who broke out of their casket because their ass was too fat...? that would be crazy to see at a funeral... guess they should have went with a goliath casket.

america doesn't need universal health care, they need a fucking treadmill!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

a video of the man

this video pumps me up!

Ron Paul : Don't tread on me
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8

my rebuttal for Ron Paul

my friend gave me these reasons against Ron Paul.
Ron Paul's bad policies:

1) Health care: he supports free market health care, I think national
health care (i.e. Wellstone's "Medicare for Everyone") is the way to
go.

2) He appears to support "Don't Ask Don't Tell" in the military, which
I think is dumb and discriminatory (although I'm a bit confused if he
actually supports what's in place, or just think the name makes
sense).

3) Network Neutrality: He wants a completely unregulated
internet...this means that telcos will be able to do whatever they
want (including censoring sites and infringing on 1st-amendment
rights).

4) He voted against a raise in minimum wage...no more discussion needed...

Just a few issues...still seems to be the best Republican candidate,
though. I think I might be a little too Socialist for some of his
Libertairan stances. ;o)
this was my response
1) i'm sure wellstone's health care plan would have been great, but for this to be a valid point against ron paul you have to relatively certain a free market health care system would fail (i'm not sure why we went from a free market to what we have now....). currently hospitals/clinics have zero incentive to lower prices. thus you have Jed getting a 2 or 4 hundred dollar bill from the doctor for getting stitches removed (which took all of two minutes probably). don't you ask yourself why health care is so expensive, but if you think health care is fairly priced then maybe a free market isn't needed.

currently in this market there are hospitals offering free care. here in minneapolis HCMC won't turn away people and they are one of the best hospitals around. and i watched a video of michael bloomberg and he was saying new york city's public hospitals all offer free care as well. so even in a very over-priced, of course in my opinion, health care system people are offering it for free. bloomberg also says we spend 50 percent more on health care then western europe and our life expectancy is fours years less (due to reactive vs. preventative health care) .

2) In the google video Ron Paul says he agrees with the principle and agrees that it probably needs to be re-implemented. He does often say that the right to serve the country, get married, etc. does not apply to sex, sexual preference, race, etc. a right applies to everyone in our country.

3) As the Ron Paul movement has been greatly jump started on the internet I doubt he is for the internet being controlled by the telecom/ISPs. He probably feels that regulating these companies is the wrong way to go. In spirit of the free market, companies can do what want, and companies like google will exist. I don't know the status, but google is working on a gPhone, which will probably solve/help problems we currently have with current telecom companies. And google will probably be offering the internet in the upcoming years. both of these google services will create completion in the market. look at email , wasn't hotmail or yahoo going to start charging for email at one point? that didn't get very far...

4) A minimum wage increase probably would be nice for a lot of people, this seems like a state issue and people working for these wages can be better benefited by a stronger dollar. Ron Paul is for fixing the dollar by helping america become more fiscally responsible; being against a war we cannot afford, stopping the printing of money, and there are probably ten other ways.

i think america is in a lot of trouble in a lot of ways; an unpopular war, a tanking dollar, go it alone mentality, etc. and i think Ron Paul has a lot ideas how things can change and has the ability to lead our country. he is obviously not afraid to speak his mind (huge plus) and acknowledges the way we do a lot of things are wrong and the need to be rethought. instead of trying to fix an issue while continuing down the wrong path or ignoring the issue all together.

thanks for reading my points!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

i forgot to cry...

Jimmy Kimmel hating on gawker. i really don't know what people expect out of the internet. to see stuff and not talk about it... no tear here. maybe we found a butt buddy for the princess of nyc, giuliani...?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2-avakrRUaU

have a good weekend!

UPDATE:
Did you see the NYT response she wrote? It is really good!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/opinion/04gould.html?ex=1189915200&en=ad0c12221f6cd9d9&ei=5070

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

the polls

got excited? well this isn't about my last trip to the vu... but the fact that i'm having trouble figuring out who i like more ron paul or mike gravel. i really like the clam collective nature of gravel. but i also like paul's persistence and determination even though he is usually laughed at. i just think it is amazing paul has been fighting the same stance since the 80's (and probably earlier). this is demonstrated in his appearance on the Morton Downey Jr show ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHB2I83_N_k ).

one think that i want to document in the email is that i think that there are going to be a record number on people at the polls, namely people who didn't settle for the lesser of two evils (which includes me b/c i've never voted). and more importantly, the "internet factor" will be alarming when realized. it seems like ron paul and mccain are the only republicans utilizing social networking sites to promote their campaign. and gravel seems to have a lot of youtube support.

the internet almost seems like a trojan to most candidates. every once in a while i talk to people who don't understand why so and so has a myspace page. when in reality these sites are like pure gold. i think half of america beliefs information comes through main stream media, but the next generation is learning about the 2008 elections on youtube, myspace, etc. matt is included in the generation revelation even though he is from a previous generation =).

Its hump day!

Sunday, August 05, 2007

thats what i like about

i realized just now that i like things that aren't obvious. today i listened to a lot of bjork. i started with debut then post and right now i'm listening to homogenic. i listened to each one multiple times. but it has shown me that i like things that aren't obvious, meaning i don't like typical people that listen to bjork but people you wouldn't expect to listen to bjork. it must be a sign of character. what is so great about something that you expect it to be a certain way? i also think this is the way people perceive me. when meeting new people they always say, "oh, i never expected you to _____." do we all look for this?

Thursday, May 24, 2007

creation museum

They are opening a creation museum in petersburg kentucky (of all places).

For here at the $27 million Creation Museum, which opens on May 28

i think this confirms the fact the north should have let the south, being below the mason-dixson line, do their own crazy thing and be haters. allowing people in the north look normal to the rest of the world. we are still paying for this decision almost 250 years later.

Monday, May 21, 2007

red subie

well today i got rid of my red 1992 subaru. it sat in a church parking lot for about three years. was kind of a on going joke for me and some of my friends. we that sucker is outta here.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

a little import

i just added a bunch of posts i made on another site. the reason for this is; the other site was going to be a community discussion board/blog and no one else is doing it. so i thought it would be best if i imported my posts here so they wouldn't be lost

putin’ ‘em down

here is the first step to legalizing all drugs, dropping the drinking age.

Given the growing problem of binge drinking on campuses, it’s time to drop the drinking age below 21.

need i say more? so lets stop being naive and start doing drugs!

cry me a river

some fucking crybaby is blubbering about losing a few links to his/her friend(s) blog on their google home page.

“I had four tabs stuffed with content on my personalized homepage. Dozens of RSS feeds, half a dozen bookmark gadgets, friends blogs, all my web presences, dozens of other gadgets. I spent weeks tailoring [it] so it was just right for my very intensive Internet needs,” a user wrote on a Google discussion group. “Now it’s all gone.”

this looks like a case of “get the fuck out of the house”. when i lost 173 gigs of porn you didn’t see posts on the interest about how my very intensive masturbation needs were not being met. no. i fixed my shit and start all over again. it is really a beautiful thing. a fresh start.

there is perhaps a lesson that should be learned here. all these web sites should offer an export feature for your configurations and data.

but just to remind you, there is no pity felt here. i have had losses far greater.

why i care about religion

here is a pretty good and short video about why atheists should care about religion. for most atheists it is pretty clear why we should all care about religion, but for people who are believers in “god” it is not so clear. god damn christians o do i hate you.

AIDS, jesus, and genocide

In another, related statement, the Brazilian church’s senior cleric, Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnello, condemned government policies on reproductive health, which have won praise from international public health groups. The cardinal singled out sexual education and condom distribution programs, which have helped cut AIDS transmission rates in Brazil, and attacked them by saying they promoted immorality (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/world/europe/09cnd-pope.html?hp).

The above is case and point for my arguments. A Brazilian church senior cleric is saying sexual education and condom distribution programs are promoting immorality. He is saying this about a third world country who

Condom use in first sexual intercourse increased from 4% in 1986
to 48% in 1999 and to 55% in 2003, spurred by government programs to
increase awareness, decrease the price, and increase the availability of
condoms. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Brazil)

Which resulted in this statistic, which in my mind curbed the problem from having another Africa.

the World Bank estimated that Brazil would have 1,200,000 in infections by 2000. However, by 2002, there were fewer than 600,000 estimated infections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Brazil)

I think the catholic church is pretty much publicly promoting genocide
of third world counties.

stay out of my box

here is another reason to dislike geek squad. they prove to be yet again worthless.

i guess here is another way for your back stabbing whore of a wife to piss you off. please if you get busted make sweet sweet lovely to your wife, call her shelly, and then bang her harder than all the other girls violated in those gigs of pr0n. this is her way of begging for sex.

gold star for starbucks!

this kind of shocked me. stackbucks had the below quote on their cups.

“Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure.”

i used to be a regular at starbucks, but i changed jobs and have many local coffee houses readily available to me now that i work downtown, so i don’t go there anymore. but i honestly did like reading these quotes on my daily cup of joe. and i’m glad they throw a few quotes in there to piss off people. especially christians!

the quotes closely expresses how i feel about life, free will, and jebus.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

kraftwerk Über Alles

for some reason i was reading kraftwerk’s wikipedia page, and found this quote:

‘So you see another group, like Tangerine Dream, although [it is] German, [it has] an English[-language] name, so [it creates] on-stage an Anglo–American identity, which we completely deny. We want the whole World to know that we are from Germany, because the German mentality – which is more advanced – will always be part of our behaviour. We create out of the German language, the mother-language, which is very mechanical; we use it as the basic structure of our music.’

i think it is good to get some european perspective. it may help us become “more advanced.”

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

la la la

i wonder how many posts i'll have call "la la la"...? there are a lot of indians that work down town. i don't know why but thinking about working on this java stuff is really a fucking pain in the ass. and i tell you it feels fucking great to be up a hundred dollar from not having to pay that ticket (for not renewing my tabs on time).

Monday, April 23, 2007

x11 not on my mac

well my hard drive recently failed and i currently going through the pain of reinstalling everything. it was a really quick process, thanks apple. only took a day (the hard drive that is). it was getting messed up right before i went to bed. it was still happening when i got up, so i took it in to the apple store. went and looked at duplexes, ate lunch, and was able to pick it up before the mall closed. and may i add that my three year warranty expired in march and they still hooked me up. NIIIICE!

for some reason x11 isn't on here. on sure how it got there the first time... well the link for this thing was a bitch to find, but here it is

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/x11formacosx.html

this one had a link to install the X11SDK.pkg, then i was able to install X11User.pkg, weeeeeeeeeeee.
http://xanana.ucsc.edu/xtal/x11.html

wait, the file i got from this link is saying i already have a newer version. pfffft.

anyway.....

my friend just started a bloggy thing at dicktatorship.com. so i'm going to start posting there too. i'll be fun. it is a place to get all of our crazy idea out on.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

amsterdam anticipation is on

well i'm getting pretty excited for amsterdam. we leave on the second of may, so that is about two and a half weeks away. right now we plan on seeing museums, riding bikes, and going to the keukenhof.

two nights ago, which was friday, i ran into jeanna at the independent. was kinda weird. she had a really cute friend that i seemed to have more in common with then her. i am going back and forth whether i wish i tried to be more clingy towards jeanna, but she smokes and she likes the suburbs. given that i suppose it was never meant to be. today she leaves for new zealand for six weeks to work on an organic farm(s). i plan on calling her when she gets back to hang out; she is a very cool person and i'm glad i met her. and i hope i run into her friend!

Sunday, March 04, 2007

live stronger

well i'm adding to the list of things i hate. well i've hated this for a while, just haven't expressed this hate here. i hate those yellow live strong wrist bands that a lot of people wear. i guess i'm just confused why people need to be given something in order to do something and then show it off. i give twenty five dollars to a good cause and i get a wrist band that will let other people know i care. why can't i care and not have a wrist band.

is it just me or does that seem sallow? it kind of seems like a smug thing to do. i think this is similar to believing in god. if i believe in god then i will go to heaven. both wrist bands and god are unnecessary and i dislike them both. but maybe i'm just really really jealous and wish i had a wrist band that i could wear to church and praise the lord with...

Sunday, February 25, 2007

snow finally

well it finally snowed and there is a lot of it. last night i went for a walk and shoved a ton of snow. i love the snow. it just makes me smile.

i just got in to girl talk. he is pretty crazy. his mixes push mash ups to a new level or maybe a new word needs to be created for his mixes.

with these two items i've done a lot of smiling.

on a girl note, jeanna is still really confusing me. it is just weird how much fun we had a g love and since then it is like pulling teeth to hang out and the crap she talks about seems like she is purposely driving me away.

Friday, February 23, 2007

better of the two

it has kind of been bothering me, which movie is better little miss sunshine or stranger than fiction? i put in the soundtrack and hopped in the shower. as i was standing in the shower i realized that little miss sunshine is the better of the two. i base this on the role the music play in the movie. throughout the movie music creates themes that help drive the movie. and i would have to double check, but stranger than fiction doesn't really have this. as music is a very important part of my life this aspect of the movie influences my decision. although i think stranger than fiction is more "my type" of movie and it is hard to finally end this battle in my mind. i think little miss sunshine is the better of the two.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

bday

megans birthday is juneteenth, june 19th. this is now in stone.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

grep and me

this is a grep command to find all the files with lines that have cold fusion commands

grep -R --include="*.cf" -e "<cf.*>" /home/user/public_html

and you can extract the names of all the commands by using this regexp

/<cf\w+(?>)/

i wrote a ruby script to find all the commands that were being used by a system that has been having problems... hopefully this will lead to finding a system issue we are having.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

big sky mt

well i just went to montana and was snowboarding at big sky. it was pretty fun. it was the first time i had snowboarded in 6 years. kind of a long time and in my opinion i kicked ass. i don't know if there was a single event to define the trip... brad busted up his ACL doing a "hellie" (360 on skies). we drank tons of beer and sat in the hot tub. the hot tub was kinda a pain because the hose outside was broken, so we had to fill the tub with a rubber container we found in the kitchen. we will just say i made a few trips, and matt was the one standing by the door dumbing the buckets in. oh, and there were a lot of fun shelly jokes (brad's wife). and isaac, you have to dail your own number to get your voice mail.

and with the lord on my side, i got to sit with a really cool girl on the way back, her name was helen remington. cool name huh. there are a couple of funny things i should mention. first she worked at moonlight basin, where i went snow shoeing one day and got lost. she actually recognized me from when i was walking down the road after i got unlost. appartently, she almost hit me with her car, she said she didn't see me... she also said she saw me in guest services when i was renting the snow shoes. before i met her on the plane i didn't recognize her (i started talking to her because she had a hungry moose hoodie on, which is a little grocery store by where we stayed). and lastly she was right off of starlight road which was the same road we stayed at. i think she was in 120 something and we were in 62.

helen was 21 and originally from portage wisconsin (i think). i also think jenny from dunn bros is from portage wisconsin. i'm going to have to ask. anyway we talked a lot and the flight was over before i knew it. she seemed into me, but i guess only time with tell. i look forward emailing her. see if something develops over this thing we call the internet.

Monday, January 15, 2007

living green

i just browsed through a washington post article and it had a lot of ways to be "green." i think there is a lot of things people can do, but i am more excited about more efficient electrical products. these products will allow people to live their lives without change and still improve the environment. people really are not going to change how they live their lives, but when governments pass legislation for companies to better their products it lifts the responsibility from the average person. for example, if new technologies consume 33 percent less energy, then like it or not you are helping the environment. i think these will make the biggest differences. like power adapters that charge all of our electronics, if they are not pulling electricity from the wall all day while your device isn't charging, then that is a big improvement considering these are in everyones household.

lazy...

This is from a bbc news story
Dr Ted Bianco, of the Wellcome Trust, said: "Over 30,000 deaths a year are caused by obesity in England alone, so there is a clear need to develop a treatment to tackle this problem.
i think people need a little self-discipline, or if you significant other plumps out then leave them. it all goes back to self-accountability.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

movie and bills

i just watched an inconvenient truth and it was pretty good. it is hard for me to understand how people so easily disregard global warming.

previously i had the idea of offering tax incentives to get companies to promote tele-commuting. image the effect 20 percent of americans could have if the tele-commuted one a week. honestly i'm not sure what the effect would be, but i think it would be a tremendous step in the right direction.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

global warning and condoms

man, some people beliefs astound me. there is a slashdot article about the a seattle school board and how they put a placed a moratorium on screenings of 'An Inconvenient Truth.' and they are also quoted saying "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher."

I'm not sure what pisses me off more the resistance to believe in global warming or condoms? I just gets me deep inside why everyone needs all this control. if people are fucking like rabbits then let them. it is retard to stress abstinence. why? because it doesn't work. people are going to have sex. like it or not. these evil bastards probably don't let you even masturbate. teaching them that it sacred thing or that people should wait till marriage is a joke. marriage is a joke all by itself, but that is a different story.

people should not discard a believe because some 2000 old piece of literature tells them to. you are a lot more powerful then you think. people do have to ability to change the earth. please take a second to load up google images and search for pollution. after looking through some of the images and seeing rivers filled with garbage from bank to bank, i hope you cannot honestly look me in the and say, "wildlife can continue to live in these conditions." if you don't think you can say this, then can you explain why we clean up oil spills?

to say that we cannot change the environment is ignorant and a reckless state of mind.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

sorting things out

does anyone know how to sort an array of objects in ruby. say i have an object that consists of a name, type, and location and i want to group the elements by their type then location and then name. either this is kinda hard or my getting weak in my googling skills... i might post this post in google groups.

right now i'm hacking out a solution, but it won't be as sweat rubyesk solution =(. actually it is kinda dirty, hehe.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

paul newman

i love paul newman and his chocolate chip cookies are not bad either.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

iphone and god, love and hate, respectively

sorry i didn't proof this have to go to a movie

first things first. i soo want an iphone. they look so pimp. it is just a sleek and sexy as their powerbook, excuse me, mac book pro, and their os.

second thing, a guy at work said something to me right before leaving work that pissed me off. he said, "a man without god, is not a man at all." i found this completely absurd. when people say crap like this it really makes me want to take action. hell i'm even writing in my blog.

it made me want to write or create a list of reasons that could be handed out in a pamphlet for general reasons against god or religion. below is a start on my ideas.

self-accountability: when believing in a deity one is out sourcing their accountability. your actions can justified by this deity or you can "ask" for forgiveness. i have made this a center point of many arguments. as it is a general problem in society and can be applied almost anywhere, namely frivolous lawsuits, general excuses, etc. how self-accountability directly applies to religion is people are less likely to take charge, but are able to hide behind the blanket of prayer and belief their is an outside force guiding our lives. if you give me ten people are willing to make sacrifices to create change, they will probably all achieve the change they want in their life. give me ten people who want to find a better job and have them pray for it, i doubt any of them will obtain their goal. hard work and determinism with tackle any hurdle. one should also acknowledge some things are not meant to be. a specific love of your life may let you down, or you might not get a specific job. but if the effort is there, other lover and other jobs will be out there. i don't think this parameter ended up where i wanted it to end.

i think children and parents are a good examples of self-accountability. often children made choices and others are blamed. say a child brings a gun to school and kills someone. who fault is this? the gun manufactures? video games? or maybe the parent? i would go with the parents. now this is going on a really big tangent. i guess the point is, no one wants to be accountable. to make this short, i think if the parent(s) would have made better decisions with their life, their child wouldn't have one this action as a cry for help. maybe if the parent(s) are not ready to have a child then they should wait for relationship reasons or financial reasons. if you cannot financially afford to raise a child then maybe working 3 jobs and never see the child isn't to good of an idea. this child will probably not get to proper direction needed to live a positive lifestyle.

false hope: right now, this is linking to self-accountability. by believing in god, a person is fooling themselves in to thinking someone is taking care of them. don't get me wrong, this is a very power and probably a get source of encouragement and empowerment.

and i need to think more to create a argument for this.

purpose:
people who believe in god have purpose bring into their lives. they get up in the morning to serve their god and carry out his word. i say make life your purpose. go out and do good in your community without the afterlife as a motivating force. being nice to people and doing good for your acceptance into heaven seems incredibly selfish.

answers to questions: this is related to the above question. what is the reason of live? why are we are? who am i? who created me? these are all valid and interesting questions and i would love to know the answers to all of them. but i think some questions are not yet answerable. and people need to be confident in saying, "i don't know." what is wrong with admitting that you do not know something? yes it is very tormenting to not know some of these answers and yes i wish i know them, but it isn't fair to yourself to fill in this gap. these question can not be proven. this is mainly due to faith. people base an idea and way of life on an allegiance on a set of beliefs. it just baffles me to think people can so deeply hate one another based on faith.

justification for religion: peer groups ( to be continued... )

Sunday, January 07, 2007

dalton is an amputee

dalton is home from la for a week or so. i went over to his house and hung out last night. when i got there i was just in time for dinner. i got to enjoy some nice homemade meat loaf. shortly after finishing dinner i mentioned reading an article about ( cannot remember right now ) and we got on the topic of global warming. that was a fun time, hehe. after that we went down stairs and wallie got me hooked on an atari game xengzoo (i looked it up and it is called Xevious ) or some crap. it was one of those controllers that can be hooked up to your tv. the game was pretty fun. and now here comes the reason for this entry, dalton and robin mentioned a website, namely http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/. he gave me a brief explain of the authors main point, "why won't god heal amputees?" which basically says most positive things can be explained by coincidence. leaving the thought out there if miracles exist and happen why don't there ever happen to amputees?