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So Douglas Adams was right?

You know, the past couple of days as I’ve been walking around the lake during lunch, I’ve postulated the theory that Jesus Christ was really an alien DNA experiment, and that the whole premise of the human race is that we are a long-running genetic experiment being conducted by a very old (by our reckoning) race of people. Maybe they have been evolving for 500 billion years, and they live for 500,000 years. Let’s say they are a very peaceful, giving people.

They started this experiment say, 20 or 30 thousand years ago, and have been making repeated visits to our planet to infuse us with some sort of gene-splicing material. That’s why there were so many different people, from early ape-man, through Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon to modern Homo sapiens. Each jump in the evolutionary tree was another genetic test.

At one point, they decided to go with one race, let’s just say the Jews, maybe because they were the most cohesive, since they don’t intermingle much with other races. All the accounts you read about in the Old Testament are just the scientists trying to make sure that their control group doesn’t get destroyed.

Let’s say these alien people have evolved to the point where they can communicate through telepathy, and manipulate the elements around them using their minds. Let’s say you’re a shepherd named Moses in ancient Egypt, and you "hear" a voice telling you to do God’s will. Maybe this voice tells you his name is "Yahweh" (which could be the actual name of the lead scientist, for example), and you must do things for him and protect your people. When really what "Yahweh" wants to do is protect his experiment, and continue to get "funding" for it! It goes on and on through the years.

Read the whole theory here: Unexplained Mysteries

Sounds like somebody needs a little more to do during their lunch break.

So here it is! The new site design I've been laboring on for some time. It took me quite a while to get everything to look okay in Internet Exploder. I finally got most of the issues worked out--I think. If you have problems with the site, or stuff looks weird, please leave a comment on this message, or shoot me an email (my address is down under the photo, at the bottom).

I've also decided to break down and hang out a shingle. If you'd like help fixing up your blog or website (or want to start a new one), please send me an email and we can talk about it. I've been doing this a long time (10 years). I know most of the in's and out's. If I don't, I can at least tell you where to find out.

UPDATE: I'm still trying to track down the bug that's causing the white lines to appear in IE7. It works correctly in Safari and Firefox. Go figure.

UPDATE 2: The best I could do is turn off the rounded corners on the top of the page in IE7 until I can find a better way to go about this. Turns out IE has a bug in rounding that produces a 1-pixel gap sometimes, depending on how big your browser window is (IE users: if you see a white line on the gray at the bottom, that's what's causing this). I've tried quite a few things, but when you spend as much time tweaking little things here and there just to suit a buggy browser as you do to develop the entire thing, you have to ask yourself: "is it really worth it?" This page will definitely look weird in IE 6. But I've checked the stats and IE 6 users are a tiny fraction of the total users. I know I should try and accommodate all users, no matter what browser they come here with, but there comes a point when you have to start looking forward, instead of years into the past of web development. You have to prepare yourself for the future. I'll keep hacking at it until I get a workable solution. This little problem of one pixel is what took me so long to actually roll out the new design! I was holding off until I could get this problem fixed. I finally decided that I'd rather have it out there and tweak it later than sit on this design just because the folks at Microsoft decided, in their infinite wisdom, to disregard what everyone else was doing in web development because, after all, they know better what everyone needs. That's why they're doing the Silverlight project: because those mean folks at Adobe have a corner on the interactive web market and they were feeling left out. Don't get me started...

UPDATE 3: Okay, seems I found a solution. Just had to step away from it for a minute. Everything should work fine in IE 7 just like it does in Firefox and Safari.

I found out today from my sister, who's into geneology, that one of George Lucas' ancestors (if you go back six generations) is from the same family as our family's ancestors, the Leedys from Ohio!

So that makes George a distant cousin of mine.

It's a small world, fer shore.