Eternal Earthbound-Pets

Petter linked me to this website the other day: the purpose of which is for atheists to take care of your pets after the rapture. The homepage says:

You've committed your life to Jesus. You know you're saved.  But when the Rapture comes what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind?   Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind.

We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each
Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you've received your reward.  Our network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step up to Jesus.

We are currently active in 20 states and growing.  Our representatives have been screened to ensure that they are atheists, animal lovers, are moral / ethical with no criminal background, have the ability and desire to  rescue your pet and the means to retrieve them and ensure their care for your pet's natural life. 

We currently cover the following states:
Maine,New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana ... and growing.

Our service is plain and simple; our fee structure is reasonable.
For $110.00 we will guarantee that should the Rapture occur within ten (10) years of receipt of payment, one pet per residence will be saved.  Each additional pet at your residence will be saved for an additional $15.00 fee.   A small price to pay for your peace of mind and the health and safety of your four legged friends.

Unfortunately at this time we are not equipped to accommodate all species and must  limit our services to dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and small caged mammals.

 I emailed them - who better to be the representative for Missouri than me?

Behavior shaping

I decided, on a whim, that my dog has gotten lazy, so I taught him how to put items I hand him in the trash can:


I taught him this using shaping - a technique where you take a dog's behavior and reward it and slowly modify your reward to shape a behavior you want. In this case, the steps went like this, with the dog only being rewarded for the behavior in question.

1. dog brings soda bottle to me (a behavior he was taught as a puppy)
2. dog drops soda bottle and it touches or goes in trash can lid, which is placed by my feet on the floor.
3. dog drops soda bottle in the lid only.
4. dog figures out it is easier to place bottle into lid rather than flinging it and hoping it lands in the lid.
5. I move to different spots in the room while dog puts bottle in lid.
6. lid is placed by trash can while I move to different spots in the room.
7. lid is lifted off the floor incrementally until it is put on the trash can.
8. dog works on putting objects other than bottle in trash can.

The next step is having him put things in the trash when we're not in the kitchen - I.E. in another room, and then we'll work on different types of trash cans so he can do it at other people's houses.

Notice in the video that he has learned to look into the trash can to make sure the item went into the trash can and did not fall outside the trash can - if something falls outside the can he picks it up and puts it back in, as he doesn't get rewarded if it falls outside the can.

Atheist Apocalypse!

So what would happen if the four horsemen of atheism decided that it was time to initiate the apocalypse?

Find out here. We're doomed, DOOOOOOOMED!

There, that wasn't so bad, was it? See, science, progress, reason and equality aren't so terrible after all.



-Thanks my my reader Johanne for sending this to me!

Religion again

Sometimes, religion looks like this to me:

My dog is silly

Time for something cute! Assuming this video embeds properly, here is my dog, apparently very freaked out by a little toy puppy:










If this does noe embed right, you can see the video here.

Thriftstore find

I decided that since the last time I purchased a pair of pants, I have lost a few pairs of pants due to walking the cuffs off and then ripping the legs up the side. Because I am in a professional field (medicine), I can't go about wearing torn up pants to my lab, so I headed to the thrift stores in my neighborhood yesterday to pick up some pants.

You know how when you're in thrift stores, unusual or strange stuff will just catch your eye? Along with seeing an original NES (which I considered getting), I saw. a pair. of footed. pajamas. You know, the kind of pajamas you wore as a kid - a comfortable flannel jumpsuit with plastic feet you can slide across the kitchen floor in.

Only these looked like they fit ME.

The brand is "Me & My Pals" and I can find no information on this brand of clothing whatsoever. I had to buy them, because I figured for $3.00 it would be worth the silly pictures and perhaps some tongue-in-cheek roleplay. Can you say random daddy/daughter sexual roleplay? Ha. The best parts are the cute little bears. Infantalism is so fun. I'm not really into it myself but I know people who are - and I would totally be willing to be someone's mommy.

I put them on and felt this overwhelming sense of childlike comfort come over me. I put my hair in pigtails and had Flimsy snap some pics of me.

I think they are magical pajamas. I ended up wearing them most of the night, until it was time to go to bed, but slept in my underwear so as not to deprive Flimsy of precious girl skin.

This might be the best thrift store find ever. Have you found anything bizarre at thrift stores?

The lego bible

This is quite possibly the best illustrated Bible I have ever seen. It is also the largest illustrated Bible.

The Brick Testament - the Bible according to Lego

I laughed until I cried.

Okcupid unsucking: Bastion

In my ongoing campaign to unsuck people's online dating profile, I present to you Bastion83.

I don't have a before picture, but I will assure you that I had no idea what this guy looked like from his pics. Here's an after:

And ladies... the man is single!

Want me to unsuck your online dating profile pictures and do you live near St. Louis? E-mail me!

Photography: cute cats

I've updated the site, and posted some more photography. This time, it's several pictures of my cats, for those of you who like cute things

Cats are here!