I bet the ashtanga style works for some people as a form of moving meditation, not having to process new instructions and just moving from pose to pose.

I decided to give it a shot. I know nothing about yoga so it'll be all new to me anyway. I think I'll wait for full on winter when I may really appreciate the heat.

Good for you, brenda! The day you start, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, and watch how you eat. The only goal at first is to stay in the room, not do every pose.

30+ Weird, Geeky and Cool Wedding Cakes

My faves are:

• Cake with little bride and groom Daleks on top. I wonder if their wedding vows had a vow to exterminate together?
• Dalek cake
• Cake with cute little bride and groom Alien Chestbursters on top. I'm sorry, but Giger Aliens in wedding formal-wear never gets old....
• eta: Corpse Bride cake is cute too....

We had soccer this weekend, Leif's team did great and he played a great game.

Em's team, well it looked like it was going to be a rough game just seeing the other team and thinking "those are 11 and 10 year olds?" a lot of them looked like high school girls. The final score was some very high number to 0, the poor girls were just overmatched physically and in experience. The other team was making accurate passes that went over Em's team's heads and just running though, past, and over her teammates. It's tough to take on other players when you only come up to the middle their chest.

Em put out some effort though, which was good to see. She doesn't really care about winning and losing fortunately, she just likes being part of the team.

If shrift comes to Washington State, she knows where she'd better be visiting, and it's not Seattle.

Galileo was wrong - Earth is the center of the universe

Finally, the truth about geocentricism can be told, thanks to Robert A. Sungenis, Ph.D., "founder and president of Catholic Apologetics International Publishing," who is heading up a conference next month with a day of presentations, such as "Geocentrism: They Know It But They're Hiding It."

Did the Catholic Church make a grand and embarrassing mistake when it condemned the heliocentric system under Pope Urban VIII in 1633 as “formally heretical” and “opposed to Scripture”? Has modern science proven that heliocentrism is the correct system of cosmology? Did John Paul II officially concede that Galileo was right and the Church was wrong? To the surprise of many, the answer to all three is no. Now, abridged from the original two volume set of over 1200 pages, the essential facts and figures of one of the most controversial events in the history of man has been distilled down to 700 pages (350 pages of science and 350 pages of ecclesiastical history) and put in a comfortable 6 x 9 book frame in a less expensive paperback version.

eta: Check out their website: www.galileowaswrong.com/galileowaswrong

That's a hoax, right?

I mean...right????

I, um... don't know.

eta: I went to the books for sale section, looked at the reviews, picked one guy at raondom:

"In their over 700-page book, Drs. Sungenis and Bennett make a convincing case for the special and central position of the earth in the cosmos" (Vincent Schmithorst, Ph.D., Physics)

Then I googled 'Vincent Schmithorst geocentrism' (no quotes) and got 639 results.

So my preliminary conclusion is the site is real.

I love the Wonder Pets, Cash! i even started DVRing them back in the day.

had absolutely terrible indigestion last night, which caused me to get very little sleep. so i stayed home today. i'm going to take this opportunity to try to learn how to use my new Mac to the best of its ability!