Neanderpundit

Steve H is toying with the idea of restoring an old car. Here’s my feeling on the subject.

Now, I’ve restored cars, and been around people who have restored them, and I’ve done a great deal of the work myself- electrical, mechanical, bodywork, chrome, you name it I’ve done it. I considered starting a shop at one time, even. I’ve alternately learned by trial and error, or had good mentors, and I can safely say, I hope steve does it.

I’ve been around a lot of people with average mechanical ability who believe it is possible to easily learn all the skills necesary to restore a motor vehicle of any kind. With the writing skills Steve has, the meltdown he will inevitably have while trying to master all the skills necesary- or even find reputable repair shops to do the work for him, is going to be a whole new book- one that will eclipse everything he’s written so far. I’ve done my best to discourage him from doing this, knowing full well that his gargantuan ego will prevent him taking advice from a mere reader- no matter how intelligent that advice is. I intend to continue to disparage him, and am sure others will do so, just because it’s going to be SUCH good reading. My God, folks, the blogosphere has never been this promising.

Update: The nerve I touched- whoohoo!

I’m not gonna be reading Steve for a while, I’m pretty disinterested in the ravings of a brat, but I remember back when I knew everything too, and it’s SUCH fun to watch someone get educated.

All your jesus are belong to us. epileptics, please don’t click.

The truth will set you free. the truth about what, I don’t know.

Were you born an asshole?

You’ll shoot your eye out! with FRICKIN LASERS!

Anything you never wanted to know?

Flaming Scrotum!

it’s the most horrible website of the year! Epileptics beware.

You’re using two empty halves of coconuts and banging them together!

The world’s worst website

A truly special olympics

the biggest idiot on the world wide web

Digital Rectal Exam! Will you really have to cut me in half, Doctor?

And in case you just now noticed you have a cock and a balzac, here’s some suggestions as to how they might be used.

hey, it could have happened.

Consider: A group of aliens parks themself in synchronous orbit around the earth. They monitor the goings-on here, see the political status of the planet, see that there is a need for some change, and decide what to do.

They uncloak their ship, which appears as an unmoving star in the east. Day and night it can be seen, a glowing star brighter than any other. Geosynchronous orbit means it STAYS in the east, there is no “eastern sky” or “Western sky” to astronomers, even at that time, the constellations are alternately in the east and west at any time of the year. So a geosynchronous earth orbit would make the Eastern Star very plausible. In any event, it disapears after Christ’s birth.

Next: THey choose Elizabeth to bear a child. Genetically enhanced, elisabeth’s bloodline gives them the characteristics they want, but something goes wrong. So they look for a close relative. Mary is an excellent candidate, young, strong, but not “legal” so to speak. SO they get her ready anyway, a little work while she’s under sedation. It takes, and they have to make her understand so they show themselves to her. All of this stuff is perfectly possible with today;s technology, by the way. Anyway, if you think of what clothing was like then, and hygeine, a clean shaven, clean, nice looking man wearing a perfeclty pressed, bleached white tunic, would seem like an apparition to someone then, and that talk in the garden to Mary could have been just that. Joseph has to bne convinced inthe same way. Later, as Elisabeth’s son John the Baptist grows, we see his flaw, he has the skill of compassion and understanding, but he’s clearly not all there. Jesus acknowledges him as his predecessor, John acknowledges Jesus as “he who came after”. The aliens program Jesus’ DNA to make him very smart, very savvy, and build in a mechanism to watch and learn until he’s about thirty, then to tear the place up. Which he does quite nicely. THe very few glimpses we have of Jesus’ life before thirty, he is clearly a precocious child. When he is hung on a cross, the seeds he has planted will continue to grow for two thousand years and more.

hey, it could happen. Again, all the technology I have posited is more or less possible right this very minute.