randomicity

1. According to my SiteMeter, someone from Cebu City visited my blog. I never knew there was such a place as Cebu City. "This is a song about a little boy and his cebu ..."

2. A great sci-fi short story by Terry Bisson [found via David Malki ! on Twitter]:

"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

3. Cool t-shirt with a cool GK Chesterton quote on it (from Manalive):

“I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life!”

See Mark Shea act out this story here (I stole this link from him).

4. And encounter God at the elevator.

Although the advertiser probably isn't thinking about it (it is an ad for a plastic surgeon), I think we do encounter God in seemingly mundane places and times in our lives. He is there reaching out for us. Will we respond?

[Thanks Mom]