Just got back from the Opel party at Sublounge - thanks Opel folks for throwing a free party. Got to hear some sweet tunes from Hoj and Farmboy and Tung and Smoove. Earlier tonite I was at Momentum at Anu ... Pia *rocked* it. That girl has great taste in both records and outfits - watch out! And way to go Kev and Tom for throwing a great party.

Last night I played at Mezzanine. There was a lot of other stuff going on that night ... the Hybrid boat party, prog and breaks rooms at 1015, but it still turned out to be a good night. In fact, I had an excellent time. For some reason the second I got behind the decks I had this huge energy surge and started bouncing around like a monkey on crack. I really don't know what go into me. Plus I somehow kept getting the headphone cord wrapped around my legs so I kept doing this sort of pirouette half turn to untangle myself. So that probably made me look like a monkey on crack attempting ballet moves. I can assure you that 1) I am not a monkey and 2) I had not consumed any stimulants (though the room was a little cold when I started and I got the sniffles and I kept rubbing my nose, so it may have looked that way). Anyway I thought the crowd was great and people seemed to be really digging the tunes, including "New Blue Dawn" which is a new Jondi & Spesh track I've been testing out. Still needs some tweaks but it's coming along.

Yes, I am not a monkey, and I am not descended from monkeys. I am apparently descended from Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, the common ancestor of humans and monkeys. If you don't believe that, if you're a creationist, then I'm ready to go head to head with you. Go ahead and put your best argument in the comments. Just please don't give me some line about how the human eye is too complex to have evolved from mutation and natural selection and there has to be some sort of "intelligent design" behind it. The mechanism of the eye has evolved at least eight times *independently* in various lifeforms on this planet ... the fact is that it is so useful to see that the eye is a sort of evolutionary attractor ... any organism/physiology that mutates/evolves anywhere near being able to see is going to be rewarded with all kinds of fitness advantages. And there are *plenty* of very useful mechanisms that have *not* evolved ... my point being if there was an intelligent designer why wouldn't he/she given at least one species wheels to roll around on?

Also, please don't try to use the writings and arguments of modern evolutionary theorists like Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins *against* Darwinism. Both those scientists consider themselves Darwinists, even though they have added refinements since "Origin of Species" was written, like the idea of puntuated equilibrium (Gould), and structural constraints to evolution (Dawkins).

Oh, and that one about the lack of evidence of intermediate lifeforms, no fossil evidence and so forth? It's just not true! There are thousands of documented cases of fossils of intermediate lifeforms. The so called "holes" in the fossil record are constantly getting filled in, and earth's family tree is constanly getting expanded. Read the news and get your head out of the sand!

And please don't tell me that God put all the dinosaur bones (all of which are carbon-dated far earlier than the wildest estimate of when Genesis took place according to "calculations" based on the Bible) in the earth for us to find. For what, entertainment value? To test our faith? You *know* that idea is B.S. - just admit it. It's also irrefutable anti-logic!

You know, I have no problem if someone wants to assert that a divine power created the universe. Esp. since I don't have a better explanation for why the universe exists, at least at the moment. What I have a problem with is this idea that God is still driving. What's wrong with the idea that God set up the universe and is letting it run? If I were a Creationist I would stick with this idea, then I wouldn't have to dispute the fossil record, carbon dating, laboratory oberservations of mutations in DNA, obvious evidence of evolution in progress (ever heard of antibiotic resistant bacteria?), etc.

So, Creationists, give me your best shot. Put on that fuzzy thinking cap of yours and try to pull another whack argument out of your ass and write it in my comments section. I dare you.