So, as some of you already read when I accidentally leaked my own blog post, my last day at Speaking of Faith was last week. Here’s an excerpt from the completed post on SOF’s blog:

But, the question remains how to say goodbye? Sometimes the best thing to do is look to those you admire. Included above is the last panel from the last comic strip of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. It doesn’t exactly say goodbye, which is perhaps part of why I love it.

Apparently leaving your to job to pursue other adventures is the thing to do these days (go Colin!), and I’m not about to miss out in the fun — or the uncertainty and anxiety that comes with it. So what now?

Well after finishing up work last week in D.C. I bussed it up to New York City for a few days, which is where I’ll be moving at the end of this Summer. Some friends and I will then begin work on the yet-to-be-pinned-down thing we’re calling The Notion Collective, and my lovely partner Ariel is also coming — to head to graduate school. All very exciting news, of course!

But in the meantime, I’ll be in the Twin Cities doing what I’ve been doing so far. MNKINO is still up an running (in fact our next screening is next week), and we have a few exciting things planned for the WBSC this summer.

And, of course, I’ll also be enjoying spring/summer in the Twin Cities. So who wants to go to the beach?

Note: Crap, this is what happens when you attempt to draft blog posts on vacation — forgetting to hit “draft.” Stay tuned.

Update: You can now read the completed post on Speaking of Faith’s blog.

Calvin and Hobbes: Math Is a Religion

I’m a total sucker for anything Calvin and Hobbes. (And leave it to Mr. Gilliss to provide a transcript for a comic strip!)

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Trent Gilliss, online editor

Some good clean humor to start the day, direct from one of my favorite comic strips via a tweetmeme.

For those who can’t easily read the word bubbles, a transcript:

First frame
Calvin: You know, I don’t think math is a science. I think it’s a religion.
Hobbes: A religion?

Second frame
Calvin: Yeah. All these equations are like miracles. You take two numbers and when you add them, they magically become one new number! No one can say how it happens. You either believe it or you don’t.

Third frame
Calvin: This whole book is full of things that have to be accepted on faith! It’s a religion!

Fourth frame
Hobbes: And in the public schools no less. Call a lawyer.
Calvin: As a math atheist, I should be excused from this.