Jeff's Lunchbreak

My blog output has been waning a bit, lately, particularly this summer. Between family vacation, a business trip, and a few projects at work, I just haven't had time to write. Plus, I seem to have fallen out of the groove of it even when I do have time, spending more time during my lunch breaks reading other sites than writing my own content. And this lack of content has also been reflected in waning traffic to this site. So, now that summer's over, it's time to make a renewed committment to this blog and website, and see if I can get back into the groove of making at least one update per week (even if it means recycling some of the answers I've been writing for Quora). And I'm really going to try hard to resurrect my long dormant Friday Bible Blogging series.

It's been 3 months since I've done a top 10 list, so this entry will cover May, June, and July. Like normal, most of the entries have made the list before. However, there were a few newcomers. Probably the one I'm happiest to see becoming newly popular is Response to E-mail - 1400 years of In-breeding, explaining the fallacies in an e-mail forward I received claiming that "The massive inbreeding in Muslim culture may well have done virtually irreversible damage to the Muslim gene pool..." Of course, that claim isn't true, as I explain in the entry. Other newcomers to the list include Theistic Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, 2012 Great American Beer Festival, and Gamera Human Powered Helicopter (which is a little surprising considering that another entry on the topic had made the list several times before, Gamera II Human Powered Helicopter Sets New Record). There was one entry this time that hadn't made the list in a few years, VW XL1 + E-mail Debunking - China's New "Little Car". I wonder if the e-mail that inspired it is making the rounds again.

Anyway, here're the lists for the past 3 months.

Top 10 for May 2016

1. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
2. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
3. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
4. Rick Santorum
5. E-mail Forward - Obama's Reaction to Ft. Hood Shootings
6. Autogyro History & Theory
7. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
8. Gamera Human Powered Helicopter
9. Arguing on a Website - Explaining Evolution
10. 2012 Great American Beer Festival

Top 10 for June 2016

1. VW XL1 + E-mail Debunking - China's New "Little Car"
2. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
3. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
4. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
5. Response to E-mail - 1400 years of In-breeding
6. Autogyro History & Theory
7. Rick Santorum
8. Response to an Editorial by Ken Huber
9. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
10. Theistic Evolution vs. Intelligent Design

Top 10 for July 2016

1. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
2. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
3. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
4. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
5. Response to E-mail - 1400 years of In-breeding
6. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
7. A Skeptical Look at Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
8. Rick Santorum
9. Arguing on a Website - Explaining Evolution
10. Autogyro History & Theory