Random Thoughts 9/30/10

• The Big 12-ish will now officially have a round-robin conference football schedule next year. Each Big 12-ish team will play nine conference games. For KU that means that in odd years (like 2011), home games will include Baylor, K-State, MU, OU, and Texas Tech, while away games will be at Iowa St., OSU, Texas, and Texas A&M. In even years, the reverse will be true.
• Did anyone else play the computer game "Myst" or "Riven" back in the 90's? Well now a film adaptation is being worked on, which actually sounds like a good idea to me.
• It sounds like the new Apple TV won't replace my cable box quite yet, but it's probably coming around the corner. Meanwhile, it seems that TiVo is partnering with DirecTV again. I really liked TiVo's interface and service but I've been using DirecTV's generic DVR service for almost two years and it's been perfectly adequate.
• A lot of Americans know very little about religion, even the faith they profess, especially Catholics, according to recent polls… and I believe it. I took Pew's quiz and scored 15 out of 15 and also Prothero's somewhat difficult religious literacy test (and got a 92, owing to holes in my knowledge of Buddhism). But more disturbing than a lack of knowledge on world religions is that when quizzed by Pew on Christianity and the Bible, Catholics got less than half of the answers right, with Hispanic Catholics getting about a third correct. White Evangelicals and Mormons scored much better, but now what I would call great. The Church obviously needs to get people better educated in their faith.