About that fart bomb. It wouldn't really work in a war time situation. A battelfield smells like crap to begin with. Dead bodies are decomposing, entrails are leaking out of wounded or nearly dying, there is uncontrolled defecation and any other horror of combat I won't care to mention. This all adds together to form the so called smell of death that war veterans talk about. Even when there is no battle a soldier has been on patrol for untold number of hours lugging around about 35 pounds or more of gear. To say the least he is not going to smell very clean or sterile. I don't think those pencil pushing military scientist were actually thinking when they developed that weapon. That is bureacracy (sp) for you, there is no communication between the ground pounders (infantry) and the people developing this equipment. The scientist have never fired a shot in anger and can not think what the soldier is going through. They don't know the real rigours of combat. What am I complaining about? The average army division of 17,000 men only have about 7000 men and women actually doing the actual shooting and combat. The other 10,000 are pencil pushers, truck drivers, logistic, and whatever other cushy position that those desk generals can think of. Yes I have been reading too much Military Sci-Fi books.

It's from a Tom Jones song, and I think even R.E.M. did a cover of it.

ha ha ha! "sex bomb, sex bomb, you're a sex bomb" ha ha ha! what's that from again?

Yeah, it was in the paper this weekend. They were also thinking of developing a fart bomb (though it had a different name) so that people would get grossed out and start accusing eachother of passing gas... until they realized that that's more of a cultural thing than anything... and that a lot of the adversarial armies wouldn't be as affected by it as the Americans... so backfires weren't really all that positive, I guess.

The Hour premieres tonight. Hope George does well with this (at least he doesn't have to deal with The Temp anymore...)

It's like that episode of the Office, but I think Gates is serious.

How far can one guy stray from his own signature? Hieroglyphs? Stick men? Mariah Carey??

Working on a sex bomb...

US Military Considered Creation of Weapons-Grade Aphrodisiac

crazy, Alison, you were the second person to wish me (or, at least, me in a collective sense) a Happy Monday. Coincidence? I think not....

um, thanks Paras. Sure, some people might be able to skate to work if all the roads iced up... and it was fairly flat all the way, but I'm certainly not. I also did say "personally" in my statement of opinion. and by "hell for us all" I was more referring to the way traffic is going to be all messed up, and walking on sidewalks is going to be a gong show. It's even difficult for wildlife because the snow gets this nasty hard crust on it and makes it harder for the rabbits etc. of the world to dig down to food. And the trees get weighed down immensely. So perhaps you'll be happy about skating to work, good for you. me, not so much.

And what the heck is that person supposed to be? I don't get it.

Oh, and vote for Alberta's centennial quarter design.

Have we gone too far? Yes:

Hey Beck, Thanks for the offer of help. Actually, by the time you'd posted that, I'd called AMA, and a rather good looking, tall tow-truck driver came and gave me a boost. Thanks anyway. We've had some rotten luck with destroying vehicle computers when giving boosts to other people, so I didn't want to do that to any of my friends, but it's nice to know you cared.

Tay, did everything work out alright in the end? That's a nasty place to stall. Usually when I've been stalled, it's busy intersections, but the Highlevel Bridge? damn.

So this nasty cold weather that's now on its way out is supposed to be getting replaced with super warm and rainy weather within the week. WTF? Personally, I'm not so keen on rain... in January. It's just going to freeze and make life a living hell for us all. awesomeness of all awesomeness, isn't it?

Anyway, yeah, happy Monday!