Taylor, I agree, that kid did nothing wrong, and actually, I think it's a fairly happy photo.

Percy, sorry for the undue attack. I mean, I would've responded the same way as I did to whomever it was, but I didn't need to pull you into it. In the end, I've decided to work on a subject I've previously worked on a bit... for familiarity's sake. So... Woodland Caribou here I come!

*ahem* exciting news in the world of Canadian Documentaries: Shake Hands With the Devil won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award (only awarded to documentaries twice, and both times it's been for Canadian ones). Even with the knowledge that the film is going to be horridly fearsome, I think I want to see it... but not until after Thursday. Anyone else interested?

Holy crap... a Monday morning and I don't feel worn out already!

Because:
sleep = dreaming
dreaming = fantasy
fantasy = sex
sex = good
good = crusty bedsheets
crusty bedsheets = funny
funny = I like funny
I like funny = you should do it



I have mathematically determined that one should sleep simply because sleeping is funny and I like funny stuff.

Why, sleep, why? Lets see, how about water conservation and river treaties? I think I read something about that. Something about old treaties and how they may be anachronistic when dealing with the problems of the 21st century. I believe it was about the Columbia river in particular, maybe you can find other rivers that fall under the same situation.

I find a lot of things funny. I can joke about pretty much anything... even if it's highly inappropriate subject matter. Take rape for example. Not particularly funny on it's own... but I'm sure I could think up something funny for it if the opportunity arose. I deal in generalized scenarios, and only make specific individual attacks when they are JUSTIFIED (in my mind) by stupidity or opportunity. But there is some shit that is NOT funny. And the fact that I found this picture in the midst of a gallery of "funny photos" breaks my heart:



This kid didn't do shit to anyone, nor is he DOING anything that would justify his ridicule. He's just a fucking kid trying to be happy. Only true assholes will laugh at this picture. The thing that pains me the most is that I'm sure this kid will grow up to become just another asshole as he quickly learns that the only coping mechanism is to be a bigger asshole to the people that have ridiculed him his whole life.

I'm not easily offended, but in this case:
FUCK YOU INTERNET.

Do you think the owner of the Taiwanese condom company is using his real name? I mean c'mon... Huang Wanting? I don't buy that jizz-shpiel for one second.

That ananova site is actually the same place where I orignally found that "Man peed out of avalanche" article. haha That site is rad. I've also noticed that the Edmonton Sun prints most of it's first-page articles from that site actually.

Tony, Percy guess who can use battlenet now? So Starcraft:Brood war somtime on friday?

That wasn't Percy. That was someone who found us thanks to an old post about Opus.

nice, Beck, being a jerk just for the sake of it?

no, they haven't all been solved, but when all of them have solutions and action plans, it's next to impossible to figure out what they'd like you to do. So I think I'm going to look at a number of different recovery plans and come up with my own, but given the parameters of my assignment, I wasn't too sure where to begin... most problems have solutions given the nature and delay of scientific publishing.

P, I'm assuming you're Percy... wtf?
that's an invasive species issue, and the analogy side of things is not the point of the paper. The point of the paper would be, for example, to discuss how the black plague was caused by rats, and then how to manage the rat etc. populations to bring it under control. Or, in the case of SARS, supposed 'management' of civet cats. Not to create analogies to the human population, no matter what you personally think. This is not that kind of a philosophical negative paper pointing the finger at humans... because really, the only solution to that is severe population control, a radical turnaround in current behaviour, and about 20 million other things that need to be done, but no one wants to admit to wanting to do or personally be willing to undertake. (I mean, would you be willing to not give your children any vaccinations or medical treatment etc. because it was all part of natural selection in the end?)