Sometimes my mind boggles at the sheer number of problems likely perpetuated simply because people are not getting laid enough.
Quick Thoughts: Problems
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Physical Magic
Probably Some Sort of Otter
Friday Besotted Blog Post: Dogs with Dreadlocks
Deena: “They are actually Quite Athletic under all that.”
from the glorious wikipedia:
The origin of the Komondor is debated. Some believe the Komondor were a dog of the Magyars, while others believe it to be a dog of the Sumerians. According to the most probable explanation, Komondors were brought to Hungary by Cumans, the Turkish speaking, nomadic people who settled Hungary during the 12th and 13th century. The name “quman-dur” means “belonging to the Cumans” or “the dog of the Cumans,” thus distinguishing it from a similar Hungarian sheepdog breed which later merged with the Komondor. The name Komondor is found for the first time writen in 1544 in the History of King Astiagis by Kákonyi Péter, in Hungarian. Later in 1673 Amos Comenius is mentioning the Komondor in one of his works. [2]
The unique dreadlock appearance gives a hint of common origin with the Puli and the Bergamasco. There might also be a link between the Komondor and the big, white Russian livestock dogs, the South Russian Ovtcharka. The dreadlock coat must have developed under a dry and extreme temperature climate as it provides superb protection against cold and hot weather, but is not too comfortable in wet weather.
dude, dogs…with dreadlocks…I must have one!!!
Release of Halo 3 in Cambridge
Humorous Legal Item
Here’s the background:
In 1986 the supreme court ruled in Bowers v. Hardwick that a georgia sodomy law was perfectly constitutional essentially saying that blowjobs between dudes are illegal. Chief Justice Warren Burger said “To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.”
The Item:
a February 87 letter to playboy asked:
Isn’t it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme Court to have its head up its ass?
Seriously: Love
:: Via Email {thanks the meerkat!} ::
The Right Thing to Say…15 Minutes later
So this guy walks up to me in the grocery store today and quips “with hair like that, looks like you put your finger in a light socket.”
it was a good natured ribbing and I would have been happy to respond but I was totally groggy. I laughed politely and continued looking at various foods that I could possibly gain nourishment from. He was bald and when I failed to offer a decent response his wife pointed out that he was likely jealous. On the way home I was chuckling about it and realized that I should have quickly retorted
“with hair like that, looks like you put your head in a zamboni machine.”
Crap -> Addicted to Caffeine
There’s something wrong when I crawl out of bed craving a rockstar. Brain chemistry makes me think that the taste of robot sweat left to marinate in an ashtray is somehow delightful and refreshing. stupid caffeine.
Overheard: Downtown Santa Cruz
Sketchy Old Dude to Young Girl>>
When you’re with me honey, you’re safe, you don’t have to worry cause honey, I don’t even have to panhandle. I have it all worked out, what I do honey, what I do is that I just sell heroin.
Ohhhh Santa Cruz. I haven’t really hung out here in a while and all the crazy homeless people are new again.
you can't judge a book by its cover
but you can judge a state by its criminal code. you know when a state gets specific, it’s had a lot of experience with something… behold, Nevada:
NRS 171.025 Death by dueling. When an inhabitant or resident of this state, by previous appointment or engagement, fights a duel or is concerned as second therein, out of the jurisdiction of this state, and in the duel a wound is inflicted upon a person, whereof he dies in this state, the jurisdiction of the offense is in the county where the death happens.
:: via email {text from the Meercat, thanks!} ::
HEEEEEUUGE!!
so i’m sort of strangely fascinated this this website called hugecrab.com. it’s just pictures of really big freaky crustaceans with funny text.
be sure to check out the faq and page on investor relations that hugecrabs.com offers.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I’m concerned that lolcats might be getting too popular. But I’d also like to express my condolences to the handlers of the lolrus (which is technically a seal) and to everyone else that so adored his ridiculous antics.
:: god rest your soul you hilariously fat marine mammal {i hope you’re buried with your beloved bucket} ::
Finally, this is a poignant memory not only of lolrus but of a hideously complex inside joke perpetuated by insular groups of internet nerds. I think it’s time that we all just went outside.
Greenspan Lets Loose!
In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies. However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.
:: via times online ::
:: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan ::
:: I get into it with someone in the comments area on amazon ::
Then on Daily Show Greenspan admits that we don’t have a freemarket! tiiiiiight!
Jon Stewart: Many people are free-market capitalists, and they always talk about free-market capitalism, and that is our economic theory. So why do we have a Fed? Is the free market – wouldn’t the market take care of interest rates and all that? Why do we have someone adjusting the rates if we are a free-market society?
Alan Greenspan: You’re raising a very fundamental question. … You didn’t need central bank when we were on the gold standard, which was back in the nineteenth century. And all of the automatic things occurred because people would buy and sell gold, and the market would do what the Fed does now. But: most everybody in the world by the 1930s decided that the gold standard was strangling the economy. And universally this gold standard was abandoned. But: you need somebody to determine –or some mechanism – how much money is out there, because remember, the amount of money relates to the amount of inflation in the economy. … In any event the more money you have, relative to the amount of goods, the more inflation you have, and that’s not good. So:
Stewart: So we’re not a free market then.
Greenspan: No. No.
Stewart: There’s a visible – there’s a benevolent hand that touches us.
Greenspan: Absolutely. You’re quite correct. To the extent that there is a central bank governing the amount of money in the system, that is not a free market. Most people call it regulation.
Book Review: The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
News Flash: George W. Bush is a shitty president!!!
If you’re not already familiar with this charming nugget of information you might consider reading the Assault on Reason by Al Gore. Although this book would have actually been useful or part of a vibrant public discourse 4-5 years ago but now it’s just relating the obvious without much in the way of solutions.
And actually it’s a pretty blatantly rips off Noam Chomsky’s Media Control Spectacular Achievements in Propaganda. Assault even goes on to mention that it’s ripping chomsky off.
So I’d say just read Media Control by Noam Chomsky, it’s shorter, better written, cheaper, more relevant and actually says something rather than dancing around issues.
Ratatat
I burned a copy of Ratatat’s “Classics” for my grandma…she loves it!!!!