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Many fun things today - 13 October 2007
Oct. 14th, 2007 02:41 amI think I manged to get it all done today. I finally got correct plates for my car, got my oil changed (supposedly, there’s still an oil leak in it despite the fix we did in South Dakota), and did the rest of my errands. As such:
I can has new telephone number. E-mail me if you want the new one. I won’t be giving up the old telephone immediately, but I want all the people that already me to change numbers sooner rather than later. Otherwise, you’ll have to talk to someone else and prove that you do know me and want to talk to me.
Also went to a potluck where I got to play games. Still can’t seem to find the winning handle on Catan - made it to 9 points again, but failed. Came close on Chez Geek, and failed. Level 9 on Muchkin-Fu, and failed. Came within one in Apples To Apples and still failed. But I’m having plenty of fun while I’m at it, so it’s not like I’m being knocked out of a tournament or anything. It’s just amusing to see myself get so darn close and not manage to get all the way to the top. What can you do other than smile and say “Next time, for sure, I’ll win something.” You can’t win them all. But one would be nice. I think it was so bad that I joked that I would ascend before I won a game of Catan.
More frozen beef recalled, Cargill (again?) stuff has E. Col.
Right. On to the news. Or what passes for it, anyway. The Supreme Leader of Iran wants Muslims to boycott a peace conference on the subject of Palestinian statehood, considering it a means by which Israel is being saved, rather than destroyed.
Those arrested for minor crimes in the United Kingdom will soon not be able to speak to a lawyer, but instead to a call center staffed with legal advisors who are not lawyers. The programme has been criticized as justice on the cheap, and was gone through with, despite the lack of public support. Well, if they’re not qualified and haven’t passed the bar (or equivalent), then can they legally give legal advice?
China is planning on sending a probe to Luna, not too soon after the Japanese sent one. Everyone’s heading to Luna these days. The question is now who’s going to send the next manned mission to Luna.
The matter of the children’s health program continues to be debated. OpinionJournal says the Democrats are aiming to put more people on government tabs, despite better plans being available for many people, and that Mr. Bush favors a modest expansion rather than the larger Democratic one.
Fox News commenter says that Petraeus, not Gore, should be Nobel Peace Prize winner, despite Petraeus’s work being in contradiction to the guidelines for the peace award. But I don’t think Fox can swallow the idea that Mr. Gore may have achieved something worth recognition.
Illinois schools will begin with a moment of silence. A non-prayerful moment of silence, we note, which makes it legal. The question is whether some students will use that quiet time to make loud prayers or not. I think that quiet time should be in the lunch periods - students getting a nap would be awesome. And it might help their studies.
Hyper-reaction to careless use of the word "terrorism" has gumball machines eyed with suspicion. Because, in a worst-case scenario, someone might decide to poison or rig a gumball machine to do things. Why waste the effort, I wonder? You can do much more with less.
District of Columbia police are walking the beat, handing out contact cards to the populace they meet, trying to foster better relations between the police and the people. Nothing known yet as to whether a programme like this will actually work worth anything.
Quiche candidates tonight are a growing strain of violent and virulent Latvia-based anti-gay “ministries” that like to do things like beat homosexuals or drag them by their hair, and encourage their members to be aggressive as well. Ah, and they’re not just against homosexuals, they’re against people who sympathize with them as well, putting them under the rubric of “homosexualists”. They share the quiche with the managers of private "boot camps" where teenagers are regularly abused, and have died. Managers and employees were not punished, even when those in their care died. More likely, the program packs up shop and reopens elsewhere under a new name, all in the idea of rehabilitating problem children. There’s also little or no oversight of these programmes.
Doctorate awarded to a researcher that wrote his dissertation on how Humes and robots will probably be married in the future. It will not likely happen on a drug trip, however, as psilocybin mushrooms have been banned in the Netherlands. That’s not to say there won’t be strange things, like a man offering the lack of goats on Canadian roads as his excuse for excess speed.
So, let’s do a little recap on the news, courtesy of Liberal Eagle, before hitting the grand finale.
Last tonight, although it sounds like a sobering note, isn’t. The Council for Secular Humanism collected and published several short essays about how humanists view the end of life.
I fear that I’m going to be spending lots and lots of money, all on things that I really should get done, long before I ever get to any money to be spent on things that I like. I think all of my requirements have finally been taken care of, though. Plates, licenses, insurances, job, apartment, and the rest. And I still have to plan out my meals for this coming week tomorrow. And do dishes. And laundry. And some other stuff, too, I think... somewhere along the line. In any case, I’m going to bed for now, and hoping that things fall into place more tomorrow. My creativity is shot right now, so I can’t exactly plan a menu.
I can has new telephone number. E-mail me if you want the new one. I won’t be giving up the old telephone immediately, but I want all the people that already me to change numbers sooner rather than later. Otherwise, you’ll have to talk to someone else and prove that you do know me and want to talk to me.
Also went to a potluck where I got to play games. Still can’t seem to find the winning handle on Catan - made it to 9 points again, but failed. Came close on Chez Geek, and failed. Level 9 on Muchkin-Fu, and failed. Came within one in Apples To Apples and still failed. But I’m having plenty of fun while I’m at it, so it’s not like I’m being knocked out of a tournament or anything. It’s just amusing to see myself get so darn close and not manage to get all the way to the top. What can you do other than smile and say “Next time, for sure, I’ll win something.” You can’t win them all. But one would be nice. I think it was so bad that I joked that I would ascend before I won a game of Catan.
More frozen beef recalled, Cargill (again?) stuff has E. Col.
Right. On to the news. Or what passes for it, anyway. The Supreme Leader of Iran wants Muslims to boycott a peace conference on the subject of Palestinian statehood, considering it a means by which Israel is being saved, rather than destroyed.
Those arrested for minor crimes in the United Kingdom will soon not be able to speak to a lawyer, but instead to a call center staffed with legal advisors who are not lawyers. The programme has been criticized as justice on the cheap, and was gone through with, despite the lack of public support. Well, if they’re not qualified and haven’t passed the bar (or equivalent), then can they legally give legal advice?
China is planning on sending a probe to Luna, not too soon after the Japanese sent one. Everyone’s heading to Luna these days. The question is now who’s going to send the next manned mission to Luna.
The matter of the children’s health program continues to be debated. OpinionJournal says the Democrats are aiming to put more people on government tabs, despite better plans being available for many people, and that Mr. Bush favors a modest expansion rather than the larger Democratic one.
Fox News commenter says that Petraeus, not Gore, should be Nobel Peace Prize winner, despite Petraeus’s work being in contradiction to the guidelines for the peace award. But I don’t think Fox can swallow the idea that Mr. Gore may have achieved something worth recognition.
Illinois schools will begin with a moment of silence. A non-prayerful moment of silence, we note, which makes it legal. The question is whether some students will use that quiet time to make loud prayers or not. I think that quiet time should be in the lunch periods - students getting a nap would be awesome. And it might help their studies.
Hyper-reaction to careless use of the word "terrorism" has gumball machines eyed with suspicion. Because, in a worst-case scenario, someone might decide to poison or rig a gumball machine to do things. Why waste the effort, I wonder? You can do much more with less.
District of Columbia police are walking the beat, handing out contact cards to the populace they meet, trying to foster better relations between the police and the people. Nothing known yet as to whether a programme like this will actually work worth anything.
Quiche candidates tonight are a growing strain of violent and virulent Latvia-based anti-gay “ministries” that like to do things like beat homosexuals or drag them by their hair, and encourage their members to be aggressive as well. Ah, and they’re not just against homosexuals, they’re against people who sympathize with them as well, putting them under the rubric of “homosexualists”. They share the quiche with the managers of private "boot camps" where teenagers are regularly abused, and have died. Managers and employees were not punished, even when those in their care died. More likely, the program packs up shop and reopens elsewhere under a new name, all in the idea of rehabilitating problem children. There’s also little or no oversight of these programmes.
Doctorate awarded to a researcher that wrote his dissertation on how Humes and robots will probably be married in the future. It will not likely happen on a drug trip, however, as psilocybin mushrooms have been banned in the Netherlands. That’s not to say there won’t be strange things, like a man offering the lack of goats on Canadian roads as his excuse for excess speed.
So, let’s do a little recap on the news, courtesy of Liberal Eagle, before hitting the grand finale.
Last tonight, although it sounds like a sobering note, isn’t. The Council for Secular Humanism collected and published several short essays about how humanists view the end of life.
I fear that I’m going to be spending lots and lots of money, all on things that I really should get done, long before I ever get to any money to be spent on things that I like. I think all of my requirements have finally been taken care of, though. Plates, licenses, insurances, job, apartment, and the rest. And I still have to plan out my meals for this coming week tomorrow. And do dishes. And laundry. And some other stuff, too, I think... somewhere along the line. In any case, I’m going to bed for now, and hoping that things fall into place more tomorrow. My creativity is shot right now, so I can’t exactly plan a menu.
