Thursday, done.

[silveradept]

Computer hiccuped, which ended up being a crashable offense. After a restart (and running the package reconfiguration command) we're back. Comic appears not to be updating, even though I've queued up a couple. Maybe comicgenesis/keenspace is updating or something.

Ice, Ice, Baby. In Latin. Test your skills against it, if you dare.

If you're trying to persuade someone to your side, maybe having a cup of coffee with them will help sell your pitch. Maybe then, they'll start believing that Sony didn't steal the motion sensitive controller from Nintendo, but rather from... Atari?

Wonder waht could happen if the line between virtual and outside reality blurs a bit too much? Grand Theft Reality. torakiyoshi noted that to him, it seemed like the author was claiming video games cause violence, and I can see that angle. I just think it looks more like a game or a player that can't distinguish or has blurred the lines between the game and the world. There have been stories like that for a while.

Pat Robertson predicts storms and possibly a tsunami for the Northwest. Any meterologists who can back that prediction using their scientific predictions? Or tell Pat that he misheard God? Unless there's an explosive test or stash that Pat knows about and we don't...

Speaking of good "christian" values, Missouri town won't let unmarried parents live together. This is a side effect of trying to enforce an ideal household, sometimes it bites back, hard. Apparently, in this town, if you want more than one kid but haven't gone through with a marriage ceremony, or you want to hole up with some of your buddies for college, you're either going to have to be related, adopted, or married to make it happen. Bet that'll fry some minds when dudes apply for marriage licenses just so they can all live together.

The following srticle has useful bits, but they may have to be strained from dreck: Cupid's Broken Arrow: Or, some good reasons (stress, alcohol, depressants, expectations) and some bad reasons (forward girls, gender equality) why young guys might have trouble getting erect and having sex.

70,000 beer cans found in a house. Seventy thousand beer cans. So many that getting from place to place is a problem. All of them were turned in for redemption, to the tune of about $800, which isn't great, but hey, at least there aren't seventy thousand cans of beer on the floor, seventy thousand cans of beer...

Comments

[lilacstarprint.livejournal.com]

Have you heard of the guy who actually built his house of crushed beer cans? I've seen it mentioned a few times. He (along with community help) drinks a can of beer, crushes it and adds it to his house.
AFAIK, he uses it as siding, insulation, wallpaper and, in some cases, furniture.
He even finds uses for the beer tabs.

[silveradept]

Hrm. I haven't heard of it, no, but I wonder what happens if/when things get warm or cold - I'm fairly certain the aluminium conducts both well enough. Maybe there's enough thickness of the beer cans now that the house stays insulated?

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

If you donate the tabs to the Ronald McDonald house, they somehow get money for them to go back into the organization....but I'm really not sure how that works. I just know my cousin bugs everyone for pop tops at thanksgiving.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

They sell the tabs for scrap aluminium.

http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp