Ye gads, it's hot.

[silveradept]

And it's humid. Work, luckily, is air conditioned, and when I'm not forced to wear long pants, the room is much more bearable. But yes, I'm drinking lots of water, and no, I don't need to crash somewhere just because it has A/C. I've lived here long enough to handle it. It's really the humidity that sucks more than the heat.

Decorative Mary Jane. Something to act as a decoy, perhaps, while you figure out how to hide the real thing? Or just a way of taunting people? You never know.

Ice cream, by way of a fire extinguisher and a pillow. So it's carbonated ice cream, in a sense. Strange, probably with no practical use, but shows off the type of mindset that can solve adventure game puzzles. Or invent Hello Kitty RFID card sleeves. (By the way, RFID still isn't a great security protocol.)

Diebold machines can be beaten by a single switch-flip. Wonder how many of those machines, if we looked at them on election day, had that switch flipped (for either side)?

Time measurement becoming even more precise. So now we have a clock that if the species lives long enough to need to recalibrate it, we've done very well indeed. Here's hoping the future has to adjust the long clock.

God is a scientist. Or, that if one believes in an Intelligent Designer, one should have the courtesy to believe the Intelligent Designer is, indeed, intelligent, and would thus design his universe in a way that accorded with scientific theories. The current way of thinking about it, according to the article, is really more about Young Earth arguments than the intelligence of the designer. How much does that hurt the credibility of those who advocate for an intelligent designer? Besides, the Big Bang, despite common misconceptions, holds up quite well, thank you. And it was advocated by a priest thinking about Einstein's theories (at least, according to the article). So, really, God is likely to be a scientist.

No relief for the Dobrich family - the Jews who felt threatened by their school's blatant endorsement and encouragement of Christianity. And the solution they have the gall to propose at the meeting - convert - is the worst solution of all of them. This is quite likely what the whole country will look like if too many of those who give lip service to the Nazarene's teachings get into power.

Solar-powered BRIIIIIIIICK!

A heartwarming story of ice cream, popcorn, and killer ducks. If it wasn't fiction, it could very well be true. Speaking sweets, here a way of improving your crane skills... while possibly making your diet work, at least long enough for you to get good - Candy Grabbing Crane Game. So it's not quite a perfect diet supplement, but it may impress some passerby and possibly net you a second date at the carnival.

Also, I've been told by someone else that I'm scary when I'm mad. Is that really true? Do I suddenly become much meaner when I'm pissed off?

Comments

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Everybody's meaner when they're pissed off. Or almost everybody. Though I theorize that *ahem* a certain someone will be even more amusing if he loses his temper. *grin*

(Guardian says hi, by the way. She's been wanting to show off her icon since I made it, and hasn't really had a good occasion to do so.)

[silveradept]

I suspect that if he loses his temper, he will be more amusing, but that would require frustration, which his superiority complex doesn't allow for. It would mean taht somewhere along the way, we were right.

Hello, Guardian. That's a very nice picture of you. Will we be seeing more of you in the future?

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I think you have the potential to be scary when you're mad, but I don't think it' anything to run in fear from (ok, so i say that now, but i think i was the first person to say that you were scary while mad). I mean, I don't think you'd actually do something "scary" while you're mad, though I do have to say that watching you ump/ref is interesting because you DO get angry at some of the players and your face takes on a different look. When you're mad you definitly give off a sense of authority though. The only way I know you're not *really* mad when you ump is when you flash me a smile.

hehe I thought the mary jane article was going to be about shoes. Such a dissapointment!

The duck story was so incredibly sweet it made my sappy heart cry. It also made me want ice cream (still, since I haven't gotten any yet)

Ice cream with a fire extinguisher...wouldn't it be easier/cheaper to buy some dry ice at .99/lb? (at least, thats what it was at Meijer)

will check the rest tomorrow...

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

Solid dry ice doesn't make good ice-cream, it's not in small enough particles. Also, that's some mighty bad advice to make ice-cream from a fire extinguisher. It's not food-grade dry ice, you have no idea if it's also laced with a flame retardant or even just a little unclean water/rust from having been in there for 10 years. The best option, I've found is liquid nitrogen. (Which is so very inexpensive, and would be perfect on a 115 degree day.)

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

If it's a kitch extinguisher, it is usually food grade because you have to use it in a place where food is being prepaired and will be again soon. Chemical extinguishers would be a very bad idea though.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Not like i'm about to do this or anything, but the article says to get a food grade one.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

My problem with the fire extinguisher ice cream thing is that would be like using a blow torch to light a barbeque grill. It's so over complicated that it's not worth the effort. Just get an ice cream maker, or if you're in that big a hurry buy some liquid nitrogen or something.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Just get an ice cream maker, or if you're in that big a hurry buy some liquid nitrogen or something.


or, just go out and buy ice cream :p

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Well, I assume that the home made aspect is part of the point here. But yeah, ice cream isn't the luxury item it used to be.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

i sort of remember there being one of those funny "science projects" in elementary or middle school that involved shaking the ingredients togther to make ice cream...or was it butter? At any rate, I don't think someone needs to use a fire extinguisher to make ice cream either.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

It was butter... (come now, you're from PA, you should know this!) :P

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

hhahahahaha


Although, in my defense, I grew up in NJ :-P

the rest of it.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

How do they know the mercury clock is more accurate than the existing clock? I mean, what do they have to compare it to to get a definite time out of?


God is a Scientist - I don't understand what Kangaroos have to do with Noah's Ark. Is the speaker trying to say that every single animal in existence today was present on the ark? That's a little far-fetched, don't you think? Based on climate alone, there's no way all the animals of today could have been on the ark. As fara s I know, the ark story also doesn't make mention of fish at all, and if we believe in the whole "one male, one female" of everything to re-populate the earth with...what happened to the fish? Clearly, the fish would not have died, since it was water, so does that mean there are just more fish than any other creature or that God liked fish better than anyone else? Also, if the ark really DID re-populate the earth, doesn't that make us all "descendents of Noah" as opposed to "decendents of Adam and Eve" (sometimes I also see it written as "descendents of Moses"). Creation is someting that I think people WANT to be able to believe in. The knowledge of a higher being out there that you can even blame for thebad things that go on is pretty darn convinient. I've always found it hard to believe in the idea of ONE single solitary higher being of power. Even as a young girl attending Sunday School, I was always asking the questions that don't get answered - "How can God be everywhere at once?", "How can God hear every single person's prayer at the same time?", "How does God know when I'm bad?" Of course, you never actually got an answer to any of those questions. The Catholic's have it about right with their concept of Patron Saints - simply delegate your prayer to the Patron Saint of your choice, and that saint will relay your message to God. Pagans have it pretty good too - There simply are different god(dessess) that you go to for different things. Each god/goddess has their own "speciality" if you will, and spends thier time only helping those people that need help with their specialty.

But anyway, I ramble. Sorry. (was there anything worthy in that ramble?)


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Re: the rest of it. OR I wrote too much and LJ yelled at me.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

The situation with the Dobrich family also really upsets me. How can you teach your children about religious tolerance if you are going to go tell a Jewish family that if you don't like your kid being called names, convert to Christianity? What kind of message is that sending to the kids? Is that school district raising future neo-nazi's and KKK members? Right now it's a problem with a Jewish family, but what if a Muslim family moves into the neighbourhood? How will they get treated? Oh wait, there IS a suit in a neighboring district about the treatment of a Muslim family. Religious tolerance has nevre been an issue for me. I grew up with a Jewish dad and a Christian mom, in an area that was highly populated by Jewish families. I grew up attending church with my mom on Sundays, but then also attending Schul with one of my friends on Friday nights. If we wanted to have a sleepover party on a Friday night at one of the girl's houses whose parent's were Jewish, most likely we all trooped out to the local Synagogue to attend their services. The idea for disliking someone based on their religion just never occured to me. My best friend across the street told me she was Wiccan when we were 15 or so. We NEVER had prayer in school, not even at the start of Graduation. The only time we ever mentioned "God" was during the morning pledge of allegiance, and even that became sort of a joke...we didn't have homeroom the way most other schools had homeroom. We had some clubs and activities that met during homeroom, and you nevr had to check in with a homeroom teacher, unless it was report card day. most of the time during the pledge, we were practicing a song in Homeroom Choir, or there was somethong going on in the bandroom next door that was too noisy to hear it anyway....and speaking of choir, for our concerts, we were NOT allowed to sing a song that was specifically related to Christmas/Easter unless we had a song related to Hannukah/Passover/etc. When I was a Junior in HS, they extended it to also include songs about Kwanzaa in the wintertime. I guess I just never thought of religion as being a problem. I don't pretend to have grown up in an ideal school district, but you have to adimt, it probably was better than most in terms of religious tolerance.

And there I rambled again. oops.

[przxqgl.livejournal.com]

"Here's hoping the future has to adjust the long clock."

along the same lines, there's also a project to bring us the self-winding mechanical clock that lasts for 10,000 years... The Clock of The Long Now

[silveradept]

Huzzah for the Long Now Foundation. Actually, I first was exposed to it in one of my foundation courses for my graduate degree.

[przxqgl.livejournal.com]

then you have probably been exposed to the composition by John Cage - Organ²/ASLSP - which takes 639 years to perform.

[silveradept]

I have. And I find it wonderful. I also like some of his other pieces, like 4'34".