And that's the week.

[silveradept]

Ran my errands today - not complete success as the books were not all bought, but the rest got done. I'm glad it's all finished, there. But then again, there's the classes coming. The classes, they're coming.

Played three games of Literati tonight - two against 2dlife and one against 2dlife and annaonthemoon. The first game, I actually beat 2dlife, after getting blasted by an 88-point play early on. The second game, well, it turned out poorly. There was a 79-point play that really hurt, and then in the end-game, there was another bingo that he played. I didn't make it to 200 points. He had 314. The third game, well, I got snookered all over the place. Bad letters and no placement. So my Literati skills are still not quite up to par.

Lockheed wins the contract to develop the new space shuttle. We'll see if they can design something that doesn't have problems in the heat, or things breaking, or other such.

9/11 commemorative coin. Because there's nothing more American than profiting on other people's misery and capitalizing on disasters. I wonder how many people find this tasteful...

Human Card Game: War - line 'em up and let 'em wander about. It'll be more fun if people hide what kind of card they are until they pick a target.

Drinking your juice may prevent Alzheimer's. So drink up, kiddies!

Lucas's Last Supper - there's an interesting idea. Of course, this can probably be done many times over.

A nightmare scenario of the future - one where nothing changes at all. And if it continues on this way, there's a chance that when America goes, the world goes with it. I hope that the world stays around, and humanity with it. It'd be nice for us to survive long enough to bring us all back.

Last thought for tonight - kickoff tomorrow at noon. Once again, the padded rugby season is upon us.

Comments

[wanderingbhikkh.livejournal.com]

To your last link:

I've studied enough history and anthropology to learn something very valuable...humanity fucks itself over pretty often, but we keep surviving it. To put it another way: The empire must always fall, but the world never entirely goes with it.

That's terribly reassuring, actually. Humanity will keep plodding along, never quite getting it done right, but never completley fucking it over, either. Clear away the barricades and we're still there!

All of a sudden, the wars and the disasters are a lot less overwhelming...still tragic, still horrible, but not leaving you standing in mute terror.

In conclusion: Humanity does suck, but not bad enough to disappear.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

M) ...Unless the biosphere collapses entirely, in which case we'll need desperate (and extremely difficult and prone-to-failure) measures in order to either survive or escape. But yes, the Earth is too large for non-world-destroying nuclear warheads/bombs alone to make it completely uninhabitable.