Archive for January, 2008

“Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius.”

New York Times article that backs up what I was trying to say about eating less meat months ago. (it gets a little lengthy on the second page)

Not as cool of a way to be green perhaps, but great that everyday Americans who can’t afford a new Prius have options to make a dent in their personal greenhouse gas emissions.

thoughts?

We’ve all been raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionares and movie gods and rock stars…but we won’t.

Alupa and Himay are betting on the election. Alupa has 50, straight up (even odds), on Red, and Himay has Blue. If anyone wants in on this, please chime in and pony up. There was a great conversation about how any voter fraud, tampering, whatnot that results in a Republican victory still goes to Alupa, and for those of you playing roulette along with us at home, this means that he gets zero and double zero : ) But that’s sort of distracting from the original, very straightforward wager. The original wager, which, in his own words, means for Alupa, if “I win, the country loses.”

Now, of more immediate concern is the side action on the nominations. If you want in on that, the odds and stakes must be negotiated with us on a personal basis (as opposed to the above, which is open and transparent for all takers, but for a limited time only). Currently I have two to one Romney vs Alupa’s McCain or Huck. Nothing going on the Dems yet.  UPDATE: Alupa has Hillary even odds for 20, Himay’s got Obama. This was a difficult one on which to agree…

Any takers on anything at all?

Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee went on the record on Monday in Michigan with his stance on abortion and gay marriage stating, “I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

This is totally bat-fucking-crazy bullshit. I want to punch him in the face, slip him a ruffee, marry him, and knock him up with an mutant baby. Then walk out on him because he is a fucking loser. Down with Huckabee. Booo Boooo Booo. I don’t think I can be emphatic enough with my new found hatred of Fuckabee.

Bored at work? Need a break from tooling around the interwebs? Looking for a little digital battle?

Welcome to the wonderful world of weewar.com. Request and invite. Set up a user name. Do battle and talk trash on complete strangers in an online version of Risk, but you know, cooler. Build forts. Build fighting forces. Takeover bases. All in the name of entertainment. The great part about it is that it’s super strategic and the 16 bit graphics totally downplay any association with wanton violence that happens to be ensuing on screen.

The absolute best thing about it, is that you can set time limits from five minutes to three days per turn, so that even if you’ve got other stuff to do you can still get a few rounds in over the course of an eight hour work day, and your boss will never be the wiser.

Which is nice for those putting in their 40 hours this week.

A word of warning though: This is seriously the most addictive game that i’ve ever played. And coming from someone with as an addictive personality as I’ve got (no comments from the peanut gallery here), that’s saying something.

I give it: ****** on a scale of five.

According to Forbes Magazine, our very own Wichita Kansas seems to be a hotbed of employment opportunity for the coming year ahead.

Fascinating.

Of course, Salt Lake City, Utah is ranked no. 1, so i’m not sure that they’re factoring in mormons and christian conservatives…

http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/11/jobs-economy-growth-lead-careers-cx_mk_0110cities_table.html?boxes=custom

This is important

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity/print

related articles at http://www.turnmeup.org/

easy to grasp video explanation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

http://current.com/items/76370842_assassins

I didn’t. I never do. The whole thing seems a bit hyped up. But maybe it really is a good idea and I’m just being a snob?