the cat, and the end

Citing Schrodinger's cat, cosmologists speculated that humans' observation of dark matter, beginning in 1998, might bring about the premature destruction of the universe.

~ c/o harpers

sometimes, when i am sick at home, i get curious about these things

see what happens?

i decided to write most of the politicians ruinning (mis-spelling?) for Presidency to following message:

i think the following, pulled from Harpers Weekly, suggests some real issues that voters will respond to.

good luck.

At the third OPEC summit in 47 years, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the price of crude oil could reach $200 a barrel. "The basis of all aggression," said Chavez, "is oil." During a private meeting that was accidentally televised, the oil minister of Venezuela suggested to the oil minister of Iran that OPEC stop using the crippled dollar for pricing;the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia countered that public discussion of the weak dollar would cause U.S. currency to lose value. "Kill the cable!" shouted a security guard as he ran into the meeting room, "Kill the cable!" An economist with financial services firm UBS AG put the odds of a U.S. recession at 45 percent.

my name [redacted]
my email [redacted]

updates, if/when received.

oil vs water

more on this

At the third OPEC summit in 47 years, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the price of crude oil could reach $200 a barrel. "The basis of all aggression," said Chavez, "is oil." During a private meeting that was accidentally televised, the oil minister of Venezuela suggested to the oil minister of Iran that OPEC stop using the crippled dollar for pricing;the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia countered that public discussion of the weak dollar would cause U.S. currency to lose value. "Kill the cable!" shouted a security guard as he ran into the meeting room, "Kill the cable!" An economist with financial services firm UBS AG put the odds of a U.S. recession at 45 percent.

you love harpers, too.

slow on the [re]uptake [inhibitor]

the nets fooled me again.
so maybe i been working at my job, and dealing with the stuff of life, but damn internets, you shouldn't have held me back from:

Ronald Jenkees - just a guy who is marketing himself, perhaps, but still good music. funny. entertaining. might buy me one. and, fwiw, i kinda like the savantish act, controversy aside.

the sound of one gunshot (bed hunting)

the dr. and i decided to get a new bed recently.
we started shopping, only to realize that this adventure is much like buying a car. Fook.

so we head out, visiting the circuit of bed shops on Van Ness Avenue. it seems silly to tell you that there are three bed shops within two blocks of each other, and they are very, very similar.

Sleeptrain - the scent of musk.
Mancini's - some guy who only acknowledged us as we walked out the door.
Mattress Discounters - wait, what's different here? oh, no scent of musk.

IMHO - turns out that mancini's is just worthless. a $15k bed? what? what? i can't hear you over the sound of that one gunshot.

Sleeptrain and Mattress Discounters are the same deal - the only discernible difference is that one lets you try a bed for 60 days, the other one 90 days.

we're getting one from a discount outlet on 9th street. seriously, we almost bought a tempur pedic. but then we read this article - and realized that maybe we should buy a bed for $2k sometime. just not now. thank you Restonic.

Confidential to Restonic - your website blows in a serious fashion. work it out, doobs.

not sure about the open shirt

but it's amusing anyway -


found here - via blogrush

it's called vajayjay; euros need not apply

Rapper Jay-Z was flashing euros in a recent video, and supermodel Gisele Bundchen was refusing to accept payment in dollars. are these items unrelated?

and!

The New York Times Style section published a feature on the rise of the term "vajayjay" to describe female genitalia. "The reason that vajayjay has caught on, I think, is because there is a black--Southern especially--naming tradition, which is to have names like Ray Ray and Boo Boo and things like that," said John H. McWhorter, a linguist at the Manhattan Institute. "It sounds warm and familiar and it almost makes the vagina feel like a little cartoon character with eyes that walks around."

yes of course it is from them!

doppelganger

the dr and I know this couple (our associates cornelius and davinci*) who were travelling home recently on their motorcycle. they saw someone who fit the physical description of the dr., and when they called out to her by first name, the person turned and said hello. then cornelius and davinci proceeded to have a small (2 or so minutes) conversation with this person who answered to the dr's name, and looked enough like her to confuse our associates.

it wasn't until after they bade each other good night that they realized that it was not, in fact, the doctor. "sure, it sorta looked like her, but not really...and what the fook was she talking about?" they mused to each other. our associates then contacted us, and relayed said story.

so i googled the contents of the conversation to figure out who this person might be. and wrote her an email. i hope she doesn't freak out.

updates as they happen.


update 1 - the woman i emailed is NOT the person cornelius and davinci bumped into. but we're inviting this person out to a beer, as she is as intrigued as we all are about this.






* - i wish these were their names