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

scottish

some strange news from Scotland -
a Scottish man was placed on a sex offenders registry for raping a bicycle. Another Scottish man was sentenced to five years in jail for smothering his 76-year-old mother with a pillow not long after she told him he was a failure who could not even kill himself properly. "I woke up," the man told police, "and just decided to do it." [ed. - got something right]
you know where

writing

an open letter to Beer, from me, in the style of Dubble-u (previously referred here as Dub; rub a dub dub);

Dear Beer,
I am gonna git ya.

collective duh resonation

Companies Seeking Immunity Donate to Senator
DUH
Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of The New York Times report: "Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping."

john mclaughlin?

HeARt popPERS

Bo Ward, the proprietor of a barbershop near the Army's Fort Campbell, committed suicide at a town meeting in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ward had requested that his home be rezoned as a commercial property to increase its value and to offset the losses he suffered when most of his regular patrons, among them General David Petraeus, were deployed to Iraq; the City Council refused. "Y'all have put me under," said the barber before inserting a pistol into his mouth. "I'm out of here."

Two thirds of American CEOs, a study found, think that American CEOs are overpaid.

BB KING

thor

i like this.

i like the response - "We recognize that there is room for improvement and that even one bad customer experience is one too many. It is our goal to continue bringing customers in Northern Virginia the most advanced products and services we offer ... and to ensure that they have a great experience at every touchpoint."

UPDATE - woman now titled hero.

"For now, in other words, being an active liberal means being a progressive. And being a progressive means being partisan. But the end goal isn't one-party rule. It's the re-establishment of a truly vital, competitive democracy. For in the end, democracy is what being liberal is all about."

- Paul Krugman

Ignoranus Neologisms

Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

how now GOP cow?

am i on the crack?

In Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson continued to attest to the existence of WMDs in Iraq. "We can't forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, [Saddam Hussein] clearly had had WMD," he said; Thompson ended his speech by asking for applause.

Republican Senator Larry Craig was selected for induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame and announced that he would not resign from the Senate, despite being denied his request to withdraw his guilty plea of disorderly conduct resulting from a sex sting at an airport men's room.

i'll have the turkey

so maybe i haven't been paying attention, but it seems like Turkey and Iraq have a border problem similar to the problem AmuuuRica (USA) has with the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, and really all not that different (but different enough) with Iraq/Iran border.

wouldn't you think those American's might work on the border disputes? maybe have this figured out? maybe figure out other border problems?

danger doom.

rowr

sfist comes thru again.
and pull a punch? eyeglass shiv?
wow.

i'll have the fish?

There were reports of a restaurant in Tokyo where patrons could rape an animal before eating it. "When people have got money and done everything else," said a lawyer who'd had the pork, "they turn toward bestiality." - from

update - 10/5/2007 - not true?

live poker blog

you have nothing better to do, right?
should be entertaining.