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Nothing today. How about some links?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/13/compubeaver-case-mod-the-pc-stuffed-beaver/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4hacmvSPaI&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52zSRV_Kgfw&feature=dir

Civil Rights

Ed. I added a poll. 

I was assigned an essay about the evolution of Civil Rights in America. How boring! The problem is 'solved', who cares about it anyway. 

It's more interesting to read about civil rights problems which haven't been solved, so I started poking around and I found this cartoon of.. Karma Kat. 

haha. Enjoy.

 

That's exactly how it should be. Quantitative Karma. Awesome. I wonder where animals belong on the caste system. 

ヒッキ

Perhaps many of you come across this problem, as I do sometimes. Midst a seemingly serious profile, what is this nonsense? Until a few days ago, it didn't make sense to me either. But THEN, I stumbled upon this awesomeness and another awesomeness, and I started to regret my wavering commitment. That's right. No shame. Man, I don't even feel like blogging; I'm going to go listen some more.

One thing I'd like to note though, sometimes the Yuna singing bit from FF7 cannot be applied. This is one of those cases. Are you kidding me? Come on. It doesn't work.

読書

One of the hardest things about posting is coming up with a title. One can always pick some random title like "things I did today" or something like that, but it's just not witty enough. So I decided to pick a Japanese title (and will probably do so more frequently in the future). Nothing special. This title reads : doku-sho (symbolically broken down).

A week ago I felt I should wean myself away from the screen and started reading. I went to McDermott Library (which is lame - try searching for spectrophotometry.. one book? from 1987? seriously?) to pick out some books. Here's what I got:





(Presented in reading order). Saving the best for last, eh? Yes. I've only read two out of the four. The second one was awesome, although I got bored of the tankas really quickly and just read all the short stories. What great imagery and themes in 2-3 page stories!

Typically they introduce something obscure like a variety of flower and I say to myself - wtf does this have to do with Hiroshima? At the end, they tie it back into the main theme and its like ZOMGZYEAUZ.

I fall for this trick every time.

In any case, weaning. Yes. It seems every time I turn on my computer, my jdrama folder calls to me, so I settled for real-life jdrama? Man, I'm lame.

I'm certainly looking forward to fall semester. Now that I know I can take some online classes at Midland College, I think I'll take a psychology course and a creative writing course, bringing my total fall hours to something like.. 27.

Enjoy these funnies:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6VIo6_0l24

IAANNNNN!! (watch it first..)

2. http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/06/chernobyl-household-nuclear-generator/

Kansas sucks.

So two out of three vetoes used by Bush were against stem cells. Dissappointing, but not unexpected. Looking into the details of the bill, I found an interesting website - The Hinxton Group, which tracks countries' stem cell policies. 

Two of these images are of particular interest: (by the way, green is good)

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

Heart disease: 654,092

Cancer: 550,270

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 150,147

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 123,884

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 108,694

Diabetes: 72,815

Alzheimer's disease: 65,829

Influenza/Pneumonia: 61,472

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 42,762

Septicemia: 33,464

I've taken the liberty to bold those diseases that (definitely) have potential cures through stem cells.

These aren't.. lame economies you're going up against. Can you really afford to fall behind? 

*I should note, California has done awesomely. The rest of you- shame on you for being such idiots. 

More Dumplings

I forgot that, during the Greyhound trip back to Plano, I recorded the obnoxious driver and his 10-minute rant on driving, weather, god, how Waxahachie is not a rest stop, among other things. I won't spoil it for you:

Rant 1

Rant 2

Moving on. What's with all this "man cave" business? I had to look this up, although I had somewhat of a vague idea. Some definitions here, here, and here. Is it necessary to reclaim space and have a power tool garage? Seriously? Don't you cavemen have better things to do with your time...

Is it necessary to build a living room with that many lay-z-boys and a big screen TV just to watch sports? SpikeTV took it a little too far and came up with "mandates", after which, I wanted to hurt myself.

Embarrassing. What the hell are hobbies anyway? All you need is a man-corner to live out your mantasy.*

As good a man-corner as any.



On another note:

Yeah. That's WORD 2007. Take what you will

*: Sorry. I just had to say it. That's what she said! ... Dammit