Nozomi wishes you a Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. She’ll bring you cheer. Or darn, why can’t Santa bring me something like this for Christmas? I guess I have to do these things on my own.
Where’s the elves?
Quote of the Day [12.20.08]
“But somewhere out there, something is watching us. There are alien forces acting in ways we can’t perceive. Are we alone in the universe? Impossible. When you consider the wonders that exist all around us…
[long and rambling]
…voodoo priests of Haiti, the Tibetan numerologists of Appalachia, the unsolved mysteries of ‘Unsolved Mysteries.’ The truth is out there.”
Special Agent Fox Mulder, The Simpsons, “The Springfield Files”
Link of the Day [12.20.08]
I like winter more than I like spring. I love autumn most, but that’s for another post. Check the archives.
When the days get shorter and the nights get longer, it feels natural. The quality of the light also is comforting. When the days get longer and the nights shorter, it is discomforting, and the quality of light is artificial.
From here on out, it will be an unnerving day to day existence until the awesomeness of summer.
Quote of the Day [12.19.08]
"Lemon tree!"Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "Lemon of Troy"
Wise words from a Nobel awardee
The ever shrill, Paul Krugman, takes the financial service industry to task eviscerating those jokers with a beautiful op-ed in the NY Times. This is awesome and sums up my feelings about the fraud perpetrated on the world that the market is run by smart people. They are only smart in that they make us all dumb for believing them. What a bunch of immoral, greedy bastards. The devil works there.
Link of the Day [12.19.08]
I don't know if I had already wrote about this experience, but it's
amusing enough to generate two posts about, if I did.Awhile back, I was getting out of Itsuki-chan in the parking lot of
HomeDepot. A middle aged lady was driving by and she was rolling down
her window."Where do you plug that in?""Excuse, me?""Where do you plug that in electric car in?""Oh. Sorry. It's just a normal car." A regular combustible gas
engine, but fun all the same. She had mistaken my car as one of those
fancy electric cars. Perhaps she's never seen a Mini Cooper. They are
rather rare in the area, and they do not look like other cars. In the US, mini's have plain old gas-guzzling engines, not that they are
gas-guzzling, but they run on plain old unleaded. In other countries,
there's a diesel version. Now, they're constructing an electric mini
which is interesting. Perhaps if there's enough interest, you can buy
one of these in the near future.http://www.miniusa.com/minie-usa/
Good mornin’.
Did you stay up all night just for this? Hunh.
Penguins taste like chicken
Dad and Penguins
Originally uploaded by skrishnan37.
The penguin movie, not Happy Feet, the other one. Not the surfing one, but the documentary starring Morgan Freeman. Yeah, that one. It’s got the classic Bugs Bunny Merry Melody where he takes chilli willie home except he’s from the circus. Yeah. You remember. Funny, right? Ha ha. Penguins, they’re the rulers of the world. When aliens come, they’ll all fly away. Urr. Sorry, that’s dolphins. Penguins will something, something, something. They’ll claw your eyes out. Penguins.
Quote of the Day [12.18.08]
"Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances…"The Supreme Court, Bush v. Gore
Link of the Day [12.18.08]
To watch Wall St. come crashing down is very fascinating. It makes you
angry and sick thinking about it all. The more you think about it, the
more "the market" seems to be a big scam. It's greed I tell you. There
is no higher goal within "the market." It's just to make money for
myself, and if you so happen to make money with me, then good for you,
but I can't care if you do or not.While I understand that "the market" gives us jobs and makes the world
churn, I hate it for how indescriminate it is. There is no hard work
there. It's plain luck and who-you-know that'll make you money. You
bring to "the market" your sense of morals and it will reward you with
what it sees fit. It's too bad that those who choose the life of
working "the market" are unscrupulous bastards.http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/