... remember that dog Eddie on the show Frasier? How Eddie would sit and stare at Frasier for no apparent reason other than that the dog had a great understanding of comic timing? Well, I heard that Eddie died some years ago, and while I don't really believe in re-incarnation, my cat (Koko) is giving me the Eddie-eye and has me wondering if I should re-evaluate my core beliefs...
... and another thing...
...I recently found out that my cat has something called Wool Sucker's Syndrome. What pray-tell is that? Well, Koko enjoys the pleasures brought on by licking household objects. Amongst her favorites... plastic bags and carpet. There is a sexual joke in there somewhere, ok, I have made them plenty of times myself, but really bag licking and carpet munching - did my cat restrict her fetish to objects best described by teenage sexual vernacular?...
2009-04-28
Warm and fuzzies...
... I am not normally one for apocalyptic outlooks on the future, but lately my spidey senses have been tingling and it seems that this whole Swine Flu thing might be a prelude to the things to come.
- I don't figure that crazy leaders in far off lands and going to nuke us into extinction (they aren't bold / stupid enough to really pull that one off).
- I don't figure that global warming will kill us off (we are too adaptable as a species and while the world might not be the nicest place, we will figure out how adapt to what ever changes we have wrought upon it)
But pig flu - or a version of some air borne transmittable virus...that sounds about right. At some point a superbug is going to reach up and grab us all by the warm and fuzzies and we won't be fast enough to do anything about it.
Oh, it might not get everyone, but there are 7 billion of us on this planet, and we like to travel around - alot. That is a recipe for disaster. If the pandemic of 1918 (with a relatively stationary population) can wipe out 50 million people, what will a superbug that can travel in all directions at once be able to do?
I had always thought that humans were the masters of adaptability. That we could use our intellect to work our way out of any problem....but a problem as large / small as a microbial infection? This might be one of those things beyond out abilities in the time we will have to deal with it properly.
Now I think i will go take care of my warm and mostly fuzzies and think of happier thoughts...
- I don't figure that crazy leaders in far off lands and going to nuke us into extinction (they aren't bold / stupid enough to really pull that one off).
- I don't figure that global warming will kill us off (we are too adaptable as a species and while the world might not be the nicest place, we will figure out how adapt to what ever changes we have wrought upon it)
But pig flu - or a version of some air borne transmittable virus...that sounds about right. At some point a superbug is going to reach up and grab us all by the warm and fuzzies and we won't be fast enough to do anything about it.
Oh, it might not get everyone, but there are 7 billion of us on this planet, and we like to travel around - alot. That is a recipe for disaster. If the pandemic of 1918 (with a relatively stationary population) can wipe out 50 million people, what will a superbug that can travel in all directions at once be able to do?
I had always thought that humans were the masters of adaptability. That we could use our intellect to work our way out of any problem....but a problem as large / small as a microbial infection? This might be one of those things beyond out abilities in the time we will have to deal with it properly.
Now I think i will go take care of my warm and mostly fuzzies and think of happier thoughts...
2008-12-09
The months to get (be) lucky
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January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Those are the magical months where the best of the best are first congealed in a tapioca like stew of conception. Tack on nine months and what you (may) have is a much greater probabilty of a bambino with the ability to go onto athletic excellence.
ESPN has a really good article on a new book that touches on this, and other, interesting Outliers in society. One example the article poses is that professional athletes born in the first three months of the year are more likely to make it to the big leagues.
I always knew there was a reason for my lack of personal success, but little did I know that it was all due to my parents thinking that February was a good time for whisking up the tapioca. Well, that's myexcuse story and I'm sticking to it.
For all of you under-acheivers that happen to have been whipped up in the prime months of the year....what's your excuse?
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Those are the magical months where the best of the best are first congealed in a tapioca like stew of conception. Tack on nine months and what you (may) have is a much greater probabilty of a bambino with the ability to go onto athletic excellence.
ESPN has a really good article on a new book that touches on this, and other, interesting Outliers in society. One example the article poses is that professional athletes born in the first three months of the year are more likely to make it to the big leagues.
I always knew there was a reason for my lack of personal success, but little did I know that it was all due to my parents thinking that February was a good time for whisking up the tapioca. Well, that's my
For all of you under-acheivers that happen to have been whipped up in the prime months of the year....what's your excuse?
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2008-12-07
...ellipsis my friend...
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The ellipsis is my favorite piece of punctuation.
I am not sure where my fascination with it began, but at some point I just started throwing them around without a care in the world.
But really, what is the point of the 3 little points? Isn't the ellipsis just the typographical equivalent to the verbal stutter - "umm".
Oh I know that there is a proper "usage" for it, but not in my world. For me, the ellipsis is that shortcut between thoughts. A quick pause-and-go. A means to an end (or the beginning) of the next non-sentence or communicative fragment.
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The ellipsis is my favorite piece of punctuation.
I am not sure where my fascination with it began, but at some point I just started throwing them around without a care in the world.
But really, what is the point of the 3 little points? Isn't the ellipsis just the typographical equivalent to the verbal stutter - "umm".
Oh I know that there is a proper "usage" for it, but not in my world. For me, the ellipsis is that shortcut between thoughts. A quick pause-and-go. A means to an end (or the beginning) of the next non-sentence or communicative fragment.
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