I want to change my D&D character to either Richard Dawkins (I get infinite spell resistance!), or Mr. T (I could speak Jibba Jabba!).

Please Kevin? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

Oh, and we also need a Paris Hilton in our group just for the hell of it.

I gotta get me some of that!

I found out today that one of my co-workers is a anti-vaccination. She has kids of her own, and I have no idea if she’s vaccinated them or not, but she spreads the myth that vaccines cause autism.

I wanted to yell and scream at her, but I told her as politely as possible the truth. She protested a bit, and also said, “You’re the son of a doctor, aren’t you?” I mentioned how that shouldn’t matter.

Hopefully everyone that heard us will find the truth.

I find anti-vaxers to be highly immoral in their stance, even if they can’t comprehend that immorality.

I wish I could say that it was an April Fools joke.

Well, one mystery can be solved for you: The experience of peeing standing up!

I want to go to Sweden. They have some sexy parties there.

I hate my job.

I think I've been too introspective the last few weeks, and I'm not so sure that's healthy for me. Part of the problem is that I don't really know too many people at work so I usually feel rather isolated. Maybe it's my imagination, but everyone else seems to know someone, and this includes other people I know are new to the place like myself.

Of course, part of the problem is that I've never really truly been a part of Fond du Lac. This fucking city. It's useless.

Okay, so I was blind-sided and practically jumped on by some girls trying to buy some Hermit crabs today.

It started out with just one, and then her friends practically ganged up on me. I tried to resist, but they were persistent.

I was curious about the Hermit crabs, so I went with them to see them, and once we got there, they somewhat surrounded me, and prevented me from leaving until I relented.

*sigh*

Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!

Go check it!

I feel like I should post about something right now. I’m up in Appleton at the moment, and had some ideas, but I want to flesh them out before I post them.

I guess I’m just going to intrigue you for now.

One of my ideas was kinda sexually explicit in nature--and completely fictional, for your information. I’m not even sure why I thought of it.

The other is about our need for a revolution that’s not happening right now, and how people may well perceive a problem or problems, but are not sufficiently discomfited by them to act towards a solution. There needs to be a comfortable amount of discomfort for them to do anything, and possibly do something drastic. Of course, there’s always going to be individuals who act upon advancing a solution in spite of not having a sufficient amount of discomfort, but they are the exception, not the rule.

I was initially going to use the TomboyBlogposter plugin to post this (I really like Tomboy), but I can’t figure out how to get it to work with LiveJournal.

Have you heard of the anti-science movie with Ben Stein called Expelled?

There was a recent screening of the movie, and PZ Myers was kicked out, and yet Richard Dawkins was let in! WTF?! Hilarious!

Check out the addendum to this story--it gets even better!

That PZ Myers! He’s such a dangerous man! Dawkins, on the other hand, seems quite milquetoast. </sarcasm>

I guess JavaScript 2.0 is coming out soon.

I have to confess something. I really like JavaScript, and it likely has a lot to do with the fact that it was my first programming language (and I taught it to myself).

Really, though, it’s not as bad as most people like to make it out to be. Sure, it’s not the most elegant language, but it works well for what it can do, and has a decent standard library.

The changes for 2.0 are looking really nice, though.

An article in the most recent issue of Seed Magazine (February 2008), Nicholas Humphrey posits the following in the article Questioning Consciousness (pp. 32):

[Consciousness’] role may not be to enable us to do something we could not do otherwise, but rather to encourage us to do something we would not do otherwise...

It’s an interesting article to say the least, and definitely something I would encourage you to check out. It may well be part of what has allowed our species to do such amazing things throughout history.

So, these late night commercials advertising “chat lines” are as transparent as saran wrap.

“I’m not looking for a commitment!” says one girl in lingerie. They’re just chat lines for bored people, right?

I actually really like TheTruth campaign. Somewhat ironically, at the same time I support the legalization of drugs, and the end to the War on Drugs.

The thing is that I don’t care if people use these things, but they damn well better know what that stuff will do to their bodies. Anybody that sells any of this stuff should, I think, have brutally honest advertising about the drugs they sell, and how it effects the human body and mind.

...but Dykes on Unicycles...perfectly alright!



Yeah, this post is completely pointless except as a link, but it’s hilarious!

Damn it! Why didn’t anyone tell me?!

Sun of the Milky Way galaxy...and stuff.

That was really bad.

From here:

[I] think there is something vaguely hypocritical in trying too hard you show that you care that people know that you don’t care what they think.

I also just saw Battle Royale. Pretty wickedly awesome. I thought it was interesting from the perspective of how the subtle strains, and underlying questions of various relationships--even those that seem pretty good--can become highly magnified in a life or death situation.

Go see it.

If you live in the N. America, like I do, you’ll have to pirate it to watch it because it’s never been released. It’s not banned, but no one has bought the distribution rights (and Toei, the publisher, is being completely ridiculous with its terms, especially since the only ones that would be willing to distribute it are the small distributors.)

I actually really enjoyed Doomsday, even though it had a stupid plot and they spent way too much time at the beginning explaining the stupid back-story. It’s got a lot of awesome action scenes, and sexy people (especially Rhona Mitra), and sexy costumes.

Of course part of the problem may be that with me being a skeptic--a hat that rarely leaves my head--made me see through some of the silliness of the plot.

Just a note for any writers reading this: if there is ever a highly contagious virus that has the potential to wipe out humanity, it won’t be anything so dramatic and quick to kill. In fact if anything, it won’t kill anyone, but rather make everyone sterile, and so humanity would become extinct by a slow and uneventful process. Aeon Flux actually had it right on this one.