Really, with all the shit that keeps coming out about the Bush administration, what difference is one more scandal going to make. People like me already expect the worst in every possible way. I think it's obvious that Bush and Cheney approved of the torture of prisoners and citizens captured in the name of the war on terror. It's obvious that ( Read more... )

Reading my biology textbook, Biological Science 2nd Ed. by Scott Freeman. I came across this passage in a section describing soil and plant nutrition on page 849 ( Read more... )

I got hit by a car yesterday. I'm fine, just a little bruised. He was stopped turning right on red and didn't see me crossing on the bike path. He accelerated into me. I went up onto the hood and off onto the pavement. Hitting the pavement was the part that hurt. My glasses flew off, but in the adrenaline haze I didn't realize until later. ( Read more... )

So tomorrow is the 4th. Gotta take Kallisti to see the fireworks someplace... but where to go? The Naperville fireworks were really nice when I was a kid... um, like twenty years ago. Hrmm... I'm afraid that will be too much of a zoo. I haven't been to any other fireworks shows... I'm thinking one of the Western suburban shows, but I don't ( Read more... )

I hate the sound of pouring water. Like the sound they play in beer commercials. I have no idea why. But it just pisses me off when I hear it... sometimes. I've got to hear it way more than I notice it, but when I notice, it really irritates me. Just an irrational anger that flares up... weird, I know. Just FYI I guess.

Tonight Kallisti got her first glow stick. I picked it up sometime ago and had kinda forgotten about it. We found it tonight, and since laz crashed out early I figured it would be a good thing to break out to help keep kallisti occupied. So we turned out most of the lights and snapped it to turn it on. She's been running around saying things ( Read more... )

very cathartic stuff

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Through much of my life I have ascribed to the fiction that I was in control of my desires. I held the notion of "finding oneself" in disdain. It was evident to me that we create ourselves, the self is not something that is found ( Read more... )

Cucumber...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elLjym7OCsQ

Chicken...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

Kittens...http://

I've just finished reading Antonio Damasio's book "Descartes' Error". The first time I picked it up I got bogged down in the technical details, but probably thanks to my physiological psychology class, I found the whole book fascinating this time through. The basic idea is that reason requires emotion. This is something that immediately made ( Read more... )