( Agent Smith: I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. )

Summer has taken to barking at things lately. Now, since we no longer own a house and instead have upstairs neighbors, we're obligated to stop her from barking for the sake of said neighbors ( Read more... )

(I'm allowed this silliness...I was in the USMC)

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Finally got out of the old bike. Replaced it with a real bike.


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having this argument with a couple different people currently. Thus, I'll post it here. And since I already made a big post today, I'll ( cut this one for the uninterested )

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if you went back in time and told my 20yo self that, at the age I am now (whatever that age may be, ho-hum), I would not only have become vegan but I would also be troubled at the prospect of buying a new toothbrush and the environmental damage caused by the 10s of millions of toothbrushes that are thrown away each year in the US ( Read more... )

The MP for Birmingham Erdington, 40, posted his comment online on his Twitter page, writing: 'I'm not saying Susan Boyle caused swine flu. I'm just saying that nobody had swine flu, she sang on TV, people got swine flu.'

I don't know any structural engineers. Can't think I'm going to have my first project be a ~$100M project, now can I. That means I have to do smaller stuff for a while. What's that like ( Read more... )