I found this news article recently that talks about Draconic and quotes me... It's kind of disturbing in its coldness and I don't like attention from the public... but it's kind of interesting so I thought I'd post it.

Here's a copy, in case the link disappears:

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Democrats take control of house for the first time in 12 years (gaining 28 seats!).

Democrats take majority of governorships for the first time in 12 years.

Democrats take control of senate (almost certainly)

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld anounces resignation.

House representative Nancy Pelosi from Califorinia will be the first madam ( Read more... )

Flip-flop Schwarzenegger is leading by a great margin out here in CA just because he's been acting like a moderate and endorsed a global warming bill. This a few months after he personally introduced a slew of special propositions that were all anti-education and anti-environment and they were all voted down. People just forget what he's done and ( Read more... )

When I was around 13, my best friend got into flying RC planes. I was excited to join him, and I bought my own plane kit. It's called the Eagle 63, and cost $60, probably one of the cheaper kits. In reality it was just a bunch of sheets of balsa wood, some dowels, and a couple plastic and metal bits in a big flat box. Some of the balsa sheets ( Read more... )

I was with a college friend a few weeks ago, and he's like "It's cool when you call... you're so low maintenance. We won't speak for months and then we'll talk and it will just be like no time has passed." That's really what I want with people, because I can't spend all day chatting online. I don't have time. I often won't see people for a ( Read more... )

There's a couple great new ads created by the Ad Council, the same outfit that created Smokey the Bear, Friends don't let friends drive drunk, Take a bite out of crime, etc. They made the ads for free, allowing Environmental Defense to cover the costs of distribution. I think they're pretty powerful, and it's amazing when a big organization ( Read more... )

This Sat, we went to see a free outdoor screening of Al Gore's new movie, An Inconvenient Truth. It was an amazing experience. They said to arrive 2 hours early, yet there were hardly any seats left when we got there 2.5 hours early. When it finally got started, a couple people talked and then Al Gore came out and spoke for a few minutes, ( Read more... )

I was listening to NPR's environmental podcast, and they have a series of stories about alternative energy sources for the future. Some are rather depressing, like the notion of mountaintop removal to get at oil shale, using new methods to process it into oil at $30 a barrel. In one sense, these ideas alleviate my concerns about "Peak Oil" being ( Read more... )

Now that it's summer, almost every time I go out of the office, lizards scurry away as I walk. Yet a lot of them will move to a safe distance and look at me, doing "push-ups", which is a territorial display. So today I'm walking out to the shed, and a lizard is right in front of me, trying to stare me down, doing push ups. I point the shed key ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about peak oil, searching around, and finally found this... It's sort of positive, but more than that, it's real. It's not about peak oil, but peak everything. No source of energy or physical resource (metal, water, etc) can grow forever. Even the sun will eventually burn out. I've felt for a long time that the lifestyle so ( Read more... )