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In other news i'm gettin' married on friday. it should be fun. liz is coming up early to be a witness, andthen we're all going to quebec city for a weekend of carnaval d'hiver with liz, kevin, noahnanais. should i get a haircut?

http://www.maniacworld.com/beatles-1000-years-later.html

this puts it all in perspective.

so a ghost chili is like, 900,000 scoville units
i don't know what that means, but man vs food squirms a lot
so i wanted to see.
now, the last time i had something really intense, i was 14? in the basement of a unitarian church at the buddhist bodhi-day party. I think it was a habanero. anyway. i hopped around the room and drank 20 glasses of water and milk and it sucked.

but, now that i'm at least twice as old as i was then, i can take the heat! so i wanted to find out how hot a ghost chili was. but there weren't any ghost chili sauces in the "super hot sauce" section of our local scoop-and-save. so instead, i got the highest scoville rated sauce i could find. 365,000 or so. it's roughly 1/3 as hot as a ghost chili.

20 minutes ago, i put some on a cracker. 10 minutes ago i took my head out from under the cold-water-faucet and caught my breath.

it's very unpleasant.
well, it tastes good until it starts hurting so bad you can't move.

okay, i'm officially not a sociopath
her crying is making me sad even though it's not really contextually appropriate.
:(

so there's this guy and his wife cries at the end of movies
and sometimes the movies aren't even that sad
like star wars
and back to the future

and then the guy films his wife crying and mumbling about how sad she is about some parts of the movie.

http://cryingwife.com/

...

...
am i a sociopath?

that in a fight between kung fu and karate,
kung fu would definitely win if they were fighting in zero gravity.

the rhymes get tighter as it goes on.

so james cameron's next movie is going to be a movie version of battle angel alita
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437086/

this is totally rad.
battle angel alita is like, this totally sweet manga. it takes place in a strange, monstrous future. not quite quite a dystopia... but alita's a cyborg exploring her identity on, essentially, a slum planet. there is betrayal and desperation and death, and everyone is brutally aware of the limitations their circumstances impose on them. but there is also love and family and trust.

it's a robot future junkpile of a wolf chewing its leg off to escape a snare.
RAD!

oh gosh
i just figured out how to enable it on my mac.
it's an option under 'system folder->accounts->login options'
and it means that i can update my ipod AND keep my stupid simulations running! yaaay!

so dinosaur comics is really old today. like 7. that means it can go to school now, and you have to tell it that you can't really pick it up and carry it anymore.

but you know what else is old? the daily grind iron man challenge. that's where comic artists were supposed to draw a comic every weekday until all the other players quit. http://www.crowncommission.com/dailygrind/ so like, there were early favourites which i would bet on. for instance, at the time of the starting of the contest, chris crosby (owner of keenspace and artist of 'superosity') hadn't ever missed a day for like YEARS AND YEARS of drawing superosity. he got knocked out by a power-outage which struck his fortress of solitude home/base. anyway. it's still going. possibly even more surprising: r smith (of 'funny farm' fame) is still in the running even though his comic ended a couple years ago!

wowzers, dudes.

ha. it's the dude who did the star trek reviews.

they should rename it

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/France
how come they don't mention why everyone has an english accent in france?

I wanna combine the lindy hop with heelys.
that'd be crazy

so http://recruit.diesel.com/ diesel has a new ad campaign calling for people to be "stupid".
and i've seen the campaign labelled as "anti-intellectual".
http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/01/27/be-stupid/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SociologicalImagesSeeingIsBelieving+%28Sociological+Images%3A+Seeing+Is+Believing%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

but when you look at the magazine ads that are labelled as stupid,
they come off as fun. I mean. I like to be stupid for fun... well, not stupid. Silly.
Is sillyness a waste of time. well, yes. "stupid is a big word" i thought, "perhaps
the ad campaign is encouraging people to rebel against the social norms which people
commonly group under the umbrella 'common sense'."

so then I watched the video thing (the link at the top).
and it seemed to encompass that idea at first.
and then it seemed seemed to say "people call crazy new ideas stupid, but you shouldn't care. lets all get under the banner of stupid=revolutionary".

this isn't so strange, because it's a jeans company. they make money off making us feel awesome and revolutionary.

okay, but then the video goes on and on about how the world is full of smart people doing smart things, but then we should do stupid things because fuck smart people and people who do stupid things end up happy and emotionally fulfilled, unlike people who plan carefully and think about things.

that's not anti-intellectual. It certainly isn't revolutionary. it's downright backwards. stupid decisions get things you love taken away from you. stupid decisions get you in jail. stupid decisions harm people around you. stupid decisions shackle your future.

go ahead. buy expensive jeans. light them on fire and burn down your car. whatever.

idiots.

Allow me to officially endorse the podcast "science... sort of", not just because they are kind gentlemen who ask me to occasionally contribute my rancid opinions. No, this is a marvelous sort of podcast.

So, when i originally started trying to find a podcast which could balance off against my dear art bell (which has since been abandoned, having overstayed its non-art bell welcome), I listened to a good number of science or skeptical podcasts. I was looking for an opposite in content but not in format: something which was social but interesting, covering notable stories but not ones which were so notable that I'd already heard of them to death.

anyway, it's wonderful. the paleopals talk about two or three big science stories each week; nothing pedantic about it. they discuss theory and consequence and method and then... THEN.. they ask each other the questions that are in your head while listening to the discussion. brilliant.

So it's not Quirks and quarks. it's something else. something like eating lunch with people. so you should google this podcast and then listen to it because fun podcasts deserve your support.

http://www.liberal.ca/en/newsroom/blog/17333_transcript-of-michael-ignatieffs-online-town-hall

"Michael Ignatieff: God I look terrible. Who took this picture ?"

"Michael Ignatieff: Finally, the key focus for our development assistance should be enhancing the rights and capacities of women. Investing in the education of girls and women, protecting them from abuse, granting them property rights and ensuring a flow of microfinance are all key ways to reduce infant mortality, improve family life and spur economic development. Bet on women, that should be our motto!"

I should note that Ignatieff is responding to english and french questions, and he his written french is rad. it didn't seem like that many questions were asked, but there were a wider variety of questions than i'd expect. even one about pot!

so imagine that you decide to hire a head butler to manage your private life and house, giving you the time to go out and and make money and socialize and all the other things rich people do.
so first imagine that you need a butler, and then imagine that you hire one.
so the butler's job is to take messages and relay them to you, to make sure that the bird feeders get filled, make sure that the maids wash the dishes, and that they get payed.

so he's your employee, and he's the one who runs everything else.

so then imagine that he just hires sexy maids, instead of maids who actually clean stuff. Okay, well, the filth in the corners is building up and the dishes aren't that clean, but... well, it's not that bad. he seems to have fun palling around with them.

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