(Try to stay with me here, even though it's sciencey. Alternative fuels are worth examining, ok? This is your local science hippie speaking. You should listen.)

The American government, when not campaigning to make birth control inaccessible for religious reasons or trying to get unsound, illogical pseudo-science into classrooms, offers millions of ( Read more... )

This is just your friendly neighbourhood reminder that occasionally, nature produces some adorably awesome creatures. Case(s) in point: Dumbo Octopus' and (clean, so probably domestic) Axolotls. Yeah, okay, I'm nerdy enough to want to force pictures of what I think of as cute animals on my friendslist. Is that a crime?

Dumbo Octopus:

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These people must be totally removed from reality.

Hate crime. Really. I thought that was beating someone up for being black. Or setting someone's kitten on fire because they're gay. Or, I don't know, trying to get support for an official "drown the natives" day. Or, you know, any number of other things that ACTUALLY HURT PEOPLE. "Get a grip" doesn' ( Read more... )

Do you ever have this happen? You're watching a science fiction show, or reading a science fiction series, and you learn the canon quite well? Then you read some comment or something on line about it that doesn't make sense with the last 3/4's of the series. And you think that maybe they're stuck in a time loop where the rest of the series hasn't ( Read more... )

Well, I finally got my yearbook! WHOO ME! I love the signs on the main doors at vic that say "if you hear a constant ringing alarm, the school is in lockdown procedure. Don't come in!" XD Gotta love ghetto arts high schools. (I pluralized that as if there are MORE of them, but I'm sceptical ( Read more... )

George Carlin is dead. Just when we need more people to go against the proverbial grain, to challenge stupid societal norms, and to boldly make fun of the kind of silliness that is rampant. I should have bought one of his books when we were at west ed. on saturday; I've been meaning to.

"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, ( Read more... )

I accidently didn't log in to LJ today, so I missed a whole bunch of stuff on my friendspage. Please tell me if anything important happened!

I finally uploaded all 899 greece/italy photos to my facebook. You can probably find all of them on my profile page, though speaking as a facebook avoider I can't say that with any certainty. I think I am open ( Read more... )

First: I’ve written a short story in which the main characters are meant to be gender-ambiguous. Except that sometimes they call each other names, so to speak, and I’ve realized that my names accidentally hint at masculinity/femininity/etc. So, who is up for a rousing game of Gender-Inclusive Insults? Yeah, yeah, I know, your mother was a hamster. ( Read more... )

Hello from surprisingly sunny Edmonton Alberta! I've actually been home since Friday, but I hadn't slept properly for 48+ hours, so I couldn't really update then. On Saturday I was trying to get all of my crappy pictures fixed. On Sunday I had dinner with my family, and then dinner again with some Vic friends (you know who you are!). On monday I ( Read more... )

Just popping in briefly to say: nyah *sticks tongue out*. We're at an internet cafe (obviously) and if I'm not using the computer, I have to sit around watching Kaitlyn use it, trying not to eaves...er...read.

anyway. WE are now a week and a day into the trip, which has so far been fun and very scenic, except for the mass amount of beach sitting. (a ( Read more... )