For the second year in a row, I completed all my shopping online. This year, I used two online services, rather then just one (like I did last year). Despite the fact that I have to pay S&H, I think I really come out a head in the long run. Beside, what could be easier then shopping from your house. All I have to do is answer the door when the UPS guy arrives.
From: http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/2/062
The United Nations is set to outlaw vegetarianism in new environmental guidelines expected to be released in the next few weeks. The radical proposal is based on shocking new evidence that vegetarians are responsible to contributing to global warming.
"The evidence is incontrovertible," leading UN researcher Keith Wilson explained, "As most people are aware, the increase of Carbon Dioxide levels is largely responsible for the global warming effect, and by not eating meat vegetarians are responsible for raising these levels higher than they otherwise would be."
Animals convert oxygen into carbon dioxide whilst breathing and plants convert carbon dioxide back into oxygen through photosynthesis. In order to reduce carbon dioxide levels the proportion of animals to plants needs to be reduced.
"By not eating meat, vegetarians are ensuring that the proportion of animals to plants is being increased." Keith Wilson continued, "And the fact they eat more plants to compensate this only makes the situation even worse.
"In fact, its not just vegetarianism we are targeting. Nations with bans on hunting are going to be forced to withdraw their laws and we are revising driving guidelines that suggest you hit that fox if it runs in front of your car."
Vegetarians and Animal rights protesters across the globe have criticised the decision claiming that there are far more effective ways of reducing Carbon Dioxide levels, such as controlling emissions and the saving of the rain forest. However the United States representative dismissed the suggestion as �ludicrous and completely impracticable.�
If brought into effect the new laws will demand that each human being consume at least one animal a day until a reduction in Carbon Dioxide levels are reduced. Rural schools are also expected to see their traditional sports lessons of football replaced with deer hunting and 8 year olds will be encouraged to pull as many wings as possible off of helpless flies.
As for impoverished nations that are unable to provide one animal per day for food, there was an easy alternative:
"Cannibalism!" Keith Wilson explained, "Now I know traditionally it�s a big no-no but think about it � humans are responsible for the increases in carbon dioxide levels more than any other creature on earth. I expect if you ate one human that would save more carbon dioxide than eating twenty whales, or a herd of cows."
And yes, I know this is fake. But still!
After being around for a few months, I thought I might go ahead and try Google’s new Desktop Search. The install process was pretty painless and right now it’s indexing all my crap. It says it might take a few hours. From what I can tell, this should be very promssing!
I went to my first ever Meetup.com Webblog meeting. We gathered at Ralph’s Grocery and Deli and spent about an hour and a half chatting about everything from politics to Firefox, the new Nintendo DS (which some people brought) and Tablet PCs. I had a delightful conversation with Jacqueline Passey, TDavid, and others. Sounds like Jacqueline’s going to get a Toshiba M200: perhaps the best Tablet PC on the market today.
Anyways, I had a great time. Probably better then staying home and playing Halo 2. I was completly engrossed and never even got around to eating my dinner. It the only thing I talked about on the way home.
I really wished I had gone to one of these earlier. I should hopefully be around in the summer, so I’ll try to go to some then.
Update: I also met this guy named Robert Scoble. I didn’t know who he was when I met him, but I know who he is now.
Just so no one is surprised like last time (Kelly M. sent out an email: ferg also surprised me at barnes and noble in the u village. that was fun. he said that he was out of town and then a half hour later came down the escalator. that tricky boy.), I AM back in town. See you all soon!
Ok. So that title probably doesn’t make the most sense, so I’ll explain it. There’s a program called PearPC. In short, it’s a PowerPC emulator for the x86 arcitecture. In english, I can run MacOSX on my Windows-based computer. And that’s what I’m doing. So what’s so novel about this? Well, persons running MacOS have been able to run Microsoft Windows under their operating system for years. The software was even supplied by Microsoft! Apple has never recipercated the favor. So some awesome genius peeps at pearpc.sourceforge.net decided to take matter into their own hands, and voila! I will keep you informed of my progress.
And that’s a wrap. My last final is done and over with. It was actually pretty easy, considering how hard all the other tests were. Van Blackwood, my TA for Chem Lab was one of the supervising TA’s for the test; he said that I got a good grade on my lab section, "probably a low A." Can’t argue with that. He’s also TAing the Quant Lab for next semester, so I’m going to try and get in that lab because he’s probably one of the best TA’s out there. He’s not a hard ass, but he also ask explains things to me without actually giving me the answer. Anywho. I’m going to play Halo 2 for a little while, then pack, get some sleep (hopefully), and head out to Seattle for vacation! 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9-Bromo-4,7-Propyl-5,6-Butyl-Decane is the answer I got to the last question. Hopefully it’s right.
I’ll actually be home tomorrow, quite a bit sooner then Christmas. I have my second and last final, chemistry, today at 3:15pm.
Well, one test down, and one to go. Earth and Environmental Sciences was a relativly easy test. We also had an extra credit problem where we had to determine the size of the moon as a ratio of the size of the earth. Click on the picture to see how I figured it out. Tomorrow I have Chemistry, and then I’m done! Yay!
After being in the dark, so to speak, for the last few weeks, I not only have my very own Xbox to love, but I also have Halo 2 and Xbox live. My gamer tag is Fergcorp. Add that to your friends list and prepare to get owned. You can also check out my Xbox Live Halo 2 stats right here on my website. Just click on Halo 2 Stats on the left under Sections.