It is currently raining flowers outside my office window.
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New essay is up: Immigration. One of the guys at the gym touched a nerve yesterday and inspired this rant. It’s a bit more irate and pointed than the rest. For the record, this one was late, but if I can produce another by Sunday evening, I will once again be on schedule. Been a while since I talked about karate. I started working on the tonfa, a side handled baton descended from a grain grinding implement. It is believed to have been first “weaponized” by the okinawans, and bears a strong resemblance to the riot batons carried by police. . . . → Read More: Karate The person organizing our trip to Haiti wrote, asking if anyone in the group was vegetarian. I responded: . . . → Read More: Pig slaughter Long week, working too hard. Customers, chip replacements, moving crap around, blah blah. . . . → Read More: Weekend Monkey Power!!!! The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for “the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings.” The PSOE’s justification is that humans share 98.4% of our . . . → Read More: Simian Power!!!!! It is so freakishly gratifying when I refill the bird feeder, and almost immediately afterwards see cute, colorful birds on it. It is less gratifying to do the same process, except with grass seed and the bare spots on the lawn. Birds are still cute though. All this talk of food reminds me: . . . → Read More: Feeding time As I mentioned in an earlier post, my parent’s kitten was recently struck by a car and killed. My mom, being a sensitive sort, and having given a lot of thought to Buddhism in the past several years, sent a brief email note to the office of the Dalai Lama asking if it was appropriate . . . → Read More: Correspondence This one is a touch longer and more personal than the last few. Notes on a happy life. Let me know what you think. Also, I am so back on schedule. All I have to do is produce another essay by Sunday evening, and I will be up to date again! Woo Hoo for artificial, . . . → Read More: Essays! The mouse is looking out from the left side of the triangular piece of metal in the center. The picture is a link to some other pictures from last night. |
