i have a’seven friends!

do it for you. do it for your country. do it for the world. …but at the very least: do it for neil patrick harris. <3

quickly, now….

if you’re an american who is still undecided towards or opposed to obama….you’re definately in the minority, overall.

see?

this guy gets it…whoever he is.

alma [mutter]

i’m going to give you two different opinions from two different sources as to why john mccain decided to use my old middle school as the backdrop to his acceptance speech at the 2008 republican national convention, seen here:

reason #1:

“McCain messed up. He was talking about Walter Reed hospital, and he used our picture by mistake,”

-Joshua, 11-year-old student currently at Walter Reed Middle School

reason #2:

“[it was]…a way of illustrating the candidate’s call ‘for public education reforms that empower parents and students before bureaucrats and labor unions,’”

-GOP spokesman, Tucker Bounds (LA Times)

….

this is difficult:

on the one hand; we have the speculation of a pretty astute prepubescent kid in jr. high…

on the other hand, we have the man whose sole job it is to represent the republican campaign.

huh.

oil? slick.

nothing could have given me a cheaper thrill than seeing a gas station with unleaded at less than 4 dollars a gallon. really. it’s come to this.

not to be entirely complacent, i of course tried to rationalize how this could be: the war in iraq had not ended; our economy on a whole was not seeing a drastic revitalization; we did not discover an oil fountain hidden inOscar Wyatts’ garage…how could…oh jesus: it’s the GOP.*

of course big oil would be looking out for it’s favorite little sugar daddy (or would it be the other way around?…too early for effective metaphor) by strategically lowering gas prices during election season in order to make the fanciful yet otherwise futile suggested economic policies that McCain keeps sputtering look increasingly attractive to the gullible little herd out there, and especially to swing voters.  behold: the power of subliminal messaging. behold: the awesomeness of the word ’subliminal’. …sorry.

increasing consumption is NOT how we battle our own fuel crisis.  it’s hitting two birds with one stone as far as the highway trust fund and oil lobbyists are concerned.  business as usuall…but they can only keep it up for so long.
AAAAAAAUGH, so aggrevating to watch the oil industry push as hard as they do in lieu of depleting oil reserves.  picture a 90-year-old who’s in denial/too proud to admit not being able to drive safely anymore; you know it’s only a matter of time before they plow straight into a store window.  think about it.

*brilliant tagline

did i mention, ‘drunk’?

stress breeds brilliance. take notes.

The Mockhattan

• 3 parts bourbon whiskey

• 0.5 parts sweet vermouth

• 0.5 parts apricot brandy

• a few dashes angostura bitters

pour all ingredients into old-fashioned glass filled with ice. stir gently and garnish with a maraschino cherry and/or orange peel.

Fix-push: The evolution of the fixie

I stole this from Tom (the heterocyclic radical)’s myspace.

I don’t know what I love more: the video or the fact that I recognize all these parts of San Francisco.

I want this software

using an incomprehensible amount of UN data, Hans Rosling - a professor of international health and the karolinsk institutet in sweden - provides an amazing perspective of the changes in world health and economy between the 1960s and today (or 2003, when this was made, rather), as well as correlating these changes with the social and political history of each area.

on that note: the attention to detail is extraordinary, yet Rosling’s software (which he, himself developed along with his son and daughter) as well as his enthusiastic and engaging speaking makes the unimaginable complexity of each country’s socio-economic breakdown tangible enough for anyone to realize that world aid and development must be micro-managed…

…yeah, i’m getting ahead of myself. and using run-ons. crapnuts.

in any case, Hans is the most adorable, inspiring speaker/researcher i’ve ever seen. so i urge you to watch and enjoy.

it’s 20 minutes long so…get a juice box or something.

thanks to Yael for the link!

Triplet states and bullhorns

TEST: when you think of a ‘heterocyclic radical, which of these pops into your head, first?

or

?

Take your time.

Good heavens!

I’m giddy with anticipation, and since this blog will be the first clean slate I’ve had in years, you can bet I’m going to take my pretty time polishing it.

Thoughts/Art/Drink Recipes….also many science-related things, but with a generous inclination towards the right brain in all of us.

Also: no more capitalization. Fuck that.