http://www.delvauxmuseum.com/

The irrepressible Sean M. Burke took my W.H.O. news story to the MOTHERFUDGIN NEXT LEVEL, YO

http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/22089

Drums in the deep, doom, doom.

To follow “grind your own peanuts”, “it’s just coffee”, etc.

My favorite quote: “W.H.O. is trying to raise concern because we’re concerned, but W.H.O. is not trying to scare the planet”. SORRY TOO LATE.

November 30, 2004
W.H.O. Official Says Deadly Pandemic Is Likely if the Asian Bird Flu Spreads Among People
By KEITH BRADSHER and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

HONG KONG, Nov. 29 – A pandemic of human influenza could kill up to 100 million people around the world in a worst case, a World Health Organization official said Monday, significantly raising the agency’s earlier estimates of the potential number of deaths in such a catastrophe.
Let’s read more!

1. Taro anything
2. ”Zines”
3. Carrying around a little dog
4. Dave Eggers
5. Toilet humor
6. How to work console video games
7. Sundried tomatoes
8. Eggnog “latte”
9. LARP
10. Marijuana

Enjoy:

Today I fought with a technical task that should be simple, and that was simple in the past. Over the last two years, well-regarded attempts to streamline, automate, and audit this process have loaded it with complication and obscurantism so that it now takes three times as long and spews ambiguous errors and failures.

Technical products live the cycle of cars, sporting activities, and musical scenes. They are born small, cheap, and useful. Their virtues bring popularity. Features are added; size increases; rules are tacked on; schisms occur; and committees and corporations make decisions. They die as 200 megabyte processes with fins and chrome and league rules that double as radio formats: useless.

Three cloves of garlic chopped into the pot in the last 15 minutes of cooking delivers post Thanksgiving turkey soup from boredom into piquant delicacy.

Wealth and holiness are as necessary as water to me; that’s why I hate money and religion.

How can you not click on the headline after reading:

Every week, Ezra stands in a Jerusalem square, handing roses to opponents of the Israeli occupation. He is gay and lives in a cave in Mount Hebron. Mainly, however, he fixes boilers at very reasonable rates.

My Plumber, the Hero