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NO DORKY, SUPERFICIAL, SHAVEN FREAKS!

She wants frollocks.

i’m not expecting anything of this but figured it might be worth a shot. anything is worth a try, i can only learn from my mistakes! i’m 23 and am just looking for some fun, i love to try new things and meet new people. however it seems difficult to meet likeminded people in the ‘bubble’. I’m not looking for a ‘LTR’-but if that happens then that’s great, nor am i looking for someone whose brain resides, uh not between his ears… so if there is anyone who’s just looking to meet for fun that might-that’s MIGHT- lead to frollocks then i’m up for it. no Asians, no scrawny, no pierced, shaven, tattooed bikers, no old perverts, in fact no perverts period, no drugaddicts-past or present, oh and please try and be vaguely goodlooking! Thanks!!!

Two words: goatse opportunity.

I’m sitting at D’s right now and there’s a tech guy here installing things. A 37″ flatscreen LG monitor is up on the wall with the root@localhost prompt. There are driver messages all over the screen. He looks sad. It’s like a trip back to 1996, when everything was done by hand. Apparently the mode lines aren’t quite right.

Soon this will be one of those scrolling news/sports/ads/bullshit things on the wall; the others have them mostly already. It’s not nearly as bad as a TV, though.

Linux kernel 2.6.10 on Redhat Fedora core release 3 (Heidelberg). ATI driver. Ça ne marche pas. I wish him luck.

At the shrink’s

The bipolar lady having a bad high, the worried mom, and her disgruntled and possibly insane 16 year old boy all just agreed that we preferred silence to KOST 103.5. “Soft Jams”, Faith Hill’s song from “Pearl Harbor”, and the Phil Collins version of “You Can’t Hurry Love” make psych patients something something.

I switched off the radio to general approval.

Biofuel not worth it?

via ScienceDaily, from a new Cornell study. Everyone knows that the ethanol subsidy is just a farm subsidy, but it’s sort of depressing to see data that makes biodiesel generally look like a net loss. If it takes more fossil fuel to produce the biodiesel than we get out of it, we’re taking a step back.

Ethanol And Biodiesel From Crops Not Worth The Energy

ITHACA, N.Y. — Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study.

“There is just no energy benefit to using plant biomass for liquid fuel,” says David Pimentel, professor of ecology and agriculture at Cornell. “These strategies are not sustainable.”

Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Berkeley, conducted a detailed analysis of the energy input-yield ratios of producing ethanol from corn, switch grass and wood biomass as well as for producing biodiesel from soybean and sunflower plants. Their report is published in Natural Resources Research (Vol. 14:1, 65-76).

In terms of energy output compared with energy input for ethanol production, the study found that:

  • corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced;
  • switch grass requires 45 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; and
  • wood biomass requires 57 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.

In terms of energy output compared with the energy input for biodiesel production, the study found that:

  • soybean plants requires 27 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced, and
  • sunflower plants requires 118 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.

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Bizarre Marriage Thing I’ve Never Heard Of

Jeremy & Vicka were discussing their trip to the government place to get their marriage license this weekend. Long line, go to this window, sign this, etc.

Dave and Bethya had a different experience. After all the official city hall signing and stamping and proving and agreeing, they got the license back, along with another item: a plastic bag of stuff. The official said brightly “This is your starter kit” or something like that and handed it to Bethya. It was full of household cleaning products.

I guess Dave missed the “men’s starter kit”, which is probably a universal remote for the TV and stereo.

Not all the world’s a stage

I don’t like the word “drama”. I hear it a lot. Friends and coworkers use it and it’s everywhere online.

What does “drama” mean? A big argument, an unpleasant revelation, a crappy public relationship breakup, a confrontation, raised voices. Any kind of emotional blowup that isn’t hidden is called “drama”.

What does it really mean? That someone is being neurotic or manipulative and creating a theatrical scene, that trivial items are being puffed up to great size, that someone is a “drama queen” who needs to create public messes for his or her own reasons. Okay, that happens and it’s annoying as hell. We all know a few people who do their best to turn everyday life into a soap opera.

But the word “drama” gets applied to anything emotional and public. Whether it’s someone who gets in a shouting match with his ex-girlfriend at a party or someone who hits the end of the rope and guzzles a fifth of vodka and a handful of pills and has to go to the ICU, it’s “drama”. Basically “drama” is anything that makes you have to notice that other people are in bad trouble and can’t help communicating it. It’s an inconvenience to you, and it makes you stop having fun, and you want to trivialize it. So here’s your label for that purpose!

Not everyone who loses their shit in public is clamoring for attention. Occasionally it’s a tragedy and not a soap opera, and not to be dismissed.