I do like Bruce’s optimism. (from http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/03/what-bruce-ster.html )
I’ve never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my mind. My mood is eager impatience. I want to see our best, most creative, best-intentioned people in world society directly attacking our worst problems. I’m bored with the deceit. I’m tired of obscurantism and cover-ups. I’m disgusted with cynical spin and the culture war for profit. I’m up to here with phony baloney market fundamentalism. I despise a prostituted society where we put a dollar sign in front of our eyes so we could run straight into the ditch.
The cure for panic is action. Coherent action is great; for a scatterbrained web society, that may be a bit much to ask. Well, any action is better than whining. We can do better.

Mother Goose and Grimm always busted me up, and I’d not seen one in a long time till my dad pointed this out to me Sunday.

Generally I don’t go in for those quizzes that show how much better you are than everyone else, but this one was kind of fun.

So I was reading in the news today about a man who tried to smuggle a monkey into the U.S. under his hat on an airplane. The TSA spokesperson responded to how the man could get through the screenings at two airports without them finding the monkey.

Laura Uselding, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, said that had the monkey been carrying weapons or explosives, an alarm would have triggered.

Jack thought this reminded him of me.

www.xkcd.com
I guess I have always had this great desire to find some ore and smelt it, then make a tool with the metal, and use it to get more ore and make better metal and make something out of the metal.
That probably explains the whole mmorpg thing.

I laughed pretty good at this, then noticed it was a Utah plate. Now there’s someone with a sense of humor I can appreciate…