New Addiction

A co-worker sent me an e-mail that only contained one string of text: snood.org

Last year we had a mini-Collapse addiction which ultimately ended up in scores so high that the amount of time required to reach was more than we had available. Moira took the crown with a score of 3,385,076. I still have the post-it note on my screen reminding me to beat the score. I’ve long since given up.

This year the drug is Snood, and we’ve started a friendly tournement among co-workers. You can check the stats yourself. We’ll see how long it lasts, but my eyes are already burning.

Earth Day 2003

Happy Earth Day!

I’ve been reading Rod Nash’s Rights of Nature, which discusses the greening of politics, religion, philosophy and such. Today’s reading included a discussion on the extension of rights to non-humans. We currently extend rights to our citizens, but how about non-citizens, or animals, or plants, or the soil? What rights do these beings have? A right to a clean and safe environment? A right to exist?

The father of Earth Day, Gaylord Nelson tried to ammend the Constitution to guarantee every American “an inalienable right to a decent environment.” Seems like a good start to me. Besides, Nature has a will to exist that supercedes our delegation of rights. We probably won’t be around to see it though.

Happy Easter, Say hello to Porter

Happy Easter!
To the right is an image of a peep from the easter basket that the USPS brought us. The label said it was from E. Bunny. Thanks Mom & Dad, errr, I mean Easter Bunny. The peep was later ambushed by Tigger, who toyed with it for a while, then Barley finished it off. There’s still peep carnage on the floor.

Also, I have pictures of Scott & Sarah’s new dog, Porter. He was adopted last weekend, but I didn’t post anything becaues I didn’t have the pictures yet. They’re online now though.

 the token peep

sign language

I just saw two people flirting in sign language. It was quite sexy. No, I couldn’t tell what they were saying, but there were all sorts of non-ASL type movements going on that were communicating something besides the normal conversation.

oh, and this is entry #200!

Clicker Demo

Is it worth the extra cost for a bluetooth enabled phone and bluetooth enabled mac? I’d say so. Check out this demo of Sony-Erricson Clicker controlling iTunes from a cell phone.

expose

Campus Police stopped by the library today to drop of a picture of a fellow who had been arrested yesterday for exposing himself to some ladies. Turns out it was not his first arrest….on this campus. Apparently, his gig includes going to Portland colleges and showing willy daylight.

At least he’s found his calling.