Bird Flu? Mad Cow? Don't Worry.

Soon you'll be able to....

Grow your own meat!

That's right, scientists are growing meat from a handful of cells, they say it tastes like typical processed meat (ie chicken nuggets, hamburger, etc).

Now, I like meat, but growing my own meat in a machine on my kitchen counter isn't something I find particularly appealing.

Song to Memory Correlation

I've been noticing more and more recently that certain songs are conjuring up memories and images for me. Nothing exact or specific, just fleeting images...and a lot of them don't make sense. As an example, right now I'm listening to "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face" by OLP, a song that's essentially an anti-war ballad, and all I can think about is driving around with my arm hanging out the window on a warm summer day...why?

I know you are, but what am I?

You have to love it when a Senator acts like a 4 year old.

You're a doody head

So there's this family from Minnesota that cancelled plans to travel to Canada in protest of the annual seal hunt. Seems reasonable enough, that's a sensible way to protest. In order to get their point across, the family wrote a letter explaining this to all Canadian Senators, saying that they love Canada and have Canadian anscestors, but they would not travel to Canada again if the seal hunt was to continue. Now here's where it gets good. The only senator (capital left out intentionally) to respond was Liberal Celine Hervieux-Payette. She sent a letter to the McLellan family saying, in response to the McLellans finding the seal hunt horrible and inhumaine, that what she finds horrible is

"the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners – mainly blacks – in American prisons, the massive sale of handguns to Americans, the destabilization of the entire world by the American government's aggressive foreign policy, etc."

She said Americans are not in a position to criticize others. "They must start to look at their own behaviour, the permanent heightening of the planet's insecurity since the election of Bush"

This is one of the most immature and childish things I've ever heard come out of a Canadian politician, and that's saying something. You'd think she was a child. It sounds like something out of a 2nd grade classroom...

Family: we think the seal hunt is inhumaine and will not travel to Canada until it is stopped

senator: your President is stupid

Family: what does that have to do with anything, I'm simply voicing my displeasure with the seal hunt

senator: if you people wouldn't have elected Bush, the world would be a better place

Family: not that it's relevant, but Minnesota voted Democrat in the last 2 elections

senator: you're a stupid head

Lord help us if we're all judged by the actions of the people we elect...not all Americans are megalomaniacs and abusive soldiers, and not all Canadians are baby eating robots or senators with the tact of a child.

Blogging Withdrawl

I haven't blogged in a while, so I thought I'd share the only bit of news I can think of...

My thesis now has a title:

"Using sensor ontologies for real-time reasoning and geotechnical hazard monitoring in a spatial decision support system"

Now that's thesis-y

Awesome Simpsons Video

Someone took the time to recreate the entire intro to the Simpsons with real people, it's almost scary how close it is, even down to the camera angles.

Link

Crazy Hockey Brawl

This is nuts

Towards the end, one guy actually chucks his stick tomahawk-style at another guy.

Hey Hey Let's Go!

Let's Fighting Love

You gotta love South Park.