Seasons

I met someone who called himself "Abe Lincoln" once in a convenience store. Apparently he hung out there a lot and kept using different names, because the cashier was really having fun at his expense. The part of the conversation I remember went something like this:

"Hey, weren't you Albert Einstein last week?"

"Yes, they made me pretend to be a lot of those guys. I keep having plastic surgery to fool everyone. I was Christopher Columbus, Shakespeare, George Washington, Lincoln, and JFK. I'm 257 years old."

"Okay, but Columbus was about 500 years ago."

"No, I'm actually 812 years old."

"Oh I see. So why are you now a bum in this part of town?"

"The CIA has me spying on the drug dealers. I'm going to Columbia next week."

Hmmm I dont know whether to laugh or feel sad.

i didn't either...

Re: worldwide catastrophe

I had a physics prof who did some ball-park calculations, based on the earth's surface area and the amount of energy received from the sun. Assuming all that energy could be converted into "food energy," he calculated an upper limit to the population (of humans) earth could support. I've forgotten what it was now...

happy birthdayyyyyyyyyyyyy dear shadyyyyyyyyyy(still singing in awful note and the dog is still howling in pain)

Where is fairy princess with that magic wand!! She needs to give ladydyke better singing or seal her mouth shut.

haven't you noticed already? whenever there's a weapon around she comes.... anyone got a weapon?*covers her ears while saying this*

Be nice or I shall sic my bot on you.

meep!

I read a thing in Harper's yesterday that predicted the world's rate of oil production would peak around 2035 -- even in the Middle East, where the oil is most plentiful. From that point forward, oil (and gas, etc.) will only get more scarce, more difficult to locate, and more expensive.

I guess my next car had better be a hybrid.

Running out of oil is not the end of the world. We'll find alternative ways to run our cars.