A Book Meme: Excerpting Your Closest “Friend”
Well, I discovered this meme here and decided, what the heck. The rules are as follows: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. And here is what I ended up with: The early trading ports, where merchants held sway, seldom achieved ascendancy in the ancient world. (From: The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels) And just to be more entertaining I will grab a book that isn’t in my stack of “school books” that would technically be closest if I wasn’t in class at the moment:So, while she was curious, Anne felt her interest was intrusive and never asked him about his family. (From: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell). Everyone is tagged for this one. It’s fun. Do it! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
A “Controversial” Meme
Well, Mr. Wheeler did it, and so shall I! [01] Do you have the guts to answer these questions and re-post as The Controversial Survey?Yes. [02] Would you do meth if it was legalized?No. If I wanted to do meth I would have already done it. I have no desire to put that kind of crap into my body. The worst thing that goes into here are McDonald’s cheeseburgers and corndogs. [03] Abortion: for or against it?For, with restrictions. I don’t believe abortions should be a form of birth control and I think it needs to be regulated so people don’t do that. I think it should be acceptable in all instances of rape. I also believe science when it tells me that life doesn’t start at conception. Sorry, tough crap. A fertilized egg is a fertilized egg, not a baby. Get over it. [04] Do you think the world would fail with a female president?I think we’ve had a fair share of failure male presidents that even if our first female president was a failure it wouldn’t matter. So no, I don’t think the world would fail with a female president. If she’s up for the job and is better than the other candidates, then she should get the job. [05] Do you believe in the death penalty?Yes. I see no point keeping people around who cannot be rehabilitated, who have murdered a few to many people, etc. I don’t want my tax dollars going to them for anything. Hang them and be over with it. Yes, that might be cruel, but they’re going to die in prison anyway and I don’t want to pay for it. They had their chance to share in collective freedom and they botched it up. That’s not my fault. Additionally, I think all prisons should be forced to reduce the amount of things given to inmates. No toys, special foods, etc. They should eat slop that has all the required nutrients for a human being to survive on and water. They shouldn’t be allowed to watch cable television, work out, play basketball, etc. We treat inmates better than we treat some people who haven’t broken the law. You call that justice? [06] Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?Yes and no. I think it should be legalized with heavy restriction, but I don’t really care if they do it tomorrow or in ten years. If you get caught with pot, you deserve the penalty. You and I both know it’s illegal. [07] Are you for or against premarital sex?For. Not sure what else to say. If you want to wait until after marriage, then go for it. I don’t care when I do it, I just want to make sure I’m with the right person and it’s the right time. If the right time is after marriage, then so be it. [08] Do you believe in God?Not the Christian God. That guy is a jackass. Or at least his followers who think they know him are. I don’t really believe in a specific thing. [09] Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?Yes, because I think America is being killed by the religious right movement who have gone out of their way to circumvent our civil rights all for Jesus. Bite me. Gay people can get married and it does nothing to the sanctity of marriage at all. Maybe you religious nuts should spend more time figuring out why religious people are slightly more likely to get divorced than non-religious people. Yeah. [10] Do you think it’s wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA?The key word is “illegal”. It’s illegal to steal a candy bar just as it is illegal to come into this country to live here without authorization from the United States government. So, yes, it’s wrong. Send them back. [11] A twelve year old girl has a baby, should she keep it?It’s none of my business. I would want my twelve-year-old to keep it if I had a twelve-year-old. But that’s my personal decision and doesn’t represent any sort of “right” decision. [12] Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen?No. We have enough problems with dumbass teenagers driving recklessly, we don’t need to throw legal alcohol into the mix… [13] Should the war in Iraq be called off?Yes and no. I don’t think we should pull out all at once. People who say that are too stupid and narrow-minded for their own good. The situation is exceedingly delicate. You can’t just waltz in guns blazing and waltz out saying, “Sorry we screwed up your country. Have a nice life.” [14] Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree?Bad phrasing for this question, but I know what is meant by it. I think assisted suicide should be legal on a case by case basis. Nobody wants to spend their last days in agony and the people who try to tell people that they just have to deal with it should have to spend a week or more in that person’s shoes. Maybe then they’d understand why that person wants to die. Quality of life over quantity of life. [15] Do you believe in spanking your children?Yes, but I don’t want to do it. But I believe a spanking every once in a while is necessary. [16] Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?No. Sorry. I love my country and I refuse to desecrate the flag for something as petty as money. I’ll burn the Canadian flag or something else, but not the American flag. [17] Who do you think would make a better president? McCain or Obama?Obama at this point. McCain is insane and will do everything he can to destroy science while in power, all so he can force our children to become Christians. He’s the modern day Hitler with Palin right beside him. I refuse to vote for someone who is so clearly clouded by religious issues. I want
Secular Heaven?
Can I please go to secular heaven when I die at the tender age of 4,312 ? It just looks like a fun place, don’t you think? Who wouldn’t want to play volleyball with Einstein? For those wondering how I’m planning to live over 43 centuries: nanotechnology and lots of pills. I suspect there will be an Apple iPill one day and a handy device called the iMed that will cure you of diseases. Then there’s the iShot and the iScan, which will do wonders to keep us all healthy until some disgruntled employee with a broken iMac creates the iFlu and screws everything up. Yeah. (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
Missile Silo + Retirement = Coolest New Home Ever
A home built out of an old missile silo! This is possibly the coolest thing to be made out of old military crap ever! Do I want it? Yes, oh god yes!Can I afford it? Nope. It’s probably millions upon millions of dollars and I doubt they’d take my old book from the 1800s as collateral. Someone buy it for me. Please. I want it! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
The Hue Test: Giving Your Eyes a Whirl!
I recently took this silly little test to see how good my color vision is and got a perfect score, which means that I apparently have perfect color vision. It’s kind of strange, I suppose. I thought I would do decent, but not great. Take the test and see how you do! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
Disney Genetically Engineers Their Stars
I got this from Peggy over at Biology in Science Fiction. What’s amazing about this isn’t just that it’s the most bizarre and hilarious things to ever be said about Disney (and I really hope Disney was behind this), but that everyone in the video are absolutely, 100% dead serious. They don’t crack up or anything. I can just see kids thinking this is real all over the place and wishing they could be genetically grown by Disney too.Watch it, because it’s hilarious: Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)