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illconsidered | February 12, 2009I guess Marc Morano has found out about google alerts and seems to pop up on blog posts that mention James Inhofe, or his 650 scientists and probably his own name (Hi Marc!) Nice way to use the tax payer's money.
He popped in on Things Break and TB gave him a nice spanking! Well done! : )
illconsidered | February 7, 2009So last week I asked "how low", Things Break provided an answer, and Roger continued his love-to-hate realtionship with Real Climate folks. The sopa opera continues, spilling out into Real Life, as Gavin seems to want some formal retraction. Being called a thief is no small matter, and like most of Rogers conclusions, this is just not born out by the evidence. He is once again finding the smallest bit of wiggle room and prying it open until it is wide enough for his ego to fit through!
(And BTW, none of this matters if you are interested in what is actually going on in Antarctica.)
But…
aardvarchaeology | February 2, 2009My first wife had a cat named Cassandra, and she had a litter of three kittens. One was grey, black and white, and we called him Batman. Two were ginger, and I don't remember what we called them, but the neighbour who took one of them in called him Sophus. He grew up to become a fine tomcat and a great hunter.
Sophus and his owner lived on the ground floor with a little garden on the edge of a park. So the cat would come home with prey and lay it at his owner's feet. There were birds, including the fast ones, and small rodents. Sophus was good. But hunting wasn't always good. After his second…
aardvarchaeology | January 24, 2009My lovely Chinese wife came to Sweden with her family at age seven and grew up here. This has given her an unusual level of bicultural competence. I like to quip, lewdly, that she's a dual boot machine with two operating systems and the most awesome hardware, man. She's like this typical bright Swedish middle-class chick who somehow happens to know everything about China and looks like an Imperial princess.
So I can't really say that we have grappled with and overcome our cultural differences. She pretty much does that for me on her own. But there are some details where our different…
illconsidered | January 21, 2009Now this is priceless! Some of the best GW satire ever, courtesy of Greenfrye....
illconsidered | December 11, 2008This is too hilarious for words, seven lumps of coal wearing scarves and toques singing Christmas carols about "clean coal" and energy independence!
There are six to chose from, I didn't get far but my favorite is transcribed below:
Frosty the Coalman, is a jolly happy soul,
He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll.
Frosty the Coalman's getting cleaner every dayHe's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay.There must have been some magic in clean coal technology,For when they looked for pollutants there were nearly none to see.Oh, Frosty the Coalman, is a…
illconsidered | December 4, 2008Tired of the same old crap for Christmas?
Why not buy some new crap?
aardvarchaeology | December 4, 2008
Kai reports from an on-going exhibition at the Stockholm Museum of Natural History on homosexuality among non-humans. It is based on Bruce Bagemihl's research.
I am impressed by the gay dolphins' invention of nasal intercourse. To pull that off, one human would have to be hugely endowed in the nose department and the other very petite indeed elsewhere. I wonder what happens if you sneeze?
In the title of his entry, Kai reminds us of the Flintstones, who of course had a gay old time. Now, the bit that I've been wondering about is "they go down in history". On whom?
In other news, I came up…
aardvarchaeology | December 2, 2008Conversing with a friend recently, I mused, what could be the background to the expression "batshit insane"? My friend suggested that it might have something to do with having bats in the belfry. I then wondered what the Swedish equivalent of this expression would be.
In Swedish, you don't have bats in the belfry. You have gnomes on the loft. Thus, "batshit insane" translates to tomtespillningstokig: gnome poop insane.
aardvarchaeology | November 22, 2008I'm here to tell you there are lots of Christians who aren't anything like the preconceived notions you may have. We're not all into "turning the other cheek." We don't spend our days committing random acts of kindness for no credit. And although we believe that the moral precepts in the Book of Leviticus are the infallible word of God, it doesn't mean we're all obsessed with extremist notions like "righteousness" and "justice."
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illconsidered | November 21, 2008I received this via unsolicited email and thought it important analysis to share:
Stunning Break with Last Eight Years
In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.
Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth. But Mr.…
aardvarchaeology | November 20, 2008
So you're the principal of an English-language high school in Stockholm, Sweden. And you decide to put some serious money into an advertising campaign in the city's subway. Now, you want to express what we in Sweden call att behärska engelska, "learning English really well".
And that's when the idea hits you: "I'm gonna say it in home-made mistranslated Swenglish! That'll give everybody a really good impression of my school, and they'll send their kids here in frickin' droves!"
"Commanding English -- Those Who Dare, Win."
illconsidered | October 28, 2008"Skeptics use a scatter shot approach, using one kind of physics to 'disprove' one aspect and an opposing kind of physics to 'disprove' another. You need to have an internally consistent argument."
As Jen's site [Jennifer Marohasey's site] demonstrates so well, you don't need anything of the sort.
Check out Eli Rabett's post about how climate sceptics have no problem believing any number of mutually exclusive theories at one time, as long as they share the common thread of confirmation bias.
I have been wanting to put together an exhaustive list of all the internal contradictions there are in…
illconsidered | October 27, 2008From the "Laugh, Don't Cry" department, Tamino has a bit of fun at the expense of, well, quite a few!
illconsidered | October 5, 2008[UPDATE: turns out this one was actually too funny to be real...oh well, I can't tell reality from satire since McCain put Palin on his ticket, his soulmate and all that...apologies and how embarassing and all that.]
If too funny to be real, or too real to be funny is what you find yourself wondering about this whole Palin for VP thing, then you have got to read this. It is Todd Palin live blogging the debate (or as much as he could watch before being so bored he starts channel surfing!) and it includes gems like this:
9:30 - OK, got a little lost there. I think that energy independence is…
aardvarchaeology | September 29, 2008I was contacted on Yahoo Messenger today by a chatbot named Alexandra Buford. She greeted me in a foreign language, so I thought it polite to reply likewise.Alexandra: yhneb martinrund
Martin: yhneb
Alexandra: Hi martinrund. it's Alexandra.
Martin: yhneb
Alexandra: u dont know me Kelly -- gave me your info, :)
Martin: yhneb
Alexandra: I just moved here from outta town cuz my boyfriend just dumped me (loser!)
Martin: yhneb
Alexandra: I'm lookin to have some fun this weekend, wanna join me? ;);)
Martin: yhneb
Alexandra: I have a new profile up tell me what u think
Martin: YHNEB
Alexandra: So…
aardvarchaeology | September 20, 2008I take a childish pleasure from the fact that Shanghai International Airport is named Poo Dong -- snigger, snigger. Now, reading about tea, I find my scatological spot tickled further by the Poobong Tea Company in Calcutta. Poo bong. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it! Makes me want to strike the gong in Pugong Monastery, Tibet.
illconsidered | September 20, 2008Colbert has the CEO of GM, Bob Lutz, on his show and it is a pretty good one. The discussion is about GM's new hybrid car, the Volt. The two most memorable moments are 1. Lutz cynically revealing he doen't believe the whole CO2 global warming thing and that 32,000 scientists think it is sunspots(!) and 2. Colbert asking if he can recharge his Volt using the cigarette lighter in his Hummer! That was a real LOL moment : )
Watch it here:
(saw this on Treehugger)