Yeah. Busy day at work.

Oh, Google Image Searches for anything lolcat-ish is silly.

"in ur"
"teh intarwebs"
"oh hai"
"fail"

Oh yeah. More amusement with links.

Note: the last five songs were not PJ. But... this one is.

The closest "teh intarwebs" style icon I have appears to be the YouTube one... Anyway.

"Trunk-cam" videos tigers growing up - gee, why didn't we think of that sooner?

South Park is now free - meh, DVDs are more handy... Right?

Sex is good, mkay?

Photomosaic - you'll either cry, get angry, or honk your F350's horn in joy.

Man becomes pregnant - well... that's a little sensationalist. He's an FTM. I'm curious though about this "ethicist" at the bottom. Are her ethics based on study of humankind, or study of religions?

How to save gas - all pretty obvious. Except the whole "Buy in the morning" bit. Interesting.

Also, I swear every time I make a post, iTunes is playing Pearl Jam. They make up less than 10% of this particular playlist. Crazy.

So I glanced outside and I'm like, holy shit, snow!? Nope. Flower petals. Awesome.

Interestingly enough, the family I work with would all have to look up "juxtaposition". "Interesting" might even flummox them depending on how it's pronounced—I sometimes think they don't even hear 4+ syllable words.

Anyway. So the home page on the computer I use at work happens to be BBC News. It's only because it's the home page that I get any news, since I don't watch TV, read the newspaper, or listen to the radio. Like I said last post, it all just tends to depress me. Like the Iraq war costing a possible $3,000,000,000,000 is depressing. That's almost $10,000 out of pocket for each and every citizen of the United States. Er... but enough of that.

This story about homosexuality and the Bible, against this one regarding an interesting extreme of child care is the juxtaposition I was talking about. I'm impressed by the first story's impressive non-partisanship. It outlines both sides of the argument quite eloquently without taking sides. In fact the second one does basically the same thing. I think the BBC is pretty cool that way, actually. Anyway. The thing I really noticed was in the comments. Both sets of comments come on pretty incendiary, but the religious article is extremely divided, whereas all the comments against the "child care" all have the same derisive opinion. Interesting stuff.

In other news, some lady doesn't like the way math is taught these days. I have to say I completely agree with her, but I don't see change coming anytime soon. Ask khinderer about math in America. NCLB roughly equates to no child excels.

( YouTube video )

Interestingly enough, I actually do almost all of my multiplication and division as what she calls TERC Cluster Problems. I thought I came up with it myself after getting frustrated with doing the "Standard Algorithms" in my head, and found a way to do it much faster. It was probably taught to me at some point, though not before I learned the universal, easy, reliable standard methods. In any case, I personally think children should be exposed to all three of the methods demonstrated in the video, but only be required to demonstrate complete understanding of one of them, as long as they can do any problem without a calculator.

So, if I didn't have theferrett on my flist, I may not have even noticed this little speech. Ya know, since usually news just depresses me.

Holy shit... I laughed. I cried. No, really. People are saying Obama will be remembered for this speech. I agree, but only if he wins. If it somehow goes to McCain or Hillary, fifty years from now you'll find it in history books. If he wins, stuff like, "This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected," will be quoted like, "Four score and seven years ago," or, "I have a dream today."

Live blog during the speech, link courtesy kibbles - funny point-by-point

Insightful look at the particular definition of "United States"

In, uh, other politics than the current presidential race, 100 years of war, performed by food. Also, cuddlycthulhu's take on the LJ thing reflects my own, and reminds me why I don't miss Santa Cruz as much as I thought I would.