This child of parents influenced by apocalyptic fear inherited the food that her parents purchased to sustain them in the event of a nuclear disaster (this is assuming they survived the disaster in the first place).
With her stocks of "Neo-Life", in honor of of her parents' drive for post-apocalyptic survival, she prepared a dinner that the basement dwellers of ground zero would have been proud of...
thanks to ds for the entertaining link :)
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Some Things You May Not Have Known
Some of these facts had me laughing:
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide? A fart.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
And some had me crying:
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
Number of people who starved to death in 1997: 20,000,000.
All in all, it's worth a read
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide? A fart.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
And some had me crying:
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
Number of people who starved to death in 1997: 20,000,000.
All in all, it's worth a read
Monday, September 27, 2004
Wonky Voting in Florida
I've made sure to register to vote in the upcoming election and will hopefully get my absentee ballot soon. I don't know how much good it will do, but here's hope for some kind of democratic process.
On Michael Moore's website, former US President Jimmy Carter has written an interesting article about the how voting process in Florida is still subject to the same biases that affected it during the 2000 election. The Carter Center is responsible for usually overseeing the democratic elections in contentious areas such as Venezuela and Indonesia. Since the Center is unable to monitor the elections in Florida due to financial and resource constraints, the only way to make sure the process in Florida remains a democratic process is "to focus maximum public scrutiny" on the election there.
These problems shouldn't really be happening in the "land of the free"...
On Michael Moore's website, former US President Jimmy Carter has written an interesting article about the how voting process in Florida is still subject to the same biases that affected it during the 2000 election. The Carter Center is responsible for usually overseeing the democratic elections in contentious areas such as Venezuela and Indonesia. Since the Center is unable to monitor the elections in Florida due to financial and resource constraints, the only way to make sure the process in Florida remains a democratic process is "to focus maximum public scrutiny" on the election there.
These problems shouldn't really be happening in the "land of the free"...
death brings different socks
bilirubin makes up for your lack of asian genes
as the sunlight writes your name in shadows
now made more even as breathing slows
or as thinking slows.
who knows?
closets full of unworn clothes
compete for space as we cram ourselves
between drawers of tube socks and the leaky loo
twelve years a bachelor marked out in chilli cans and condensed soup
finally you've flown the coup
and women flock to clean up after you.
your youngest son builds the box
(which we wipe down with your socks)
and your oldest waits for you to look with recognition
but by your own admission
you lived for years waiting to be seen
as you hid on Sand road behind the cedar hedge
with the radio always on in case the world ended without you
they say that death comes with a rattle
but it sounded more like socks stuffed in a box
and the muffled sense of loss
that comes when you give away something you never really had
though we plan to bury you
to the sound of taps under a triangular flag
we bury the memories of all we missed
the dad that came and left but liked to hover
like an aloof eagle in the sky
occasionally swooping before he said goodbye.
as the sunlight writes your name in shadows
now made more even as breathing slows
or as thinking slows.
who knows?
closets full of unworn clothes
compete for space as we cram ourselves
between drawers of tube socks and the leaky loo
twelve years a bachelor marked out in chilli cans and condensed soup
finally you've flown the coup
and women flock to clean up after you.
your youngest son builds the box
(which we wipe down with your socks)
and your oldest waits for you to look with recognition
but by your own admission
you lived for years waiting to be seen
as you hid on Sand road behind the cedar hedge
with the radio always on in case the world ended without you
they say that death comes with a rattle
but it sounded more like socks stuffed in a box
and the muffled sense of loss
that comes when you give away something you never really had
though we plan to bury you
to the sound of taps under a triangular flag
we bury the memories of all we missed
the dad that came and left but liked to hover
like an aloof eagle in the sky
occasionally swooping before he said goodbye.
Take Time to Tongue Twist
If you are fond of tongue twisters, someone has created the first international collection...