Afternoon Notes In The Velvet Underground
1. The first full-length 50 Foot Wave album will be out on March 8 in the US. Hoo. Ra.
2. While I was eating my damn big salad for lunch I read the March issue of Scientific American. There is a short article about Michael Mann, climatologist and proponent of global warming research, who since his original investigations has been defending his findings against people who say global warming is a hoax and that the warming the planet is experiencing is just a normal flux in the large scheme of things. I don't know much about what politics might be involved and where, if any. What do you think?
3. The employee cafeteria serves three different buckets of assorted beets at the salad bar. I think this is weird considering it isn't a full salad bar. Round sliced pickled beets, shredded pickled beets, and red round ones with holes in the middle. Maybe the latter aren't even beets. Still, two separate buckets of beets at a small salad bar is a lot of beet.
4. Also in this month's issue of Scientific American, I learned that camel racing is a favorite pastime in the Middle East. Young boys have been "imported" to ride the "humpbacked desert beasts". However, recently the Qatar gov't banned child jockeys. Their replacements will be remote-controlled titanium robot jockeys who carry whips. There is a picture in the magazine of what this looks like, worthy of an orgasmic guffaw; this issue isn't online yet. If I had a scanner I'd scan it for you.
2. While I was eating my damn big salad for lunch I read the March issue of Scientific American. There is a short article about Michael Mann, climatologist and proponent of global warming research, who since his original investigations has been defending his findings against people who say global warming is a hoax and that the warming the planet is experiencing is just a normal flux in the large scheme of things. I don't know much about what politics might be involved and where, if any. What do you think?
3. The employee cafeteria serves three different buckets of assorted beets at the salad bar. I think this is weird considering it isn't a full salad bar. Round sliced pickled beets, shredded pickled beets, and red round ones with holes in the middle. Maybe the latter aren't even beets. Still, two separate buckets of beets at a small salad bar is a lot of beet.
4. Also in this month's issue of Scientific American, I learned that camel racing is a favorite pastime in the Middle East. Young boys have been "imported" to ride the "humpbacked desert beasts". However, recently the Qatar gov't banned child jockeys. Their replacements will be remote-controlled titanium robot jockeys who carry whips. There is a picture in the magazine of what this looks like, worthy of an orgasmic guffaw; this issue isn't online yet. If I had a scanner I'd scan it for you.
3 Comments:
The global warming thing may be too tough to tell since people don't live nearly long enough to really know global cycles. However, it does seem a might warm these past several years and 6? of the 10 warmest winters on record were in the past decade or something? Seems very odd to me that humans like to think they can do/conquer anything, and yet, when it comes to possibly overcoming and destroying global ecosystems (in the short/human term) these same people suddenly say "impossible!"
Craig is a proponent of the anti-Global Warming campaign. He finds Global Warming to be fluff. Some of the earth's temp can be attributed to shifting climates, but all? We have had to effect earth is some way, what with our cars and our building and destroying and raping and pillaging and creating things that harm. Our influence on temperature should not be excused easily. As humans we make heat, maybe over population is the cause of global warming. Take that Scientific American!
Thanks for talking, guys. And nice flying unicorn, Melissa.
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