bits and pieces

[solarbird]

Christ, MSNBC is stupid. Story title: "Is China spying on us?" Um, yes. And we're spying on them. In other news, we're spying on Russia, they're spying on us, we're spying on Germany, on France, on Egypt, on Indonesia, everybody's spying on Iran and Israel - the list just keeps going. I would presume we're even spying on Canada, and that they're peeking down at us quite regularly as well. Most likely more - at least they are if Harper's government has the sense the gods gave grain. Good morning, MSNBC; this is what countries do.

"Is China spying on us?" OMG OMG OMG. Morons.

Thursday's miles: 0.6
Friday's miles: 1.6
Sunday's token: 0.1
Monday's miles: 1.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1413.5
Miles out of Rivendell: 955.5
Miles out of Lothlórien: 501.5
Miles past Rauros Falls: 83.6
Miles to Isengard: 378.1

Yay, short week. Today's lab was a movie on the human genome project. @whee. I took a lot of notes on process and science issues, but the "post-lab" wants things like names of people, which I mostly didn't bother with, except for this one jackass at a biotech who really annoyed the fuck out of me, bitching about unfair competition from universities. Then I also wrote down the name of the other guy at the company so I wouldn't think they were all like that. But the rest, eh, not so much. But oops, I guess this was a history lab, not a science lab. Fortunately, searching t3h intarw3b thingie should have some answers.

Japanese class was a conversation class with the Japanese students who are here from, you know, Japan, in the HRT programme that's taught in Japanese. I've talked about it before. Unsurprisingly, their English was much better than our Japanese, but they were all very nice about it, so it was stressful but okay.

Here, I thought this came out kind of neat. The image is a tad grainy, but that's what you get sometimes with monitors and digital and such:


Recursive

Right, back to homework. Yay.

Comments

[banner.livejournal.com]

I don't trust those Canadians, they're just too nice, they have to be up to something! Let's launch a pre-emtive strike!!



(re: Weird Al's Canadian Idiot)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure MSNBC knows all this perfectly well. They're just aware that most US citizens don't.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

if Harper's government has the sense the gods gave grain

That remains to be proven. So far the news isn't good...

[dpawtows.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of a quote from a man-on-the-street interview many years ago: "The CIA is involved with every dirty thing the government does."
To which I'd answer- "Of course they are, it's their job description."/i>"

Cloak and...

[arthur-denger.livejournal.com]

I cannot for the life of me remember the last time I read anything from MSNBC. Reuters, yes; the BBC, naturally. Slashdot and WiredNews, of course. CNN? well I guess if I have to. But no MSNBC. I try to get the facts first, then I can distort them as I please, (apologies to Mark Twain)!

Spy-craft, of course, was the decisive factor which prevented the Cold War from ever defrosting. I'm all for it! (Now where did I put my Blackhawk decoder ring?)