Anyone?

YUP. See you soon, West Coast! I've missed you! (and especially YOU)

on Bon Ive, Bon Iver but now I love it, which means I love THE WHOLE ALBUM. Every time I listen, I'm happified.

To expound briefly on that last journal, it was made hastily in response to this year's Nobel Prize in physics which was awarded to astronomers who discovered that the rate of the universe's expansion is accelerating, not decelerating. For years, everyone thought that the universe would eventually slow its growth and then be pulled back in on itself to the point from which it originated 13 billion years ago in a theory called "The Big Crunch."

The big crunch theory, just like the theories of a geo-centric universe or a flat earth in their times, was held pretty much as fact and taught as such, at least the the lower levels of institutional education. Kids around the country (and probably around the globe) have been told for years THIS IS HOW IT IS, but alas, no it is not.

Factuality is an increasingly silly concept to me. I told my coworker that I was not certain about anything and he countered "I'm certain that if I stop eating and breathing I will die" but that's not a certainty, it's just an extremely probable probability and even if it were to happen, that wouldn't nullify the possibility that it might NOT have happened before it did.

The coworker in question also believes the Bible to be absolute truth, which is also silly to me, and to a lot of people, but a lot of those people are willing to bend their knee at the altar of Hard Data, to accept the word of "Science" as fact as readily as others accept the word of God. We so often set "science" and "knowledge" as the diametric opposites of "religion" and "belief," but science continues to prove itself wrong. Is it less ridiculous to believe a constantly updated set of fallacies than a millenia-old one?

Furthermore, spending billions of dollars to explore the outer reaches of space or the inner workings of subatomic particles might help us to "better understand" our universe but it does nothing to address practical problems. Why are some of the most brilliant, inquisitive minds on our planet occupying themselves with questions whose answers are essentially useless? So much of modern science seems to have no goal but to satisfy its own curiosity; to amass "knowledge" and then debunk that knowledge. Who gives a shit if the universe is filled with god or dark matter or cotton candy? Billions of people are suffering and dying needlessly every day.

Nothing is known

TROPICAL DEPRESSION 13!!! OH MY GOD this is the best-named weather pattern EVER and it's headed this way!

Flat-leaf parsley looks almost exactly like cilantro but tastes a lot different on one's eggs in the morning. WHOOPS.

DEMON GOD GOBLIN HEAVEN: http://rruffurr.tumblr.com/post/939.....n-i-was-hyping

Do people, like, still do that?

Woke up with a strange craving for this song and now I want to punch things.

One of the perks of moving to florida was the sympathy of my friends vis-a-vis the ballsweatulous heat and humidity, but in the midst of this heatwave it's actual cooler here than in most of the country (a paltry 98 with the heat index). WHO WILL PITY ME NOW!?

Furry signifiers of hipness

 brokowski Double fisting fuck yeah!

 brosephsmiff

So grimey both stylistically and subject-wise. Dude's like the furry Vaughn Bodé. Spread the word, dude needs like 10X the watches he has. I can't hear my eyes. mos' deaf.

New number one furry dance jam:



via RRUFFURR.TUMBLR.COM what puts the murr in Amurrica

Not really giving a fuck about British tyranny, I decided to celebrate individual freedom thusly:

Slept in

Made pancakes with bacon and fresh mango on top

DID NOT WORK

Dranks

Went swimsuit and strap-on shopping

Swam in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. Dispersants!

Jumped around in an inflatable boombox

Went HARD on the Slip'n'slide (I'm still sore)

Set off firecrackers in my hand. Whoops!!

Riding a bus to downtown Pittsburgh listening to Zomby and feeling super-urban after months in the boondocks. Hell yeah, Amurrica!

...for approximately 18 hours between Thursday evening and Friday around noon before scuttling off to a bachelor party in Philadelphia. I know I will see at least 3 of my 12 watchers there. This is the perfect number of watchers to fit precisely in the allotted space! Look fur me if ya like, but know that if I get a badge it will likely bear the name of an alternative identity, namely __tt__ B__n__and I think most of the twelve of you know what I'm tal'n'bout. See you there?

I'd also like to take this time to point out

a) how goofy the standard "con attendee" meme is. CAN I TOUCH YOU?

b) how many people I watch have begrudgingly used the template and answered every question on it, regardless of how superfluous, while in the same post remarking on its goofiness

c) how easy it is to notify the world of your plans withOUT using it

BREAK THE CYCLE!! Slough off the chains of mediocrity, Amurrica, and embrace freeform con attendance notification!

And yes, you can touch me. Just don't touch my hat.

Please stop flying into my apartment. You make me nervous.

One of these is currently flying/crawling around my digs, though this is not my photo.: http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/.....iantBeetle.jpg I took it outside and it promptly flew back in and crashed into my light.

++UPDATE++ It just started climbing up my leg. I went egh and shivered violently and it flew out the door. Before anyone states the obvious, yes I realize I would have less bugs if I kept my door shut. I would also have more swampass.

n breakfast tacoes