watchmen - saving humanity

By now, I expect that you all have watched The Watchmen. If not, stop wasting your time. Leave now.

Also, if you can't handle tongue-in-cheek, adult discussion, stop reading, get of the internet.

The question raised is; what are you prepared to do - to save all of us from ourselves?

Many authors put forth that mankind is it's own worst enemy. We are destructive, flawed. Where are the would-be saviors? why aren't more "solutions" coming forward? Oh, right .. we're also apathetic.

We dodge real solutions because of their immediate cost, without regard to indirect return. This applies to life choices, business decisions as well as the world environmental and economic situation.

Let's run a hypothetical here. If we could fix the rampant environmental "Global Weirding", save the coral and retain biodiversity, prevent the sea level rise, etc. etc. But to do so, we had to immediately sacrifice six million people... Who would make that choice? it's only 0.001% of our population.

And what if it were by volunteer efforts. Would enough step forward? There are about a million suicides a year, it might work.

Then instead of all that, we say, lets get a handle on the population for the sake of the planet. Limit each human to beget one child - thus, each couple two. How would we *begin* to enforce this globally?

Better to continue to war with other humans as an organic population check.

And, which hypothetical suggestion do you think might raise the most outrage?


Post Scriptum. why are men so obsessed with penises - blue or otherwise?

crazy good or crazy bad? - you already know i mean both!

today was uncomfortably hot; my office is reedeekerous! i have zee sniffles.. *pouts* .. and i went a wee bit crazy!

Also, i felt left out because I don't own any green. Well, hello world, St Patrick's was originally celebrated with *BLUE*. The internets says so!


I'm busy doing the fiddly stuff at work. Not really busy per se.. just trying to finish so I can stop paying attention and meditate upon my upcoming vacation.

It's been more than a year since my last round-the-world super-vacation (east eu, india, thailand and oz). I badly need some time to stop thinking and hit reset. Granted, I'm sniffling and fairly pathetic, but the day that I skip out on both drinking & my painting class to come home and nap is a sad day indeed!

Also, if you already know all of the items on "the stuff you should have seen list" - I probably want to have sex with you. really. man, woman or other. nerds are hawt.



You already know I mean both!

Another random fact, throughout my life I have wondered why people say "toot sweet".. for the first time I saw it written; tout de suite. How terrifically do we butcher french?

last.fm concerts in your calendar

Cool and simple; loading last.fm Toronto concerts into my google calendar. How awesome is ical now we have the tools?

things that are weird for me

People asking me to do something, and immediately offering a vague back-scratch in return.

This feels shady.

If someone asks a favour, I will think about whether I can do it - considering how much personal time and effort is required, in addition to literal capability. If I can, I will always say yes. I assume if future-me asks a similar weighted favour, it is thus more likely to be a yes.

I assume other people are like me. They mostly aren't.

Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss - New York Times

Incompetent individuals are less able to recognize competence in themselves or others. Published by the New York Times.

The findings, the psychologists said, support Thomas Jefferson's assertion that "he who knows best knows how little he knows."