It’s really annoying to me.
That is all, for now.
UPDATE: About the title, which I realize now probably doesn’t quite make sense given how I wrote the post: the idea was to convey that climate is just an average of weather. And another word for average is “mean”. But the more I think about it, the more I think it’s kind of an obscure–not to say stupid–pun that isn’t well set-up in the post. However, in my defense, it seemed very funny at 11 o’clock last night.
“Ronald Reagan claimed to have seen UFOs on at least two occasions, according to reports from sources as disparate as the Wall Street Journal, Lucille Ball and the National Enquirer. He alerted the Navy to one of his sightings, and he and Nancy believed that Egyptian hieroglyphics referenced extraterrestrial flying crafts.
Pareene then goes on to contrast this with Reagan’s well-known attitude of indifference towards the AIDS epidemic. It’s rather horrible to read about, really. But what I want to focus on in this post is the considerably less-important first bit.
Perhaps the most curious thing about this is that Reagan isn’t the only politician to have allegedly run into some UFOs in his time. His predecessor, President Carter, also filed a report that he had witnessed a UFO in 1969. And the man thought to have laid the groundwork for Reagan’s popularity, Senator Barry Goldwater, was also interested in the topic. He believed that the government was not releasing information concerning extraterrestrial life-forms.
“So what?”, you ask. Well, frankly, I assume it means nothing; Carter and Reagan probably just saw some airplanes or clouds, and Goldwater was probably willing to believe all sorts of things if they showed the government in a bad light. But it is nonetheless sort of strange, (if unimportant) in my opinion.
And if you think I can get through this subject without a passing reference to “Citizen Kang” from The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII, you’re wrong.
So, the Internet’s all full, eh? Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted.
Seriously, though, so they’re changing over to a new IP address system which, according to the CNN article above, has “340 undecillion IP addresses.”
I was never too good at math, so it kind of freaks me out to hear that there are even more numbers out there than I knew about already.
“Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has no regrets about how the Iraq War was handled, according to leaked portions of his memoir” writes Jonathan Karl at ABC news.
To be fair, later on the article does say he regrets not stepping down after Abu Ghraib and not sending more troops in the first place, although he doesn’t seem to take responsibility for the latter.
Unless, of course, the power goes out again.