PolarLava::Blog

I'm not sure exactly when it came to pass, but it definately happened.  I used to be a fairly conservative right leaning individual, but even so I was never really a very religious person.  But (mostly) over the past decade I find myself becoming more and more distressed over what can be described as nothing less than the highjacking of the Republican party by the ultra-conservative bible thumpers.  I've watched as these people have preached the evil of just about everything because of their raw and strict interpretation of the bible.  That it's the be all and end all.  It's not people, deal with it.  And maybe there is a God.  And maybe I will be cast into the depths of Hell at the end of my time, but it's got to be better than spending eternity with these people.  Because if they really are right, then I'm very happy to be wrong!  Pass the hot sauce!  ;)

Someone at work today was trying to give away a couple of cats on our IRC channel and remarked that if they couldn't give them away, they might have to eat them.  My response was to post a link to Cats - Friend or Food?.  I found this article rather interesting because it point out a couple of things that are very true.  The first being the stereotype of "all Asians eat cats (and dogs)" which certainly couldn't be further from the truth.  And secondly that western bias is definately at play here.  As the article points out, how would the average American feel if Indian Hindu's started ranting and raving at Americans for eating cows?  Do you thing this country is about to abandon the burger joint because it offends another culture?  Hell no.  A sad, but more likely response would be  "Fuck those [enter derogatory term of your choice]".  It's okay for us to tell others what they should do, but how dare they be offended by what we do?  GASP!  The typical American is so simpleminded.

Although I'm not a meat eater, be it cows or cats, I do have to agree that if you are going kill an animal for food it should be done as humanely as possible.

Well, I'm very sad to see that TRASHLOG is shutting down.  This has been a mainstay in my life since shortly after it went online.  It was the one blog I could always count on to have something new everyday.  Oh well, I imagine that after this long it kind of became a chore.

Well today marks a milestone in my life…when I leave work and drive home today, my car —a bright red 1998 Honda Civic EX coupe, will roll over 100,000 miles.  So what you say?  Well, it's significant for me because this is the first time I've ever had a car long enough to actually get to this point.  The closest I've previously been was Nissan Pulsar EX (1986/87?) that I kept to I believe 77k.  Other than that I did have a purple 1993 Honda Civic EX that was in my possession until about 68k.  At that point it became my ex-wife's property.  The last I knew my former in-laws were still driving it and it had 130k on it.  I loved that car and was sad to see it go.  I've always been very please with Honda product, thus why I bought another one this time around.  I've also had a couple of Acura Integra's on lease a decade ago that were absolutely wonderful.

Anyhow, this trivial event is someting new for me. Whoop-T-Do!  Even being a 100k this car is still very solid and reliable.  It's got to go at least another 50k which shouldn't be an issue as I've very good about maintaining my cars.  Ideally it would be kind of cool to see if I can get to 200k with it, but time will tell.  At the rate it would mean driving it until 2012.  We shall see.

Meet Diego Golberg and his family.  I found this to be incredibly interesting.  To think this guy has photographed himself and his family every June 17 since 1976 is amazing.  That's nearly thirty years of his families life in series of snapshots.  Very cool.