What The Hell Am I Doing Here?

Friday, December 5, 2003

Dept. of Victories
A picture named hastyhimmler.jpg Big Piney revokes dance policy. Students can now attend high school dances with a person of the same sex thanks to the efforts of a heterosexual honors student concerned about the treatment of gays and lesbians. [Casper Star-Tribune]
Hey, good for her!! Nice to see a win for the good guys. Though it should be noted that the school districts has yet to apologize to Amanda Blair, the girl that brought another girl as her date to the homecoming dance and was met by sheriff's deputies.

But Kris Blair, Amanda's mother, said her family and the ACLU believe the school board should approve a written policy or practice on the matter.
''I don't think it's over,'' she said. ''We've got ... a little bit of a battle ahead of us.''
In addition, the family has received two letters from the district but no apology, she said.
''That's the very least they could do.''
C'mon Weldon, give it up and say you're sorry for being a pinheaded little Prairie Nazi!
Props to Spatula for the linkage.

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Dept. of Social Science

A picture named stupidamericans.jpg Are all Americans stupid?

I'm not! YAY!

You have an impressive understanding of the world for an American. It is likely that you feel intellectually isolated in your home country, and often have to hide your opinions from others. Deep down, you realise that your country is the single biggest threat to world peace in modern times, but you have not yet summoned up the courage to emigrate.

Take the test yourself.

Props to juliebeth for linkage.

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Dept. of Tricksters

No surprise here, as it's my official spirit guide!

Which Dyre Spirit Are You Most Like?
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I picked the raven as the animal most like me, though.

Does a good job of describing me, especially the negatives. Or, as a detractor once said of me- "You're a loud and vulgar little woman!"

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Dept. of Awe

I love Peter Murphy's work- all his panoramas have multiple stories to tell within their frames.

Here an "aerial" view of the Reading Room of the Mitchell Library yesterday. Panorama. This is the older section of the NSW State Library - the Reading Room had a major refurbishment a couple of years ago.
[Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog]

2:55:33 PM

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Dept. of Mine Is Bigger

SpaceX unveils Falcon, announces larger vehicle. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled its Falcon launch vehicle Thursday night as the company announced... [spacetoday.net]

....that it has a bigger, more powerful phallic symbol.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled its Falcon launch vehicle Thursday night as the company announced plans to develop a larger version. SpaceX put the vehicle on public display for the first time outside the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

So that's what the kids are calling it nowadays?!?

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Dept. of Members Only

A Fossil, Decidedly Male, and Old as the Hills. A 425-million-year-old fossil found in Herefordshire, England, may be the oldest record of an animal that is unarguably male. By James Gorman. [New York Times: Science]

I love its "says what it does; does what it says" name:

In their paper, the scientists name the creature Colymbosathon ecplecticos, which they say means swimmer with a large penis.

Funny, we called the only kid at camp with a pair of Speedos that.

Interestingly enough, our ancient little dude received the world's first spam, probably having something to do with this:

Colymbosathon, he said, was not remarkable among its group of crustaceans, the ostracodes. Some have copulatory organs one-third the length of their bodies, he said, and some produce sperm 10 times the length of their bodies. Colymbosathon is more modest; its penis was less than a fifth of its body length.

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