Google rocks my socks.

So I get an email about a meeting that I'm thinking, "i'm never going to remember this." I look to the side and it says "add to calender". I think, "ok, i've seen this before. Lets see how it does...I'll probably have to enter all the info by hand. But, whatever." Me clicks. I'm amazed. Not only did they get the discription and time correct... they even got the correct place.

Now if it could only go to the meeting for me.

*belch* ("excuse me?")

I noticed a couple months ago that my carbon footprint was smaller than the national average. In jest, I suggested I needed to burn more plastic. Now I realize I just need to grill more. Apparently some concerned citizens are making sure there is plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere (since CO2 levels are the lowest they've been a while). Is it obnoxious? Absolutely. Is it obnoxious to cap and trade carbon? Even more so. So if it takes a few absurd people to wake normal people up the absurdity that goes on everyday (and is getting worse), then I say, "more power to them." Cap and trade is supposed to raise billions, if not trillions, for the government to fight CO2 emissions. Three trillion is the actual projected number. Unfortunately, the government has all ready ear-marked seven trillion in spending. But doesn't cap and trade only affect industry? So far. However, when it becomes more expensive to make/transport everything in the States the consumer suffers the most. Then we have the perfect makings for stagflation... though hopefully the government will nationalize everything to keep that from happening. It worked for the Russians.
The BBC scared me with this article. Saying that carbon trading might need to come down to the individual level. So that means if I like to BBQ a lot or take a cross country road trip I would have to buy some credit from my grandma who never leaves the building she lives in.
PS- I hate to point out that Kyoto doesn't even apply to largest polluter in the world: China. They probably don't care about carbon credits either. But we're too busy taxing our own industry to care. Looks like the only one benefiting is the World Bank.
So. Will I refuse to recycle and just throw away beer bottles and plastic I've been accumulating? No. That's dumb. Recycling is always a good idea when it does more good than harm. Unfortunately for me, if gas goes up a buck fifty because of cap and trade, I am not going to be able to afford any more beer. ...and that's something our Founding Fathers would not have been cool with.

It's almost laughable

...how long it has been since I've been on this site. But I thought I would see if the account was still active... and viola!
I found this article on Wiki. They pasted a treaty to restrict the use and/or stockpiling of cluster type weapons. Conspicuously absent? The U.S., Russia, and China... the largest militaries in the world.

More talk?

Looking and reading about these people in the middle east makes me think we'll probably have to fight them instead of talking. They're probably looking for a good excuse to get us all around a big table so they blow ourselves up. If we want to keep our troops safe I suggest eliminating their potential to make war.
Case in point:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/18/pope.islam.ap/index.html

The Sound of Music

keeps going through my head... "So long! Farewell!... Adieu!" Because that's what I'll be doing to everything thing here at GCC soon. Am I sentimental? I thought I might be able to have some feeling of that persuation. I was close...but close doesn't cut it (especially in raquetball). Today I ate my final meal in MAP "cafe". I figured this would be the best place on campus for sentimentality because it is, after all, a place where I have laughed much, bonded much, and eaten even more. But today, they ran out of salad supplies... no bread, or cereal, or bowls. This prevented me from shedding any tears.
Otherwise, I've been doing what I can to see as many people as possible while spending as much time as possible at the cabin. If you are reading this on GCC and you don't know about the Outing Club please look into it. If you don't like it, fine. We don't want you. But if you think you can handle weekends full of hiking, camping, biking, and eating good food in a cabin with no electricity... then hit up a meeting next semester or talk to a friend who knows more (or talk to me).
I'm trying to attach a picture from out latest canoe trip on the Allegheny River. I hope it works.

Friendship Force Remix

is reviving the glory days of 2nd floor Memorial (Crawford side). We met and bowled as freshmen. We still hang out and bowl together four years later! I *heart* Grove City. (wipe tear)
Anyway, I think we're pretty good...sometimes. I mean "sometimes" because I think we have to to be the most inconsistent bowlers of all time. To its credit, Friendship Force Remix holds almost half of the 20 top scores (over and near 200!). Other games, we struggle to break 100. But we're nerds...not probowlers.

Yes, we were crazy enough

to suggest that we should let nerds take care of the illegal immigration problem. We devised a plan that would actually be profitable for the US government! Think of that!
Check out the video here: http://www.live-shot.com/demo.shtml. ...and then ask yourself, "Why can't we use rubber bullets and two-legged-illegal-border-crosser targets?" I don't know why we can't. Do you?