The opinionated fool declareth:

Here's a drafted post from 2006, published now, for scrutiny: ................. What would you do if they reinstated the draft next week? Hypothetically speaking, of course. I think the standard draft proposal is 18-26 year old males get entered into the lottery. And even if the draft were reinstated, being a graduate student, I'd almost certainly be exempt. That being said, I'd definitely go if asked. Anywhere, desert, jungle or plains. I can't think of a better way to serve your country if she needs you than to obey being asked to fight for her. Likewise, there's nothing more cowardly than to enjoy the unbelievable benefits that we as a country, or even a culture, enjoy, and not be willing to protect it with personal mortal wounds. Putting aside the whole anthropomorphic argument (the idea that we are driven today by unnecessary wants that our technology can offer that weren't available centuries or even epochs long-ago in human history, and peo...

Here is a draft I found of something I wrote back in 2007. ................... I'm going to take this moment to sort of speak aloud. Which is really what blogs are for, am I right? A medium of one-sided discussion. I talk, and you listen. Only three or so people ever comment on my blog, so it really is like a one-way conversation. Google Analytics tells me I average about 11.5 (or so?) unique visitors a day, and about half of those are regular readers, and half are people that randomly get to my blog from a Google search or something. On a weekly basis, I end up having about 50 unique visitors. At any rate, the point is that I get to talk, and say stupid things, and you read, smirking to yourself while drinking your coffee. So, what's this post going to be about, Chris? This post is going to be about how awesome I am. Wait, wait - no I'm being serious. I really am awesome. But there will be some humility in this post also, because the second part of thi...

Interesting to see what kind of a person I used to be.  I almost remember every one of these posts. 

Hi. Been a while since I've posted. No doubt many people who visited, laughed and mocked my posts over the years still constantly visit to continue their ingenious, enjoined rejoinders. Maybe I'll pick this back up.

Quick picture from earlier today. I inverted the colors to make it look even more awesomer:

Wow, this is stupifyingly (spelling?) awesome.

Got one. It's my new toy. I really only have a passing need or use for its functionality, but it's highly customizable, and really sweet. (It's basically a micronotebook computer: about the size of your average hardcover book, or a couple of DVD cases on top of each other. Wiki entry - you know that's hot.)

Ah, nice. It looks like there may be a work-around for lowered sexual desire experienced by some women: linky-poo . Brilliant. What do you do when birth control's artificial hormones and anti-depressant regimens obliterate the body's chemistry? YOU TURN UP THE VOLUME! More hormones. One of the side effects that you can read about on the label of most hormone based contraceptives is a decrease in sexual appetite in women, which is painfully ironic, considering the nature of the drug and it's presumed use. That a second hormone should then be created, tested and marketed is par for the course. Afterall, it's the least they could do, so that the women can at least feel like they're not getting ripped off for buying their birth control pills. At what point does it start to simply look like not interfering with the system and needlessly inserting X number of artificial re-checks and re-balances in our bodies is better than the alternative? I wonder if women will ge...

Hey Government, back the fuck off!

Well, I was waiting for the ran to slowly inch by so I could cycle up to work, and I cam across the following story at BoingBoing.net: Italy considering gov't regulation of bloggers . I have no idea if this would have any support in the Italian government, and I know free speech isn't as precious in Europe as it is here in the U.S., but sheesh, that seems like such a bad idea to me (understatement).

Where else can you find hard-hitting stories about toilet paper theft that's going on in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin? From CNN , of course.

Yeah! I feel great! Okay, I wrecked out my beater-car last week, so I have no car. But now I'm thinking that I may not actually bother to find a replacement car right away. I would have never thought that I'd say this, but living 10 miles from my place of work actually doesn't require a car. I've come up with a great way to save money, not have a car, and get in some bitchin' exercise, all from biking to work. I'll be rich and good-looking, right? Here's a Google Maps version of the route that I take to/from work: Google Map . View Larger Map This yields about 1-1.5 hours of good aerobic activity (depending on how hard I ride) for every day that I do it. Now that I'm really trying to eat better in order to lose "the man-bewbs," this is a really great thing, and will complement the evening lifting I've been doing in the garage with Eric's weight bench. The negative to all of this (actually, there are a few things): it takes about ...

It's almost official: Hugo Chavez is a despotic dictator. Telegraph story

We all know that I'm a virgin, right? Well, if anybody has evidence to the contrary, step forward. :P Here's more proof of my virginity. Haha. Interesting, to say the least. They don't really establish causality, as it would be most difficult to do so, but, yeah. Interesting nonetheless. (Link from slashdot's site.)

This song: Collusion , by Psycorps... ...that's what I need for my Friday night.

I guess I'm tired of giving out my opinions on things.

I laughed.

So, I haven't updated in 2 weeks. Sorry. I know - being the coolest freakin' guy on the planet, everybody has probably been biting their nails wondering that the heck Chris has been up to. Not much, really. Things are copacetic. Trying to work more, get a side project finished here in the lab by the end of summer so my name will actually return a hit on PubMed.com. Also trying to get the pwg stuff back in gear. WoW play is in effect, but under control, unlike a while ago. My iPod is broke, and being an incredibly dumb idiot, I waited until it lapsed from it's 1-year-warranty to register a repair request with Apple. Now I'm sending it to a third-party company for repair. Probably going to be a hundred bucks to get it fixed. Good thing I'm filthy, stinking rich. I'm going to buy another soccer ball. The Feroni isn't holding air anymore. In case you're wondering, The Feroni is a soccer ball that I stole from a 10 year old a few years ago. I believ...

Last week Sony debuted a new, flexible, paper-thin display system. Take a look at it here . That is damn sexy!!

NewScientist has published and made available online an article "debunking" 25 misconceptions that muddy the waters of discussion on whether or not global warming is an actual phenomenon or not, and whether or not at it's root cause lies Human activity. You might want to read it here . Then, you might want to watch The Great Global Warming Swindle , which contains an interview with the former headman of NewScientist. This video is over an hour long, but it strongly changed some of my views on the reality of man-made global warming. (As always, it's important to remember that as new information gets made available, we can find out more about what's actually going on. This video convinces me that, at this time, it does not appear to be a human-driven process. But one of the good things about this video also is that it frankly allows for the discovery of new information, making the point that it appears to be the "global warming" advocates that are jumpi...