6.30.2006
Phases of the Moon
I just took some pictures of my beloved Cascadian House Tiger and put them together as a single piece. I think they're kind of cool. This is a photo-sequence of her reaction to me as I came up from behind with a camera while she was stretched out near the door to the upper porch.
6.26.2006
At long last . . . Something to blog about
After all, I can't imagine that the two people who read this really care to hear more about my daily efforts to revitalize the grounds at Chateu West Seattle.
Scottland and I saw An Inconvenient Truth on Saturday and we both thought it was relatively well done and informative. More so for the S.O. I think, as I've already seen or read most of the technical material. I did not, however, know that China has higher vehicle fuel efficiency standards than the US.
We both agree that the personal material wasn't as good and we would rather have seen more of the presentation. I figure that the personal information was put in for those audience members that would come down with a bad case of the Narcolepsy if they had to sit through two hours of technical presentation. Cynical types claim that the personal information was in there because Al Gore is planning on running for President again in 2008. I'm not quite sure I follow the logic of that argument.
Oddly enough, watching the movie made me think a bit about South Park. This season there was an episode titled Manbearpig that lampooned Al Gore. After I saw the episode I did a quick bit of research and figured out that the episode was specifically mocking Al Gore's global warming talk. Taking the episode at face value, Manbearpig is global warming doesn't really exist. Al Gore is just talking about it as an attempt to get people to pay attention to him.
Now, I don't really have a problem with the show making fun of Al Gore, but I do take issue with those ass-hats trying to take the position that human caused global warming doesn't exist. Scottland says I shouldn't take the cartoon too seriously and he's probably right. Still, I'm just bothered by it.
Scottland and I saw An Inconvenient Truth on Saturday and we both thought it was relatively well done and informative. More so for the S.O. I think, as I've already seen or read most of the technical material. I did not, however, know that China has higher vehicle fuel efficiency standards than the US.
We both agree that the personal material wasn't as good and we would rather have seen more of the presentation. I figure that the personal information was put in for those audience members that would come down with a bad case of the Narcolepsy if they had to sit through two hours of technical presentation. Cynical types claim that the personal information was in there because Al Gore is planning on running for President again in 2008. I'm not quite sure I follow the logic of that argument.
Oddly enough, watching the movie made me think a bit about South Park. This season there was an episode titled Manbearpig that lampooned Al Gore. After I saw the episode I did a quick bit of research and figured out that the episode was specifically mocking Al Gore's global warming talk. Taking the episode at face value, Manbearpig is global warming doesn't really exist. Al Gore is just talking about it as an attempt to get people to pay attention to him.
Now, I don't really have a problem with the show making fun of Al Gore, but I do take issue with those ass-hats trying to take the position that human caused global warming doesn't exist. Scottland says I shouldn't take the cartoon too seriously and he's probably right. Still, I'm just bothered by it.
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