But I Want All The Ice Caps To Melt
Thursday, Jul. 24, 2003

I�m not even sure why I have Netflix bookmarked considering that Yahoo gives me a link to it on nearly every page. And since I�m so heavily Yahooed, email, bookmarks, etc, I see it all the time.

TC helped me out a second ago when I commented that I wanted the next Men In Black to be a darker noir piece. He said they had to do something since he found MIBII to be almost unwatchable. I bumped it back in my queue so that the movies they�ll ship when they get Spiderman (I refuse to hyphen it) and Fletch will be The Rock (Michael Bay and Sean Connery, yeah, and of course, the ever present Yellow Hummer) and Gangs Of New York.

When I was driving the other day, I was disappointed to hear that the jello wrestling they have at some place in Birmingham has a weight limit of 140 lbs. I�m 40 lbs over. And I�m tellin� ya, I�d dominate against those sissy little girls. Then, to further dash my spirits, Aisai told me it was for women only. Next thing they�ll tell me that no weapons are allowed.

And it seems the Nissan Murano is considered as cool as I consider it, as I�m seeing lots of them on the road. I thought for sure that no one would buy one, since it looks like something that Judge Dredd�s mom would drive.

A few months ago, my NASA Contact emailed me. There was a slight emergency in his office. A co-worker�s kid needed to know where to pick up samples of cattails, the aquatic plant. I looked around when I had a locate to do in a semi-waterish area, and didn�t see any. Some internet research let me know they were totally out of season. Well, good news, there are several in front of the Race und Sprocket Center.

I read in an unlikely place (a comedian�s blog) about what actually happens when you have d�j� vu. He had asked for the info and a gal who�s working on her Phd in neuroscience emailed in. Seems that the hippocampus (which Aisai said was a mythological half-horse/half-fish) is the part of the brain that stores and retrieves memory. Sometimes it messes up and retrieves the memory that is being stored, so that you remember, in detail, what is currently happening. So, no, you haven�t been there before (or you probably have, since we do the same stuff day after day).

When I was washing Aisai�s car this weekend, there was a cicada in the tree next to me. We live in a new subdivision so all the trees are really small. It was nice. Nature like, even.

After reading some stuff about how the seas (and they always said seas, where I think we�re really talking oceans here�not like the Caspian Sea�or whatever that big inland lake is) will rise 220 feet if absolutely all of the polar ice caps melt. Well, not that I fear this crap, as I don�t even see how scientists can make the claim that the oceans are rising at a rate of 1 mm per year. Well, I�ll be in Galveston this October, I�ll see if the gulf is 3 mm higher than it was last time. In any case, if it all melted, we�d lose Florida and we�d get this great bay extending up almost to Ohio. That would rock. I�m all for it. After all, I live at about 682 feet above sea level.

But I think we�d also lose NYC, but really, they�d do a Venice on us, you know it.

And lately, I�ve been a little fascinated by NYC. I mentioned to Aisai that I was really interested in it currently and she snarked out �I KNOW.� Hmm, perhaps I�d mentioned it before.

And, in conclusion, I think the clear facts that can be drawn from this discussion is that if they make a Surreal Life 2, they need to get Corey to be the host. I know there wasn�t a host last time, but you gotta get Corey, as he�s a freakin� freak o� freaks. I think some of the good b-grade celebs would be Randy Savage, Kirk Cameron (if he�s not being left behind by Jesus at the time (sinner)), that Prairie Home Companion freak, Marcel from Big Brother 3, Xena�s sidekick, Areseneo Hall, and any character actor I know by sight.

Or maybe Emeril, or something.