March 28, 2004
Nonsense
Correct me if i'm wrong but
does the caption make sense with this picture?
If that's a nuclear power plant, i think that would be steam coming out of the cooling towers.
Last i heard, water vapor was not a greenhouse gas.
This is simply further proof that all journalists are idiots.
Update: Okay, i stand corrected. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, and as Pixy Misa and Mythilt pointed out, a very significant one. In fact, according to this web page, water vapor is bad, while clouds are good.
Does this mean that i owe all journalists an apology? Fuck no, they're still idiots.
Update 2: i was going to have some hot tea this afternoon, but i decided against it. i was afraid the steam from the hot water might contribute to global warming. Sheesh!
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Posted by: Chuck at March 28, 2004 08:23 PM (s6c4t)
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As if any more proof was required.
Posted by: Dave J at March 28, 2004 09:35 PM (+MjkF)
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Technically it's not really steam. Steam is invisible. But, it is water vapor.
Just to be technical.
Posted by: Bastard at March 28, 2004 10:45 PM (jS6Qm)
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Um, annika... Water vapour
is a greenhouse gas. Quite a significant one too.
Still, the picture doesn't fit the story.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 28, 2004 11:08 PM (kOqZ6)
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First, water is a green house gas (According to a Harvard(!) study, it is the most important gas in climate changes, something the watermelons can't admit of course.)
Secondly, that might not be a nuclear plant, some oil fired plants use the same style cooling towers. (It is water condensate from steam that you see though.)
Posted by: Mythilt at March 29, 2004 09:41 AM (G9FKc)
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How the heck can water vapor be a greenhouse gas?
And if water vapor
is a greenhouse gas, how the heck can we ever hope to stop so-called global warming? Do we outlaw clouds?
Please explain or provide links.
Posted by: annika at March 29, 2004 11:27 AM (zAOEU)
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Well, I know it's a literal greenhouse gas, i.e., that greenhouses are usually pretty humid. Beyond that, whether it's a greenhouse gas in the usual environmental sense of that term I'll leave to peole who know about such things, although for some reason the idea has my bullshit detector going off.
Posted by: Dave J at March 29, 2004 12:24 PM (VThvo)
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I read that website, and it just gave me a headache. I ain't gonna worry 'bout it.
Posted by: notGeorge at March 29, 2004 02:27 PM (JCxVY)
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Water vapor is not a gas at all, so it could possibly be a greenhouse gas.
Posted by: Brant at March 29, 2004 05:00 PM (19DLc)
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That is, it could
not possibly be a greenhouse gas.
Posted by: Brant at March 29, 2004 05:01 PM (19DLc)
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Water vapor is a gas in the sense that it doesn't conform to a topless container like a liquid. I guess that, colloquially, we'd think of it as a "mist", but if it's airbourne then it's concidered a gas.
It's a greenhouse gas, but the term "greenhouse gas" isn't a positive or negative description. Water vapors' ability to trap heat keeps the rivers from freezing solid during the night. It's only the EXCESS of greenhouse gasses that could cause problems by overheating the climate.
Oh, and yeah, plenty of journalists are idiots. Just recently President Bush was flying to the White House on Marine One, and some ditzy reporter on the White House beat said something like: "
...and President Bush has unboarded from Air Force One and will be arriving here shortly aboard... oh, "Helicopter One" I guess we could call it..."
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March 26, 2004
More Proof That Europe Is Going Kaput
i can't even bring myself to blog about it. It's simply too disgusting.
Just read it here.
i'm almost certain my brother has been to this doctor.
The shit you find on Ananova! i'm tellin' you.
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This is so me. Might have to link to this on Tuesday.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at March 27, 2004 07:25 AM (w2ALR)
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The doctor in question: Dr Edgar Buggerpicker!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at March 27, 2004 04:53 PM (lZgx6)
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March 23, 2004
WTF?
Why is
this person not lying on the ground, unconscious, with multiple compound fractures and no teeth?
This shit pisses me off.
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Is that really all you think he deserves? Tut, tut. You're such a big softy. ;-)
Posted by: Matt Rustler at March 23, 2004 09:25 PM (of2d1)
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Somehow, even without clicking the link, I knew what person you were referring to.
Smithers! Release the hounds!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2004 03:28 AM (+S1Ft)
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Same shit, different decade, and for that matter, century.
The young ones have skulls full of mush, and are clueless, especially the Korean group for North Korea.
The older folks, well, they're hopeless. Refugees from the 60's, who never got in. What a psychological case study that group would make.
Not to mention this Bush=Hitler stuff pisses me off too.
Posted by: joe at March 24, 2004 04:53 AM (fm6OB)
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He's still walking around and healthy because violence against those not sharing one's views is a favorite Muslim and LEFTIST tactic. When you see violence, intimidation or stifling of 1st Amendment rights on a campus, is it not always Muslim and Leftist students starting it?
When you hear about one group of protestors attacking another, is it not ALWAYS Muslim and
Leftist protestors responsible for the attacks?
When you hear about soldiers murdering their Sgts or Officers as a method of protest, is it not ALWAYS Muslim and Leftist soldiers doing the killing?
That guy is still walking around healthy because while violent assholes are embraced by Muslims and the Left, we on the Right condemn our extremists and shove them away from us. He's still walking around healthy because the Right repects the rule of law. It's only Muslims and the Left who glory in mocking and ignoring it.
Posted by: Tom at March 24, 2004 01:36 PM (PqFjO)
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He probably got a NEA grant for that (both for attitude and artistic quality)
Posted by: Radical Redneck at March 24, 2004 01:43 PM (Skra5)
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As a friendly suggestion, I think you should email these photos around. People need to see protestors' love for communism and terror for themselves.
Posted by: Mark at March 26, 2004 03:45 PM (Vg0tt)
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March 11, 2004
Damn, i Opened Another Trick Spam E-mail By Mistake
Doh!
This one contained an ad for some car dealer, and the following strange message:
I am a single serving friend. My job was to apply the formula. How embarrassing. There were many examples of animals all around.
(I'm loving the way you walk with me so quietly, contentedly.) I can never describe the walk back to my truck. The continuation of our species matters more than you can imagine. It is the single most important thing we can do. That could well be the answer.
My job was to apply the formula. I wished so deeply for the change to come about. I wished so deeply for the change to come about. I'll tell you what happened next.
Love, and hate, are powerful emotions. Don't do that, the cat pointed out. But under the circumstances, I'd do it again. I'm cold, you said, staring at the continuation we had to feel through yesterday. A house full of condiments and no food.
Weird, eh?
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This emailer clearly put the scene from Matrix 2 with the architect and the last 20 minutes of 2001 A space odyssey in a loop, smoked up and started typing.
Posted by: Jason O. at March 11, 2004 08:42 AM (QyDeG)
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Some of that is from Fight Club.
Posted by: Steve S. at March 11, 2004 09:49 AM (SjpDy)
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March 05, 2004
Match The Idiotic Quote With The Idiotic Celebrity
Here's a fun diversion. Try to match the following idiotic statements with the appropriate idiotic celebrity:
- Sometimes it's cool to make mistakes.
- [He] hates my indecisiveness when it comes to making decisions.
- God, I didn't see the pool. Why does he have a pool there?
- When I use those paints there's pure irony, because my paintings are always very dark. It makes them even more meaningful. And my favourite colour to paint with is pink. That's quite odd.
- You're scary and I feel really dark when I'm around you.
- Thank you Brazil!
Answers in extended entry:
more...
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I was three for six. I knew the last one and I guessed Britney for the other five figuring the odds were in my favor.
Posted by: Kurt at March 05, 2004 09:14 AM (/7AX2)
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Not a bad theory to go on.
Posted by: annika! at March 05, 2004 10:36 AM (zAOEU)
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well annie likes the entertainment section, or likes how it raises her hackles
You're scary and I feel really dark when I'm around you. & Sometimes it's cool to make mistakes.
Sometimes it's cool to shut the fack up. ...She can't really talk like that, it has to be an act for the public...right?
Posted by: Scof at March 05, 2004 11:28 AM (XCqS+)
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Before I click the extended entry, I'd like to submit that at least one of those (#5) is Janeane Garofalo. The dumbest blonde ever.
Posted by: candace at March 05, 2004 12:46 PM (diz2c)
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right or i'd be wrong. she's in good company, though.
Posted by: candace at March 05, 2004 12:49 PM (diz2c)
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Hum... And I remember a certain female singer shouting "Hello, Spain!!" in her concert at Lisbon. Who? Whitney Houston. So I guess that is recurrent.
Posted by: Celia at March 07, 2004 04:31 AM (Sl+Oy)
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i wouldn't be surprised if that was Whitney's last invitation to Portugal.
Nunca mais, heh heh.
Posted by: annika at March 07, 2004 10:46 AM (TJP32)
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so i bet all of the previous posters have never made mistakes before and find it easier to just put other people down because of their mistakes instead of look inside their own selves. im not saying that i like any of these 'stars' as role models, especially for little kids. i really dont think they are great role models at all for kids. but. as adults, i think its time we stop bashing things down and provoke change. its not productive to participate in giving these people money (however inadvertantly) by paying any attention whatsoever to them. to me, it seems as if all of you have bought into the whole cherade. i mean, britney, christina, allanis, paris, theyve all got you writing and making pages 'worthy' of stooping to their level and even discussing them. it just doesnt seem to make sense to me....... i dont mean to offend anyone here and id be more than happy to clear up my position on things, but im just amazed that this badmouthing can be any more valid than the whole entertainment crap. just dont pay attention if you dont like it. and if you really dont like it, do something about it.
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March 03, 2004
The Spamosphere Thinks i'm Gay?
Weird. i got two spam e-mails today that i inadvertently opened because of their faux personal subject lines. Someone in the spamosphere apparently thinks i like girls.
E-mail number one says:
I work as a massage therapist. I just recently had my initiation into the bisexual world and I totally appreciate it. I still love a good guy too but I am very eager to get to know otherbisexual girls. I am very friendly, very fit and very fun. I love just about anything outdoors but can spend hours and hours in bed. I love being with girls and guys alike. I am looking for a very sensual person. If this sounds good to you then maybe I am your girl.
Love Rebecca
She sounds great, doesn't she? Too bad i
don't like girls. Not that there's anything wrong with that. i think a massage therapy background is an excellent qualification for any significant other.
The next one was a bit more vague.
I am an outgoing, sporty woman who enjoys trying fresh things. I love to have a good time, and I love meeting men. I usually don't have a 'type' of guy. I can have fun with anyone.
So... I can't wait to talk with you!
barbie
Now this chick seems more my type. i too, love meeting men and having a good time. But still, i don't happen to like girls. Plus, neither of them sent me a picture.
The reason i know they were spam was because the end of the e-mail was a list of random words like:
. . . reply kiosk north tacit false youth fader bluey credo whale . . .
But i thought the final three random words were quite funny:
polka naked spent canon.
Now there's an image i wish hadn't popped into my head.
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I'm sure it was in the imperative:
"Dance polish dances in the nude, you exhausted camera"! Or perhaps there is another meaning to spent canon.
Posted by: Hugo at March 03, 2004 09:59 PM (s5cZe)
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