I still have my "spi-kel-oost" t-shirt. Love it.

See! Another!

my pirate t-shirt!

I have one of these too. Well, more accurately this, which is worn with a "You wanna make something of it?" look.

Jesse, I am you wrt patterns, though. Making them very big helps, but it is a leap for each one.

I wore my black "Crashdown Cafe" tee-shirt (with line drawing of the stereotypical eggplant-headed alien) shirt to meeting with the vice president of the Corp I am working for.

I got a raise.

Let your freak flag FLY!

I used to have a t-shirt for Roswell ADAPT(American Disabled For Attendant Programs Today) with aliens on it that said "Free our People!"

I must remember to wear my "Exercise. Eat right. Die anyway." T-shirt the next time I go jogging.

I gave my father a Jesus "Wanted" poster t-shirt that I got in a hipster store, which he actually wears. Makes me laugh.

Saturday at Constantine they had a big New! Improved! With 33 1/3% more added anti-Semitism! trailer for a re-release of Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. It took every ounce of willpower I had not to yell "Jesus is back! And this time, it's PERSONAL!"

If you ever do, let me know. I'd consider your birthday a holiday. Seriously.

Just for the record: Internet access in Wisconsin does not compare well to Internet access in Switzerland.

I had forgotten about DNS's that can't find anything.

This fraking thing can't find Google, fer crissakes.

An article about how the rest of the world sees the growing politicization of science in the US: [link]

...Politics in America, they say, have inappropriately influenced not only stem cell research and cloning science, but also reports on climate change, endangered species policies, fisheries energy and many others.

"In the scientific community in other countries we are ridiculed," said Kurt Gottfried, chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview. "It has certainly lowered our prestige across the world."

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The United States is becoming notorious in the eyes of other countries, Gottfried said, as a nation that has allowed ideology to become a premise for science. That perception is sure to have harmful repercussions on the American science community, he said. Scientists are already leaving the country and graduate students are less uninterested in studying in the United States, he said.

eta: "less uninterested"? Must be a typo/misquote.

People really do see Americans as a common unit, outside the States. How weird is that?

I'm currently wearing a "I ♥ NY" shirt, though right now it looks like the heart is bleeding, since I'm making chili and I spilled a can of tomato sauce. It looks sort of cool, though.

Especially weird now, Gus.