B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

If the Snowpocalypse is selective in the airport it hits--mainly NYC, Chicago, DC or Atlanta, most people travelling by air are right fucked.

I can't believe I'm flying Jetblue into JFK in three weeks. It'll be alright by then, yeah?

News from home:

I thought I'd tell you what Emaryn and Leif are up to. It started with them playing Camp. Someone kept stealing their milk. And then somehow Emaryn "hatched" (excuse the pun) a chicken empire. She had eggs out the wazoo. She uses them to pay for groceries at the store and was just planning on how to expand her empire around the world. What a hoot! Unfortunately, just moments ago, some thief apparently stole all 300 eggs and last I heard, they were making a Vend-A-Face.

Emaryn has to be more careful so thives don't spoil her take-over-the-world plots. I'm not sure, do I want to know what vend-a-face is?

I'm not sure, do I want to know what vend-a-face is?

It's a Muppet Show thing.

I was thinking, "Hey, I saw that on the Muppet Show."

Not that I'd put it past Emaryn and Leif to invent such a thing.

This is what Conservadpedia has to say about the cactus:

The secularist view of the Cactaceae is that they are roughly two million years old, and that they have evolved exclusively in the new world. This view fails to explain, however, how it is that the Opuntia genus is native to the island of Opus, near Greece. Cacti are known for their high content of alkaloids, and have often been used in the sacramental rights of the Native Americans. Because of this, the early Catholic missionaries in the west thought the plants to be the work of Satan, and this is perhaps a preferable view to that of materialistic evolution since it is difficult to imagine how something like mescaline could have evolved by natural selection. Besides that, the psychoactive content of many cacti have inspired the writings of such ungodly men as Aldous Huxley and Albert Hoffman.

Several species of cactus are now endangered in the west due to "poaching" by collectors and invasive species. But, since Genesis suggests that man has been given dominion over all of the earth, the environmentalist concerns on this note are entirely inappropriate. It may also be that environmentalists, in addition to flauting the Word of God, are merely concerned about the effects that declining cactus populations will have on their supply of mescaline.

Conservadpedia can be pretty funny at times....

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Oh, and only Christians have "faith." And,

"Big Oil has also proven valuable in funding independant [sic] scientists who are able to dispute the propaganda behind Global warming without worrying about losing their government or academic funding due to liberal reprisals."

Gee, that's swell....

eta: And check out this comment:

Although there are lots of funny original entries there, you should know that everybody and their mother has been vandalizing the Conservapedia for a little while now.

The joke entries tend to use better English than the true ones.

I have a dilemma. There's an event tonight that I think would be personally interesting and possibly professionally useful, but I am SO SLEEPY right now, I'm not sure I'd make it through the talk. Do I go, or do I bag?

You'll get your second wind, Jesse. Have some caffeine and a snack.

I just had some hot cocoa, in the hopes that the caffeine and sugar would outweigh the cozy/sleep effect. I think it was a wash. I'm actually a little afraid of getting the second wind -- if I'm all riled up at the end of this thing at 8, will I be asleep by 10 like I want to be? Doubtful. That's the main thing making me want to bail.