This has not been a good day. I could not take a shower, because our pipes froze (but only the hot water pipe to the bathroom; it was something like -20°C when I got up). Then I discovered the snowplows had sealed off my driveway and the sidewalk with a dense wall of snow, so I had to go out and clear that in the frigid weather. I went in to work for a few hours, and when I came back, the whole house reeked of gas — to be on the safe side, we called the gas company to check it out, but then it turned out that something had cracked in our snowblower, and it had dumped a whole tank of gas in our garage. That’s going to need repair before the next storm.
Everything sucked, basically.
Clearly, the problem is that I posted something cynical and grumpy about this stupid New Year thing, so the calendrical deities are smiting me for dissing the whole concept of “resolutions”. My attitude is the problem. I have to appease the gods of karma now. I must…
OK, I resolve to be more cheerful and less negative. I shall fantasize that Trump and Stephen Miller will start by nibbling each others toes, and choke to death by playing Ouroboros ending in ass-ophagy. This will be the year that global climate change ends, Pewdiepie, Milo, and the Kardashians are forgotten and ignored, the Catholic church goes bankrupt, and everyone realizes that video games are more entertaining than church. I will smile now and then.
Good enough, O Inimical Universe? Curse lifted?
“I resolve to be more cheerful and less negative”. OK – who are you and what have you done with the real PZ?
Watch out for the unicorns.
They are actually carnivorous.
“Catholic church goes bankrupt”
Not gonna happen anytime soon, Although they could completly destroy the worldwide art market if they have to sell a fraction of their art collection:)
And since they are the only religious organization which pocess a state, real bankrupcy is kind of impossible anyway.
Sorry for your optimism :)
Maybe it is time to get an on-demand shower where only cold water is fed in and the shower unit heats only the water you use.
This is the style of a lot of the showers that we use in the UK.
We also have cold fill washing machines where the machine only heats up only the water that the cycle is going to use.
If you accept moral bankruptcy you can cross the church off right now. Shifting goalposts are the bedrock of a happy life.
The silence must be deafening.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc, doc? What a crock.
And since they are the only religious organization which pocess a state, real bankrupcy is kind of impossible anyway.
@3 euclide, true – but they don’t have their own currency … unless we count ecclesiastical pardons/years off your sentence in purgatory/prayers ab-so-loootly guaranteed to be offered up after your death, all of which are frowned upon these days as a means of exchange :-)
So maybe the Vatican could theoretically be forced into bankruptcy after all, by obliging them to give monetary compensation to all their victims world-wide.
Good bunch of wishes there, PZ, may they all come true. Well, a person can hope, eh :-s
Hope you get your pipes unfrozen and your snow-blower fixed at least. HNY!
Have any of you seen the Argentinian movie El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in their Eyes, not to be confused with Secret in Their Eyes, the meh Hollywood remake)? Cause that ending would be fitting for Trump, Miller and all his accomplices.
Try maybe to less signal your virtue (true, it’s very human behaviour, the cognitive-human equivalent of chemical signals, used by social insects, but nevertheless tiresome) and to post, instead, interesting stuff. Just a thought:)
At the very least Milo seems to be heading towards his well deserved obscurity- probably the only thing he’s legitimately earned in his whole life- so you’re off to a good start.
koen@9,
Try maybe to less signal your fuckwittery (true, it’s a very fuckwitted behaviour, the fuckwit’s equivalent of saying something worthwhile, but nevertheless, tiresome), and to post, instead, nothing whatever. Just a thought.
11 KG
Nothing whatever: Would that be a Zen koen? Asking for a cow.
Know the difference between gasoline smell and the odorant, ethyl mercaptan they add to your propane or natural gas to make it smell. It saves the gas company a trip if it’s gas, and if it’s the other one get the hell out.