autumn_goodbyes

i just read an article in the globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/copenhagen-climate-rage-whos-the-villain/article1395002/
to summarize "left wing CRAZY PEOPLE want US REGULAR PEOPLE to pay spearchuckers because of an earthquake. well fuck them. they'll just spend it on dictators anyway."


in short, the article is implying that the developing world irrationally wants reparations from first world countries. the author thinks that this is a crazy idea. I feel like she's either misrepresenting the complaints of the developing world, or she doesn't understand what's going on.
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http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2009/12/03/f-mcgregor-pmo-video.html

so the story is, in short, that the PMO doesn't let photojournalists come along with them to photoOps (i know right? they should call them nonphotoops). so then the PMO hires a professional photographer to take photos there instead, and then they email them out to the newspapers and tv stations.

it's a shrewd move. after all, Stanfield lost the election over this photo: http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/robert-stanfield-fumbles/
and apparently he only dropped one catch out of many at the time. Harper has a much crazier party to keep under control, and he probably never knows when one of his crazier MP's will whip it out and wag it at aboriginal people or try to bribe someone or to try to take a bribe from someone.

in any case, it's a jerk move, because it disrupts the way our media tells us about our government, and since we live in a democracy, he's got his metaphorical hand on the metaphorical jugular of our metaphorical democracy.
in any case, i believe that there should be solidarity in the media in response to this, and that the media should publish fanciful drawings of him in the papers and on TV until they let the photojournalists come back.
I mean, we don't live in a dictatorship.

yet

PROGRAMING:
why can't i program by drawing diagrams? I mean, that's how i write programs. I organize my thoughts (either on paper or in my head) in terms of a bunch of boxes with input and output flowing in and out of each other. It'd be handy if i could write the program that way. I'm tired of coming up with stupid names to assign subroutines and counter variables.

SaNDWICHES:
I heard a neat NPR podcast about how cutting sandwiches diagonally is better than sideways. and they neglected to mention that diagonal cuts are better because all the flavour is concentrated at the middle of the sandwich, so then, you end up with a nice soft, long sandwich edge that has all the flavour pushed up against it.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/02/lhc_power_failure_again/

hahaha! take that stupid bet i made!

in other news, today is baking day. my favourite day of the year when i make a million cookies.
a million.

off to the store!

bn