Several can keep that 3.

I've had kind of a hectic mental week, and failed in my task of preparing juicy, mind-nourishing bloggy goodness. But don't despair, I've brought you the next best thing, bits and pieces of all the things I didn't want to write about.

If we were each the size of a universe, telescopes might not be as big of a deal. Likewise, if we were the size of sub-atomic particles, micro-scopes wouldn't be of much use (as far as I know). But as things stand, most humans are smaller than a universe and bigger than a quark, so telescopes and microscopes make sense to us.

People had a fit some while back over a rumor that Obama was going to end the program that allows commercial pilots to carry firearms while flying. The rumor turned out to be as false as their arguments. There has been one shot discharged under the program since it's inception eight years ago - an accident resulting from a pilot playing with his gun. Though se3veral hundred of the guns have been misplaced by pilots over the years. A hole the size of a bullet can tear a plane apart at 450mph, and given that cops and military personnel who get much, much more training than this program provides still miss 80% of the time (when not on a moving plane), that's not a very wise recipe. I think people just like to complain.

A surprising number of people I've talked to recently don't care whether their existence is an objective or subjective one. I can't really wrap my mind around how that's not important to them. =/

If you flat-out ask people what they are concerned about in life, they'll give sound byte answers like "the economy," "Iraq," or something similarly trite. However, they can't be that worried, because even the most basic of followup questions, like "do you think the new stimulus bill will help?" asked in response to an answer of "the economy" will yield a confused facial expression and maybe a shoulder shrug. Apparently, worry and concern aren't so bad as to bother reading something or taking the time to form an opinion on your concerns.

What in the world can make a brown-eyed girl turn blue?

Culture put an end to human evolution some 5-10,000 years ago. Since then we've failed to develop any useful new traits... with armageddon right around the corner, I hope it was worth it. I just hope people aren't surprised when bears with no opposable thumbs and wolves who can't speak, much less write a good novel have us hiding in old burned-out warehouses and remnants of subway systems, eating rats and forgetting everything we gave up on evolution to learn.

Even after seven years, Morrowind is still a great PC game. I'm about to complain about something, but it doesn't deserve it's own paragraph, so it goes unrelatedly here. Cheddar is a horrible cheese. It fails in almost every category of desirability there is for a cheese, and yet Americans love it. Usually, I don't care for elitists, but this time I can see where they're coming from - eating extra sharp cheddar is like putting a dirty sock that was left outside during most of a humid autumnn season in your mouth, but harder and less enjoyable.

That's it. Yep. You waited all week for that. You = Fail. Oh well, maybe next time.

Edit: I don't read before I hit publish, and going back after the fact seems like cheating. But I will add that this post seemed uncharacteristically bitter for some reason - but again, it's been a tricky week.