Silflay Hraka

Is there anything better than watching “Adult Swim” on Cartoon Network? Yes. Watching “Adult Swim” on demand. Comcast recently added The History Channel and Adult Swim to it’s free On Demand line-up and I have watched little else since. Tonight as I prepare the Carnival, I’ve watched two episodes of “The Brak Show“. I already watched the only episode of “Squidbillies“, all the “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Stuff” and one episode of “Harvey Birdman“. A second episode of Harvey Birdman follows. If there were episodes of The History Channel’s “Dogfights” that I hadn’t seen, I might be tempted to watch that instead.

I only wish there were more Squidbillies to watch.

Because I’m watching cartoons, I only have half my mind on the Carnival. That’s probably all I need.

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I can’t be entirely sure, but I think The Epicurean Dealmaker doesn’t like the amount of money being paid to corporate CEOs in My Dear Old Mammon. I read it but…Harvey Birdman and all.

On to Sealab 2021, as all the HB episodes have been watched. Bill Trent takes Xerox to task for misleading investors on earnings in XRX: Xerox and the Spirit of Honest Debate.

D.A.N. presents Look at the Human Mind Part2: Perception. Something about perception. I dunno. Sealab.

Mike Billy presents IRS Requires You to List Stolen Property on Your Tax Return. I don’t know if he’s surprised or not. I’m not.

Reminds me of something you might see in Venture Brothers.

Mike Billy also says that Shrooms May Cure OCD. Maybe if I took shrooms I could stop washing my freaking hands all the time. But I am the only person on my team that hasn’t sick in two months. That could also be because I drink four cups of green tea every day. And I run all the time. And I take vitamin C supplements and 1 square of ultra-dark chocolate and drink one glass of red wine every day.

Come to think of it, shrooms could probably fix a lot of things in my life.

I wonder if my car doors are locked. Dammit.

Cody presents Experiment I, or “Introduction to Acid/Base Titration”. I I have to be honest. I didn’t read it. It’s long and chemical.

Wayne Hurlbert says You can tell a lot from the tone of someone’s online writing. Quick! What’s my tone say to you?

Sealab is making me laugh out loud. If you don’t watch it, you should.

Jack Yoest bashes Blue States in Are Children at Risk in Red States? By the way, if you still talk in terms of Blue States and Red States, you should get a life and watch some cartoons.

mom gives Tips for Avoiding Obesity in Kids. Two words: Nintendo. Wii.

Leon Gettler puts together the Stock options backdating jigsaw. Speaking of Steve Jobs, work gave us all iPod Nano’s for doing such a bang-up job last year. It’s my first iPod. It totally blows. Total piece of crap. I hate the f^cking thing. More on that later.

I’m not kidding. It’s a poorly designed, poorly functioning piece of junk. But I do appreciate work for getting them for us. My old work would’ve never done that. Bastiges.

MamaDuck presents Caught in the act… I totally thought this would be about catching her son masturbating when I saw the headline.

GrrlScientist presents One Gene to Rule Them All. Third episode of Sealab. Something about controlling cancer tumors.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents

Some numbers from Bjorn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus.

Despite our intuition that we naturally need to do something drastic about such a costly global warming, we should not implement a cure that is actually more costly than the original affliction. Here, economic analyses clearly show that it will be far more expensive to cut CO2 emissions radically, than to pay the costs of adaptation to the increased temperatures. The Bonn meeting was generally the implementation of the much more studied Kyoto Protocol, which aims to cut carbon emissions to 5.2 percent below 1990-levels in 2010, or a reduction of almost 30 percent, compared to no-intervention.

This emphasizes that we need to be very careful in our willingness to act on global warming. Basically, global warming will be expensive ($5 trillion) and there is very little good we can do about it. Even if we were to handle global warming optimally which would mean cutting emissions a little fairly far into the future, we can only cut the cost very little (about $0.3 trillion). However, if we choose to enact Kyoto or even more ambitious programmes, the world will lose. And this conclusion does not come from the output from a single model. Almost all the major computer models agree that even when chaotic consequences have been taken into consideration “it is striking that the optimal policy involves little emissions reduction below uncontrolled rates until the middle of the [twenty-first]century at the earliest.

Much, much more in the linked .pdf.

1. He’s taken to singing himself awake in the morning. “If You’re Happy and You Know it,” “Happy Birthday,” “Frosty The Snowman,” “Jingle Bells.” We’ll hear him, go into his room, and there he’ll be, fast asleep, singing his heart out. This morning’s aria was They Might Be Giant’s “Robot Parade.”

2. Static electricity-enhanced kisses are known to him as “Sparkles.”

3. If his big sister won’t get off the potty fast enough, he pushes her in.