From pamphlet "With Your U.S. Passport, the World is Yours!" (provided to you free with you new passport):
Pandemic Influenza
For information about pandemic influenza and how you can protect yourself if there is an outbreak while you are abroad, please visit the official U.S. Government pandemic influenza website at http://www.pandemicflu.gov.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Vermont is Pretty
Over the weekend I drove through Vermont for the first time. I wasn't in any hurry, so I took the scenic route and got a couple pretty great pictures with my camera.
It's not really worth uploading low-res previews (partly because it takes Blogger so long to do it), but check out the full resolution images by clicking on the links (each is >3.5 MB):
Black River in Vermont
Field of Dandelions (near East Wallingford, VT)
It's not really worth uploading low-res previews (partly because it takes Blogger so long to do it), but check out the full resolution images by clicking on the links (each is >3.5 MB):
Black River in Vermont
Field of Dandelions (near East Wallingford, VT)
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Most Important Internet Videos Ever
We can all agree that the internet has revolutionized economics. For one this, it's pretty cheap to do almost anything. Things that used to be very expensive (or at least time consuming) are now very cheap, such as publishing your thoughts to the entire world. What has economic revolution enabled? Loads and loads of pointless crap!
It used to be expensive and difficult to create crap; and when you did create it, you had to maintain it. Not so with the magic of the internet. Create some crap and it essentially lives on, unmaintained, forever. For example, lolcats. Sure, in 1988 you could take a picture of a cat, right a humorous caption on it, and show it to your friends. In 2008 you can take a digital picture of a cat and caption it numerous time and share it with tons of people, some of whom might actually enjoy it!
In this spirit, Bravo has, for some unfathomable reason, brought us Green Porno. It is absolutely, without a doubt, the most unmotivated, unnecessary production I have ever seen. You just need to go there and watch it. It's not porn, it's really an in-depth discussion of sexual reproduction in insects and other creatures.
It's fantastic. I don't even want to know what sort of crazy logic led them to create this series of videos. I'm mildly curious how they sold this to the business types who work at Bravo. "Hey, so we want to make some 2 minute long videos where Isabella Rossellini dresses up as various insects and other creatures and pantomimes their sex lives while giving a very factual overview of what's happening. Then we'll put it up on the internet for free."
This business plan has Underwear Gnomes written all over it.
Seriously, watch one of these episodes. While you're doing it, think about how many people died fighting World War II so that we would have the freedom to watch fake insects copulate! Think about how we have the technology to beam vast amounts of data into people's homes and we use it to watch videos of people in insect costumes humping each other! While people in Africa are barely able to eke out a living, you're spending time watching two worms go at it!
PS - A note for those of you that dislike The Hater, I have to say that without Amelie Gillete I would never have learned of this awesome waste of time. Also, surprisingly, I don't think she hated this. She did claim that this makes Isabella Rossellini our de facto hero.
It used to be expensive and difficult to create crap; and when you did create it, you had to maintain it. Not so with the magic of the internet. Create some crap and it essentially lives on, unmaintained, forever. For example, lolcats. Sure, in 1988 you could take a picture of a cat, right a humorous caption on it, and show it to your friends. In 2008 you can take a digital picture of a cat and caption it numerous time and share it with tons of people, some of whom might actually enjoy it!
In this spirit, Bravo has, for some unfathomable reason, brought us Green Porno. It is absolutely, without a doubt, the most unmotivated, unnecessary production I have ever seen. You just need to go there and watch it. It's not porn, it's really an in-depth discussion of sexual reproduction in insects and other creatures.
It's fantastic. I don't even want to know what sort of crazy logic led them to create this series of videos. I'm mildly curious how they sold this to the business types who work at Bravo. "Hey, so we want to make some 2 minute long videos where Isabella Rossellini dresses up as various insects and other creatures and pantomimes their sex lives while giving a very factual overview of what's happening. Then we'll put it up on the internet for free."
This business plan has Underwear Gnomes written all over it.
Seriously, watch one of these episodes. While you're doing it, think about how many people died fighting World War II so that we would have the freedom to watch fake insects copulate! Think about how we have the technology to beam vast amounts of data into people's homes and we use it to watch videos of people in insect costumes humping each other! While people in Africa are barely able to eke out a living, you're spending time watching two worms go at it!
PS - A note for those of you that dislike The Hater, I have to say that without Amelie Gillete I would never have learned of this awesome waste of time. Also, surprisingly, I don't think she hated this. She did claim that this makes Isabella Rossellini our de facto hero.
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