7399 – Happy Ant!

When I walk to the bus stop… (or on more cool and non-rainy days, to the 2nd stop), or in the evening, all the way home from work, I can’t help but be amazed at the idea of a city like the one I live in.

Everything here was brought from somewhere else and stacked up, cemented and painted by hand.

It’s so easy to fall into the belief that buildings and roads just spring up out of nowhere. Whenever I stop to think that every brick and wire was put down in place by a person… well, I’m astounded.

I look at satellite maps a lot during the course of a a week, and the fact that some states are practically paved over, or at least farmed and touched by man in a way mean

Seriously, look at Massachusetts! http://maps.google.com/maps?spn=77.695313,121.816406&t=k&hl=en

Even from a point of view that shows all of North America, you can see the box of where that area is defined. When you zoom in, almost anywhere, you see little gray or tan squares where people have come and just reworked things competely.

Part of what amazes me is that we can get so many people working together towards a common goal… even over a really long period of time. Maybe it’s a little perverse of me to say so, but I get a sort of satisfaction in knowing that thousands, millions of people worked together to make it easy to find shelter, food, entertainment and comfort.

I know the system is far from perfect. We make messes. Unpleasant folks cut corners, or worse. But, overall, it’s awe-inspiring.

Glass buildings, 50 stories tall. Somebody on a scaffold… a person put each pane in place.

7398 – Thursday.

I would like someone to give me a big bag of money so that I can retire in comfort, without financial woes.

Barring that, I’d like someone to make a loaf of banana bread for me.

Or just to slack off and sleep in, snuggled down with Newt.

not today… but there is a long weekend coming up! Slackfest!


Cracking WEP in 10 minutes.


forget-me-not panties™
“These panties will monitor the location of your daughter, wife or girlfriend 24 hours a day, and can even monitor their heart rate and body temperature. Use our patented mapping system, pantyMap®, to find the exact location of your loved one 24 hours a day.”

See, I could see this as being really useful to monitor kids… but the application is nuts here. (I suspect it’s a gag – see comments as to why)


sithy meme