barack obama is on tv (we’re watching cnn). john edwards is going to endorse him. they are both in my hometown grand rapids, mi. my family is there. my mom said there’s a line out the door.
YAY hometown! For Grand Rapids being the conservative city that it is, I am excited that Obama AND Edwards are both there…at the same time!
Also, Edwards’s endorsement is great news.
i am sick of my personality and how its constantly screwing me around. one minute i am happy one minute i am in tears and cant handle the world around me. everything is falling apart slowly.
Tell me about it. Confessionizer is (obviously) anonymous but to whoever wrote this, I feel you.
![dhk:
Claes Tingvall, a car safety specialist with the Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket), told the newspaper Expressen that GM recently finished a multi-year research project in which dead human bodies were used. “For certain things, it’s important to use cadavers. [The tests] involved people who had donated their own bodies,” Tingvall told Expressen. (via The Local - Human cadavers used in auto crash tests)
/they b dead, they don’t care anymore. If it saves a living human, I think it was worth. A bit morbid, but worth it.
Last year, I read the book Stiff, by Mary Roach that has a whole chapter devoted to discussing human crash test dummies and the “ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance.” Reading this extremely fascinating book actually got me thinking about what I want to happen with my body after I die. The book is unexpectedly and quite blessedly hilarious, although the humor never comes at the expense of the dead bodies that populate its pages. Instead, Roach uses humor as a kind of psychic safety valve, a vital and much-appreciated tension release from what is, at times, some very intense subject matter. (Fortunately, there are no pictures.)
Her opening lines:
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.
She’s kind of right. To continue:
Not there’s anything wrong with just lying on your back. In its way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It’s just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver. Get involved with science. Be an art exhibit. Become part of a tree. Some options for you to think about.
Read more excerpts here.
Now I want to read her new book called Bonk, another hilarious account of science in search of better sex. It’s now on my list. :)](http://media.tumblr.com/z7h3cgJZQ8r7axdjkRxEWybm_400.jpg)
dhk:
Claes Tingvall, a car safety specialist with the Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket), told the newspaper Expressen that GM recently finished a multi-year research project in which dead human bodies were used. “For certain things, it’s important to use cadavers. [The tests] involved people who had donated their own bodies,” Tingvall told Expressen. (via The Local - Human cadavers used in auto crash tests)
/they b dead, they don’t care anymore. If it saves a living human, I think it was worth. A bit morbid, but worth it.
Last year, I read the book Stiff, by Mary Roach that has a whole chapter devoted to discussing human crash test dummies and the “ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance.” Reading this extremely fascinating book actually got me thinking about what I want to happen with my body after I die. The book is unexpectedly and quite blessedly hilarious, although the humor never comes at the expense of the dead bodies that populate its pages. Instead, Roach uses humor as a kind of psychic safety valve, a vital and much-appreciated tension release from what is, at times, some very intense subject matter. (Fortunately, there are no pictures.)
Her opening lines:
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.
She’s kind of right. To continue:
Not there’s anything wrong with just lying on your back. In its way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It’s just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver. Get involved with science. Be an art exhibit. Become part of a tree. Some options for you to think about.
Read more excerpts here.
Now I want to read her new book called Bonk, another hilarious account of science in search of better sex. It’s now on my list. :)
If You Put That Picture On The Internet I’ll Call My Lawyer
“So, Mr. Angry Overreaction Man, your photo is now on the internet. Call your lawyer. Tell him somebody on a public sidewalk took your photo while you were on a public sidewalk. Then tell him you physically assaulted the photographer. See what he says.” (via energyface)
Classic blue-tooth over his ear. Click on the link above to read the rest of the story within the flickr photo description. Quite awesome. Location: SF!
I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall with a friend of mine tonight, and I now have a crush on Jason Segel, who plays Peter Bretter in the film. Apparently I was missing out when Freaks and Geeks was popular which was also produced by Judd Apatow.
Being a Judd Apatow production means 1) it’s likely going to be good and 2) there’s likely going to be a lot of dick jokes. And there is. (Did I mention Segel has some full-frontal scenes? And no, that’s not the reason for my crush.) Taking the baton from stuff like Wedding Crashers, the bear-like Segel has a similar presence to Vince Vaughn, although I have to say, he is like a ‘No-Frills’ version.
A lot of critics have said that the film is a presentation of how ambition can kill relationships and that Sarah’s ambition does this to the one she has with Peter. I can see this a bit but don’t think the film is really that deep, and I think that the film’s just showing two people who aren’t right for each other dealing with the fall out of their break up - nothing more, nothing less.
Now I know what all those crazy billboards are about!
