Ford Fiesta Amphibious Assault Vehicle

Important Stuff

So I decided that twenty something years are about enough. I've had it. We're done.

I'm going to have a team of experts employ a device capable of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (or "LASER") to reshape my "corneas" so that I can "see". There is always a slim chance that they will mistakenly set the "LASER" to an absurdly high level and accidentally burn a hole through my head and into the table beneath me, but I understand that they largely have this problem in hand nowadays.

I have a consultation on Friday involving pupil dilation and laser imaging. Due to the lead times during which you aren't allowed to wear contacts, I have already passed my last ever wearing of such things. If all goes according to plan I go under the "LASER" on June 17. Mark your calendars.

Terrestrial Matters

It has been absurdly hot here. I am not in any way ready for it to be June, but I am profoundly ready for it not to be winter anymore.

Have you been following the Great Oil Disaster of 2010? The Gulf of Mexico is screwed, Florida is screwed, and once it gets into the atlantic conveyor currents, we're all screwed. Did anybody do the math on whether this is likely to interrupt thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic? Because that would be bad. Not as bad as it would be if I lived in England, but very bad for anybody who lives north of Grape Country over there.

Tar sands aren't looking so bad anymore, are they, environmentalists? Eh? Eh?

Ah, we should be going all-in on thorium breeder reactors anyway.

If you're interested, go read up on it all on the Oil Drum. They have links to webcams from the ROVs doing the work a mile underwater. I less than three the internets.

Game Playing

Did you know that Upper Deck makes fully transparent versions of their heavy card sleeves? No? Well, they do. Now you know.

On Friday (after my pupils have returned to their normal state, so I look less like an Ewok) we're going for pizza and board games with friends, including Dougly and the CBC, and their new offspring, Wee Kenobi. I'm very excited about that.

Also, our new Vampire player is working out very well. I'm still thinking about nicknames. Just, hold your damn horses and let me come up with something good.

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