Wacky Offshoots of Vegetarianism…

If you think this is funny… The thing that really worries me, though, is the rise and rise of vegetarianism and all of its wacky offshoots, like Buddhism. … then you should go here, and going to the main page of this site, which is called Rum and Monkey, wouldn’t be such a bad idea either. Also: a beautiful Britney Spears pisstake. All good, this site. All good.

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Power, Power, Power, and Power: Musings on Language, Categories, and Isomorphisms

You know, with all the different meanings of words, it’s a little wonder that people have trouble learning a different language. Or is this so? For example, over the last few days, the word “power” has come up in a lot of different contexts. The first was yesterday afternoon, when the campus suffered a power outage. All the lights, all the air conditioning, all of it went kaput for the space of a few hours. The bank was nonfunctional, the classrooms were stuffy, the cash registers were crippled.

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update

I’m only finished about half of the update I wanted to do. Mainly I just changed some of the link displays and added a scrolling image over in the photos link section. Oh, and a new color scheme to fit the way I feel these days… not black, but somewhat grey. Which is pretty good considering… and there is a little green, here and there. New shoots, new life, new way of thinking. Hopeful, yes. So much to update here… I am going to collect this site into a smaller set of categories, and make it look somewhat less like …

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