Reed Me : horror

We are sooo doomed as a species.

reedme — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:41:48 GMT

I bump into people now and then, even up here in the near orbit of Redmond, who either don’t have an email address or don’t check it regularly. Being a hyper-connected person (my man-portable gadgets radiate enough EM to keep me warm in the winter), these people always remind me that I don’t live on the same planet with most people. [Do you know how hard it is to buy a motorcycle via craigslist from somebody who only checks email once a week?!]

However, these lies, damn lies and statistics from a Harris Interactive survey (sponsored by Intel) boggle the mind:

People would forgo sex and television watching for two weeks rather than lose a week's worth of access to the Internet. Not Tonight Honey, I've Got the Internet (InternetNews.com)

Um. No.

If you’d rather give up sex for two weeks than a week without lolcats, wasted hours WoWing, playing Solitaire Online and watching stupid BlewTube videos... well, please get out of the gene pool. If you’ve already got kids, put them up for adoption before you corrupt them further. Really. Also, you’re doing it wrong.

If natural disasters, meteors, super-volcanoes, gamma ray bursts, space aliens, zombies, climate change or bloody unicorns don’t wipe us out, we’re still doomed as a species... because Algore invented the webbernetz.

I’ll be over here in the corner weeping for all the kids in the “third world” that we’re going to be giving free laptops and Internet access. It’s only a matter of time for them, too. *cry*

Michael Crichton: RIP. We’ll miss you.

reedme — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:07:43 GMT

Loved the books, Michael. We’ll miss all the ones that you didn’t to write.

The novelist passed away in Los Angeles after a private battle with cancer. His family said the death was unexpected. Author Michael Crichton Dead at 66 (foxnews.com)

Catch up with you on the Other Side™.

Voting in R’lyeh?

reedme — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:22:40 GMT

I’m pretty sure that Lovecraft would know how to interpret these “mysterious massive waves”, especially since the last time that New England (home to Arkham and other scary places in ‘20s pulp fiction) saw this kind of big wave was in the ‘20s... Our pal H.P. would tell us that Cthulhu woke up long enough to vote.

Specialists have posed a variety of possible explanations, saying the waves could have been caused by a powerful storm squall or the slumping of mountains of sediment from a steep canyon in the ocean - a sort of mini tsunami. The last time such rogue waves appeared in Maine was at Bass Harbor in 1926. Massive waves a mystery at Maine harbor (boston.com)

Who that particular Great Old One voted for, in your opinion, probably depends on your political persuasion. I personally think that Cthulhu got more than one write-in vote today. Heh.

I do think it’s interesting that there seem to be no reports of seismic activity, which would seem to rule out a tectonic angle or large impact. Hrm.