Wow (the Paris update)

[posted kinda late, originally written on the bus home] On my way home from a MOST AMAZING week-end. Paris still surprises me, or the love I feel for it does. You’d think I’d tire of it eventually, for all the times I’ve been (often spending much time in the same places). AND IT NEVER DOES!!!! 😮 More »

This still makes me laugh

Hurricanes

You’ve got to admit it is pretty surreal. Devastating. In a fascinating sort of way.
Lots of fairly high res photos of the damage done by Ike in Texas.
More (smaller) here, tho some of the same ones repeated.

Imagine losing everything like that. You can’t help wondering why people build – again and again – in high risk areas like that. And you figure that there are probably loads of reasons – mostly that they can’t afford otherwise I guess.

And you feel hella grateful for not living somewhere like that. Seriously! 😐
Which reminds me, I need to buy an external hard drive to back up my files. *lol*¹

1. this *lol* reads as a sort of sarcastic commentary. You know, the way a person may exclaim “ha!” in conversation.

Protected: People come and people go

Belated Birthday Entry?

Sorta by request, showing presents and stuff. Also I’ve cut and dyed my hair again and taken photographs. More »

Shall I turn this into Electionblog?

So I started a long yada yada election entry (which I may finish eventually so don’t act all relieved yet) but then I came across Moby again and hey, he’s turning “ok I’ll stop talking about politics now” into a competition.

Actually Moby is kind of annoying. I used to really enjoy his blog then stopped reading cuz he only ever talked about politics (while constantly apologizing for it) even when there were no elections. And now he just seems to be rambling ever more pointlessly and rabidly. (seriously!? the readers of his blog are gonna vote for Obama anyway!)

And his linebreaks are irritating as hell.

Thus spake America

I am way too obsessed with the US presidential election right now. Way. I’ve even considered going there in November to experience the rush first hand should Obama win. Which he very well may not. Earlier today I wagered “if the traffic lights are green Obama will win” and they were red. So there. More »