The Old Prof

Global Warming

Specifically in the Intermountain West

Oh the Horror

Warming will affect industries in Rockies

The Salt Lake Tribune

The results of a Global Warming study derived from a British report informs us that the future of the American west is one of increased precipitation leading to population growth and economic good times, or, of course it could lead to less precipitation, a shortage of needed water for irrigation and “lessen[ed] economic and population growth”. Either way it’s a chilling prognosis. No wait, perhaps not chilling. And I guess not either way. But one way its worse than the other and there is no way to tell whether “global Warming” is going to be good or bad for the region but we ought to be ready. This is scary stuff. I will be standing by “all a quiver”.

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Headline on MSN.com-Microsoft

Fan banned for allegedly racist remark

What a great idea. I would have bet that in our nutty politically correct world you couldn’t get away with such an eminently sane idea. I favor banding him like one would a fish by stapling the band through his nose or ear or some other tender part of the body, like they do through the fin of a fish. I’d use about a two inch wide band and make it a florescent color. Just the physical act of banding him might tend to cut down on this sort of behavior. What I’d do for the next offender is net him and immediately and publicly apply the thingy. I guess you’d have to swab the chosen area with alcohol first but I wouldn’t use an anesthetic. Just let the word get out about that and I bet racist remarks would decline dramatically. So my congratulations to who ever came up with this idea and to the paramedic who did the job.

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Sleep That Knits the Raveled Sleeve of Care

Ran across an interesting little article which seems to address a growing question in today’s liberated world. The topic addressed is whether “sleeping with the ex is ever advisable”.

I was just bemused by the word advisable, (forget the sleep thing) That seems like such a judicious approach to an emotional action. Let’s see, let’s make a ruled mark down the middle of the paper and put the pro’s on one side and the cons on the other. Hmm. “Well, all things considered it seems like the most prudent course of action”.

How does such a question arise in the first place? And it having arisen Is one approached by an intermediary of one or the other previously affronted individuals to make sure there will be no gunfire involved.

Advisable? ADVISABLE?

“Dear and once despised Jane or John as the case may be, the question of the advisability of sleeping with you has lately arisen. Send your seconds to meet my seconds and if you deem it prudent we can meet on neutral territory in the presence of such mutual representatives as one may deem seemly, expedient or proper and altogether fitting and likely to avoid the previously angry and altogether abominable situation we previously found ourselves in, which animosity led to an irreparable breech in our relationship and discuss the prudence, advisability and seemliness of the proposition of mutual sleep.”

Do you remember when questions of this nature were settled by Moses and not Tom, Dick, and Nina?

Apparently that sort of thou shalt not is old hat today and not even in the realm of consideration. We are obviously free of all that stuff. Today according to a certain marriage and family therapist and Ed.D., “sex with your ex can actually be a liberating experience”. Such an action “can be a way to achieve that emotional divorce—or it can obstruct it.” Well, there you are. It isn’t about sleep at all. I wondered. Sex to achieve divorce. Unaided I would never have thought of that one. And it will help or it won’t. It’s all so clear. It is advisable and it isn’t.

I think Frodo had it right. “Go not to the elves for advice for they will say both Yea and Nay”. In fact, I think its a shame we couldn’t ask Frodo for the proper answer to this question. If you could get a man of that stature to even consider such a purient question I’m sure he would have handled it with more dignity, intelligence and sanity. I imagine him asking the bigger question of whether you should ever have slept with your ex. If you hadn’t would he/she now be an ex? That Frodo. if he hadnt come out in three volumes we might almost carry him around for just such answers to lifes little questions. But three volumes?

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The Santa Anna’s are blowing. High velocity hot winds.

why cant we have normal storms around here. Cold rain or early snow would be nice on the last of October. I remember other regions.

Shingles are coming off the roof. Branches that are normally ten feet away are lashing the house. Looking out against the dark night sky it looks eerie. Trees and bushes are strange dark humped creatures wildly swaying and whipping into menacing advancing and retreating shapes. The window panes are flexing and rattling and the Venetian blinds are swinging against the windows, their individual slats rattling against each other. Closed doors still bang in minute but noisy increments. I am darn sick of it.

I have now wrapped the blinds in old socks and shoved the same items between loose areas of the windows. I am going to find another sock and close the door on it. Done! It’s going to look interesting in the morning.

California!

Come sleep, come wind.

Pity the firefighters on the line tonight.

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I was just browsing a site called Solving your Biggest Beauty Blunders and came away with the feeling that they have not really taken the time to get to know me. For instance, I dont see My Eyeliner Making My Eyes Look Smaller. I think something else must be at work here. It is a disconcerting thought surely, but perhaps its just me squinting.

As for having Ring Around The Lips, I wish. But not much chance of that. It’s like John Donne once said, “they flee from me who once did me seek.

I’m not going to dispute that My Face is A Different Shade Than My Neck but thats just from river rafting with a high collar. a Blunder perhaps but probably not best settled by wearing a differen shade of foundation.

I was most upset to find MY Lashes Are Clumpy Or spidery. No wonder I don’t have Ring Around The Lips or any action there at all. I think one could have stood the clumpy but who could go on with Spidery. I mean can you imagine someone saying “Your eyelashes are all spidery. Ge’ us a little kissy poo”

But having seen all of this I perfectly understand why I have Stripes of Blush on Each Cheek. Of course I do. Just the thought that someone has access to this much personal information would cause that on a Baboon. (Come to think of it I think I did see that very condition on one once. Sheesh what a humiliating thought.)

And if I do blush a bit on both cheeks, well who’s to say I shouldn’t.

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