If only gay sex caused global warming – Los Angeles Times

If only gay sex caused global warming – Los Angeles Times

If ever you have felt frustrated by the seeming inability of those around you to come to grips with the ramifications of the change in climate that we are only just beginning to feel, then you’re a rare bird. And also, you now have something in common with me. Sincerest apologies aside, the above link will lead you to a tongue-in-cheek commentary from the LA Times which will nicely explain why the proverbial frogs* among us are content to boil slowly.

*Proverbial Frog: there is a folktale about boiling frogs, which most likely originated in Hillbillyville, USA. It (falsely) postulates that a person could put a frog in a kettle of boiling water and it would jump out immediately, but if one were to put same said frog in a kettle of lukewarm water and slowly increase the temperature, the frog would calmly remain and boil to death. Presumably one would keep the lid off the pot, but no retelling of the tale seems to have been specific on that detail.

Lyrics of the Moment

Right now, this describes my mood perfectly.


"The Advendure" - Angels & Airwaves

I wanna have the same last dream again
The one where I wake up and I'm alive
Just as the four walls close me within
My eyes are open up with pure sunlight
I'm the first to know
My dearest friends
Even if your hope has burned with time
Anything that is dead shall be re-grown
And your vicious pain, your warning sign
You will be fine

Hey oh here I am
And here we go
Life’s waiting to begin

Any type of love it will be shown
Like every single tree reach for the sky
if you're gonna fall
i'll let you know
that i will pick you up
like you for i
i felt this thing
i can't replace
when everyone was working for this goal
where all the children left without a trace
only to come back as pure as gold
to recite this all

Hey oh here I am
And here we go
Life’s waiting to begin
Tonight
Hey oh here I am
And here we go
Life’s waiting to begin
Tonight
Hey oh here I am
And here we go
Life’s waiting to begin

I can not live
I can’t breathe
Unless you do this with me
I can not live
I can’t breathe
Unless you do this with me
I can not live
I can’t breathe
Unless you do this with me
I can not live
I can’t breathe
Unless you do this with me
I can not live
I can’t breathe
Unless you do this with me
I can not live
I can’t breathe
Unless you do this with me

Hey oh, here I am (do this with me)
Here we go
life's waiting to begin (do this with me)
Hey oh, here I am (do this with me)
Here we go
life's waiting to begin
life's waiting to begin.

Life’s crazy. Seriously, it is. Not the insanity of the Sunnyvale Home for the Mentally Unhinged, nor the craziness of the rapid neo-con right wing. (Whoopsie… my bias is showing.) No, life is crazy like the kitchen at In-N-Out Burger. Hundreds of orders coming at each worker at full speed, lots of hungry people waiting for their meals. Some, of course, are more patient than others. And the occasional grease-fire, soda-machine melt-down, or rancid potato to gum up the works.

(I’d like to take a moment to reassure my readers, and especially any litigiously-minded folks working for In-N-Out, that in no way am I claiming, postulating, or otherwise implying that In-N-Out Burger buys rancid potatoes or uses nuclear fuel rods in their soda-machines.)

All-in-all, the last forty-plus post-less days have been quite eventful. It would be rather difficult to mesh them all into one coherent post, so I’ve taken the liberty of reducing them to bullet points. Please note these points are not in any semblance of a chronological order.

• Johan gets promoted to Program Manager at work — a raise has yet to be offered or asked for
• Johan flys to Orlando for a business conference. Yay! Orlando was fun. Especially the part where there was no time to visit any theme parks.
• Johan buys a new bike. A Trek 7100 hybrid bike, to be exact. Johan loves his new, blue Trek. Johan is so gay that he bought matching blue helmet and gloves. His only regret is that Master doesn’t make U-Locks in metallic blue.
• Johan discovers that Josh and he have different definitions and usages for the “L-word” (and no I don’t mean “Lesbian”). This causes some initial misunderstandings and friction.
• Josh and Johan suffer a crisis in their relationship. In the end, despite much adversity and Johan’s general cussedness, Josh and Johan decide to continue on and make it work. Love is really all you need. Or Kermit. Well that and communication, too.
• Josh and Johan discover a great friend, one who likes Serenity, and is quite possibly almost as big a geek as Johan. Said friend, much to Johan’s delight, proudly owns his geekiness. Johan misses this friend, as of recently Josh and Johan haven’t spent much time with this new friend.
• Johan becomes disturbed with the liberal amount of third-person self-references and vows to adapt his grammatical person(see chart below) to a more commonly-used tone.

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