Monday Morning

I woke up this morning only to be assailed by my cuddly cats. During the height of summer heat, my little predators were not as affectionate. Now they've been needing all sorts of snuggles.

Then I got online and read ariedana's post about the part of the roof of the Superdome coming off. Gads.

And Eqecat forecasts the loss expenses up to 25 billion dollars.

Poor New Orleans. Ever since I learned that New Orleans was built below sea level, I have always thought that it was flirting with disaster.

Here's where I give my plug for purchasing property insurance. Also, this is where I advise people never to wait for a disaster to acquire property insurance. When a storm is about to hit, many insurance companies refuse to write insurance in those areas. That's just good business sense, because Insurance companies don't want to pay out an expensive claim when you haven't really paid much premium. So, the moral of the story is, get insurance when you can, and don't buy property and try to get insurance around the time of a pending natural disaster.

Antioxidants

I've been hearing a lot lately about antioxidants and free radicals, blah blah blah. Green tea, cranberries, red grapes and dates are foods and beverages that supposedly contain antioxidants which is good for fighting cancer and heart disease.

I had been musing to myself last week that since Green tea has been boasting antioxidants, the coffee industry would soon come out with a study claiming that coffee has antioxidants, too.

Sure enough, they just came out with one.

How far will this go? I wonder if butter will be found to contain antioxidants?

Do you want spam from Pluto?

I guess I did!

Nasa is getting ready to send a probe to Pluto. Nasa is taking submissions for people to put their name on the probe. If you want to attach your name to the New Horizons probe, go here.

For me to read later

Kerry Emmanuel's Papers on the increasing destructiveness of hurricanes over the past 30 years.

Look at the publications at the bottom of the page.

Oh my goodness!

Shocker:

Pure Nerd 100 % Nerd, 39% Geek, 26% Dork

For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd. The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful. Congratulations! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in either of the following: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Professional Wrestling Love & Sexuality Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on nerdiness You scored higher than 40% on geekosity You scored higher than 35% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid

Vanity and the Carpool Lane

So, I got my stickers in the mail that will allow my Prius into the carpool lane with only one driver (me) in it.

I was surprised that there would be 4 stickers as opposed to one sticker in the rear of the vehicle. In fact, one sticker needs to go on each side of the car: front bumper, rear bumper, left rear quarterpanel, right rear quarter panel.

And it wouldn't be so bad if they weren't big stickers.

Here, I took a terrible photo of them. And yes, since I am in a hurry, I didn't take care to auto-focus, etc. The point is, these stickers are big.



It doesn't help that I don't really like placing stickers on my car. let alone my new car.

So now it comes to this. Carpool lane, or maintaining the integrity of my paint job. Crap.

Of course I'll pick the carpool lane. But I'll feign bitter tears of conflict as I place these bad boys on my beloved blue bleeding heartmobile.