Why I Hate People

or, a smattering of the crap that goes through my head on a daily basis...

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Sixteen Things I Think I Think

To once again rip off columnists I regularly enjoy, here is my (slightly longer) version of Peter King's Ten Things I Think I Think:

  1. I think that sex in the shower is overrated.
  2. I think that there might be infinitely better uses of $90,000.00 than taking a census of the homeless.
  3. I think most of those things might include trying to help them NOT BE HOMELESS!!
  4. I think that if there was any doubt Tom Cruise is insane, it has been removed.
  5. I think that Suri Cruise is the kid with the least likely chance to turn out "normal" since Frances Bean Cobain.
  6. I think Global Warming is perhaps more questionable than we know.
  7. I think that if these dummies can barely predict the weather tomorrow, their models for 100,000 years might be just a bit off, too.
  8. I think that it should be more widely broadcast that while the average worldwide temperature has risen 0.8 ºF in the last 100 years, evidence suggests that this was prior to 1940.
  9. I think that Michael Crichton's State of Fear is, while technically fiction, extremely well researched.
  10. I think that our limited resources should still give us enough reasons to be more environmentally sound.
  11. I think that we have no idea how our planet works.
  12. I think that we should be concerned that up until 700,000 years ago, the earth changed polarity about every 250,000 years.
  13. I think that the large region near the South Pole that is in the process of changing polarity kind of concerns me. [Editor's Note: I saw this on the Discovery Channel...but I can't find a reliable or trustworthy link to it...sorry]
  14. I think this will have ramifications that we can't yet really comprehend.
  15. I think that this has a far greater influence on the (apparent, yet debatable) recent rise in incidents of "Extreme Weather" than anything that we are doing.
  16. I think this posting will create more comments than the average post.

posted by Iain @ 9:16 AM  

7 Comments:

  • At 1:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    You know who I think's going to be screwed up? The Brangelina baby...seriously. It's going to spend it's entire life hearing people say it's not as good-looking as they expected it to be. And if it ends up with dad's brains and mom's sense of humour? Poor kid.

    -Melissa

     

  • At 1:56 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Melissa is awesome! That comment is so true.

    Iain... you should have more things that you i think you think more related to # 1.

    Enough about the world... we know its f'd - or perhaps not.

    -steph

     

  • At 2:23 PM, Blogger Iain said…

    Well, Melis, it's not born yet... so the comment stands... but that's a good point.. :)

    And Steph, I vetoed some of my own additions in that vein, as I was having trouble bringing things up that wouldn't qualify as "over sharing"...maybe I should try it again after a few drinks to lower inhibitions.... ;)

     

  • At 8:39 PM, Blogger Iain said…

    I'm glad to see you're studying hard, Berns.... :P

     

  • At 9:33 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    i quote: "I think this posting will create more comments than the average post."

    of course it will create more comments if you keep replying after we comment iain :)

    -steph

     

  • At 10:21 AM, Blogger Ian said…

    wrt helping the homeless. What kills me is how the city cries poor about every little thing - homeless people, transit, etc. But last year they were in the black by like $81million (and that was before they got 150 million from the province, raised property taxes and TTC fares). So what I want to know is where is the city spending all this money?

    oh and here's another for the list:
    17. I think that the city of Toronto should not waste it's money bidding for the 2015 World's Fair.

    18. I think that the subway should run for 24 hours so that I can get home from the bar after 2 and not have to worry about missing the last damn train!

    by the by here is a nifty video about global warming etc called "Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change" -- It's Canadian!

     

  • At 9:27 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    That climate change thing is nice and debatable, but the fact remains you cannot accurately predict anything in the future. Especially if a science article states that, for example, 'our computer model shows that in 100 years the global temperature will increase by 2.3 degrees'. Computer models suck balls. Never take them at face value unless you know what parameters have been assumed. Then you can make a judgemnt.

     

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