This is frickin’ hillarious. Serious props to Sash for putting this together. It perfectly congeals the hilarity that was had on a great trip.

Gerhard!!!!

The current situation of the world in relation to the climate problem is that we’re in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog, and the fog is the scientific uncertainty about the details that prevent us from knowing exactly where the cliff is. The climate change sceptics are telling us that the fog is a consolation and that we shouldn’t worry because we’re uncertain about the details, but of course any sane person driving a car toward a cliff in the fog and knowing that the brakes are bad, that it takes the car a long time to stop, will start putting on the brakes, trying to slow the car, without knowing exactly where the cliff is but just in the hope that by putting on the brakes we’ll be in time to keep from going over the cliff. You don’t have to be sure that you can still avoid going over the cliff to put on the brakes, you want to do it in any case. And that’s what the world should be doing with respect to the emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing this climate problem. There’s a chance we’ll go over the cliff anyway but prudence requires that we try to stop the car.

– John Holdren, Feb 2007

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A nice, easy topic for a first post. Maybe it would be safer to characterize this as an essay on the characteristics of life rather than its “meaning”, life is perhaps far too varied and multifaceted to have only one meaning.

The other day I was walking to work across the 7th Street Bridge, and I caught sight of a bit of graffiti which I’d seen many times before. This day, however, it got me thinking about a few ideas which have been rattling about in my brain for a few weeks now. Pursuing the train of thought, I was surprised how far it went.

It Cost to live Free 2 Die

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