re: re: re: Evil lurks
okay, so here’s a pretty neat story we ran in the paper tonight:
astronomers have produced photos of the first planet outside the solar system to actually be discovered by camera. meaning, when you look up and see all of the stars? well, they used all sorts of high-falutin’, high-tech daguerrotypes — and the Hubble Space Telescope — to actually spot a planet in orbit around one of them, 25 light years away.
they published this in Science, a journal that tends to run the kind of articles that give me ice cream headaches. but this is an easy, interesting read.
and if you click on the link over on the right to the astronomy picture of the day, today’s picture (Nov. 14) is a detailed image of this star and its planet. how the hell they were ever able to identify that dot as a planet is unbelievable. but still, pretty cool.
I’m dogsitting tomorrow night after work. or meaning, letting the dog in and out for friends. or, more precisely, going through their fridge and cleaning up on my friends’ leftovers. this is my toll. pay up.
I … I just have to mention this, before I go.
nice going … uh, Joe … with the shoplifting.
I’m gonna tell you this, because I don’t think you have that strong male figure in your life: you know, you shouldn’t shoplift. because it’s wrong, man! we live in an ownership society, and you’re tearing at the very fabric of that ownership! we’re you raised by wolves? or in Kouts, Ind? shoplifting is where our society will rise or fall!
but, then I thought on it harder. and came to the conclusion that if stealing from Whole Foods and its deliciously overpriced organic bullshit is wrong, then by god, I don’t want to be right. hell, I stole a Snickers bar from Target once in college. I had half a stock for a solid two hours after that.
so I get it. you’re a renegade, Joe. and a kleptomaniac. but a Patriot, first and foremost, with a flair for the dangerous. you’re a red-blooded, American man, and a modern-day Robin Hood. and nothing says sticking it to the man like stealing a Naked Juice from an organic grocery store.
I salute you. now go get your dumb ass thrown out of a Trader Joe’s for stealing a $7 scone.
and in case it isn’t immediately obvious: I’m just giving you a hard time. you know I got love for you, Mr. Martin.
