Amusement Continues

Today was a pretty fun day. I did some splashy fun work on the look of the portal I'm developing for work in the morning and spent the afternoon at IBM learning more about neat things I'll get to play with on our AS/400. The ride back into town on the Skytrain was spectacular. There was a mist hanging about 20 storeys off the ground so the taller buildings just disappeared into glowing clouds illuminated by the diffuse light of the upper floor windows. The streets were dark and rain was pelting down so with everyone scurrying under their umbrellas it looked positively like "Blade Runner."

I hung out with the kids and read the last few chapters of a book that has to be returned to the library tomorrow to them. After they went off to bed Ivana and I watched "Sex and the City". Jazz snuggled up, put his head on my chest and purred while Tharsis licked hair, also purring up a storm. Ivana's gone off to bed now and I thought I'd sit down and have a look at some of the websites mentioned in the presentations at IBM this afternoon.

Then I went off on a tangent and had two wonderful chuckles:

Chuckle #1 - quothe Reptard (with the best part bolded by me):

I guess I can say that I've got another creepy report in the making about the continued activities by the van-goth community against me. NO! They have not stopped attempting to trash me in every possible way, they're GOTHS after all. (snide smirk) LOL It's SO pathetic how children will always play these games when they are SO spiritually dead inside and in need of some personal attention. I tell you, these freaks are non-stop... Might have to more elsewhere just to walk down the street without having to deal with them every day. (sigh) Jerks! As usual, the bullies always run the school-yard. How very typical. Wonder if anyone remembers what solidarity means anymore... I might as well be alone in this city... Hmmmm. Still, perhaps they will *eventually* get the right frequency into their brains and see the light. Until that happens though, I just can't stand this BS and want nothing to do with it. However, I WILL and DO defend myself with the magick of GOD, the creator. Only in defense do I need to go so high, the rest of the time I'm cool with just being myself and having a good time. :) Wish me luck.

I guess my tin-foil helmet is really confounding him. What a "turkey." I can hardly wait to see the report.

Chuckle #2 (more like a guffaw... also from the Realm of the Reptard, but not authored by him):

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Rob Solarion"

> To: "Rob Solarion"

> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:26 PM

> Subject: New North Pole ?

>

>

> http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2002/02/20/pole_drift020220

>

> This move of the North Pole into Siberia would conform to my expansion of

> the catastrophism theory of Dr. Velikovsky. However, this article does not

> indicate that "catastrophism" will play a part. In my own hypothesis, I

> have used a series of six Polar Axial Alignments; however, there could be

> twice that many. No one knows for sure for lack of precise ancient data.

> Eastern Siberia is halfway between the current North Pole and my projection

> of a North Pole on the border of Mongolia and China. Under such a

> scenario, everything east of the Ural Mountains would be under Polar Ice;

> the new Equator would be located at the bottom of Texas, which would just

> barely remain in the Northern Hemisphere; and Montana, not North Dakota,

> would be due-north of Dallas.

>

> Recently I saw another article about the movement of the "New North Pole"

> into eastern Russia. Apparently the Russians know something about this and

> are a bit worried by the possibility of "losing" half their nation. Time

> will tell. Rob

>

>

> North Pole could migrate to Russia

> Last Updated Thu Feb 21 16:05:13 2002

> YELLOWKNIFE - Scientists studying the earth's magnetic field say the North

> Pole could be in Russia before the century is half over.

>

> The magnetic pole has never been in one fixed location, but scientists have

> recently realized how fast it can move.

>

> Larry Newitt, a scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa,

> says he clocked the pole moving toward Canada's 200-mile limit at about 40

> kilometres an hour.

>

> In three years, compasses could point to a spot in international waters,

> rather than the Canadian Arctic.

>

> At the current rate of drift, the magnetic north pole will move into Russia

> in less than 48 years.

>

> But the drift is random and totally unpredictable. The pole could just as

> easily head back to the Boothia Peninsula in what is now Nunavut, where Sir

> James Ross discovered it in 1831.

>

>

> Written by CBC News Online staff

I nearly blew Guinness out my nose when I read this. It really goes to show how these sorts can leapfrog over a pertinent details (in this case the facts that true north, i.e. the axis of the Earth, and magnetic north are two completely different things and that the movement of the magnetic pole is a chaotic wobble) and land smack-dab in the middle of a preposterous conclusion.