[Dead-Air]

good. sexlife is decent, sun came out, survived traffic court phase one, work was harmless, realized Canadian dreamgirl has been reading what I post on this board as it is actually the only place I reveal the seriously fucked up personal life things and she knew, hung out with my son, long chat with a new friend, actually cooked a meal at home for the first time since I've lived here, and will now sleep in my own bed. o.k., that last one sucks actually, but such is single parenthood 3-4 nights a week...

[phoenix]

Tasty. Sleepy.

Suchfriends those pictures are really pretty

[knox]

Originally Posted by Pookie

I didn't know you could get Americano coffee in America.

Isn't the story of its origins that American soldiers in Italy in WWII couldn't handle the espresso there and so they had to water it down? The name was meant to be an insult so the story goes. Don't know how true this is but I always think of the name as being derogatory.

well they don't call it americano
they call it coffee
which makes it worse

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by pbradley

It could be argued that farming, itself, modifies and engineers the genetics of a food crop over time in the same sense that a domesticated dog or cat is genetically different than a wild dog or cat.

that's waht I say yo

farming is not just planting crops. crops are bred and hybridized, to create storng genetic traits, or to combine traits. humans have been doing this since the dawn of agriculture, and it is NO BIG DEAL

you know what else is genetically modifying things? sex. any and all sex. whether between plants, or animals.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

jeezus man, i never ever have said "duh" to you, but for fucks sakes man, it is spectacularly obvious that plant and animal domestication has modified their genes-- everybody and their mother knows that-- i'm not talking about getting sweeter apples or creating nectarines or pluots or breeding fatter pigs.

i'm talking about genetic engineering. that means that you insert strands of DNA into crops-- sometimes for beneficial effects sometimes for weird-ass shit.

the problem is-- it's mostly weird-ass SHIT LIKE THIS.

and it's not just hippies that give a shit about it

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agric...-soybeans.html

suicide seeds? sure:

http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio.../suicide-seeds

the problem with those is that plasmids can spread to other crops and kill them too.

so, please, let's not dismiss corporate crimes with obvious arguments about food domestication-- it's not the same.

now, mind you, i'm not against genetic engineering per se-- i'm against the greedy fuckers who control the technology for pure profit regardless of consequences.

and soybeans are a shit, shit crop.

/end of rant

with apologies

aint no thang.
look at seedless grapes.
or seedless oranges.

I ahve actrually heard morons say they are evil because "how can you oplant seeds from a seedless grape?"

people are stupid.

all the soy BS is BS man. the japanese have been ingesting soy for hundreds of years and they do not have any of these supposed pseudo-science effects

[cagedbird]

beautiful day in nyc.

went to the library.

went home.

watched david brown green's george washington.

went to museum.

went to cafe.

called mom.

listened to royal trux.

weather cool.

people nice.

but tomorrow i have nothing.

trains and buses running.

twitter interesting.

public enemy site cool.

hotmail mostly junk.

sonic youth site painless.

thinking about las vegas.

thinking about women filmmakers.

[floatingslowly]

if I were not already leaving, I would be in a state of panic.

I'm watching from a departing boat as Rome burns.

timing is everything, my frends.

[_slavo_]

my day was complete shit.
8 hours on a train altogether and one fucked-up work meeting.

[Rob Instigator]

my day has been loaded with work as always.

[Keeping It Simple]

Took a train to Gatwick International Airport with a friend. Chilled out there for a while. Found out no planes are flying today due to volcanic ash in the atmosphere due to eruption of volcano in Iceland. Rambled all the way back home.

[knox]

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

Took a train to Gatwick International Airport with a friend. Chilled out there for a while. Found out no planes are flying today due to volcanic ash in the atmosphere due to eruption of volcano in Iceland. Rambled all the way back home.

where were you going?

[Antagon]

it was neither good nor bad, it just was

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by knox

where were you going?

Nowhere. Just fancied a trip to Gatwick. It's a cool place to hang out in.

[knox]

After you check-in they have all these VAT free shops. I still think about this dress at All Saints I would have tried on, but I only had enough time to get a coffee. Caffeine is always more important than semi-goth clothes.

[ilduclo]

I was up till 2 am listening to Earth and Wolves in the Throne Room, then had to get up at 6:30 AM for work. Tired, but ready to bike home, beautiful day by the river....

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by knox

After you check-in they have all these VAT free shops. I still think about this dress at All Saints I would have tried on, but I only had enough time to get a coffee. Caffeine is always more important than semi-goth clothes.

Gatwick's a great airport. I love it. We should meet up there sometime. I'll buy you a drink.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

aint no thang.
look at seedless grapes.
or seedless oranges.

I ahve actrually heard morons say they are evil because "how can you oplant seeds from a seedless grape?"

people are stupid.

all the soy BS is BS man. the japanese have been ingesting soy for hundreds of years and they do not have any of these supposed pseudo-science effects

i've never been around morons who say seedless grapes are evil (ha! thankfully!), and i like seedless fruit, tangerines in particular, but i ain't touching roundup ready crops with a fucking harpoon.

the japanese have been ingesting FERMENTED soy in limited quantities for hundreds of years, but maybe that's why their weewees are so small-- ha! still, tofu and soy sauce and miso (all fermented, all whole soy) were invented before there was monsanto and ADM; and fermented soy is different from shit like TVP, soymilk, and the soybean oil that's present in pretty much everywhere in processed foods these days, feeding tons of phytates to an unsuspecting populace.

the japanese don't eat soy the same way that western people have adopted it in their diets as a way to hysterically flee from meat, they eat tofu in fish broth, or with pork, and seafood, and with marine vegetables which provide the extra minerals whose absorption the soy decreases (thus balancing out shit), and don't stuff themselves with fake soy chicken, soy "hotdogs", soy "eggs", soy protein isolates in smoothies, hydrogenated soybean oil, soybean isoflavone "supplements" (i.e., estrogen pills), and all that processed industrial crap from monsanto crops, plus the required herbicides that tear a new asshole to the ecosphere every year.

anyway, if people choose to eat toxic shit that requires assloads of pesticides to grow, that's their business i suppose-- i'm just putting out the info out there and clarifying that not all genetic modifications are the same, and some will definitely fuck up your gonads, brains, etc.-- and ADM doesn't give a shit as long as they keep peddling their merchandise.

what you're saying is the equivalent of claiming that a punch in the face is the same as a kick in the balls. and unwittingly taking large quantities of estrogens--- is like a kick in the balls (or the tits, for the ladies).

[!@#$%!]

re: day. gotta start it. i thought it was friday, but turns out it's thursday. that's good, i get an extra day to finish some things. its 421pm. i gotta start the day, already...

[Rob Instigator]

but who is imngesting all this soy crap?

I stick with rice dream!

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

but who is imngesting all this soy crap?

I stick with rice dream!

soy is everywhere. read the labels, you'll see.

rice dream is nice, but so delicious (coconut) is better

and coquito-- even better! will fuck you up!