Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Tibetan Teen Getting Into Western Philosophy

LHASA, TIBET—Deng Hsu, 14, said Monday that he is "totally getting into Western philosophy." "I've been reading a lot of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel, and it's blowing my mind," Hsu said. "It's so exotic and exciting, not like all that Buddhist 'being is desire and desire is suffering' shit my parents have been cramming down my throat all my life. Most of the kids in my school have never even heard of Hume's views on objectivity or Locke's tabula rasa." Hsu said he hopes to one day make an exodus to north London to visit the birthplace of John Stuart Mill.

I hope you all saw the Lunar Eclipse tonight! It was soooo wicked! I loved it! I wonder how they explained that phenomena back in the geo-centric era of history?

While by the beach, moon-gazing, the local crazy dude found us and wanted desperately to know if my dog "has intestines??" I said yes. "Where are they?" He introduced himself as "hot dog legs" and then told me that my finger "looks like a carrot." It sure was dark though. "Is a car crashing into a tree funny?"

Today I saw the remains of a cremated cat. I saw charred bones and everything. The coolest thing is that Mariah was 21 when she died!

Without further ado, I must introduce you all to the craziest thing that I have learned in ages! There are these cells that scientists around the world do research on called HeLa cells. They are so named because they were taken from a cervical growth of a woman in 1951 in Baltimore named Henrietta Lacks! So all these cancer cells are still alive and reproducing in dishes and test tubes around the world 53 years after her death! She was 31 when she died and left behind children, who did not even learn that they dead mother's cells were in use around the Earth until the 1970's. Read this crazy real life story here.

Oh yeah, and Cuba has now outlawed the American Dollar, which has been their quasi-official currency since the collapse of the USSR.

Saturday, October 23, 2004

USATODAY.com - Dave Matthews Band seeks to make amends for incident: "wants to make amends after one of its tour bus drivers was accused of dumping human waste on sightseers on the Chicago River"

Friday, October 22, 2004

Crazy eBay mom Meghan and I both have the potential to turn into this. Or at the very least, we'd have a field day going through this lady's house.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Iceman discoverer missing in snow: "A German hiker who in 1991 discovered the mummified remains of a prehistoric man has gone missing while walking in bad conditions in the Alps. "

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

BBC NEWS | Health | Surgeons 'rebuild' patient's face

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Who watches murder videos? I have yet to watch one of those beheadings. But here is a little self-analysis for those of you who have.

Saturday, October 09, 2004

local6.com - News - Doctor Accused Of Paying Fine With Feces-Covered Money

Thursday, October 07, 2004

A elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it

Friday, October 01, 2004

Reality Carnival Presents: Einstein Maze