Meme

   Normally I don't do memes, but well, normally I'm not "tagged" specifically to do them. Even so, I'm not liable to do them, but I think I owed hereticxxii a blogfavour.

   Mercilessly tagged by hereticxxii.

Open the book closest to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment, to page 56.

Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following there.

Then, you get to pass the Bookworm Award on to 5 people of your choice!

---

   Well, my bookshelf is immediately to my right, and the third shelf is about eye level, so as you can see here that puts me eye to eye with Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century by, well, a bunch of people.

Vlahos says, "An ideology that challenges us may not take famliar form, like the old Nazis or Commies. It may not even engage us initially in ways that fit old threat markings." Ven Crevald concludes, "Armed conflict will be waged by men on earth, not robots in space. It will have more in common with the struggles of primitive tribes than with large-scale conventional war." [...]* re-primitized man: warrior societies operating at a time of unprecedented resource scarcity and planetary overcrowding.

* one boring sentence omitted

So there you have it. The challenges of the next century apparently consist of how we're going to launch a raid on the next neighbourhood over. Those bastards have it coming! ;D



And now, I'm NOT going to tag anyone further. I hate memes.

I Swear This Soup Is So Good!

   I am presently having a thoroughly positive lunch experience. Went to Stater Bros and got a massive chicken noodle soup for $4.99. Compare this to the the tiny "large" chicken tortilla soup I got from Corner Bakery yesterday! The Corner Bakery "large" was smaller than the medium at Stater Bros, cost more than the SB large, and was not half as good. This thing is delicious.
   Additionally I got a smoked sausage and three chicken strips, for a total of $9.
   They had mustard, but not honeymustard sauce, so I ended up trying to mix honey (which, of course, we have) with mustard to make some...

   In other news the radio was goin on about who messed up Obama's oath, Obama, or Chief Justice Roberts.
   This of course, brings me back to the five times or so I swore in ASUCD presidents. The most memorable of which, I think, was swearing in Darnell Holloway and VP Genevieve Carnes. Outgoing president Caliph Assagai had had this massive going away banquet so we had an audience of some 300 people (or more? It was a large full ballroom), and I don't know if we were just feeling silly or it was because Darnell, Genna, and I all knew eachother pretty well, but I swear we were all having trouble not cracking up in the middle of the oath.

   And for the record, it was clearly Chief Justice Roberts who messed it up. He didn't pause long enough after Obamas name, where its normal to let them say their name before you continue, and then of course he bungled where "faithfully" comes in. And "president OF" not "to." Guess someone was nervous ;D


Totally Unrelated Picture of the Day

Still Life


Also, here's your odd news of the day: Thief gives officer phony home address, which in shocking coincidence, happens to be the officer's own address