The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

In the style of Peter Griffin... Tssss - aaah! Tssss - aaah! Tssss - aaah...!

So. I'm first into the exam room this afternoon, and the raised platform at the end jumps up to greet me. Don't you feel stupid when that happens?

Anyway... once that was out of the way, things went fine, although I wished I'd known they'd had staff deficiencies in the morning, 'cause I'd have taken that shift too. Some good writing was also forthcoming, bringing me close to the end of TDD-605 "She Returns", Chapter 3. I might use tomorrow for Season 6 development, if I've managed to complete Chapter 3 by then.

No Fecking Justice... A man who defended himself and his family against a burglar doesn't get an appeal against his jail term, and a famous bus-riding cat is killed by a car... sometimes, the world just sucks.

And don't get me started about all the "celebrities" lining up to play for a Haiti benefit concert (linkables strangely lacking - funny, that) - and who'll fail spectacularly to open their own wallets whilst urging us to cough up - and the "UN climate experts" who got it wrong, and still expect us to believe them without question...

Bah, I'm done. Two short, final sessions tomorrow - only one session short of a full exam diet. Yay!

I'm not in the best of moods, so I'm gonna bitch about something for a bit.

Meanwhile... BBC discussion programme Question Time is a right laugh, every now and again, particular when someone dares to suggest that "Global Warming" isn't the untouchable Holy Grail "the experts" would like it to be. Dissent, and you're as bad as a Holocaust denier. Personally, I accept that climate change is happening right now, because it always has been - I'm sure I've already ranted about the last Ice Age, and how it couldn't have been cavemen in their gas-guzzling people-carriers, leaving their TV sets on stand-by that cause the climate change that melted the glaciers covering half the freakin' planet.

Evidence? You want evidence? How about the fossil coral reefs halfway up mountains, and Arthropleura - 300 million years ago, my neighbourhood was crawling with them; giant millipedes as long as an estate car. How come we don't have those any more? Simple - back in the Upper Carboniferous Period, the oxygen content of the air was significantly higher, allowing invertebrates to grow substantially larger than they do today. If that isn't "climate change", what is it...?

It was good to see at least someone ask just what we're doing to ensure humanity survives the impending climatic chaos - what if we can't fix it overnight with all your bloody windmills and "carbon off-setting"? Shoddy thinking, people - just plain shoddy.

And finally.. ...and just to piss me off, this is going to have a Friday posting date, again messing up my attempts to post as close to an entry-a-day. Grrr...