March 6, 2013 - the world gets weirder

Belgian and Japanese scientists found a giant meteorite in Antarctica.

They're thawing it in Japan, according to io9's article.

In. Japan.

Seriously, has decades of kaiju movies taught them NOTHING?????

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Hugo Chavez is dead. I'm finding myself amused by all the people frothing at the mouth to either defend him as though he was some sort of hero or condemn him as though he was some sort of super-villain. He was a charismatic, if flawed, politican, like many. Venezuela could have done better and it could have done worse.

We (the U.S.) don't have any moral high ground to condemn Chavez. Hell, our own elected leaders claim they can kill U.S. citizens at will, even on our own soil and can lock up anyone indefinitely by claiming they're an "enemy combatant". As soon as our leaders went there, we took any and all moral high ground and blew it up.

Chavez, by all accounts, left behind a country with some serious inflation and violent crime problems. He had his share of fuckups. History will judge, fair or not.

Not sure if I had a point. Meh.

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Finally got a little rain today. Emphasis on "little".

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Experimented last night with a "healthy muffin recipe". Whole wheat flour, blah-blah-blah, fruit, blah-blah-blah, oatmeal, blah-blah-blah... they look like a nightmare but they taste okay. Time will tell if I poisoned myself.

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Carrie Fisher is reported returning for the Disney Star Wars sequels. That gives me some hope that these might actually be entertaining.