email archives		2007, February 12, Monday. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum (hint: new hate mail psycho)! A litany of reports on oil depletion from energy bulletin. An amazing interactive map showing the change in hardiness zones in North America due to climate change. Living in a state of exponential delusion This looks interesting - a portable solar array. Permalink --- Discuss this post in the idleworm forum. 2007, February 9, Friday. If there ever comes a happy day when militant greens rule the world, let me nominate Marcus Fairs for public execution (preferably by hanging, from a hemp rope). I am not being facetious. People like Marcus, who fully understand the crisis, then knowingly contribute to it, and do so joyfully, should be killed. Life is wasted on creatures capable of writing this: "I am changing my travel plans this year. Alarmed by global warming, shocked by the imminent mass extinction of species and distraught at the environmental damage wreaked by mass tourism, I have decided to act before it is too late. Yes, carbon-neutral travel can wait. I'm off to see polar bears, tigers and low-lying Pacific atolls while they're still there... In the spirit of Nero - the Roman emperor who sang to the beauty of the flames while Rome burned to the ground - we are determined to enjoy the final days of our beautiful Earth. We are aware that mass tourism damages the very things we are going to see, but this only increases our urgency. We are aware that we will soon have to act more sustainably, which gives us all the more reason to be irresponsible while we still can. "Not for us the angsty despair of the eco-worriers, nor the stay-home moralising of the greenhouse gasbags. For we are the travel Neroists, and we have spotted a window of opportunity." (Marcus Fairs, 'Travel special: Roman holidays,' Independent on Sunday, February 4, 2007) Here's another image of this reprehensible corporate tool. May he choke in a river of his own shit. Ditto for Tony O' Reilly, the paper's owner: a skinbag who proves that the Irish can match the worst that America has to offer. There's a thread on the forum where you can share your opinions on this low-life. Cryptogon: U.S. Immigration Cavity Search Results in Medical Emergency. Some poor bastard with a medical device in his rectum had it yanked out by the heroes of the Reich. Get those men the Congressional Medal of Honor! Cryptogon: Texas wants compulsory cancer vaccinations for girls. Permalink --- Discuss this post in the idleworm forum. 2007, February 5, Monday. Crikey...the forum is hopping! If you visit the site and find it's a bit "dead", then check out the message boards - there are some interesting discussions going on there. I've a lot on my plate - for the next 4 weeks I'm doing some freelance work on top of my full-time job, and I'm working on a redesign of the site (don't worry - it's nothing heinous). I'll do the best I can to update the site, but the forum is guaranteed to update on an hourly basis. I wish I could fully explain the experience of living in the Canadian maritimes - it's a bit of a Mind F*ck, on many levels. Let me try to explain: Most animation work is done in one of the "hubs" - L.A., London, San Francisco, Paris, etc. To find a decent sized studio in a small Canadian town (pop. ~10K) is fairly unusual. In addition, this part of the country was settled largely by Irish immigrants during the famine, as well as English and Scottish settlers - so it's a lot closer to my cultural background than anywhere in America. I dont' know why, but I seem to be "hitting it off" with the locals...something I've never really experienced before on any continent. I'm not complaining! It's flattering to be befriended by working class people - down-to-earth folk who can see through bullshit from a mile away. Having grown up in an economically depressed Irish coastal down, I'm now in an economically depressed Canadian coastal town, mostly populated by descendants of my countrymen (having spent 13 years in sunny L.A. inbetween). As I said, a head-trip! Speaking of, here's a dictionary of Dublin slang...a must read if you're going to Ireland for a holiday! One of the guys at work is close to buying a 100 year old house in town (on 2/3 of an acre) for ~$27,000 canadian. Not too shabby. At 37, I'm older than any of my fellow artists by about 12 years - in some cases I'm old enough to be their father. One moment I'm experiencing flashbacks to my twenties; a minute later I realise how very old I am. Time's winged chariot... Permalink --- Discuss this post in the idleworm forum. previous posts - about us - contact