p.s. joe… i just got a rejection email from schlumberger. tell your boys to get their shit together.

I saw a video of the meeting between Bush (Reggie, that is) and Beckham. I had never heard Beckham speak before. He sounded like a twit. Its not like I have sat around thinking, “Hmm, I wonder what David Beckham sounds like,” but that is not at all how I imagined him. The video is on YouTube. Someone with a little more diligence could probably find it.

I also find all the references to Professor Seinfeld in Nick comments hilarious. Not that I opened the link, but if I did, I would expect “What’s the deal with the balance of incoming and outgoing radiation?”

Finally, fat jokes? Really, Jon Stewart? We all thought you were better than that.

John Seinfeld on Global Climate Change
Excerpt: In a Watson Lecture on March 7, John Seinfeld, Caltech’s Nohl Professor and professor of chemical engineering, discussed global climate, explaining how Earth’s temperature results from a balance of incoming and outgoing radiation. Seinfeld’s lecture summarized scientists’ current understanding of global climate change and articulated how the buildup of so-called greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, leads to increased trapping of Earth’s radiation, causing warming of the planet.

Link to video of lecture (you will need real player installed):
http://today.caltech.edu/theater/19922_cable.ram

Finally:
“If any of you at home are wondering about the former vice president’s seeming largess, I will have you know, he has not gained weight. He is so passionate about saving this Earth, he is trying not to exhale. … Here’s an inconvenient truth: cake isn’t a food group” –Jon Stewart

2) It isn’t books or the newspapers that allow for back and forth, it’s the printed word. Anyone who can read can write and disseminate the written word much easier than you could produce a television program. It hasn’t always been a one way avenue…that’s the point that Gore is trying to make. We accept that as the status quo today and that’s why we’re all so disillusioned and apathetic about our government.

2) i quote: “His main argument centers around the fact that television, and not the printed word is primary source of information today. The problem with this is that there is no opportunity for back and forth; television only gives us information, there is no way for us to respond or challenge the information.” Since when it is possible to have an open discussion with a book. I’ve talked to my tv and to the sunday newspaper… i got nothing. seriously, with the exception of sketchy call-in shows and crap like “point, counterpoint” is there truly an open discussion or forum with what the media? it’s always been a one-way avenue.

counterpoint:
http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/puzzle_bush.jpg