Imaginary Gardens

From de Graaf, H.J., C.J.M. Musters, W.J. ter Keurs. (1996) Sustainable development: looking for new strategies. Ecological Economics 16: 205-216

...of changes in our physical environment: the facts have changed or, to be more precise, the facts as we perceive them have changed. [...] However, the difference between "human caused" and "non-human caused" is not always clear and not crucial when trying to deal with preventing problems in the first place.

Take that Global Warming is Just a Phase bastards and suck on it. It doesn't really matter who's fault it is, just as long as we don't drown.

PS: Book list meme on previous post, if you find that more entertaining. Sucks to be in different time zones, yo.

ETA: Am feeling absolutely miserable. ( Read more... )

ETA 2: I'd meant to post this in the morning, when I first read it, but duuuude, xkcd rules everything, always. Don't get the reference? Watch the Discovery Channel Commercial of Win: The World Is Just Awesome. I loves it, boomdeyada :)


* Anon. or uncredited

Sometimes I get these weird one-liners or short dialogues spouting off in my head. And, because I've been trying to work for the past, ooh, 9 hours and done fuck all, I'm going to share. (I usually put these on sickle_stories, but I'd have to log out, log in... You can see why I'm not doing that.)

What this really means is that I'm booooooooooored. I'm also incredibly fucked for my presentation, because a) no presentation done yet and b) might be good to practice the talk beforehand, which can't be done without the fucking presentation. Spending all day trying to work means that no work gets done and no procrastination gets done either. It sucks!

Also, hit me up for this meme via rex_dart:

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any of the fandoms you know I like AND give me a type of AU (Western, pirates, historical era of your choice, space opera, etc) for each fandom. I will then explain what story from that fandom I would write for that AU.

You can skip the AU thingy if'n you like.

Fandoms I know stuff about, even if only a little: ( Read more... )

ETA: Please, people, talk to me here. I'm loooosing it!

***
"Well, don't I have the luck of a drowning weasel..."

"Will you just sit down? Christ, I'm nervous enough just watching you pacing about with that thing in the air."

"As if you've never wanted to douse something in petrol before."

"Listen, I'm going to go outside and be sick all over the pavement. If you really want to come along, I can't stop you, but I'd rather you didn't."

"You're tap-dancing on a mine-field, mate. I'd shut up if I were you."

"You know how they say, 'cold as a witch's teat'? What d'you say when it's dry weather?" ( Cut for vulagarity. )

"You so much as squeak a word of this to anyone, and I'll stuff eels down your trousers. Electric eels. Hungry, too."


Links of the Day:
YouTube: I Am Not Canadian - Quebec Version
YouTube: I Am Not American - The Arrogant Worms
YouTube: Canada's Really Big - The Arrogant Worms


* Gene Hunt, Life on Mars

I don't know about you...but I'm in the mood for a bloody good pop quiz!*

So, hours and hours later, I'm still sitting at the desk and have finally finished the articles. (I've also watched a boatload of Nevermind the Buzzcocks on YouTube - my face hurts from laughing so much.) Of course, were I in any way functional, I would've finished these yesterday or possibly even the day before. But. Now I have to work on a 45-minute presentation on economics and ecology and stuff, explaining what sustainable development is.

Why?, when I could just sum it all up with this:

SD is an attempt to have one's cake and eat it too.**
Feh.

Links of the Day: (ETA'd)
lolinverts - Invertebrate Macros, oddly adorable
nuit_belle discusses families on Doctor Who
carlisle_coop: Fanfic: How to Turn on a Time Lord: Lesson One and Lesson Two, The Honest Porcupine on John Simm films, Doctor Who episode commentaries Tag: Hotness Quotient, with the more recent episodes being untagged but around Sept and Oct 2007, including Utopia, The Sound of Drums, and the Last of the Time Lords HQ (IM Style), with a warning for Martha-bashing, Part 1, Part 2, PArt 3, Part 4.


* Simon Amstel (adoreable!), NtB 20x20, methinks
** Sustainable Development: A Critical Review by S.M. Lele