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I'm off to Canada, hunting for jobs, the most dangerous game of all. Everyone be good while I'm gone/there! (Alas, I won't make it to Toronto. Nobody seems to want me there. DRAMATIC SIGH.) [livejournal.com profile] ratmmjess, great to meet you! [livejournal.com profile] jeregenest, keep healing! Everyone else, go visit the Creationist Science Fair. Courtesy of my friend Steve (still LJ-less and couch-less, but now with pants).

Edit: Yes, the creationist site is a fake, but an elaborate one. Which is greater: the effort people will put into web hoaxes, or the crackpottery of creationists? Kind of an irresistible force/immovable object problem, come to think of it. I'm still amused by excerpts like this:

Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.

No. 32: The Little Pine Marten

Date: 2005-01-20 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wordwolf.livejournal.com
Best of luck with the job search! We're all in this together. . .

We'll probably be Toronto-ish sometime this summer, so maybe we'll see if we can do a north-of-the-border meetup with you and [livejournal.com profile] mgrasso and others. We need a Toronto fix STAT.

Re: No. 32: The Little Pine Marten

Date: 2005-01-20 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mgrasso.livejournal.com
Will they let me back in after my Escape from Toronto?

Re: No. 32: The Little Pine Marten

Date: 2005-01-20 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wordwolf.livejournal.com

No, they will shoot you on sight as a fugitive POA (Prisoner of Academia). However, we have some connections in the French-Canadian underground, and I'm sure we can smuggle you in--and hopefully out again-- in a mailbag. Or an enormous tarte au sucre. Or Bonhomme du neige. Or something.

Just keep practicing that Quebecois accent. . .

Date: 2005-01-20 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ratmmjess.livejournal.com
Great meeting you too!

Date: 2005-01-20 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffwik.livejournal.com
I'm 98% sure it's a parody.

Oooooo!!

Date: 2005-01-21 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Please tell us more about your friend Steve! He sounds witty, articulate, handsome and in search of single women between the ages of 27 and 32 [read: between 21 and 23].

If Steve was here, he'd probably want you to see this:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/021969.htm

Given that it's just *another* random site on the internet -- although one that's a little more established -- it's not exactly conclusive, but the folks at urbanlegends do think those wacky creationists aren't so wacky after all. Wait. Maybe they don't think they're so creationist, after all. Either way, they have a cool link to panties said creationist site is selling; it probably is the final element that allows us to say: hoax.

Well slap my ass and call me Alice...

Date: 2005-01-22 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] equine-cocoon.livejournal.com
You coming to Canada? You off yer tree? Gets mighty cold here in the wintertime, people croaking all over the place, human tongues hanging off metal signs, martial law, waiting in lines for toilet paper. If you meet any Canadians, just remember, they're prolly more scared of you than you are of them.

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