hey, I defeated the "choose your own adventure" too.

Did you take the drugs too? That might be the lesson here.

Man, I almost literally cannot believe how insane the Republicans are.

I'm hoping that more and more Americans are getting fed up with this shit.

I eventually learned that lesson, Tommy.

tommy,

NO. I ate the pop tart .

le nubian, that option was looking rather tempting....

Huh. Michigan delegate drama

The Detroit Free Press today reported that the Michigan Republican Party voted last night to award the state's two at-large delegates to the statewide winner -- i.e, Mitt Romney -- instead of dividing them up proportionally.

That move, according the paper, would give Romney a 16-14 edge in delegates instead of the 15-15 tie between Romney and Santorum.

The controversy is some believe all 30 delegates are supposed to be awarded proportionately, which would result in a 15-15 split.

Anyway, this might go good with popcorn....

eta:

Per NBC's Andrew Rafferty, here's the response from Santorum national political director Hogan Gidley:

"There’s just no way this is happening. We’ve all heard rumors that Mitt Romney was furious that he spent a fortune in his home state, had all the political establishment connections and could only tie Rick Santorum. But we never thought the Romney campaign would try to rig the outcome of an election by changing the rules after the vote. This kind of back room dealing political thuggery just cannot and should not happen in America."

Huh, I died in an unexpected manner in the office.

They think you take one pill per encounter, and that's why it's so expensive, because women are all slutting it up.

But the thing that confounds me with this stupidity is that...well even if that were stupidly true, with whom are all of these women having sex? I'll tell you what, it's not the gay men or lesbians? So, where is the responsibility for men in all this, if women are slutting it up?

ARGH. Can't even.

Noah's opening ceremony for baseball is tomorrow. I have to go re-sew his pants so they will fit him. ARGH.

This is kind of awesome. It was kinda Zen to just watch the cat fountain.

In Minecraft, a fountain of cats at the top of the world

271kochu created a "fountain of cats" in Minecraft by building a structure that extended to the top of the world, then exploiting the game's simple flocking rules for virtual cats to entice the sprites to form a never-ending fountain that is a joy to behold.

My cat was confused by all the mewing....

Breaking Good: how to synthesize Pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) From N-Methylamphetamine (crystal meth)

Pseudoephedrine, active ingredient of Sudafed®, has long been the most popular nasal decongestant in the United States due to its effectiveness and relatively mild side effects [1]. In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to obtain psuedoephedine in many states because of its use as a precursor for the illegal drug N-methylamphetamine (also known under various names including crystal meth, meth, ice, etc.)[1,2]. While in the past many stores were able to sell pseudoephedrine, new laws in the United States have restricted sales to pharmacies, with the medicine kept behind the counter. The pharmacies require signatures and examination of government issued ID in order to purchase pseudoephedrine. Because the hours of availability of such pharmacies are often limited, it would be of great interest to have a simple synthesis of pseudoephedrine from reagents which can be more readily procured.

A quick search of several neighborhoods of the United States revealed that while pseudoephedrine is difficult to obtain, N-methylamphetamine can be procured at almost any time on short notice and in quantities sufficient for synthesis of useful amounts of the desired material. Moreover, according to government maintained statistics, Nmethylmphetamine is becoming an increasingly attractive starting material for pseudoephedrine, as the availability of Nmethylmphetamine has remained high while prices have dropped and purity has increased [2]. We present here a convenient series of transformations using reagents which can be found in most well stocked organic chemistry laboratories to produce psuedoephedrine from N-methylamphetamine.