Complex Numbers

Yet another link

Kids grow up so fast these days: One second you’re changing their diapers, the next you’re dropping them off at Sober Living by the Sea.

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/video/lunchbreak101907

Every once in a while, I find something that reinforces my decision to remain childfree. This is one such item.

Especially the second one down.

That particular video also reinforces my belief that being the only country to ever lose a nuclear war did something to their national psyche. Something... dark. It's as if all of the fears got concentrated to critical mass and got buried deep down, only to re-emerge over the next decades as a bizarre confabulation of tentacle porn and Hello Kitty.

(Now there's an idea.)

What's the half-life of this radioactive fallout? I don't know. And as a friend of mine pointed out, I'm sure they look at our tractor pulls and say similar things over there.

Don't get me wrong, now - I'm fascinated by the culture; I drive cars they engineered; I even love sushi. I'd like to learn the language and even visit. I have a burning desire to possess a genuine katana (doesn't even have to be made by Hattori Hanzō) that will probably never be fulfilled.

But still.