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Journal Journal: Dr SimianOverlord, back from the dead

Journal by SimianOverlord on Thursday December 17, 2009 @06:38PM

2006. Holy shit. Did I really use to be on Slashdot? Back then, I was working just outside of London - as the name suggests, using primates as a model of HIV infection. The funny thing with research is that you're busy all the time, but with significant downtime in between. I should have been reading the literature, catching up on my reports or presentations, or figuring out some other experiment I could slip in between my main ones. But I wasn't. I had discovered slashdot.

Comment Agree with journal, not title (Score 1) 10

by SimianOverlord on Sunday March 22, 2009 @04:46AM (#27286521) Attached to: Democrats to Rule of Law: We Still Hate You

It sounds similar to recent comments made in Britain by Harman about a Royal Bank of Scotland Charimans ridiculusly generous pension. I'm more concerned by eroding legal frameworks for mindless populism than by the undeserving getting a fat bonus.

I'll leave it to A.N.Other to post that cliche Moore quote from 'A Man For All Seasons'.

Comment Second Life is transitory - global warming (Score -1, Offtopic) 151

by SimianOverlord on Thursday February 15, 2007 @09:16AM (#18022470) Attached to: John Edwards' Campaign Enters Second Life

I do not understand why people are using virtual communities like Second life. Surely fads like Second life are simply doomed, since global warming and/or peak oil will rapidly deplete our ability to use gas / coal burning power stations for supplying electricity for such entertainment? I cannot understand why someone would go to the trouble of building an elaborate alternate reality that will be switched off within the decade.

Are second lifers people who simply don't accept anthropomorphic global warming is a reality? Are they simply fiddling while Rome burns?

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