[Paisleychick-lj] Links to think about

[Beatrice M's blog]

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[Eyes wide open][3]   
Originally uploaded by [blmurch][4]. 

I think that any of these links could qualify as a substantial blog post in themselves, but really I just want to pass on the information here and get others thinking.  
  
[**Al Gore saving the day?**][5]   
What if super delegates hold out and neither Obama or Clinton get the 2,025 delegates necessary and Gore is put in as an alternate candidate at the convention???  
  
[**Luke's Arm** ][6]   
He should be holding a light saber for full geek effect. How much of the singularity is going to come about because of medical advancements? Kragen and Andy were seriously talking about backing up consciousnesses into machines. That is *total* science fiction to me. Could that honestly happen?  
  
[**Elephants painting**][7]  
This is amazing.  I know they're taught how to do this and I don't know if they fully grasp what they are painting, but they paint better than I do (not hard to do)!  This is mind blowing and I'm glad to have seen this video.  
[http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53264/][8]  
[http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=69][9]  
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**Argentine Politics**][10]  
We are "celebrating" the memories of wars here. March 26 was the anniversary of the military junta taking over in 1976 and April 2, is the start of the Malvinas War with Britain in 1982. Christina is raising export taxes and people don't like that. There are protests all over the country and spontaneous demonstrations here in the city. When I went grocery shopping tonight, milk, meat and eggs were almost all gone from the shelves. I have a bunch of photos from the March 26th memorial, but they're not culled yet.  
[http://www.theargentinepost.com/2008/03/seven-questions-for-argentine-farmer.html][11]  
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7314067.stm][12]  
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7316170.stm][13]  
  
[**One kitten adopted**][14]  
We adopted Ewok on March 19th. The shelter gave him the name Ewok. We haven't come up with a better name. Kragen wants to spell it in Spanish - Iuac - not sure that I'm sold.... he's really cute and provides much love and purrs and crazy antics along with cuddles. We are planning on adopting another kitten, but he's been too sick to bring home, so we're waiting.  
  
Now that I have Aperture up and running again - THANKS ANDY - I have been taking lots of photographs. I am trying to not upload them all at once and have found myself behind about a week. I am trying to upload about 15-20 photos at a time (about a flickr page's worth). The last upload was from a week ago Saturday, when Kragen and Andy and I went to the Buenos Aires Zoo in Palermo.  


   [1]: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2215/2374832278_0e2fbdc885_m.jpg
   [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/2374832278/ (photo sharing)
   [3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/2374832278/
   [4]: http://www.flickr.com/people/blmurch/
   [5]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/30/wuspols130.xml
   [6]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0_mLumx-6Y
   [7]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE
   [8]: http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53264/
   [9]: http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=69
   [10]: http://paisleychick.livejournal.com/data/<br />http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/03/25/international/i094750D15.DTL
   [11]: http://www.theargentinepost.com/2008/03/seven-questions-for-argentine-farmer.html
   [12]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7314067.stm
   [13]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7316170.stm
   [14]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/tags/ewok

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