Experiments in sleep!

I've confirmed for myself something that scientists have been saying for a good while. It's not the amount of sleep that matters so much as the kind. If my REM sleep gets interrupted, I sleep in later when I do get to sleep, and feel more tired, even if I sleep more.

How have I found this out? Because of the animals that keep coming in and interrupting my sleep every hour or less in the mornings, wanting to either get up on the bed, get down from the bed, or go outside to bark at squirrels for no good reason.

Tags: Me, SCIENCE!

theferrett is also wise.

See for yourself. He gets at many of the points I've been trying to get at, too.

" 9/11 didn't make me angry so much as it made me motivated. For the first time in my generation, someone had attacked us and struck hard enough to paralyze the entire nation. This was, as the television was repeating endlessly, our Pearl Harbor. This was a turning point in America's history.

And so I was ready. Whatever my country needed me to do, I'd do it. I sat in my house, awaiting orders.

No one was more surprised when none came.

The defining hallmark of the Bush administration is that it's never asked anyone to do anything they didn't feel like doing."

Tags: Politics, Links, Quotes, Economics, The Environment

The Unitarian Jihad

A manifesto, available over here.

(via ursulav, via cargoweasel, via unitarians, via Jon Carroll, of the SF Gate)

Tags: Links, Nifty Stuff, LJ, Religion

We're living in the future

Transformers the Movie was set in 2005. I just realized that. But back when Transformers was on, that was at least 20 years in the future.

Hell, when I was in middle school, I wrote things set in the early 2000s. It's just weird to be reminded of things like that.