Don’t you just love William Shatner?

I was going to watch Jurassic park while i wrote out my next post - I popped it into the dvd player on my computer and it wont work. I think I installed a driver…maybe. I dont know. I get a message that is all like “TheTV Out port of your display card is not working properly. ”

…I don’t know where to get the driver, if you know, help! I have a Radeon x1300 video card and its saying that my video controller isn’t… there or something. heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I miss jurassic park already!!!!

Update: The situation is worse than I thought! I tried to play the sims and… Oh noes!

“Failed to any DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate.” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Update:  yay!! I love my brother. He fixed it!

I heart you Andy!

I’m still sort of getting myself together here in Ontario - soooo the quality of the posts aren’t going to be that good. I just wanted to draw some attention to a couple of stories from Grist today and yesterday:

Canada’s Conservative government, known for consistently pooh-poohing the Kyoto Protocol, planned to unveil emissions-reduction targets today and urge participation in carbon markets, a la Kyoto. But the news got out early when a draft of the speech was accidentally faxed to the Liberal Party on Tuesday. So what’s in store? Well, the country aims to cut emissions 20 percent from current levels by 2020, but that will still leave it 11 percent shy of its Kyoto obligations. Sigh. Other plans include a ban on sales of incandescent light bulbs by 2012 and an aim to halve air pollution by 2015. “We find ourselves today with one of the worst environmental records among industrialized countries. Now we need to turn things around,” says Environment Minister John Baird. Said a Baird spokesperson of the fax fiasco, “I’m sure the Liberals got all excited when they read it, because they would have loved to have once written a speech this strong.” Just put your regulations where your mouth is, dude.

and…. 

Used to be, the U.S. couldn’t do anything about climate change because climate change wasn’t real. Now the U.S. can’t do anything about climate change because … China’s not doing anything about climate change. But surprise! Turns out China, despite being the huge energy-sucker that slipped through the Kyoto Protocol’s developing-country loophole, is working on emissions cuts of its own that could equal or outpace those in the U.S. and Europe. A program to cut energy use at factories, for instance, could cut 168 million tons of greenhouse gases by 2010 — nearly as much as the voluntary U.S. goal of 183 million tons per year by then — and a plan to increase energy efficiency 20 percent by 2010 could, even if only halfway met, lead to bigger cuts in emissions growth than Europe agreed to under Kyoto. Says Mark Levine of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: “We in the U.S. would be better off to deal with the reality of what China is doing rather than the perception of where China stands.”

Sources:

Globe and Mail
The Star
MSNBC
Christian Science Monitor

There are a million other things I’d like to blog about right now… The continued Mooney/Nisbet debate, the intolerable actions that are coming out of that debate, that we’re entering into Hurrican season!, more on weather in general, I have a couple prehisotric posts written up, but they’re on my computer which isn’t set up yet annnd yes, lots of things. Soon. My mom’s computer and work area isn’t really inclusive to blogging. (Her computer likes to freeze a lot…)

Well, I don’t really care, but sometimes, things are just silly.

Facebook changed a little bit… all the things that were in the left hand column are now at the top… and now on the side you can be brought to the latest updates by your friends in the categories you see. … That’s not what I find silly. I really don’t care, some people are starting groups “bring the old facebook back” …seriously, hardly anything has changed.

What I do find incredibly silly/stupid/pointless/a bit much is that you can text updates to your profile via your cell phone. In fact you can do multiple things from your cell phone…

Seriously, have “social networking” sites got so ridiculous that now when we’re out in public having real social contact that we much keep our virtual contacts updated and aware? And hey - I know I’m not innocent, I check facebook a couple times a day. But I know some people who check it every time they sit down at a computer. They talk about it when they’re out in public. They recognize people in person that they have never met before because they have seen the other person on a facebookpage somewhere.

Granted… I have connected with a lot of people I haven’t seen in over 6 - 8 years, and people I probably never would have been able to connect with before are on there too. But really, I think I would have survived without having contacted those people. The fact of the matter is - the people I interact with the most on Facebook are people who I see almost every day anyway, or am already really good friends with from back home.

But anyway I just think facebook is getting a little bit stupid. How about going across the hall to see your friend? Or calling your friend? Or going out for coffee? …I haven’t actually heard Sam’s voice… probably since Christmas, because we MSN/Facebook each other instead.

I already hate it enough when people are over hanging out, or out at dinner and they get interrupted by a text message or a phone call on their cell. So they have to stop talking with me or the group we’re with to attend to their electronic device. Chances are, it’s not all that important. “But katie, you have a cell phone!” ask anyone who knows me - it’s rarely, if ever, on. The last time I actually used it was when I was in Seattle a while ago - and that was to call Ashley to let her know I was okay and to call my mom when I thought I was going to die on the ferry.

Global warming hit Second Life flooding various areas in what was being called a global warming disaster. (Video of some of the flooded areas) Good on ‘em. If people are getting that worked up about their Second Life home - imagine… just IMAGINE that global warming disasters actually happened… Hmm. Too bad we can’t all live like Colin Beavan, even though Colbert is a huge jerk! Maybe we would be able to save animals that are going extinct because of this anthropogenic disaster that we’re creating. Luckily we’re seeing new breakthroughs and developments in solar energy… And not just planting trees, since that apparently causes more warming.