My second batch of free, custom-designed stickers from StickerYou arrived in the mail this morning! I made some little “I ? CarpeLumen” for the kidlins, and although I mostly wanted to do my own thing (I’ve been reluctant to stick my CL stickers on anything fearing I’d never have more), I couldn’t help indulging my geek-hood with some more Spock stuff and a few of my favourite comic-related symbols.

I’m doing this every week until they stop offering them.

This fine fellow, James Jay Lee, is dead. He was shot in the head by police while holding people hostage at Discovery Channel Headquarters.

He is EXACTLY the kind of extremist that most disturbs me: a person who believes we should sacrifice humanity for the “good of the planet”. His inspiration? “An Inconvenient Truth“.

Here are some excerpts from his “manifesto” (You can find it by clicking on his face – please click hard, and repeatedly) – a series of demands to the Discovery Channel:

Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get hell off the planet!

Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies!

Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.

For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human’s lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!

Honestly, he finally did something right today. He stopped consuming resources better used by decent human beings. It’s just unfortunate that he didn’t have the courage to off himself years ago.

Good riddance.

NOTE: To “Conservative” commentators who said this guy had to be a “Liberal nutjob” – the values espoused by this freak show are more of an extreme conservatism than liberalism. You don’t get to politicize this one in your favour, it just makes you look like an even bigger asshole.

I got this in the mail this morning…

Solid vinyl, peelable, and completely customizable stickers

And – it was for the low, low price of FREE! Well, free if you count iCoke coins as free.

I’d never heard of StickerYou before (although I’d seen another custom sticker site a while back), but when I was looking through my “rewards” the other day I found this “design your own sheet of stickers” option. That led to checking out the neat CocaCola stickers I could get, which led to discovering they also had Star Trek stickers, and that I could upload my own images, too. When I ordered it, it said the projected arrival date was September 2nd, but they arrived today – only 4 days later. And I live in the boonies!

I made a couple of minor booboos I won’t repeat – the smaller CL sticker overlaps the “giving her all she’s got” sticker slightly which will leave a notch in one and a slightly cropped edge on the other (that was just a placement error I didn’t notice) and the rounded corners on the CL stickers nip off a tiny bit of the S in SEIZE.

Also, is anyone else going nuts looking at the word “seize” while their brain recites ‘i before e except after c’ over and over? No? Just me? Cognitive dissonance rules.

I can only order 1 sheet a week for free, so I sure hope iCoke still has these as an option next week, and for weeks to come. I want to get some more CarpeLumen stickers, as well as some other stuff. Maybe it’s the 10 year old in me, but I think it’s pretty darn cool.

I really enjoy reading. I always have.

I tend to read everything – textbooks, novels, plays, classics – old and new stuff, seemingly at random. I used to read quickly enough that even while working and keeping up with a “normal” working life, I would consume 2-3 books in an average week.

Sadly, my illness has changed all that.

I know it will sound weird to those who haven’t experienced it, but for ME/CFIDS/CFS sufferers, using the brain can be just as exhausting as using the body. For most people, the body is able to easily produce enough energy to power their mental processes without having any sort of feeling of exhaustion. When you spend a long time working on a project that requires a great deal of thought, one may feel mentally exhausted but usually not completely physically drained (barring some extenuating circumstances like extreme stress or duress). For me it’s very different. If I take a long walk, it can be as exhausting as running a marathon. Here’s the kicker – equally as exhausting is something like reading a book.

The energy required to run my brain to read a book or think about our budget (or write a blog post, etcetera) can leave me more exhausted than taking that long walk I mentioned. Or weeding the garden. Or building something. It certainly is equally exhausting in most cases. That means that to walk to the library and get out a book to bring home to read typically leaves me too tired to read it. We live in a tiny hamlet, but we are very lucky to have a library. We’ve lived here for almost 2 years. My total trips to our local branch of the library?

Zero. I don’t even know what the place looks like inside. Read the rest of this entry »

TARDIS mug

Want.

And, available in time for the holidays.

Who’s buying me one? Click the pic to get to the site.

(I’d also like the cookie jar, if you have any leftover change.)