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Today is the day I'm officially sick of "wouldn't it be great if we could just let natural selection take out the stupid people, hardy har."

No one ever thinks they're one of "the stupid people," but that assumption is never 100% right. We all have absent-minded moments. Frex, I had to take this image down the first time I uploaded it to Flickr because I'd forgotten to blur out the names.

I know plenty of intelligent people with blind spots, or gaps in their knowledge.*

Furthermore, if I have my doubts that society is really improved by a death penalty for criminal behaviour, why would I favour a death penalty for stupidity?


* a note on the bottle of "Lakota Muscle Pain Topical Rub" indicating how to neutralize the stuff if it starts to burn you would have saved me several painful minutes a few years back -- for the record, the counter-agent is milk.

Orange!

Dress in progress.
Need to pick up some zippers so I can finish this and the previous one. This is from the same pattern as the blue one, but I tried to draft a collar; I'm not entirely happy with it, it's too floppy. The orange and purple combo isn't bad, though; it sort of looks like something Velma from Scooby-Doo would wear to a party.

ETA: I start a new job tomorrow; maybe I can buy zippers on the way home.