Me: So I’m playing Scrabble online, but my friend Will has to move next, so I can’t go yet. I just played “Ratio”, and the score is 84 to 62. (You can laugh, it’s okay.)
Rob: Yeah…what I hate is having to play off existing letters, that’s shit.
Me: Yeah, no kidding. His first word was “Ibex” -_-
Rob: Ibex? What the hell is that? Sounds like an African Animal
Me: HAHAHAHA
Rob: It is!
Me: Wait, you weren’t joking? HAHAHAHAHA. That’s even BETTER.
Rob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibex
Me: Yeah, I know what they are, but I thought you did too and you were making a joke. But instead you were guessing and you were right. Who fucking does that? Especially with a word like “Ibex”. Fuck you, Rob. You’re so cool.
I realize that I update too much. I’m kind of sorry but I’m kind of not. =)
Hahaha. I mean, this shouldn’t be funny. Our house flooded. I’ve spent my morning ripping everything out of the house so the carpet guy can soak up the water, which he’s doing now. Then for the next three days we need constant air flow to hopefully get it to dry. Then they’re going to patch our roof. And then he’s going to come back and deep clean the shit out of the carpets. Which is nice, because seriously, we just cleaned our carpets. And that’s basically about it.
Japan’s Hunger Becomes a Dire Warning For Other Nations
MARIKO Watanabe admits she could have chosen a better time to take up baking. This week, when the Tokyo housewife visited her local Ito-Yokado supermarket to buy butter to make a cake, she found the shelves bare.
“I went to another supermarket, and then another, and there was no butter at those either. Everywhere I went there were notices saying Japan has run out of butter. I couldn’t believe it — this is the first time in my life I’ve wanted to try baking cakes and I can’t get any butter,” said the frustrated cook.
Japan’s acute butter shortage, which has confounded bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities crisis.
A sharp increase in the cost of imported cattle feed and a decline in milk imports, both of which are typically provided in large part by Australia, have prevented dairy farmers from keeping pace with demand.
While soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions of the third world, in wealthy Japan they have forced a pampered population to contemplate the shocking possibility of a long-term — perhaps permanent — reduction in the quality and quantity of its food.
Read the rest of this article here.
Scary stuff. Scary fucking stuff.
