If you've been wondering about the lack of "Friday lolcats" posts – I've just had too much on my plate lately to keep up with posting them. Sure, you can just check out icanhascheezburger.com and subscribe to the RSS feed, but where's the fun in that? The point of my friday lolcat post was to dig through all the pictures posted in the last week, and weed out all but (what I thought were) the best.

Instead of coming up with a revised posting schedule, or some overly complicated solution, I've just decided to make the feed of pictures that I tag for the lolcat post public so anyone that wants to can view and subscribe to it. It's updated semi-realtime as I tag a new picture. It's basically somewhere in between my old friday post format and a "digest" version of icanhascheezburger (with a bit of cuteoverload posts thrown in as I deam necessary.)

You can view and subscribe to this RSS feed by following this link to sparx' lolcat picks.

Seriously.

If you're eligible to vote and chose not to push a button, or draw a line, or check a box, or fill out an absentee ballot…. why? If you chose not to vote and then complain about ANYTHING during the next few years – then I hope you get hit by a bus. A bus with pointy spikes all over it.

Even if your vote was stupid (like voting for McCain), at least you took the time and made the effort to have your views and beliefs better represented in our government. I know 2 people that admit to voting for McCain, and 4 that didn't vote – one of which is proud of the fact that he didn't vote. I'd rather know 6 people that voted for McCain.

I wasn't in the 3 ring-binder of registered voters. Well, not where they were looking for me at least. Apparently instead of treating all letters the same, lowercase letters are listed before uppercase letters. So "McC-" comes before "MCC-" and "MA-" even. Brilliant. Made my heart skip a fucking beat.. or 7.. when they couldn't find me. I don't actually have any proof of residency at my new address, so I would have been forced to fill out a provisional ballot. Luckily they figured it out though. Brilliant.

Also, I only know one person that's openly voting for McCain. She was also incredibly excited about meeting Bush a year ago during her internship. I think I should just stop associating myself with people like this.

So.. vote. And do it right. 😉

I don't have strong feelings towards asparagus. I'll eat the stuff if it ends up on a plate in front of me, but I'll never be overly excited to see it.

Every year around here you can see people pulled off the side of the road picking the wild asparagus growing in the ditch. For some reason, these people can never seem to fully pull their car off the road, years ago I even saw one with the driver's side door open – into the lane. Yesterday there was a guy on a little moped with a basket on the back, but, umm.. he was riding on the shoulder of the highway AGAINST traffic. Does wild asparagus just attract idiots?

Ignoring the intelligence of the asparagus poachers, their product itself bothers me. If you're just grabbing asparagus for yourself, risking you life on the highway with a huge basket doesn't make sense. I have a funny feeling that a lot of this road asparagus ends up in local markets/farmer's markets. This stuff isn't your normal "farm grown" food.. this is a plant that is constantly being fumigated with vehicle exhaust, brake dust, and all kinds of other stuff. This is a plant that sits in a ditch that gets water that runs off the road, carrying with it oil, rubber, soot, and everything else I don't want to be eating. It doesn't matter how well or how many times you wash the asparagus off, all those toxins are still going to be in there. And maybe the levels are low enough that it doesn't matter, but the concentration is still almost guaranteed to be much higher than anything you would pay an extra quarter for in a grocery store.

I've realized that I tend to favor the right side of my mouth when chewing. Is this a coincidence, or is it a physiological preference like being right-handed?

This is addicting. It took a few times to get through it to the "boss stage".. it's a good time killer. Give it a try: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Uchiha/distopix

My current high-score: 1724

I find it difficult to shop for fruits and vegetables. Unless I'm making something like a stir-fry, or salad, or soup, I have no idea what I should be stocking up on so I can snack on it whenever the urge hits. Carrots are easy. Apples, also easy. But it's much harder to "impulse buy" when it comes to real food.

Without colorful packaging, aggressive logos, and cartoon characters – I have no way to really choose between 2 types of the same product. What if I didn't know what an avocado was good for? Avocados would be completely unapproachable by me if they didn't have a cartoon avocado on their packaging with a clever slogan like "I may be ugly, but I make guacamole!" It could even be wearing a sombrero.

Can't someone genetically engineer fruits and vegetables to have recipes on their skin/shell? Can a society that lacks such knowledge and technology truly consider itself to be advanced?