be consistent, yahoo

a while back i contacted yahoo about the possibility of using their ad service for a gaming (the kind involving money, not mages). they flatly rejected the proposition.

understandable, everyone understands it's a shady business -- just not to the extent that it really is. so if a company wants to take a ethical position and say we're not going to help spread the scourge that is gambling, i have no issue with it -- even if i know this righteousness is misplaced.

on the other hand, if you're going to say no to online wagering on moral grounds, perhaps it makes sense to avoid advertising for hgh too. apparently though, yahoo finds nothing objectionable about that product, a fact evinced by a banner for it residing in their im client.

and that strikes me as doubling their sin. after all, im is a youngster's app. while old people like me generally use email, kids don't bother with that whole time lag thing and go straight to messaging. an ad for hgh on yahoo im means lots of teenagers eyeballs will fix on it.

good for hgh retailers, sure, but good for society, i think not.

if only i lived in helsinki

i've drank way too much over the past couple months, including far too many shots of tequila.

with that in mind, i pine for the legal system they employ in one of the trio of always-sophisticated scandanavian countries -- finland. (according to wikipedia)

In Finland, the maximum amount of strong alcohol restaurants are allowed to serve at a time is regulated by the law to one portion of 40 ml per customer.

Doubles cannot be legally served.

yes! my mornings would be much improved by such a statute. as well as my behavior the night before.

sleep v. substance

from friday to sunday, i slept more than i have in any three-day block for at least a year, if not significantly longer. six hours, nine hours, and eight hours. considering that i've averaged about four-and-a-half over the last month, you could argue it was just what i needed to pay off my sleep debt.

nope.

as i sat in front of the computer today trying to finish some important updates to our website, i found my eyelids closing despite my stern desire for them to stay open. it was the kind of inadvertent dozing-off that ends with a violent bounce of the chin off of the chest, only to be greeted by a string of 127 f's strewn across the document you were editing.

so what was it that caused my narcolepsy despite my wealth of rest over the weekend? perhaps the lack of coffee.

on my sunday trip to andronico's i picked a nice medium blend coffee that i could take to work and enjoy while checking the emails that had accrued over the weekend (i was a bad worker). but because my mind was focused on other things, the coffee was left behind. now many a day, i've come to work after too much drinking and not enough sleep. a cup of coffee -- occasionally two -- fixes that. but the parallel doesn't hold up nearly as well -- plenty of sleep and not an ounce of liquor (on sunday). i might as well have been a wino who'd found $20 on the sidewalk. that's how productive i am o'natural.