the flying squirrel

I stumbled across this blog post this morning, wherein the author answers some of the questions people have asked Google which brought them to his blog.

He\'s terribly funny and you should read his post. I thought \"Oh, that\'s a good idea, I should try that!\" but was hampered by a few problems. One, my referrer log only goes back about four months. Two, Google doesn\'t actually crawl my blog, because I told it not to. I was getting too many idiotic comments on very, very old posts. So I had to make do with hits on other parts of my site.

Of course, I ended up with a lot of searches on Daleks and Abslom Daak and lots of \"flyings squirrel\" searches. I get quite a few interesting requests for my quotes page, which I (sadly) don\'t update very often. I got a few interesting hits, though. Not too many funny, out-right questions, though. But, while I can\'t be nearly as funny, I can at least help people out...

This is running very long, so I\'m breaking it into two parts...

the rules of the time lord

The rules laid down by and for Time Lords are refered to as the Laws of Time. In a nutshell, they prevent Time Lords from messing with their own time lines or that of Gallifrey. They cannot be contravened except in the case where the Doctor wants to have one of his anniversary reunion parties.

In the new series episode, Father\'s Day, the Doctor states that with the destruction of the Time Lords, the Laws of Time are no longer in force. He himself contravenes those laws in that episode (which is odd, since TARDISes are supposed to be hardwired to prevent that, but then it\'s odd that the TARDIS works at all, so who knows...).

\"Doctor Who\" bondage \"the doctor\" captured

Eek! Okay. I don\'t have anything like that. You\'ll probably like novels by Kate Orman, though (the New Adventures, at least... never actually read their BBC ones). There\'s an awful lot of fan fiction which caters to those urges as well.

Bob Ross Velvet Paintings

I know Bob Ross\' work is a bit cheesy, but did he ever really paint on velvet? According to a blog comment he did. Can\'t find any more than that. Sorry.

who invented the ipod

The iPod isn\'t really much of an invention. Portable MP3 players had been around for a while. I doubt it was the first one to use a harddrive, either. As far as innovation goes, the click wheel is a bit clever, but it\'s mostly the ( proprietary) interaction with iTunes that makes the iPod what it is.

To answer the question, though, Wikipedia credits Tony Fadell as the one who originally pitched the iPod idea to Apple.

\"awesome flash game\"

Awesome!

flying squirrels closest relatives

My mother and father, along with my two sisters.

If you\'re talking biology (referring to the furry rodent), I\'d probably start with other squirrels and work from there...

flying squirrel children movie

If you can find it, Mori no Densetsu is very nice. Although happy, cutesy Ferngully movie, this is not. Concerned parents might want to pre-screen. (Spoiler: None of the cute flying squirrels in the first part of this short film make it out alive. I personally think kids should see stuff like that, but I don\'t want to be blamed by irate parents for making their precious little moppet cry.).

Your Moon Sign: How to Satisfy Your Inner Child

This sounds like a book title, but nothing shows up on Amazon.

Your Moon Sign is actually rather important. A lot of people put a lot of emphasis on their Sun sign, but that\'s only part of the picture. That tells you a lot about your personality, but it can be a bit superficial. A lot of people won\'t recognize themselves from their Sun Sign, because that might not be how they see themselves. The Moon, on the other hand, represents some of your deepest, inner motivations. Your emotional life. Between the Sun, Moon and Rising signs, though, you tend to get a pretty good idea of what a person\'s like.

My Moon Sign is Capricorn, which, even when considered by the happiest, flightiest, \"there are no bad signs\" astrologers, probably isn\'t a terribly good thing. Emotions may be restrained and repressed. There\'s a tendency for the native to be brooding, resentful and self-preoccupied. And all sort of other bad stuff. But I like to look at astrology as a way to examine yourself and come to terms with it, and to find ways to work with what you\'ve been given.

Honestly, though, I don\'t have a lot to offer with the \"Inner Child\" bit. Satisfying inner children probably shouldn\'t be a priority. They tend to be a bit spoiled. Anything you do will only make them want more, so it\'s best to play the good parent and teach them moderation. Let them have fun and play, certainly, but they\'ve got to learn how to be responsible someday. It\'s good to instill these values early on. But that might be the Capricorn talking.

David Suzuki and Criticism, \"david suzuki\" \"larry smith\"

Somebody wants me to say mean things about David Suzuki, I think. I\'m not going to do it. His criticism of economics, while largely ignorant, is common and understandable. Most people don\'t understand economics, including and in particular the sort of people who would want to use these criticisms to slam environmentalists.

There\'s a running series on Ideas this month featuring the ideas of Karl Polanyi. The core of this week\'s episode being that, for as long as economics has existed (which actually isn\'t all that long), there\'s been a constant struggle between ( what George Soros has recently called) \"market fundamentalism\" and those who wish to preserve and protect society. By society, you can pretty much include the environment, as well. Polanyi argues that, while free market economics is a very good model for normal commodities—things that can be made and sold by people—it\'s really lousy at handing the three \"fictitious commodities,\" namely Land, Labour and Capital. Those are things that can\'t be conjored up to respond to changes in demand. So they break the model.

Cogent arguments about using economics to preserve the environment are out there and can be made. It\'s just a shame that environmentalists typically don\'t know how to make them.

It\'s also a shame that Larry Smith doesn\'t have more of a presence on the Internet, but then I think he\'s probably fine with that.

role playing belleville, ontario

Surprisingly, I got a few hits with variations on this query. I\'d really like to help these folks out. There\'s a comic store up on North Front (in some building, I think. It\'s a horrible location), where you might be able to strike up a conversation. I\'m kind of out of the loop, personally. My friend Matt might be able to help hook people up...