Notes from a lunchbreak

Well, here I am at work.

I've discovered an interesting new website: Upoc. It's essentially a mailing list type of thing for texting/web-enabled cellphones. Since my phone has text receive but not send, this is a handy workaround to let me message from my ordinarily mute device. (Next cell I get, I'll be sure to read the fine print more carefully first. ;)

Anyway, if anyone else wants to sign up with Upoc, my handle is Robotech_Master there, so feel free to message me and say hi and stuff.

In other news, it looks like the shock and awe has begun. Many, many things are falling down on Iraq and going boom. Or so I've heard; I don't have access to a TV that is playing real-time news. I'll have to wait 'til I get home to see the video. I just have to trust that they're doing their best to preserve innocent lives.

Meanwhile, an article in Salon Magazine mentions that there may not be enough aid money allocated to help Iraq afterward. Of course, there were also dire predictions prior to our operations in Afghanistan, so you never really know.

Got about half an hour left on my lunch; might as well go eat the pizza I brought from home.

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So, anti-war demonstrators are demonstrating all over the place, trying to shut things down and "interrupt business as usual."

On the one hand, I have to respect them for sticking to their beliefs to such an extent...but on the other hand, I can't help but think this is counterproductive. The war's happening. It's a fact. All the protests in the world won't change that. Like it or not, we're committed; we're going through with it. If we pulled out this very instant, we'd just come under more flak for starting something we weren't going to finish.

It seems to me that all this effort might be better placed petitioning for decent amounts of money to be set aside for the humanitarian aid that all this war is going to make vitally necessary. Whether you're pro- or anti-war, nobody wants the people we're rescuing to starve to death.