 right?” He was busy opening the safe, getting enough change and bills into the cash register so I could reopen.
 But tonight he was a little worse than usual. I guess getting him up out of bed with the Mrs. at midnight had really spoiled his day.
“Yeah, well, I guess, maybe, you did right,” Max responded absently as he was counting out money for the register. He was trying to sound positive, but I could tell his heart just wasn’t in it anymore.
“So I presume you told the cops all you told me?” Max asked.
“Me, too. And I hope they get all that cash back.” Max whistled, showing me he’d already figured out how much cash I handed out.
I felt my face getting hot. I wanted to jump in, defend myself, but I didn’t a clue one what to say.
A powerful pang of sorrow hit me. Poor guy. He looked so exhausted, so totally put upon.
Then it occurred to me that the way he was standing would make a great statue, like Rodin’s The Thinker, we’d been studying about in my Western Civ class. Except Max would represent something different, not philosophy or great learning, more like the total futility of managing a bunch of teenagers at a Jack-in-the-Box.
orange tiles. Then nonchalantly he lit a match and flicked it on the spill. Immediately it flamed, a bright blue fire in the middle of Jack’s dining area. Then just as quickly the flame went out.
He poured some in both our cups. Then took a toke of his Marlboro and flicked the ashes onto the gold color cheap-ass ashtrays emblazoned with the Jack logo. Normally, when we got bored, we used them as Frisbees.
After that, Jesse and I sat in silence, sipping our Cokes with dashes of vodka, the fluorescent lights abuzz over our heads. We looked out at the mostly dark 2 a.m. Edgebrook Drive. Our neighborhood’s main drag, our teenage fastfood heaven, was now quiet and almost totally deserted.
What a night.  Maybe this was life boiled down to its essence? If that’s what it was, it didn’t seem too bad. I’d had my doubts before, but just maybe this life thing was something I could manage.
Sekirei: Pure Engagement Episo...
Well, I'l start with saying that I searched for a very long time, to see a good anime, that should entertain me. And I found it. In Sekirei, and Sekirei Pure Engagement Special, the characters war enjoyable, the art was modern and without a flaw. What I like in animes is the story, and this one was very good, not perfect, but still very good. Although, I was expecting a little bid of a greater showdown betwen the fighters, and i don't know whena 3 season will come, but i hope there will be an unexpected and suddenly twist of events, in which Minato loses an member, so that the story becomes a little bid interesting, or I don't know a new sekirei comes, for example Number 00, and that he attackes every one and the number 01 includes in the fight against him, something like that would be great. But that depends on Ashika Sakura and her imagination, and every one makes his own melody as I would say. But in general, i'm a great fan of it, and I'm glad that it didn't end, and it still goes on, any way great work!
This is the OVA for the second season of Sekirei.
Sekirei Diagnosis day.
They're talking about what happened at the bridge, and some things further in show it's not after the end of the season. Maybe around the middle.
"It could only belong to someone, on the itty bitty titty committee."
The OVA is just here for fanservice basically. There's a tiny bit of story, but it's mainly the girls being in competition, Seo hating his job while his Sekirei, Hibiki and Hikari are on his back about never having food or money.
They end up on a day vacation, Minato and Seo are surrounded by girls in swimsuits, or just naked in general.
Robert, an old and dying man—older than he realizes—and his intelligent car are driving into Death Valley. He is reminiscing about his wasted life. There is not much else to do except listen to music and view films as the dreary days merge into each other. He orders the car to find a signal from any satellite still in orbit, but there is nothing. Robert figured that, after the global war, everyone in the whole world was dead, leaving Earth an unbearably hot wasteland. They stop at a deserted town and Robert orders the car to make him a meal. With their supplies low, the car would send out a fetch robot to gather more. Sitting at the table, the same table where he'd sat three weeks ago, Robert wondered why it now looked so old and rotten.
Robert wakes, remembering that he just had a meal at an abandoned restaurant. His car told him that he lost consciousness and it must run a diagnostic on the fetch robot, but the robot does not want to be connected to the car. Robert asks the car what was wrong with the fetch robot, behaving like it had a will of its own. The car says it is performing a diagnostic and will fix it. Robert wants to return to LA, but the car advises against it. Robert is puzzled how the fetch robot has developed its own personality, thinking that it was merely an extension of the car. Reminiscing about his past, Robert wonders why they never met anyone else during their journey, and why everything appeared older every time he returned to the same place. The answer is as startling as it is devastating.
With Polaris, Timothy Brown has produced a delightful short novella with an interesting story twist. The work is mostly dialogue, some of it very engaging, with little narrative. This is difficult to do and still manage to convey what is happening, but Timothy Brown has done this nicely. I found the fetch robot’s responses somewhat too human, but understandable. This in no way detracts from what is a curious and engaging work.During a White House news conference, Trump outlined his reasons for leaving the agreement. Many of them, however, were based on questionable data. Here are some of Trump's main arguments for exiting the pact — and what the numbers say about them.
Trump suggested that US compliance with the Paris accord could "cost America as much as 2.7 million lost jobs by 2025, according to the National Economic Research Associates."
The report on which that claim is based has been widely criticized by environmental groups. As the World Resources Institute pointed out, the NERA study uses a scenario in which the US industrial sector is forced to reduce the country's overall emissions by nearly 40% in 20 years. That calculation doesn't take into account the role of other sectors in reducing emissions.
The WRI also faults the NERA report for assuming a low rate of clean-energy innovation. That rate was calculated by the Department of Energy as a minimal case that "may underestimate advances." What's more likely, the National Resources Defense Council suggests, is that the development of clean energy technologies will accelerate. Even since 2016, solar costs have decreased by about 8%.
Today, solar jobs vastly outnumber those in coal, and those numbers continue to grow — a recent report from the International Renewably Energy Agency estimated that employment in the solar industry expanded 17 times as fast as the US economy overall in 2016.
Trump also suggested that the Paris Agreement would lead to only a minuscule reduction in global temperature.
"Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree — think of that, this much — Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100," he said. "Tiny, tiny amount."
A detailed analysis of the impact of the Paris goals by Climate Interactive suggests those numbers are off.
The global temperature will rise — there is no scenario in which there will be an overall reduction. But let's assume that Trump meant a reduction from the projections of temperature increases that would happen without the Paris Agreement.
Under a "business as usual" scenario in which past trends continue, the expected temperature increase in 2100 is 4.2 degrees Celsius (7.6 degrees Fahrenheit). If all nations fully achieve their Paris pledges, however, the average global surface temperature in 2100 is expected to be 3.3 degrees. That means the accord would lead to a reduction of nine-tenths of one degree, not two.
Nine-tenths of a degree on a global scale is huge. Since the industrial revolution, global temperatures on average have risen 0.99 degrees Celsius, according to NASA. That's not so far from.90, and we're already seeing plenty of dramatic changes around the planet. Even a reduction of two-tenths of a degree would not be "tiny" — it would be 20% of the increase we've already seen.
Trump went on: "In fact," he said, "14 days of carbon emissions from China alone would wipe out the gains from America — and this is an incredible statistic — would totally wipe out the gains from America's expected reductions in the year 2030."
That claim also does not appear to be accurate. With the US abandoning its commitments, Climate Interactive calculates