death and goofiness

This blog would like to report that it learned something funny today to make up for the fact that it feels crummy in October (October sucks, despite the weather being nice), but instead it learned that a Home Depot brand grout and tile sealer will kill you by essentially burning your lungs so you can't breathe. The manufacturer apparently changed the formulation to make the spray "somewhat less chemically pungent," but the new active ingredient's MSDS said not to use it in aerosol form because it could cause respiratory injury, and lo and behold, it did. If this kind of thing keeps happening, I don't think it'll be just toddlers missing their lead-painted toys who are going to develop a profound mistrust of product safety.

Ok, I dug around and found something funny. Charlie Sheen has a tattoo, which he's getting removed, of a note pinned to his chest that says 'back in 15 minutes.' He said it was supposed to be an ashtray, but it got goofed up.

I also learned that

If we use the same absurd extrapolation techniques demographers used in the 1970s, Japan, with its current low birth rate, will have only a few thousand citizens left in 300 years.