Slashdot ran the story about the meat grown in vats that I ran the other day on VP. Someone asked in the comments if a vegan could discuss their thoughts on “hydroponic meat”. Hey, I thought, I’m vegan, and I’ve even read the article already, which meant I had a shot at writing a decent post before the thread got flooded and I was lost in the crowd. Of course, I’m at work, and something came up, and I managed to submit my thoughts about 10 minutes after someone else wrote the reply that got modded up to 5. On the bright side, that someone was Erik Marcus, so if I’m gonna get passed by for someone else, at least that someone else knows what he’s talking about. Not that my comment was better – the Vegan Porn format has destroyed my ability to write in anything other than a sound bite style blurb, which doesn’t always advance an argument well. So yeah, I’m not trying to sound bitter, I’m just setting the stage. The point I wanted to make, the irony if you will, is that I actually had moderator privileges on Slashdot today. Just the funny convergence of being a moderator and reading a thread where I actually knew what I was talking about, seeing the same page as Erik Marcus at pretty close to the same time, and about 30 other things that happened today that I can’t really explain. It was exactly that kind of day.