Um, who is Jamie Lynn Spears, and why does anyone care that she’s pregnant?
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Truffled
Funny quote for today: “Staff said he was observed ‘handling truffles in a suspicious manner.’” (#)
Offline
I’ve been offline since Sunday evening, due to another fried DSL modem, courtesy of a local lightning strike. So, I just quickly scanned through nearly 600 new items in Google Reader. Anything longer than 3 lines didn’t even get more than a glimpse, and almost everything shorter then 3 lines simply got marked as read [...]
Intermittent Explosions
Study says millions have ‘rage’ disorder
There comes a point when even I think psychology and science end up just looking plain, down-right ridiculous. If you explode in a rage at seemingly random intervals, don’t look to your own attitude for a fix. Look to your physiology. Or at least that’s what a recent scientific study is [...]
Water = Life?
Saturn’s watery moon could harbour life
So, Saturn’s little moon Enceladus apparently has liquid water, which naturally has generated quite a lot of buzz in the scientific community, since the existence of liquid begets at least the possibility of life on that moon. This is yet another of those times when you wish you get an actual, [...]
Classical Abuse
Group Thinks Classical Music Will Deter Hartford Crime
I knew that a lot of people today dislike classical music, but I had no idea just how much until now. It seems that a community in Hartfort, CT, are starting to play Classical music in a park after dark to deter unsavory types from loitering there. The hope [...]
Inform Yourself
It aggravates me when I hear people talk who clearly have no idea what they are talking about. There have been a number of topics in the news lately that I have wanted to comment on but simply won’t because I know I don’t have the whole picture. For instance, there has been a lot [...]