Archive for September, 2005

Finally a northwest passage

Well I don’t know why all these nay-sayers are whining about the disappearing Arctic ice sheet. Once all that nasty ice is melted we’ll finally have a true navigable Northwest Passage.
Seriously, it seems a little early to be too worried. Nature has some long cycles–look at the 11-year sun spot cycle. S0 […]

My first Woot

So if you’ve never heard of them, woot.com is this odd little e-commerce site where they sell just one item per day. Every day at midnight Central Time (I think they’re based in Texas somewhere) they post that day’s item. They sell it all day long, or until it’s sold out. Then […]

German’s still don’t know what they’re gonna do

Due to recent events here I haven’t been following the developments in the German election. Got caught up this morning (thank you, BBC!) and it seems there’s really been no change since last week. Negotiations on various coalitions have gone nowhere. Nor does it seem like Merkel and Schroeder can agree on […]

Visitations are an odd custom

So I went to Bob’s visitation yesterday afternoon. They actually closed the office early so that folks could get to the visitation, which I thought was a nice gesture.
They had a photo montage running on a small LCD monitor, which amazed me that they had managed to create something like that so quickly. Not all […]

Amber Frey slept around

Amber Frey is the woman who slept around with Scott Petersen. Came out in the trial that she’s slept with a lot of guys apparently. So it’s really not a surprise that the guy who had been paying her child support for four years turns out not to be the father of the […]

Bob passed away yesterday

Bob until recently was my boss. Worked for him almost two years I guess. I wasn’t close to him, I would call us acquaintances not friends. But it still was a shock to learn that he passed away last night.
We had a company meeting this morning at which we learned of Bob’s passing. No details […]

Merkel gains some momentum in German chancellor race

The German elections–the gift that keeps on giving for us political junkies. The latest is that the conservative leader, Angela Merkel, has won strong backing from her coalition. Despite the fact that they won far fewer seats and votes than the polls had projected.
I’m thinking the party memebers are simply closing ranks to […]

A Bond without Q

They guy working on the screenplay for the next James Bond flick let slip that they’re going to “re-invent” the franchise with Bond as a much younger agent (28 is the target age). And he won’t have all the gadgets from Q. In fact there won’t be a Q at all in this […]

Who will run Germany

Nice–I thought the Italians were the only European nation that had problems forming governments, but apparently the Germans have decided to follow suit. They’ve got a big mess over there, the recent elections left nobody with a clear mandate to run the country. It’s going to be chaotic for a few weeks until […]

Really sore legs

Woke up this morning with really sore legs. I mean, it was painful to stand up and it’s been painful most of the day. I kinda dread sitting down because I know it’s gonna hurt trying to stand up.
It’s a major case of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). I did a leg […]