http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626
Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official are sentenced to six years in prison over the deadly 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila.

Romney: "We never dictated to other countries... we freed them from horrible dictators."

*cough*

ORIONID METEOR SHOWER: Today, Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect ~25 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Sunday, Oct. 21st. No matter where you live, the best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise on Sunday morning. Observers in both ( Read more... )

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The surgery was done a couple hours ago. I'm fine.
Doc removed a mass slightly smaller than a golf ball.

The mass will be biopsied. I'm not too concerned, for me it mostly means the thing will not reinfect ever again. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19943590

I'm only half way joking about this.... just wait until the tea-party senators start pushing for this as the return-trip from the ISS...

the other day I'd mentioned I had some UPS boxes die / malfunction....

THIS is a UPS box ( Read more... )

It was clear and bright this morning. Sometime after noon it started - some sprinkles here and there, pelting windows, etc ( Read more... )

METEOR OUTBURST: Radars in Canada are reporting a major outburst of Draconid meteors commencing at 16 UT on Oct. 8th. "Radar rates are at 1000 meteors per hour," says Bill Cooke of NASA' Meteoroid Environment Office. "This is greater than last year's outburst, and 5x the 2005 level ( Read more... )

F is for frustration, when you re-assemble the car,
F is for firebird, the car I re-assembled.
F is for the fuel-pump, and
F is for the fuel it leaked on the garage floor (in a catch pan)
F is for the fire I didn't start accidentally, and
F is for the fan I had to run, to blow the effin fuel vapors out the garage door.
F it for now.

I'll fix it