Syd Barrett has died at the age of 60 ( Read more... )

Argh! KA had to work late, and then babysit her nephew, so the get together re her resume never happened, wasting the afternoon and evening. As she always stuffs me with food, I'd held off eating; now I'm starved and need to get the trash and recycling out ( Read more... )

It's been busy the last several weeks. KA's graduation, jury duty, trying to scrounge enough work to afford the down time of jury duty, blah, blah, blah. Jury duty had me worried, one trial that I ended up in the potential juries pool for was estimated to take three weeks; the judge let me go when I told them I didn't think I could afford that ( Read more... )

I should post something about me, but this is too cool to not pass around

An international team of astronomers have discovered a massive gas ball hurtling through a distant galaxy cluster. This ball of gas is about three million light years across and is traveling more than 750 km/second (466 miles/second) through galaxy cluster Abell 3266. The ( Read more... )

Free time, and `net access, for the first time in many days. Soon to head out for Fremont, but had to post the following.

Now, animals will defend their territory, while animals who know they're outside of their area tend to be a bit wary and ready to run. But this looks to be an extreme event:

Jack the cat proves his mettle by chasing black ( Read more... )

after getting back on line.

Everyone has problems with Windows:

http://www.techsearch.cmp.com/blog/archives/2006/05/redmond_aint_th.html?loc=security_and_privacy#more

How well do you know Seattle ( Read more... )

New Orleans panorama

http://www.panoramas.dk/newspanos/f21-new-orleans.html

More people have died in yesterdays earthquake in Java, Indonesia, then in 9/11 in the USA. U.S. Embassy spokesman Max Kwak said he did not know of any American casualties, and said ( Read more... )

Headline:
GOP defends La. Democrat

Now, I know that the other Congressfolk are just defending their right to get bribes and the like, but after the last half decade it was a surprising thing to see.

It seems that New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman has the schedule for progress nailed - it's just another half year. Now, he's been making statements to that effect for for two and a half years, so he must be correct ( Read more... )

When I got home last night there were cars filling all the spots at the top of the street, including in front of my place, so I ended up parking down the block. This morning I just headed out uphill to catch the bus, didn't look around ( Read more... )