What a friggin' waste of my time! It's now 6:22 pm local time and still no Rapture. It was supposed to start at 6:00 pm and I was all ready for it. I had my camera with a basic theodolite setup, and pointing directly towards a local church. Being in a typical American city, there are churches every few blocks, of course, so I was ready to slew the camera towards at least … [Read more...] about Disappointed!
See Ya
So I hear that someone somewhere is saying the rapture will happen tomorrow. Of course, for my Jewish and Muslim readers this is no big deal, since everyone knows that only Christians are eligible for rapture. Actually, as my co-blogger Ken pointed out to me the other day, only the really good Christians will be raptured. The rest have to stay here to slug it out with the … [Read more...] about See Ya
TYMURS=UNABOM?
Well...I sure didn't see this one coming: CHICAGO -- The FBI has requested a DNA sample from "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski as part of its investigation into the 1982 deaths of seven Chicago-area people who took cyanide-laced Tylenol from packages that had been tampered with, officials said Thursday. Wouldn't that be something? Damn. I remember the Tylenol poisonings. In a way, we … [Read more...] about TYMURS=UNABOM?
Gaming Alexa Blawg Rankings
About a month ago, although he expressed some doubts about the meaningfulness of blog ranking systems, Jamison Koehler published a list of 26 legal blogs along with their ranks according to the Alexa traffic rank tool. His blog's Alexa rank of 2,011,842 put him at number 12 on the list, just behind me at number 11 with my Alexa rank of 2,011,820. Koehler took it like a … [Read more...] about Gaming Alexa Blawg Rankings
Dozer R.I.P.
My big fluffy Ragdoll cat Dozer passed away this morning.We got him from an amimal shelter in 2002 when he was about seven years old. We discovered him in a cage outside the adult cat room. He hadn't been brushed regularly, so he was the fluffiest cat I had ever seen. I remember the sign on his cage said "If you pet me I will purr very loud." We got him out of his cage and … [Read more...] about Dozer R.I.P.