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Halloween is getting closer-Erika bought costumes for the boys-a dragon and a knight. The Foamy<\/a> this week was a rant about how Halloween isn’t scary anymore.<\/br><\/p>\n

As usual, not much happened this week-went to Javier’s at the Spectrum, cleaned up Friday & Sat. morning-parents visited. Swam & played racquetball, set up chairs for a wedding at church Sunday. Rainy & thunderstorms Sunday night, band practice & pictures Tuesday. <yawn><\/br><\/p>\n

Here’s the news-the Iraqi election went by as expected-not like it means anything. Robert Fisk<\/a> was on Democracy Now<\/a> today and said some fascinating things<\/a>. Check him (and the interview) out.<\/br><\/p>\n

Riots in Toledo-neo-Nazis marched in the ‘hood and a riot started. Something new here? Nope.<\/br><\/p>\n

The Angels lost. Something new here? Nope. Sports means so little to me. I’m sure there are people who are devastated by this. Don’t care.<\/br><\/p>\n

Saddam’s trial started. He was defiant. Something new here? Nope. He got a continuance. They’re trying him for one small massacre. It’s a show trial-no due process, just sound bites.<\/br><\/p>\n

Tom DeLay has had a warrant issued, got mugshots and asked the judge to step aside. Well, I guess that proves that he’s not guilty, if the vehement denials of any wrongdoing and the vindictive witchunter accusations didn’t. Absolute arrogance-he totally believes that he hasn’t done anything wrong! Talk about drinking the Kool-aid…<\/br><\/p>\n

Hurricane Wilma’s diddling around the Caribbean-it was a cat 5 and the strongest Atlantic storm ever-882 millibars. It weakened, slowed down, is lashing the Yucatan and probably headed towards Florida-these storms are driven by upper level winds. It’ll probably be a cat 2 or 3-cooler water in the Gulf of Mexico… It’s also the last named storm, and a tie for the number of storms in a season-double the norm. And people still think global warming isn’t here. Piffle-this and melting polar ice should be enough proof.<\/br><\/p>\n

Avian flu, Avian flu, Avian flu. It’s all over the news this week. And while it is a worry, it hasn’t jumped to humans or spread in numbers that indicate a pandemic. That said, if it mutates into a form easily spread by contact (basically saliva-sneezing and coughing being the most common methods), we could see bad things, depending on infection rates-looks like about 50% mortality. If there’s a pandemic, most of that will be in crowded, poor cities. Scary, though-prolly a good idea to pick up some surgical masks if things start to look bad.<\/br><\/p>\n

More Meiers stuff-she supports an abortion ban, based on a questionnaire she filled out. She didn’t fully answer the Judiciary’s questionnaire, and some answers were wrong- (the Daily Show<\/a> made fun of this). Senators on both sides don’t like that. People are questioning whether she is qualified, and Chimpy is still saying she is.<\/br><\/p>\n

Anda correction-last week I said that there are 13 years of peace to write the Constitution-WRONG. “This Day in History”<\/a> had a snip on the battle of Yorktown this week-which ended the war in 1781. So, only 8 years to make the Constitution. Still much longer than Iraq…<\/br><\/p>\n

Software. Back to my normal rate-Go<\/a>-to fill out my games. I also found a nice tutorial online that I need to do again. I suck. Jabber<\/a>-an IM server, Ruby<\/a>-a hot new programming language, and River<\/a>-a Java 3d wrapper. I finished setting up databases on my new Windows boxes. Open office came out-may or may not get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween is getting closer-Erika bought costumes for the boys-a dragon and a knight. The Foamy this week was a rant about how Halloween isn’t scary anymore. As usual, not much happened this week-went to Javier’s at the Spectrum, cleaned up Friday & Sat. morning-parents visited. Swam & played racquetball, set up chairs for a wedding … <\/p>\n

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