While I'm s'posed to be writing...

[kinzel]

Some things still have to happen.

So am washing clothes, I took out the trash, I cleaned cat boxes, and...

gah, had to clean up the macaroni salad that I'd put in the little container topped with plastic wrap... which leapt out of the refrigerator when I opened the door and dutifully unwrapped itself when I tried to catch it....

I have NASA TV online behind my OpenOffice so I can listen in on landing preparations... man, this is what the internet is for!.

Today's outrage? How about a "support" company sending sex offenders for overnight stays with people with mental issues? How about hiring someone under criminal investigation for embezzlement to... run the company books?

I cant tell you that's what happened, but that's what employees seem to be saying happened: http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/3990877.html ... sigh

Sometime this weekend I may get that scanner that got moved because it wouldn't fit on the same desk as the new printer into a spot the really old scanner had on the file cabinet beside my desk. Next week, then, maybe the desultory scanning of photos dating back to Clarion West of 1973... and old BaltiCons .. shall I post some here?

Now to work....

oops,
this is version 1.1 one because I have another potential outrage for you...
a fireworks seizure....

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=116025&ac=PHnws

now are you outraged at all?
If so, by endangerment, or by endangerment charge?

Comments

Oh sht

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Kansas still allows the full range of fireworks. People don't seem to get killed here with any regularity. On 7/4 my neighborhood looks like a war zone -- fireworks everywhere. Entire tuition amounts are blown up with great glee.

Some people need to get a life, you know?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Gee, and here I survived to the ripe old age of *mumble* in spite of advanced amateur pyrotechnics.

Maybe we should consider such hazards to be part of the process of natural selection?

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I saw my (adult) aunt almost lose her hand at the *last* 4th of July fireworks at my parents house some years back...

and she was the smart half of that Aunt-Uncle pairing...

[patknuth.livejournal.com]

My folks limited us to sparklers and the small firecrackers when I was growing up. I like to go Oh, pretty! on the 4th, but I don't have to set them off myself.

But...... you should see the fireworks the Germans set off at midnight on New Year's Eve. Yes, the Germans who have rules for everything else seem to have no rules when it comes to fireworks (but I can't read German, so maybe I just don't know about them). I was astonished at the number and variety of fireworks going off in front of nearly every house -- most of which exploded high up in the air. I suppose you don't have to worry as much about fire hazards in the winter, especially where most of the buildings have tile roofs.

Shuttle

[(Anonymous)]

I listened all afternoon today, but either the shuttle didn't do its double boom this time or I somehow missed it. Love it when it lands at Edwards (even if it costs a bundle.)

Kelly
TC, CA

Yes that is what the internet is for!

[(Anonymous)]

I have just recently got an up-to-date enough computer to get an ISP at home. Found an astronomy widget for the Mac dashboard thing. Got home from walking to the store and thought I'd see if I could find out how close the Moon was going to get to Saturn. Noticed the "click here to see where and when ISS and shuttle will be visible" link. Hey, what do you know? It's going over Seattle in 15 minutes (Monday 18th). By the end of 5 minutes I had found "live" (I'm not sure about that actually) video of the astronauts on the ISS and watched in awe 'till the appointed time. 10:14, stepped outside, looked west. Right on que, up from the horizon, under Venus, over the Moon and Saturn and finally down behind the apartments to the South, took about 4 min'. WOW! Tuesday, no dance with the Moon and planets, but Shuttle and ISS had separated and were chasing each other.

Before the internet it would have taken much advance planing to get all the when and where to look info. I'm still amazed at the whole experience. 15 minutes from "see if ISS is visible where you are" to "there it goes".

Come to think of it, the internet is also kind of handy for catching the latest chapter of Liaden adventure.

Erik,