Creed goes their separate ways, Chicago ex-fans feel sense of validation: The group, known for their Christian-inspired songs, called it a day after eight years. Creative differences? Maybe. Everybody but Scott Stapp is involved in re-forming a new band. Or maybe they’re not all movie fans, since Stapp is contributing a solo track to a Passion of the Christ-inspired tribute album, and they’re not. Whatever it is, they’re not singing out of the same rock-tinged hymnal anymore.
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A senior navy official said recently that a deployment to the Gulf would send a message. Some how I think this is not the message, but this. Note some of the companies – isn’t “Hunt O’l” a Texan firm? Big Bush fundraisers? Yep. And oh HO, what’s this? Service companies First Exchange Corporation Halliburton TGS-Nopec Veritas Well, that’s just plain old All-American sabre-rattling. No harm in that. And now I think I’ll stroll off to AAR and post it somewhere. Meanwhile, surely the US Navy could do a little humanitarian medical work pro bono in the area? Asking too much?…
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – For want of a small change to the Illinois election law, President Bush’s name is not supposed to be on the state’s November ballot, but officials said one way or another, it will be there. The glitch arose because the Illinois legislature adjourned earlier this week without extending the Aug. 30 deadline for presidential candidates to be certified by the state elections board and qualify for the Nov. 2 ballot. Oh! Oh! There went my ass again. It keeps falling off today. First, Al Franken gets tortured on his show, because Ann Coulter said it had to…
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If you want to skip the MT babbling brook o’ technogoo, skip the next paragraph. After a false start, David got the latest version of MT-Blacklist installed. I couldn’t do it myself because an older version was up at MT-Plugins We tried to use a package called MT-Bayesian, but it’s only partly working and the creator doesn’t recommend using it for now (so that’s why no link). Which is okay, since MT-Blacklist can also delete the stuff, just not in as cool a way as the other plugin could have. And it can’t teach itself to ID spam, either –…
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Mrs Norman Maine belts a long, funny one out of the park as guest bloggist at Rance’s place. Oh, my God. Still laughing at the concept of “Thinga Thong” – programmable musical underwear. BWAAhahahaha… I wonder when I’ll get my turn at bat? If I do, it’ll be right into the shortstop’s glove with two outs and 3 commenters on. And that’ll be the end of the inning. Game over. 😉
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A major earthquake in Alaska in 2002 set off lots of smaller quakes in the Yellowstone National Park more than 2,000 miles away, say scientists. Within hours geysers in the park changed their eruption patterns, according to the journal Geology. Very glad to run across this article. I’d heard about the changes that happened to the geysers, it’s interesting that they connected it with such a distant earthquake event. And of course, it reminds me of that ski trip from hell in Yellowstone. I think winter after next I’ll be ready for a return to the Snow Lodge.
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Yahoo! News – Utah Fitness Charity Files for BankruptcySALT LAKE CITY – A charity accused of ripping off schools around the country on fitness equipment filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday. Uh, huh. Funny how often the big-bucks scams that seem so squeaky clean and healthy because they’re based in Utah turn out to be elaborate financial scams, pyramid schemes, or plain old swindles. The principals will now commence to bleating their innocence and good intentions.
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Rance had a new guest bloggist up – good choice, since it was a real stinger. Really blows the hair back with a big “whoof!!” sound. I’m still on deck with Mrs. Norman Maine. Maybe we should learn to play 2-handed gin rummy online while we’re waiting. The suspense is killing me. There’s a new and even more wordy “About” section under the ampersands. Thanks again to Elise of “Learning Moveable Type” for the how-to. I still have to bang some rocks together a little more to get certain macros (yes, yes, okay the goddamn Amazon macro) working there. All…
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The mailbag is open at Velcrometer, where a reader mentions that “Dr. Jellyfinger” may have had a cousin, “Mr. Hamhands.” I’ve been reading your entries for a about a year now and I have to tell you how much joy my husband and I get from of your entries on Dr. Jellyfinger. You see, it seems that we live in a house owned by his cousin, Mr. Hamhands. Now that’s interesting, I think that Dr. Jellyfinger’s great-nephew-in-law might be the former owner of this house, The Rev. Izontha Prize Doolittle. Rev. Doolittle apparently spent so much time looking up to…
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Now that the weekend is over, the deluge clears off and the sun comes out… too late to do anything outside now, of course, and everything is soggy underfoot anyway. What fun we’ve had today – first I had a screaming shrieking hissy over my inablilty to get Front Page (insert sympathy shrieks here) to do what I wanted it to do for the Holy Moly web page. Then at the height of the fit (and the top of my range and volume) the power went out and all the various UPS‘s started beeping and chirping along with me. Which…