Volume 2 Issue 81
May 28, 2003
As Short as the Sun
Checking out by yourself, the sun vanishes from the DC sky, and one heck of a Memorial Day party
Sorry about the delay today, we had server problems earlier, and then I was in a meeting for a bit, which is why I'm so short today as well. Anyway, right to the insanity...make sure you read the last story too, if you've been having a bad day it will make you feel better. Or at least it did that for me.
Where is big ball of fire? There has not been a clear day in Washington for an entire month, and most of those 30 days have included rain...including today. And the rest of the week. In fact, the whole 7-day. No wonder people are crazy -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46405-2003May27.html?nav=hptop_tb
Most important technological change in American's lives in last 6 months: Self-checkout lanes are expanding beyond the grocery store. Personally, I like to use them for smaller loads of stuff (with a big cart at the grocery store, I still like to have someone bag for me), but once of the nicest things about the self-checkouts is that they're always open, unlike the rest of the store that only has 3 out of 15 lanes open as usual -
http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/27/news/companies/diy_retail/in dex.htm
Screwed up priorities: So we can spend billions to prop up poorly managed airlines, but we can't keep public transit running in our largest cities? Come on...
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/5955750.htm
Look Who's Running for President: Not all is right with Reverend Al's books -
http://www.nydailynews.com/05-25-2003/news/story/86535p-78922c.html
Look Who's Running for President 2: From the latest Democratic gathering of candidates, Bill Clinton is back in good favor, and the populists are out in force -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2083603/
Look Who Could be Vice President: Some early speculation -
http://cq.com/corp/show.do?page=crawford/crawford20030523
Let's hope the Presidential Campaign doesn't come to this: A Pennsylvania Candidate's son was accused of trying to dynamite the local police -
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87861,00.html
Calling God: In the new movie Bruce Almighty, God has a cell phone. But instead of using the usual "555" number, the film used a real phone number. Boy did that piss off a few people. Like the ones with that number -
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_785407.html?menu=news.q uirkies
People who know how to party: It isn't a holiday BBQ unless the guests get kicked out, walls get knocked down, a wife gets arrested for beating her husband, and the husband chases down the police with a gun. Just isn't. That must have been what was missing from my holiday weekend. Oh, yeah, that and SUN!
http://www.news-press.com/news/local_state/030528saladupdate.html
