Day: June 16, 2005

I just went outside and scare the dickens out of a raccoon (good picture at wikipedia). It shot up the tree and I raced in for my flashlight. Cute baby coon. I placed a apple in what remains of my hand-made bird’s nest.

Animals I have seen in this yard:

• Raccoon (6)
• Chipmunk (dead and alive)
• Possum
• Black Snake (dead and alive)
• mole
• mouse (I used to feed one a piece of cheese and peanut butter while I sat on my switch with a bowl of cereal. Every morning at 8am the two of us would share a meal.)
• hampster (beats me..could have been a huge field mouse)
• cat
• dog
• Cardinal
• hummingbird
• sparrow
• bat
• wren
• hawk
• ok..the list of birds is far too long
• matter of fact.. I should re-think continuing this list

If one thing would help my career and productivity more than anything else it would be a new, rockin’ laptop!

Wahoo! In all my networking genius I’ve finally fixed my permissions problem that was preventing me from getting work done from my wife’s computer.

You know. I’m happy for the Internet. Without the Internet I would be living in denial. How could I have ever fooled myself into thinking my penis was adequate?! Thank you Internet for simultaneously helping me recognize my deficiencies and providing a solution in an easy to swallow capsule. You can quit sending me emails now.

Knoxville is honored with a reference in this Slashdot article (which originates from this CNN article)

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (AP) — The government is offering a rare glimpse of the massive machines used to enrich uranium for the “Little Boy” bomb — the first atomic weapon used in war, dropped 60 years ago in August on Hiroshima, Japan.

Ummm.. Weren’t they tearing all that down?

“Don’t you know the people in Knoxville wondered what in the world was going on out here,” Department of Energy guide Ray Smith said Monday. “All this material was coming in, truckload after truckload, and nothing ever left.”

If you squint and read that, I think they might be poking fun on our intelligence.

Boing Boing tells us of the secret service bullying a person to remove a photo collection from Flickr.