So the first 45 minutes of my day, begun at 4:30–almost 3:30!, have been spent confirming a quote, backing up a database for a client and beginning documentation for the client, posting lottery results, email, and some blogging. Now I’ll spend 15 minutes puttering about and making some tea.
No coffee today. Maybe a coke or two.
Stephen R Covey encourages
When a plan or a schedule slips I start to stress. When they slip badly I get a bit beyond crazed. I need today to go well.
"I love it when a plan comes together."
Unsafe health care in Seattle.
“The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.”
And now for bureaucratic cya and spin:
The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.
Dr. Caplan. Don’t you think, in your professional opinion, that perhaps, just maybe, the patients heart failed because he was ON FIRE!?
Student: The mower fails.
Master: It has not been maintained.
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.
In their press release they spell out a very clear mission which I feel is very good news for ColdFusion developers like myself.
The combination of Adobe and Macromedia strengthens our mission of helping people and organizations communicate better. Through the combination of our powerful development, authoring and collaboration tools – and the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash – we have the opportunity to drive an industry-defining technology platform that delivers compelling, rich content and applications across a wide range of devices and operating systems.
The India Daily reports “Thousands of Missiles Fired by Russian and American Forces over Earths Arctic Regions – completely unannounced – Are we fighting extraterrestrial UFOs?“
The article mentions that several news services have stated that Russia and the United States are jointly participating in a previously unannounced war game for missle defense systems but questions the secrecy.
Could a war be going on above our atmosphere? Was the Iraq situation not about oil but perhaps the location needed to better deploy our EDS?
The Columbia space shuttle could be the public’s first glimpse at what was to come. Perhaps the first attack was on the Columbia which could explain why no other launches have occurred. The Columbia may have sustained phaser damage but having no defenses had to escape into the atmosphere and attempt an emergency landing. Why not escape to the space station? Simply put, under these circumstances, it certainly has been destroyed.
There are also reports that someone is manipulating the earth’s weather systems in a massive scale.
The cosmic bursts hitting the earth are also strange. The Solar flares in recent days have shown extreme abnormal behavior.
The increasing earthquakes, floods, droughts and landslides may have been caused by some artificial agents.
We have seen this evidence in the tsunamis. The 10 story "freak" wave that hit the ocean liner yesterday was obviously caused by a large, intergalactic space craft crashing into the ocean (congrats to the doughboys on that one!); or perhaps an enemy space to earth missle intended to hit a continent went off course and exploded in the ocean.
Look folks! ET has come home!
Student: I will not succumb
Master: Then you have already conquered.
Student: Why do I show weakness?
Master: Because you have matured well.
From Quad I to Quad III to Quad IV I can’t function today and I don’t know how to fix it.
Student: Am I a good person?
Master: Would a good person have reason to doubt?
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
– Henry Fielding
Noah just whalloped me in chess.
Look Mummy! It’s an albatross… up in the sky!
…that hurt.