The other night I discovered, in the process of researching a Wikipedia article, a railfan/trainspotters' page that refers to some of the local rails, specifically remarking on their history. With such things almost literally in our backyard, one sometimes forgets that there's a great deal of interesting history right in Howard County. The rail ( Read more... )

Jacki Schechner and Abbi Tatton, the two funny-spelling-of-first-name reporters who specialize in (I kid you not) blogs for CNN, are absolutely as cute as buttons. Not quite mollisol and lidora, but damned close. Just sayin'.

This weekend was really amazing. crazieabby wakes Saturday morning, hops in the car with her coach and heads off to Crofton where she plays two ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen crazieabby's acting debut, then go see it this weekend, fanboy. Don't make me axe you 'gain.

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I'm not just saying this to be cool, believe me, but the media in this country sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons. In a too-big monitor next to my head here at the NOC, CNN is flashing its nonsense (because NOCs have to have news running all the time, because...well, just because, okay?) Ayman al-Zawahiri is raving like the nutcase that he is, ( Read more... )

Apparently there were some problems with the TV setup here at work, because MSNBC was fading out all the time. So while the issue is being fixed, they tuned into one of the channels they could get: CNBC ( Read more... )

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Not that it is ever a phenomenon which is too far from our consciousness, but every so often, we are reminded in no uncertain terms that crazy people walk among us. I ended up at a bar in College Park for a short while yesterday, and the TV there was showing the Weather Channel. Kind of odd until you realize that Hurricane Dennis was coming ( Read more... )

It's occurred to me that I might need to change things around in my life, just a bit. Not a zOMG DRAMA kind of change, but one that results from the fact that I'm now employed and have a number of things happening.

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