I was busy all day yesterday finishing up a job in CA, and flew back on a red eye last night. The day will be spent sleeping, getting caught up on mail and other things here, and fixing my Windows machine, for which I bought a new graphics card, but can’t finish the installation because I broke the CD drive before I left…
Perhaps more substantive posting later.
Hank: “If we tell people that our town was founded by prostitutes, they’ll know.”
and
“Not Miss Kitty.”
Hank: “If we tell people that our town was founded by prostitutes, they’ll know.”
and
“Not Miss Kitty.”
Hank: “If we tell people that our town was founded by prostitutes, they’ll know.”
and
“Not Miss Kitty.”
I’m flying back to Florida tomorrow, and it will be good to be home with Patricia, but I thought I’d take a little walk in my old neighborhood this afternoon. If you’re interested, click for more, but a warning that there are several pictures, for those limited in bandwidth…
Anthropologists say that our faces are shrinking. Well, OK, not everyone’s.
Here’s a story from AP, that has items such as:
In Mosul, extraordinary security measures were underway Sunday around the house where the insurgents died, Iraqi officials said. American soldiers maintained control of the site a day after a fierce gunbattle which broke out when Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers surrounded a house after reports that al-Qaida in Iraq members were inside.
Three insurgents detonated explosives and killed themselves to avoid capture, Iraqi officials said. Eleven Americans were wounded.
Meanwhile, four Christian women were killed Sunday night when gunmen stormed their home in a Christian district of eastern Baghdad, police said. The gunmen stole valuables and the motive for the attack appeared to have been robbery, police added.
The latest deaths occurred at the end of a violent three-day period in which at least 140 Iraqi civilians died in a series of bombings and suicide attacks
Stephen Gordon has some thoughts on Asimov’s Three Laws, post-humanism, and personhood.
…in Iraq:
Few of the troops understand that the news business is driven by dramatic events, not the tedious kind of process the troops go through every day to defeat the terrorists. To the troops, the war is being won. They see bad guys killed in large numbers, and few Americans getting hurt (it
That seems to be the rumor in the Arab press:
A fitting end, if true (though it might actually be better for him to live a long time with nails and ball bearings buried in every pore). Let’s hope it’s true, and that they can find DNA evidence to verify, and if it is, good riddance to rotten rubbish.