Pete's Log: the next big thing
Entry #1330, (Life in General)(posted when I was 24 years old.)
End of an era: The SSR machine room has been dismantled. All the machines are out, the raised floor is gone, and I watched construction workers knock down the two small walls in the room with big hammers. I've found a new career alternative.
Dear everyone: the internet is not a reliable source of information, you dumbheads. Gah. The AP is reporting that Studies Weekly, an educational publication read by 1.2 million kids in elementary schools nationwide, printed a story that stated "Every spring, the freshwater whales and freshwater dolphins begin their 1,300-mile migration from Hudson Bay to the warmer waters of Lake Michigan."
A teacher in Michigan was reading this to her students and immediately realized it was false. She called Studies Weekly and an editor defended the story! The company later posted a retraction on their web site, explaining the information was taken from a humor web page. I remain convinced that human stupidity is our greatest vulnerability. Hence the DMCA.
In other news, some Canadian artist is collecting pictures people were forced to take at airport security checkpoints to prove their camera is not, in fact, a bomb. www.insecuritiesproject.com. I only wonder how the security guards are able to tell that just because the thing said "click" and flashed that it's a camera. The New York Times reports that forcing passengers to take pictures is not official policy of either the American or the Canadian government and that such incidents are due to overzealous security guards.
I wanna start playing fun games with email filters again. procmail me, baby!
Meg and I spent more than two hours at Meijer Sunday night.
Rebecca took what may prove to be the greatest church sign picture ever. I need to scan it to add it to my collection. It's a sign in Madison, WI which says "COME TO CHURCH OR WE'LL SAY NI"