Write to your Congressman ASAP if you want to keep the wholesome sport of model rocketry alive! Yahoo! News - Explosive Regulations Threaten to Kill Model Rocketry

Dave has some hilarious things to say about Evan, Zora and Nora. Dave Barry's Blog (When he fell asleep it was Norah 48, Oakland 21.)

I am publishing this link as a service to my fellow man. Stop Alien Abductions

I never even knew Octopi liked to eat shrimp! CNN.com - Octopus gets in a twist over shrimp - Feb. 24, 2003

LIFE IN NASHVILLE

Hey what a surprise, it is snowing again in Nashville. This morning a guy driving a Camaro on I-65 starting spinning a few cars in front of me and ended up sideways across two lanes of the interstate. It is always amazing how sometimes people can avoid accidents on an interstate while other people run into parked cars, walls, and other immobile objects.

COOL STUFF MY FRIENDS HAVE DONE

From Andy: "I ate a scrambled egg on garlic toast on the island of Bali. I tried to "date" some local girl but she wanted to get married. Once I bought a sari for some hot chick in Indonesia and I think that we were engaged."

From Praveen: "I did a 20 miles uphill ride from Katmandu to a place called dakshinkalli, they have a temple there where people still do animal
sacrifices."

MISCELLANEOUS
What's going on? Well, I spent the weekend in Nashville, I think it was the second time this year. It was pretty uneventful, just did a lot of introspection. The weather was, in a nutshell, frustrating. It rained all morning Saturday but the temperature was 65 degrees. I decided to escape the rain and catch a movie (Daredevil.) When I exited the movie, it was 45 degrees and still raining. A few hours later it started snowing. Sunday morning, a layer of wet frozen snow was everywhere.

I have a prediction for today. A big fat guy I know tells me every couple of weeks that "I am going to start working out today." Well today is supposed to be one of his starting days. I predict he is going to instead eat a huge plate of cheese fries and watch TV.

The Grammy Awards were on TV last night. Watching award shows is probably just a notch higher than watching "Fear Factor" but I wanted to see a few of the performances. I thought Faith Hill was going to fall apart during her performance of "Cry." Not to mention that her outfit pretty much left nothing to the imagination. Bruce Springsteen hollered his way through "The Rising" which was pretty good. Norah Jones pretty much cleaned up as far as awards go. What was really interesting is all of the highly talented young people making a mark nowadays. John Mayer (16) is an awesome fingerstyle guitarist! Vanessa Carlton is a classically trained pianist. Michelle Branch (19) has a compelling voice and the talent to produce a lot of collaborative hits. Even Eminem, though not my taste, is pretty talented.

Let's see, as of today:

1. 85 people died in a nightclub fire when a pyrotechnic display ignited some flammable insulation. The club had no sprinkler system.
2. Some teachers in Africa were stoned to death.
3. Blood supplies here in TN are at an emergency level.
4. Several burned factory workers desperately need blood at Vanderbilt Medical Center.
5. The US wants to enforce the UN resolutions ordering Iraq to disarm but ignore the ones about Israel vacating occupied land. We also want to dismiss the opinions of the four other permanent members of the security council.
6. The record snowfall in the northeast may melt into a disastrous flood.
7. The best hospital in the country transplanted a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type into a girl. Now she has brain damage.
8. A number of folks were trampled in a nightclub in Chicago.
9. We still don't know why the space shuttle broke up on re-entry.
10. Evan and Zora are apparently on the outs.

Where is my .38?

OK I can ftp pictures to my real site. Here is proof

QUESTION DU JOUR:

I was unable to find a table at the neighborhood Caribou Coffee this morning because every table was occupied by a student of some sort or another. Where did people study before there were coffee shops?