Could Be A WhileBasically, we're in the process of the eternal move that wouldn't die, and we're heading from the extended stay hotel we've been residing in to a 'Luxury Corporate Apartment'.
The problem, as relates to the blog, is that the new apartment does not, as it turns out, have working air conditioning.
Which was a surprise for us.
See, it's a two bedroom, two bathroom 'duplex', but the place has precisely one window AC unit in the ground floor living room. Which makes it rather hopelessly overworked.
Now, my PC runs too hot as it is, so, most likely, I won't be able to set it up in the new place, or if I can set it up in the aforementioned living room, may not be able to use it for much of the day.
So I'm going to make a couple of last minute additions to the blog before what will probably be another hiatus.
First, the graphical tweaking of the site continues. On advice from the great and powerful Roommate/Oz, I've moved the site off the white background to a more eye relaxing gray scheme, with a Mars-friendly color scheme for the text.
I'm not completely happy with it yet, because I'm a perfectionist, but it's coming along.
Secondly, and I meant to mention this earlier in the week, I discovered the answer to the Pius XI shirt mystery: it's from a local Catholic school!
Seriously. There's a Catholic school in Milwaukee named after the Fascist Pope. Granted, it was originally named in 1929, when his disastrous dealmaking had yet to bring shame to the church and death to so many, but still. You'd think the school would have the decency to change the name, so as to cease honoring such a... dubious... historical figure.
Alas, it appears not.
There has been a lot of interesting sciency news this week. Water on Mars, Ethane on Titan (a huge lake of it in fact), all very promising.
New research into a magic pill to make you healthy with no hard work; apparently it may work utilizing some of the same chemical pathways as resveratrol.
Toby Keith, the famed country singer who hates him some arabs, has revealed that he loves him some lynching. I'm not shocked.
Dick Cheney apparently plotted to have US soldiers shot at to start a war with Iran under false pretenses.
What a whacko this man is.
Speaking of whackos, the Pentagon is using a multimillion dollar mobile theme park, aimed and marketed at children, in an attempt to recruit future soldiers.
Until recent protests, they were targeting boys as young as 13.
Gee, maybe we can just go back to Civil War standards, give them a drum kit and fake their age. After all, cannon fodder is cannon fodder, right?
Amoral scum. The ACLU is on the case, pointing out that this scheme violates a 2002 treaty on child soldiers that we ratified.
Ha! Silly international law, getting in the way of our bloodletting..
That's about it for now. More when, and if, I can get the PC going in the new place.
Failing that, see you in a month or so.
The problem, as relates to the blog, is that the new apartment does not, as it turns out, have working air conditioning.
Which was a surprise for us.
See, it's a two bedroom, two bathroom 'duplex', but the place has precisely one window AC unit in the ground floor living room. Which makes it rather hopelessly overworked.
Now, my PC runs too hot as it is, so, most likely, I won't be able to set it up in the new place, or if I can set it up in the aforementioned living room, may not be able to use it for much of the day.
So I'm going to make a couple of last minute additions to the blog before what will probably be another hiatus.
First, the graphical tweaking of the site continues. On advice from the great and powerful Roommate/Oz, I've moved the site off the white background to a more eye relaxing gray scheme, with a Mars-friendly color scheme for the text.
I'm not completely happy with it yet, because I'm a perfectionist, but it's coming along.
Secondly, and I meant to mention this earlier in the week, I discovered the answer to the Pius XI shirt mystery: it's from a local Catholic school!
Seriously. There's a Catholic school in Milwaukee named after the Fascist Pope. Granted, it was originally named in 1929, when his disastrous dealmaking had yet to bring shame to the church and death to so many, but still. You'd think the school would have the decency to change the name, so as to cease honoring such a... dubious... historical figure.
Alas, it appears not.
There has been a lot of interesting sciency news this week. Water on Mars, Ethane on Titan (a huge lake of it in fact), all very promising.
New research into a magic pill to make you healthy with no hard work; apparently it may work utilizing some of the same chemical pathways as resveratrol.
Toby Keith, the famed country singer who hates him some arabs, has revealed that he loves him some lynching. I'm not shocked.
Dick Cheney apparently plotted to have US soldiers shot at to start a war with Iran under false pretenses.
What a whacko this man is.
Speaking of whackos, the Pentagon is using a multimillion dollar mobile theme park, aimed and marketed at children, in an attempt to recruit future soldiers.
Until recent protests, they were targeting boys as young as 13.
Gee, maybe we can just go back to Civil War standards, give them a drum kit and fake their age. After all, cannon fodder is cannon fodder, right?
Amoral scum. The ACLU is on the case, pointing out that this scheme violates a 2002 treaty on child soldiers that we ratified.
Ha! Silly international law, getting in the way of our bloodletting..
That's about it for now. More when, and if, I can get the PC going in the new place.
Failing that, see you in a month or so.
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