The Sandman
I wash up on the waves
On a distant shore I ne’er seen
The sandman laughs upon me
As he piles up dismay
Dreams are gone forever
And time’s not stood still
Buffeted along this river
The end’s not far ahead
Paddle as I may
Destiny you see
Is not where I’ll go
Rather it’ll meet me
Come what may today
Yonder hills of morrow
Hold the now [...]

The devastation from Katrina in New Orleans and elsewhere continues to grow. With the levee broken in New Orleans water has engulfed entire buildings and claimed numerous lives. I read that a recent analysis of New Orleans before the hurricane occurred estimated 9 weeks to pump a flooded Crescent City dry, and only then could [...]

I have this odd compulsion that if I’m going to create a blog entry on more than one topic, I have to somehow title the post to mention all the topics, and do it using a little alliteration, rhyme, or some other grammatical or syntactical mechanism. Hence, scissors and sand. Witty, huh?
Anyways…. trying [...]

First of all my heart goes out to those affected by Katrina. As devastating as it is, it seems that things aren’t as bad as they could have been. I hope the people in the Superdome end up being safe there.
Saw Brothers Grimm this weekend. It was fun, might be enoyable to see it again [...]

The guy from HRC calls me back at work. In the middle of our conversation, the power flickers at work!!!! Not enough to kill the PCs, but apparently enough to kill the VoIP phone system. Is this everything associated with this stinking cap transaction cursed or something????

You may remember a gripe post a few weeks back about this. Well, it’s back. *Hopefully* it’s all taken care of. At this point I’m a little skeptical about that. I left mean nasty e-mails and voicemails yesterday that I probably shouldn’t have, but I was understandably annoyed. I had to laugh today listening to [...]

Check this optical illusion out. Very bizarre! I’m guessing the afterimage burned on your retina negates the original image.
Boing Boing: Excellent purple dot illusion

Jesus. Did everyone hear about this? This dumb fuck, who, sadly, has tons of viewers for the 700 Club, aka, “Burn the infidels”, said on air we should assassinate the democratically elected leader of Venezuela.
Wow! The Bush administration clamped down immediately on such hateful, terrorist-like speech, since we’re so big on stopping terrorist acts against [...]

Just watched the Six Feet Under series finale tonight with Ian. So, if you’re a fan and haven’t watched it yet or plan to watch the whole series someday soon, STOP NOW!!
And for the rest of you.
Wow. Holy shit. The episode in itself was great, but not jaw-dropping. It kept pace with this excellent last [...]

Wrote this while in the car this weekend.
twenty three miles to madisonville
and nothing but road beneath me
blue sky, green grass
cocoon the car about me
nowhere to go but where
this road will take me
nowhere to go but where
this road will take me
home and far away again
time is never enough
the road is always
there to greet me
the road is [...]