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I'm feeling a funny vibe right now. We'll see how it wiggles over the course of the day. I hope it settles down into something good.

Berkeley Breathed has a new strip with Opus... I hope it's better than outland, and at least half as good as bloom county

Simon and Garfunkel to reunite for a tour (warning, E-online has audio commercials), also, The Pixies.

Wow... I'm getting quite a brood! Want to be part of the vampire family? I'm sire to 33 other active vampires, right now. If any of my vampire spawn are reading this, give a friendly wave! I'd really like to draw up a family tree. (And not burn who knows how much celerity doing so)

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7:28 am

I have just a twinge of anxiety this morning... Been carrying it since yesterday's early hours. There are good vibes, too, and the combination is striking an odd chord. Sort of a "bongos & violin" concert. Both as individuals have merits, but make for a dissonant harmony at best.

8:03 am

prop4 on time?! (interrobang) first time by my reckoning, and we have to wait for Kahuna to arrive with the new keys. D'oh.

Today's Bulkier Elements to deal with= PowerPoint, ebay, logos, Kiwanis, Broward SO

Noon

All trepidation has passed.. The office is empty, save for Prop2 and Rhode Island. They celebrated both September birthdays with a carrot cake today, and are comfortably enjoying a little sugar-bliss. I'm accomplishing a lot, and surprisingly, three ebay items are already bid on. It just might raise some bucks, yet. I'm in a good mood, and thinking good thoughts. The girls think I'm a loony for refusing carrot cake on the basis of my not knowing the points.

4:02 pm

Office closed for the day, as the skeleton crew are all early-bouncers.

4:30 pm

My appointment with the Neurosurgeon as been approved... Morning appointment in a couple of weeks. A positive end light in sight.

end palm update.

Must be the season... folks are removing/renaming Live Journals in droves. Yesterday, three evaporated like condensation on hot pavement. I wonder if/when they'll be back? a few other folks going on hiatus...I wonder what sets that to rolling in September? Is it related to Lj's load balancing issues?

I'm bushed...going to try to hit the sack early tonight.

The Mind World Map is evolving a map of the world a pixel at a time, according to user votes.

found via sweetalyssm - The New York Post has scored a coup and made an increasingly reviled trade association look even worse than it did even yesterday. Yes, the RIAA is suing a 12-year-old girl named Brianna.( Read more... )

Reportedly an honors student at her Catholic school who lives with her mom in the projects no less, Brianna is among the batch of 261 people slapped with lawsuits by the RIAA in recent weeks... What's next in their campaign to deter file-sharing? Will the RIAA start torturing kittens? Tripping blind people? Punching babies?

Dutch baffled by 'baboon noses'

Dutch authorities are trying to track down who left a foul-smelling suitcase at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport containing up to 2,000 suspected decomposing baboon noses. The gruesome discovery was made by security guards during a routine patrol last week.
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Yet another RPC vulnerability

Why We Are Issuing This Update

A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise a computer running Microsoft® Windows® and gain complete control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft.

Let the patching begin, again. A sysadmin's work is never done. Link goes to Microsoft info about vulnerability. Windows update should have the patch.

Today's Eats
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