London - 07-07-05

It gnaws at me to watch the footage on television. The people weeping, dazed, covered with blood and debris. How can anyone feel justified in doing this to innocent people? What level of fanaticism must one have to murder scores of people and think that any God would want that to happen?

If I could only send one message to those responsible it would be this:

The burning resolve to expunge this world of you, and people like you, is not extinguished by the blood of the innocent. It is fueled by it.

Keep the families of those lost in London today at the forefront of your thoughts and prayers.

"The stars show an exciting change in your life!"

Yes that's right, friends. Playing a game of interstellar pool with a comet is a heinous crime against the balancing forces of the universe. Read on and see why everyone's horoscope is now condemned to be highly generalized and woefully inaccurate.

Hey wait a minute...

Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Mission - Yahoo! News

New Site Format

Dear devoted readers... yes, both of you;

We've got a yummy new look and feel to the site that I hope you'll enjoy.
Great new look! Same vapid content!

Eat hearty, brothers...

-A.I.

The Ageless Language of Freedom

"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness..."

- The Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

To Me, on my 29th Birthday

So here it is. Another year gone by, and quite a milestone this year will be. The end of the 20s! The predawn of Middle Age. The twilight of Youth. An epoch of time that shall not be seen again.

What a bunch of melodramatic crap...

But as I sit here at work, deep in the bowels of the mega-evil Insurance Conglomerate, I feel compelled to indulge in a moment of pensive introspection. Twenty-nine years is not a terribly long time in the grand temporal scheme of things, but I'll ramble off a few of the tremendous things that have happened during my life:

• The American Bicentennial - July 4, 1976 (ok so I don't actually remember this one)
• Pope John Paul II was elected Pope
• President Ronald Reagan was shot
• Pope John Paul II was shot
• John Lennon was shot and killed
• The Space Shuttle program began
• The first American woman astronaut flew into space (Sally Ride)
• Personal computers became a common household item
• VCRs hit the mainstream
• CDs were invented
• Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after liftoff
• Cell phones were invented
• Digital cameras were invented
• Digital watches became popular (LOL)
• The Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, TX - David Koresh
• The Oklahoma City Bombing - Timothy McVeigh
• September 11, 2001 - Osama Bin Ladden
• Two wars in Iraq - Saddam Hussein
• The explosion of the World Wide Web
• The .COM era of business
• Space Shuttle Columbia destroyed during reentry
• MP3s & iPods
• Ronald Reagan died
• Pope John Paul II died
• I graduated from college
• Got a job
• Got laid off
• Got another job
• Started a blog
• Wrote about meaningless stuff for your amusement.

That just about sums it up I think. Except for one big caveat. In the paltry amount of time that I've muddled through on this tiny blue-green planet, I wouldn't have had nearly as much success as I have had it not been for the support of my family and friends. So on this auspicious day, I'm sending out a big birthday Thank You! to the four corners of the world and all points in between. To the cherished people in my life, on my 29th birthday... I wouldn't be here without you.

Now let's get this whole Youth thing out of the way and get onto the main course.