Well kids, evidently Blogger hates me, because I haven’t been able to update for about two days.

That’s ok, because I’ve been meaning to try out Grey Matter.

Noah Grey is my tiny god. This is the first post using the new system, and I’m so impressed I’m giddy. I’ve got comment-posting, karma, archiving, and all sorts of other goodies, and I don’t have to read some A-lister’s whining every time I log in to post.

Presents for you, my Minions!
Now you can flaunt your Minionitude^TM with this sexy new Minion Banner!

Terrifying: Michael
McDermott‘s Amazon Wish
List.

Ironically, all of these are DVDs, which won’t do him a lot of good in
prison.

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A new logo for a new year.

Tons of hot grits for Marcia, who slogged through my neurotic code and fixed my tables for me. I expect all ten of you readers to march over there and send her hundreds of emails or IMs expressing your attitude. Err.. gratitude.

Relive the best parts of your childhood with SASS, the Speak & Spell Simulator!

The Speak & Spell always creeped me out a little, as a kid, because there was a certain mode that wouldn’t allow you to turn the machine off, so you had to resort to pulling out the batteries and listening to its little alien voice fade away.

Props to Daniel for the link.

Comment-posting is re-enabled. I’ve also enabled popup windows in the Pix section, and reorganized the About section.

Scientists are questioning the popular belief that indigenous Americans were killed by imported European diseases, such as smallpox and measles. Instead, researchers are finding more evidence that the native Indian populations were decimated by a viral infection very similar to ebola. The massive social and economic changes caused by Spanish colonization, coupled with the poor living conditions forced upon native populations, contributed to a rat-borne plague that wiped out up to 17 million people.

Well kids, I’m off for a long weekend in Atlanta, where I’ll visit with Daniel, Dori, and the rest of the migrant geeks.

Updates will be made based on the proximity of browsing hardware.

Ha! These guys are running around tagging SUVs with their nice anti-SUV bumper stickers.

I think they should be using my much-more-hostile bumper sticker.

Good news for Kevin: the odds of dying via venomous snakes, lizards, and spiders are 1 in 20,406,462 for a one-year period.

Bad news for Kevin: those odds drop to 1 in 268,153 over a lifetime.

I’m sure they also drop significantly when someone has hidden eggsacs all over your room.