Illinoir

…a bit late, and from the Onion “What do you think?”

“The space program should be scrapped. Fourteen deaths in 20 years? Imagine seeing those kinds of statistics in, say, the trucking industry.”

• New comics
• New Onion
• It’s burrito day!
• National Hockey Night on ESPN

What’s not to love?

…i have posted the bits and pieces of text that made up the 50,000 words I wrote for NaNoWriMo2k2. It’s been slightly edited (down to about 42,000 words — I think the next challenge is to get it down to 1500 meaningful words…we’ll see….)

Anyhow. I’ve put the thing up there, because: a) it might motivate me to do other things with it; and b) it kinda counts as having done something with it.

So.

Have at it.

I guess.

Increasingly, I am seeing these people on the train reading web pages that they have printed out.

I guess I don’t have any long, well-informed rant to give you here, so I’ll just say that it drives me nuts….especially when it’s some crap they’ve printed from espn.com or something.

At my old job, there was a woman who printed -every- email. Even the ones that were just a subject line of “Jennie won’t be in the office today” and that was it…. Her paper waste cost me my job, dammit.

Etc.etc.etc. God bless and gorgo gorgo norgo to you all.

i’m having a hard time shaking the thought that people are disgusting and wrong. and i wish they’d go away.

So midway through Saturday, I read a bit about the shuttle crash. And then soon, it is all I am reading about — various memorials, tributes, weeping and prayer.

The thing that hits me the most is the lack of interest in the space program. How many people even knew that the space shuttle was currently on a mission? You know? How many people who watched debris of the shuttle streaking across the sky said, “Holy shit, I didn’t know we even still launched those things.”

Remember watching, in 2nd grade, whenever, the television set wheeled into the classroom, the space shuttles launching, the space shuttles landing.

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I like “generally unfuckwitted” but “pathetically simple-minded” hurts a little. What can I do?