Thanks for the grin, CaSiO!

I just noticed that the date display on my digital watch is showing a flashing "1-1! " - with the exclamation point and all. I love it!

I can just picture the chip designer chortling away as he put that circuit path in...

Happy 2008, everyone!

It's just an arbitrary day on the calendar, of course, but those are the best days to be happy on. I raise my glass to you all. Slainte!

For Those Who Doubt The Axial Tilt Theory

Don't consult oracles...


... consult an orrery!

A Happy Winter Solstice To All!

Today, December 22 2007, is the real deal. Break out the brandy and firesticks!

And a big, big welcome to my brand new great-nephew, Iggy Fiorello Spetrino-Murtagh! Yay!!!!

You Are A Genius

A good friend submitted my blog for this readability test. Apparently, my writing requires genius to read:

Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it takes genius to write it; maybe if I was smarter, I could be clear without making my readers work so hard for it. Ah well, I yam what I yam!

The Story of Job

I can't add anything to drunkenotter's (Nathanael Scott's) (the Goon Bible Project's) excellent summation of the Book of Job.

My personality defect

Your Score: Sociopath

You are 100% Rational, 42% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, and 71% Arrogant.

(Funny, I'd have pegged myself as a bit more arrogant.)

You are the Sociopath! As a result of your cold, calculating rationality, your introversion (and ability to keep quiet), your brutality, and your arrogance, you would make a very cunning serial killer. You are confident and capable of social interaction, but you prefer the silence of dead bodies to the loud, twittering nitwits you normally encounter in your daily life. You care very little for the feelings of others, possibly because you are not a very emotional person. You are also very calculating and intelligent, making you a perfect criminal mastermind. Also, you are a very arrogant person, tending to see yourself as better than others, providing you with a strong ability to perceive others as weak little animals, so tiny and small. You take great pleasure in the misery of others, and there is nothing sweeter to you than the sweet glory of using someone else's shattered failure to project yourself to success. Except sugar. That just may be sweeter. In short, your personality defect is the fact that you could easily be a sociopath, because you are calculating, unemotional, brutal, and arrogant. Please don't kill me for writing mean things about you! I have a 101 mile-long knife! Don't make me use it!

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.

4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.

The quiz comes courtesy of okCupid