Monday
“Grey” and “drab” have become the watchwords of describing days here in the valley.
In an effort to break out of the routine, just a little, Jess and I went for a drive on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. We were looking for a new development that I had heard was going to be built in the shadow of the Kennecott Copper Mine. We didn’t find it. What we did find was the community (town?) of Bingham Canyon. 84006. It was like stepping back into early 20th Century America. It was a community that was built for the workers of the Kennecott mines. On the far side of town is a historical marker, but it is set behind a chain link fence, making it difficult to read. A few feet from the marker is this sign for this bar. That made me chuckle. I had to have a picture of it.

Tonight’s episode of 24 was good. I was surprised to see the twist that they threw at CTU Director Erin Driscoll. Didn’t see that one coming. I had almost forgotten how much of a hardball player Jack could be to get information that he needed.

I’m fighting with Enterprise again. I’m trying to install its OS and it’s balking at the idea. Earlier, I was pretty close to finding a bulk magnetizer and seeing how well it liked a strong, opposing B-field. Fortunately, it never got to that point.

As it’s now the wee hours of Tuesday morning (01 March 05), I’d like to wish a “Happy March Birthday” to:

News
Morning Edition: High Court Considers Disability Access on Cruise Ships
Morning Edition: Indian Teenager Caught in Space Caper
Talk of the Nation: Other Cultures, In Other Words
Day to Day: Slate’s Culturebox: Rappers and Bloggers
Fresh Air: Downfall from Ganz and Hischbiegel

Stray Toasters

  • I have added to my cache of Creme Eggs and cotton candy. And M&M’s.
  • I finally got around to watching the now two-week-old JLU episode, “Doomsday Sanction.” Wow. And I do mean “Wow.” The episode started off slowly… for about thirty seconds… and from that point forward, it was a rollercoaster ride. Dwayne McDuffie and Robert Goodman pulled out all the stops on this one. Seriously. They reintroduced characters and concepts that haven’t been heard from since the days of Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series. And they are adding more of a darker edge to the series. The last couple of minutes were very intense. , I believe that you would be very happy with the way that Batman was depicted in this episode.
  • I have been meaning to take a picture of this for the past few months… but I never had my camera ready at the right time. Last week, I did.
    It gives an entirely new meaning to the phrase “tree house.”
  • Thanks to , I have a new webcomic on my reading list: Two Lumps
  • : National Geographic goes Bollywood
  • I took this picture this afternoon.
    It is a California Sea Gull.
    It is Utah’s state bird.
    Utah is a land-locked state.
    Do the math.

  • Thanks to for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art by Frank Wu
  • Nothing says loving like a clean pair o’ drawers. Mm-hm, that’s right!
  • Alien sculpture up for auction
  • In this post‘s Stray Toasters section (‘Toaster #3), I tried to clarify a widespread misconception about Warner Brothers’ upcoming Loonatics animated series.

    I came across another article about Loonatics in the “Lying in the Gutters” column on Comic Book Resources. However, their item about the series (Item #5: “Bugs Bunny? Or Jessica Rabbit”) made me laugh. Hysterically.

  • …and in a semi-related note: : There’s a Catwoman picture on that same page (Item: “Adam’s Zest”), too.
  • “Don’t you smell it?”
    “My nose fell off. Smell what?”

  • By way of ThinkGeek: The Cubes®
  • While I seriously doubt that the original version “Jack and Jill” looked like this, I would be willing to wager that had the rhyme been written today that something like this might have happened…

And that’s a wrap.
Now, where did I put that bulk magnetizer…?

Namaste.