I am so not looking forward to ...

"THE DREADED 'M' WORD!"

"Hamlets keep identities despite ZIP code changes" - The Examiner, 3/1/07:

Last year, the U.S. Postal Service started consolidating its post offices in Millstone because the township was being served by 10 different ZIP codes.

I understand how this mess happened.

Wonderful, we don't have to change anything.

Our friendly, little post office won't be closing, even better. They know me there.

"First Woman Named Winner Of Prestigious Computing Award" - Technology News by InformationWeek, 2/22/07:

Frances Allen, an IBM Fellow Emerita at the T.J. Watson Research Center who started her career as a computer scientist in the 1950s, was honored for her significant contributions in compiler design and program optimization.

"There's Still A Shortage Of Women In Tech, First Female Turing Award Winner Warns" - Technology News by InformationWeek.

"Computing award goes to female for first time" - CNN.com

List of Turing Award Recipients - Association for Computing Machinery ... many familiar names, I'm sure.
Turing Award - Wiki

Jeff calls this "Ella @ 55". Days, I guess.

But she is cute, take my word for it.

Very cute, posted in the Commonweal comments of this article, not a bad article in itself:

Posted by Patrick Molloy on March 2, 2007, 10:44 am

The results of the latest market research on the American newspaper audience (original source unknown):

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like the statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country ... or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

Next step: an equally rigorous analysis of Catholic periodicals and websites.

"'Times' Gets Faked Out on 'Diary' Entry" - National Public Radio, 3/2/07:

Day to Day, March 2, 2007 · The New York Times unwittingly put a phony story in their "Metropolitan Diary" feature recently. The feature collects vignettes from ordinary people about their experiences of everyday life in New York.

I don't know what's weirder, the incident itself, NPR reporting it or me blogging it.

Nobody comes out clean in this one.

"C" as in "culprit",

as in "clue",

as in "Chris"!



Somebody shoved a slew of magnet letters under the stove while I showered this morning. Hmmm.

At least the little rascal helped me pull them out again, aided by a flashlight and broom handle. He delighted in pronouncing the sound(s) associated with each letter.