Monthly Archives: April 2004

Last Trumpet

April 20, 2004 – 12:34 am

Yet more bad news: The resplendently named Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records, has died. Another face from childhood – I wonder if I’ve reached the age where I’ve known (of) enough people that their deaths will become a constant.

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April 19, 2004 – 9:52 am

I’ve long thought, without particular reason, that the Dutch are the coolest nation on earth. Well, courtesy of NPR I now know for sure. This morning they were talking about the launch over the weekend of a Russian rocket taking a new crew to the International Space Station. The crew was described as “…an American [...]

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Nacreous Portals

April 16, 2004 – 12:41 pm

I found this blog entry rather interesting. It reflects some of the feelings I have over religion and the religious, and reminds me of a poor joke: A Baptist, Protestant and Catholic (please feel free to insert any religions here, that’s not the point) are discussing their relative faiths. The Baptist states his particular beliefs, [...]

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Tax, and Spend the Day

April 15, 2004 – 2:25 pm

Just read an article in the local paper (registration required, so I’ll summarize here anyway) talking about the amount of time Americans are expected to take to fill in tax forms each year. The absolute minimum required is 3 hours and 43 minutes. A normal return such as we’re required to file (and it’s not [...]

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Mistakes

April 14, 2004 – 1:56 pm

Bush was on the telly last night. I lack the energy to ridicule the man, so I’ll let others do it for me. Wait, that’s unfair. I’ll let him do it himself: QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you’d made in your life, [...]

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