I have an old friend in Dallas, who likes to call now and then to plan a visit. In 2004, she had her plans ready and then hurricane ivan got here first. In 2005, she again had her plans made and then hurricane katrina blocked her path. And now, I got a call from her [...]

Take a look at the 8/26 storm track of Ernesto (in previous post.) Then try to comprehend this statement:
“The only part of Florida located in the current cone of uncertainty is the Florida keys.”

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Did the Florida panhandle secede to Alabama while I was asleep last night?

Tags: hurricanes

Count on the oil platforms shutting down soon. Do you have your gas tank filled?
Has anyone blamed Bush yet? May as well get that out of the way.
Will Landrieu actually punch Bush this time?
Will Nagin get off HIS ass this time?
Will the Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool be put to good use this time?

Will the [...]

When I was in the Navy, I once witnessed a bar fight in downtown Olongapo (Philippines) that still haunts my dreams. The fight was between a big oafish bar bully and a rather soft-spoken, medium sized Latino sailor from my ship.
All evening the bully had been trying to pick a fight with one of us [...]

One of the great features of WordPress 2.x is the ability to upload an image *while* you are composing a post, instead of the old method which was FTP’ing an image and then manually writing a link to the image within the post or using the built-in upload feature that was contained in another section [...]

This should get the blood pumping again.

Tags: football, fsu, seminoles

Sacred Heart Hospital should’ve researched the name of their web site domain a little better. shhpens.org looks like an abbreviation for “Shit Happens.”

I had no idea that Paul Newman was so busy in this movie:
Empire Falls (2005) - Yahoo! TV
Click to see how busy (in case the above link is removed or fixed.)

Tags: movies

The mac-daddy of Redneck Engineering:
Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot the moon, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr., his fellow astronaut, accidentally snapped off the switch of a circuit breaker, and found they could not take off without it.
Aldrin then jammed a ballpoint pen into the hole where the switch had been, allowing [...]