Scientists Abandon AI Project After Seeing The Matrix – from the Onion

1. Duenas enters plea: Vincent Duenas returned to Guam last night after entering his plea before the US District judge in Saipan.
2. No takers for $20M credit line: GovGuam can’t find any bank willing to give them a $20 million line of credit for typhoon Pongsana repairs. Not even the local banks are willing to take on such a bad loan.
3. Powers out: Island-wide power outage around 13:00 today. Almost forgot about how often these outage used to be. Thankfully we got generator power here at the office.

Ate lunch at Old Town Chinese Restaurant – Home Made Shanghai Style Cuisine today, and it was plenty good. Three of us went and ate bula food. And it was only $10 per person. Wow I can see why it got a good write up in the paper a couple weeks ago.

Guess what I got yesterday? Girl Scout Cookies!

Seems some folks are writing about the space elevators in the wake of George W. Bush’s announcement to go to the moon. It is certainly a compelling idea and it could radically lower the hurdles to get into space.

Strange Fruit is a chilling song. Billie Holiday said every time she sang that song, there was going to be trouble.

Little did I know that the song was written by Abel Meeropol, New York communist and schoolteacher, who later took in the Rosenberg children and adopted them.

The song just gives me the creeps when I hear it.