It is I

I can agree with Tertullian, at least partially

"In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows (as Jacob reposed his head on a stone), white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and an impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator."

Chapter 15, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon

Trouble

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."

Calvin Coolidge

His values, maybe

"There's probably no post more important in preserving our security and our values as people than the CIA," Hayden said.

Bush Turns to Gen. Hayden to Lead CIA

FCC Adopts Order

This is of interest to the members of the Western Syndicate community who are getting into the VoIP business:

FCC ADOPTS ORDER TO ENABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ACCESS CERTAIN BROADBAND AND VoIP PROVIDERS

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-265221A1.pdf

I don't understand

... why they're sending him to the supermarket?

Moussaoui sent to 'supermax' for six life terms

Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced yesterday to spend the rest of his life in near-solitary confinement as the judge in his case cut short the final diatribe he delivered to a Virginia courtroom, and told him he would never be able to speak out publicly again.

This is how I died

King Amenemhat's instructions to his son Senwosret I. Well OK, he didn't actually write it himself. He describes that you can't trust anyone, and then goes on to describe how he was killed by someone that he knew. Check out the cool hieroglyphs. They are particularly clear on this image (well, I wish the photos were posted with higher resolution, but if I want to see it more clearly I suppose I will have to visit the British Museum.)

Rotating snakes on a blog

I like this optical illusion.

Right lane closed ahead

If you are interested in traffic cones you probably should visit the Cone Epicentre.

It's about time

Got the first bike ride of the spring in today. I needed that -- didn't ride too hard, since I haven't had any exercise in, oh, seven or eight months.

My bike has been out of commission in a comedy of errors that started last September, when I brought it to the bike shop to have it "tuned up", the shop owner broke it, then we couldn't find the replacement part, then after months of looking I bought a spare used bike frame for $140 + $35 shipping containing the replacement part, and finally last weekend brought it to a different shop to have the part installed. (Which they did for only $30, and exactly when they said it would be done, so they're probably going to get all my repair business from now on.)

So if you, umm, need a spare Giant NRS bike frame, minus the rocker arms, let me know. I have one. Real cheap.

Oh, and I never did get the bike tuned up. It's working great now.