Mike the Usurper writes:
For all you Civ 3 players out there, this will be self explanatory... :)

] Iraqi Information minister as modern military advisor

Toooo perfect. :)

Gotta Love Bagdhad Bob!

flynn23 wrote:
] It is with an extraordinarily heavy heart that I post that my
] good friend, Brad Blines, died on Thursday morning of a heroin
] overdose. Folks on memestreams will know him as crankymessiah.
&nbsp. . .
] Brad Michael BLINES
] Nashville, TN
] Age 35
] January 8, 2003
] January 8, 2003. Survived by parents, Michael and Diana
] Blines; sister, Kristin (Richard) Vik; grandmothers, Bonnie
] (Lloyd) Holt, Ruth Allen; nephews, Ethan Richard Vik, Brennan
] Michael Vik. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. at
] Harpeth Hills Funeral Home with Bro. Doug Varnado officiating.
] Pallbearers will be Chris Scheele, Richard Vik, Michael
] Dodson, Rich Husband, Jim Folger, Ernie Simon. The Interment
] will follow at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens. In lieu of
] flowers donations may be made to the New Life Lodge.
] Visitation will be Friday 5-9 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. until
] service at HARPETH HILLS FUNERAL HOME, 9090 Hwy. 100,
] 615-646-9292

I am shocked and saddened. Brad was one of my favorite members of the community. Please pass my condolences to his family.

Did Brad have a personal website anywhere? I'm not even sure if I ever knew what he looked like, though we may have met at one of the conventions somewhere.

For anyone who would like to see his Memestream, it's at: http://www.memestreams.net/users/bblines

Sadly,

Elonka :/

RE: I am sad, and unhappy...

This is an alleged summary of a report by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Oak Island, the "Money Pit" that's on my "Famous Unsolved Codes" page. The language of the report seems to be fairly professional, but without more verification, I can't give it a whole lot more weight than any of the other legends about the island.

Still, it's interesting reading . . .

Oak Island: the Woods Hole Institute Report

] the president's press secretary, Scott McClellan, told
] reporters, "The president directed his administration to
] do a comprehensive review of our space policy, including
] our priorities and the future of the program, and the
] president will have more to say on it next week."

Hmmm. So is this a test balloon to see how much public support there is for such a venture, considering the current wave of space enthusiasm? Is it a straight election-year ploy? A hint at what's coming up in the State of the Union speech in a couple weeks? A combination of all?

My own opinion is, "Sounds great! But Show Me the Money." If there's a budget for it, it may happen. Otherwise it's just hot air.

Stay tuned . . .

Bush to Announce Ventures to Mars and the Moon, Officials Say

] Japan launched its MUSES-C interplanetary probe on May 8,
] 2003, to fly 186 million miles across the Solar System to
] asteroid 1998-SF36, and return to Earth with a sample of
] the soil found there.

Japanese Space Probe on its way to collect asteroid sample and return to Earth

The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet'.

I would have liked the page to include more information about the circumstances of the test, to prove that it's real and not some urban legend. Other than that though, it's very interesting.

Series of drawings under the effect of LSD

] WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged
] Thursday that he saw no "smoking gun, concrete evidence"
] of ties between Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaida terror
] network, but insisted that Iraq had dangerous weapons and
] needed to be disarmed by force.
]
] Speaking at a State Department news conference, Powell
] openly disagreed with a private think tank report which
] maintained that Iraq was not an imminent threat to the
] United States. And the secretary defended the case he
] made before the United Nations for a U.S.-led war to
] force Saddam from power.

Powell Refutes Think-Tank Report on Iraq

] Spirit and Opportunity also were designed to carry all
] the communications and camera equipment that was split
] between Sojourner and its Pathfinder mothership.
]
] "We have effectively merged the capability of the
] Pathfinder lander and the Sojourner rover into one larger
] rover," said Mishkin, who heads the team that develops
] the instructions that will be sent to the two robots each
] day.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and have known Andy Mishkin for years. We went to elementary school together, and were usually in the same "gifted students" math classes through Junior High and High School.

I am sooooooooooo proud of him. After our high school reunion, he also gave me a tour of JPL, so I got to see firsthand the equipment they use for sending signals to the robots, and the practice courses that they've used for teaching the Rovers how to navigate.

Go Andy! :)

Andy Mishkin - Team Leader for Driving the Mars Rovers

Transcripts of every Presidential "State of the Union" address, going back to 1946.

And of course, the next one is coming up in two weeks, on January 20th, 2004.

State of the Union Transcripts

From the Office of the Secretary of State.

Missouri 2004 Election Calendar