] State police are investigating the murder of a
] middle-aged man whose body was found Sunday night lying
] near a parked car on the side of Route 2.

i will bet you anything that this has to do with the casino. this is all anyone keeps talking about at work. apparently we don't get a lot of murders up here.

NO, connecticut does NOT need more casinos!!!

] If it were a real mission involving weapons of mass
] destruction instead of an exercise, Chief Hospital
] Corpsman Donald Abele would have needed better protection
] than dishwashing gloves, a painter's coveralls and a gas
] mask.
]
] But Abele was just trying to prove a concept: that Navy
] Seals could set up a chemical analysis laboratory inside
] one of the Florida's huge missile tubes where they could
] test soil samples from suspect sites without ever
] bringing the material inside the boat.

more classified submarine information from my local paper.

] I am an Asteroid.
]
] I am a drifter. I go where life leads, which makes me
] usually a very calm and content sort of person. That or
] thoroughly apathetic. Usually I keep on doing whatever
] I'm doing, and it takes something special to make me
] change my mind.
]
] (If you were not an Asteroid you would be Pacman.)

Pacman: I am Pacman.

I am an aggressive sort of personality, out to get what I can, when I can. I prefer to avoid confrontation, but sometimes when it's called for, I can be a powerful character. I tend to be afflicted with munchies constantly.

What Video Game Character Am I?

] Take a quick look at the pair of toads 4-year-old Casey
] Dicken found in her grandparents' pool yesterday, and
] they look relatively normal.
] They may even look like they're doing something a
] 4-year-old shouldn't see and probably wouldn't
] understand.
] But look closer, and there's something different about
] the two toads.
] They are one. They're connected. The two amphibians are
] conjoined, un-identical twins.

Girl finds two-headed toad in Hopkinton

] Will great cheese come from genetically engineered cloned
] cows?
]
] Scientists in New Zealand are reporting that they have
] created such cows, animals that produce milk with higher
] than normal levels of protein, which would speed the
] process of making cheese.

I like cheese and all, but i like cows even more, and i don't want cloned cows because i don't like cloning.

Cloned Cows Are Engineered for Faster Cheese Production

] Russianoff said people who prefer tokens tend to be the
] same people who don't like setting their VCRs or using
] ATMs at the bank.
]
] "They like to talk to the bank teller," he said. "They
] feel better with dealing with a human being."

HEY!!!!! i like the tokens!!!! i don't like to set my vcr because i like my dvd player better, and i do not like the bank tellers, or other human beings, for that matter!!! do not stick me into your little stereotype!!!!!!!!!

NYC transit tokens on the way out

] The high court did not comment in turning down Mattel's
] request to reopen a trademark fight over the 1997 dance
] hit "Barbie Girl." Mattel claims the preteen girls who
] buy Barbie dolls were duped into thinking the song was an
] advertisement for the doll or part of Mattel's official
] line of Barbie products.

Supreme Court rejects ugly fight over Barbie doll

] A fast-moving computer worm slowed down Internet access
] Saturday for about 22,000 servers, according to the
] Internet security firm Symantec.

i was wondering what the hell happened when i first got to work this morning.

CNN.com - Electronic attack slows Internet - Jan. 25, 2003

] The city's waterfront redevelopment plan provides for the
] Pony to stay at the corner of Second and Ocean avenues
] with condominium units to be built on the rest of the
] block. The Pony owners faced financial challenges that
] made a deal with Larry Fishman and his brother, Glen A.
] Fishman, the managing partner, look inviting.

Glen Fishman is the coolest Rabbi you'll ever meet. He smokes. He curses. He had a stripper come to his 40th birthday party (that was before he got religious, obviously).

Good.. the Pony isn't moving.

] "Because if they come, September 11 which they are crying
] over and see as a big thing will be a real picnic for
] them, God willing," Uday said, referring to suicide
] hijacker attacks in New York and Washington which killed
] about 3,000 people in 2001.

in case you have been living in a goddamned CAVE under a ROCK under the SEA in a TRENCH for the last year and a half, uday was referring to the hijacker attacks which killed about 3000 people in 2001. i don't know why it bugs me so much that the media still clarifies that. it just does.

Saddam son warns U.S. of losses