"Enter is a key arming with line breaks and new paragraphs of mass destruction, while hiding next to the popular apostrophe key.

The window key aggressively opens the Start menu and exports submenus.

Insert continues to flaunt its ability to make us type over what we've already written. The Insert regime has plotted to move closer to Backspace for over a decade. This is a key that has already used its sneaky ability to type over thousands of characters -- leaving the words of authors lost forever.

Keys like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of annoyance, arming to threaten the continuity of our typing. By seeking functions of mass destruction, these keys pose a grave and growing danger."

-- from President Bush's State of the Keyboard address.

The heck with this whole journalism thing. I want to be a mountain man when I grow up. I want to wear greasy raccoon skins, and shoot things with one of those guns that you load by ramming stuff down into the barrel. And I want to go to Boy Scout events and teach little kids to throw hatchets at things.

On second thought, maybe not.

"I'd like to get this case to come to a head before I die or commit some bad behavior for which I would be impeached." -- U.S. Dictrict Court Judge Jim Corrigan, speaking in the Denver Post about the cleanup of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal chemical weapons factory (from my reading assignment for GEOG 332)

Somebody has a guilty conscience.

It is before 2 a.m. I am done with The Maroon-News. Your PigAir flight has been delayed due to snowstorms at HEL airport.

(edit: Dratted Blogger clock is ahead of the clock on my computer. Ah well.)

I organized the Maroon-News photo archive today. As I was going through stacks of old pictures, I found a bunch of shots of campus before major architectural changes. So I thought I'd share some of them.

Cushman House as the home of Phi Gamma Delta.

Kendrick, Eaton, Dodge is now the lower section of Curtis.

Olin under construction.

The secret passage on fifth floor East is not so secret anymore.

Persson Hall wasn't always there.

A more schematic view of life before Persson.

Building the Persson steps the first time.

The side of Ryan that is now attached to Little. I had Basic Studio in the classroom whose windows you can see there.

No more haikus now.
I am tired of that form.
I won't write ... Darn it!

Question: Does printer
Have a manual feed tray?
I feel so useful.

Studying for test.
I hope that I did enough.
Never really sure.

Coughing all the time.
Kristin thinks that I'm dying.
Infecting the lab.

Sitting here too long,
Motion sensor lights go out.
Then Bobby comes in.

No one is in here.
I could dance around naked.
Forgot my music.

Scanner is making
Loud, clicking, grinding noises.
Where is Myongsun now?

Geography lab.
No one steal these computers.
I am watching you.

Brits Storm Spanish Beach By Mistake
"The British military apologized Monday for invading Spain over the weekend � by mistake.

About 20 Royal Marines went slightly off course in an amphibious exercise and stormed a Spanish beach Sunday morning near the British colony of Gibraltar, a British Defense Ministry spokesman said.

The HMS Ocean, which had stopped at Gibraltar for maintenance, was heading to the Indian Ocean to support military operations in Afghanistan, the spokesman said."

I have renewed confidence in the military operations in Afghanistan.

Screw you, George Washington. I wonder how banks stay in business with their "never open" policy.

The anime defense:
Whenever I express my dislike for anime, I am always told that I just haven't seen *good* anime. Sometimes I will humor the anime fan in question and watch an episode of their preferred anime. When I continue to dislike anime, they claim that the episode I saw wasn't a good episode.

I just can't win.

Bill Bradley is a scary, scary man.