General

President Bush: Governor, thank you. President Steger, thank you very much. Students, and faculty, and staff, and grieving family members, and members of this really extraordinary place. Laura and I have come to Blacksburg today with hearts full of sorrow. This is a day of mourning for the Virginia Tech community – and it is a day of sadness for our entire nation. We’ve come to express our sympathy. In this time of anguish, I hope you know that people all over this country are thinking about you, and asking God to provide comfort for all who have been affected. ...

April 30th.

At least 22 people dead. Damn. Update: At least 30 people dead, according to the AP. The gunman apparently killed himself. The Collegiate Times is putting up updates. The Roanoke Times is also doing updates. Planet Blacksburg has a local perspective.

Okay, let’s see how well spam knows me today: Get a visit from the big dick fairy Okay, Spam, I’m never reading you again. :(

Ahhh, I’m back. :) The last post I’d written, I just started a new job. It took a fair amount of time just to figure out what I was doing, given the fact I had worked for almost seven years at my previous job. It’s strange going from being the person who knows almost everything to being the newbie again. Now I’m learning what it’s like to schedule my own day, rather than have various “crises” schedule it for me. Maybe that’s what happens when you go from tens of thousands of users on a few apps to dozens of users on many apps. ...

Tyler Cowen on the effects of blogging: Blogging makes us more oriented toward an intellectual bottom line, more interested in the directly empirical, more tolerant of human differences, more analytical in the course of daily life, more interested in people who are interesting, and less patient with Continental philosophy. Link courtesy of kottke.org.

From The Show with Ze Frank: http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf

This would normally be a Saturday post, but it was icy here today, so it’s kind of like a Saturday. Continuing to see how well Spam knows me, let’s look at some recent subject lines: I Woof You Uhh…what? I know I must have misheard that one. Inside every child is something special A chewy center. Find Money you didn’t know you had That’s always good. A lawyer that will fight for you ...

Time to check in with Spam and see if it knows me any better since Thanksgiving. Some recent spam subject lines: Save big in 2007 with Top quality replica Watches Well, I have been thinking about a new watch. Probably not a Rolex, though. Free Smokes!!!! Free!!!! Cool!!!! I’ll take…wait a minute…I don’t smoke. You should see what we’re doing on our cams Playing bridge? Well, that was a surprise. Was Britney better before Paris? ...