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Monday, April 28, 2003 6:54 PM Tulia, Texas: The neverending story. The Tulia Story Isn't Over By BOB HERBERT in The New York Times, so you need an account. Past: 4/02/03, 7/29/02, 8/08/02, 8/22/02 3:52 PM I am still sick, dammit all to hell. 5 days. 5 days taking various medications and I am still feeling like a squirrel that just tried to cross the road in Alabama. If I am still sick come the morning I will be walking up the stairs and forcing my co-workers to find out what the fuck is wrong with me. I have this odd feeling that my flu went away and was replaced by my allergies without letting me know that I should change meds. I still have the startings of a cough somewhere in my chest though. I hate being sick. Sunday, April 27, 2003 2:06 PM More info on masks How Masks Work. Interactive feature at NYTimes.com (need a free account) 11:19 AM For profit and self SARSMask.com "Sarsmask.com and Kego2 LLC makes no claims about the effectiveness or usefulness of these masks in preventing SARS" "N95 - 3M 9211 Respirator The CDC recommends N95 NIOSH approved masks to prevent the spread of SARS. A breakthrough in comfort and convenience. This three-panel respirator with innovative design is ideally suited for settings that involve long periods of wear. " "Just $34.95" for a box of 5. ---- One of the sponsored links at Google when you search sars united states. Gotta love that American business sense. Instead of just linking to the masks inside of your site, create a whole new domain. Link it through the largest search engine and rake in the profits. Also link all of the other SARs domain names that are for sale to optimize your profit. Of course it wouldn't be complete unless you raise the price so that you really optimize profit. Other sites selling the 3M respirator: Life Protectors: A package of 10 masks for $17.39 or a case of 120 for $207.80 Safteyinfo.com: $12.00 for a box of 10, and $132.00 for a case of 120. 3M's product listing. 3M Canada's Press release. Saturday, April 26, 2003 10:20 PM 'Vette There is nothing like the feel of driving a Vette around town. The power, the control, the way people all glance your way and just start laughing. From '90 to '91 I drove an '81 Vette. The gas gauge didn't work, the speedometer fluctauated between 5mph and 50mph at all speeds while driving, the steering wheel had 10 degrees of play, it was just an all around great car. My friends and I would treat it like shit, we piled 10 kids in it one day so that I could drive them all home from track practice, you could take the key out of the ignition and the engine would still run, we did donuts in the snow (the tail end weighed about 3 ounces), it did 0 to 60 in about 15 minutes and it finally died 1 month before my freshman year at BU. I miss that car. No, wait a minute. I don't. Friday, April 25, 2003 7:32 PM S.I.C.K. When I was in New York last week watching the news about all the fun happenings in the world I thought it would be just like fate for me to become really ill right after I left work. Its a fear left over from when I broke my arm in '01. At the time I had no health insurance and all expenses were out of pocket, which basically killed my plan to go to Europe. So last week I am sitting watching TV and the media's paranoia about SARs had infected me. I started worrying that the center would get a case and the whole place would become infected and I would get sick and would have to pay for all the doctors and shit out of pocket and then I would be destitute and in need of a job. I got over it. I went out for a walk with Jake and all was better. Then this week at work I answer the phone and one of our NPs is asking if a patient was still in the waiting room and if so we had to get her medications to her as fast as possible so that she wouldn't be around all the other patients. The patient, the nurse said, had recently been in China and had respiratory problems. Oh great. Now the patient is one of the center's "personalities". The Friday before she was bitten by her pet snake, and every other week she thinks she has something else wrong with her. Also she was last in China in February. So she would have already shown signs if she was infected then, and we are pretty sure (97%) that she just had a cough. But now I have a cough and the onset of the flu, and only 4 days of health coverage left. Joy. At least I am on the front porch enjoying the day. Good thing about Wi-Fi. Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:12 AM Kona not Jake is the petted dog tonight Say there is this dog, who is not your dog, but say, a friend's dog. This dog is bored. So bored that he walks into doors just to see if they will open. But as most of the doors are locked he just bumps his head. This dog, who is not yours, although you want a dog with all of your heart to call your own little fluffy puppy, this dog, who is not your own one day walks into your door. The door rebounds a little and said dog figures out that if he sticks his nose into the opening, that is only after walking into the door for 3 to 5 times, that he may open the door using said nose. Whence he enters your room do you pet him and hug him and treasure him forever? Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:17 PM X-Prize It seems we may soon have a winner of the 10 million dollar X-Prize. The X-Prize will be given to the first civilian launch of a reusable craft that can reach 100 Kilometers carrying 3 crew members and do so again in 2 weeks time. Until now only countries have been able to accomplish this feat. (Even though there are "civilian" companies that offer launch services, Boeing, Lockheed etc. they are heavily financed by the federal govt.) Scaled Composites, which is run by Burt Rutan, has just released news of their privately funded attempt. The same company that designed the Proteus and the Voyager, which was the first aircraft to fly around the world with no stops and no refueling. They have built SpaceShipOne (the spacecraft obviously) and the White Knight (the airborne launcher) using tried and true technology, instead of using the top of the line tech and systems. Scaled Composites basically followed the original X-15 program in their design, except of course that the new craft have Rutan's signature design style. Further news: Aviation Week and Space Technology: Flying In Space For Low Cost Updated: The Space Review: Rutan aims for space: A look at SpaceShipOne --- Oh and Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, today I bought recycled toilet paper, but then again I always buy recycled toilet paper. Though it is only 10% recycled, at least it says green. Hmm, time to go drive my car 1.5 miles, I could walk, but it is raining and I am lazy. Saturday, April 19, 2003 2:22 AM Lots of beach and snow and lighthouses. A Photolog of My vacation and 30th birthday week on Long Island. Sand and Rocks. Self portrait with shaky hand. MORE Thursday, April 17, 2003 6:54 PM I am so happy. Today for the first time ever, I got spam that made me happy. It makes me a member of a very large club. A spam that brings hope. A spam that brings riches. Yes, today I got my first ever Zimbabwe millions spam letter. Good Day, With warm heart I offer my friendship, and my greetings, and I hope this letter meets you in good time. It will be surprising to you to receive this proposal from me since you do not know me personally .... which I propose with my free mind and as a person of integrity, My name is Mr.Mako Okere, the first son of Iko Okere,one of the most popular black farmer from Zimbabwe, murdered in the land dispute in my country ...... We then went to Johannesburg, South Africa to deposit the sum of US$14.5 million (Fourteen million, Five Hundred thousand US dollars), in a private security company .... I am currently staying in the Netherlands where I am seeking political asylum ...... I need to transfer this money to an account and invest part of the money. Since the law of Netherlands prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to open any bank account or to be involved in any financial transaction ...... Firstly you can choose to have 10% of the money for your assistance, and helping me open an account for the money to be deposited here, or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country .... Thanks and God bless. Sincerely, Mako Okere What will I ever do with this new found and such generous friend? Toy with his emotions? Report him? Go in on his lovely scheme? Oh the options. 6:00 PM Jobless ... Well I finally did it, I quit my job. My last day will be May 2nd, 2003. And no, I do not have a new job lined up. I am now floating free in a shitty job market. I will live off of savings till July and then the job search, this time hopefully for a real job, and by real job I mean a professional job that requires my college degree, will begin again. I feel like I will starve tomorrow. But this will pass. I won't starve till September. Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:59 PM Why am I thinking this thought? Do you live in a cave? Do you want to? Do you fear? A paranoia that someone, whether animal, man, or plant, will creep up upon you and cut off your left hand with a rather large and terrifying knife? That you will then run, like a headless chicken, screaming, "WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!" But you don't. Monday, April 14, 2003 11:43 PM Field Day June 7th to 8th, Radiohead, Beastie Boys, Interpol, Thievery Corporation, Beck, and others. Calverton, Long Island, NY. I am definitely going to this show. Join Me. Saturday, April 12, 2003 11:54 AM Greatest thing since.... I have recently thought that a great name for a band would be Sliced Bread. 11:28 AM Coming soon I am still waiting for the day that I can read the Great American Novel on the side of a cereal box. 2:50 AM 30 day dinner Rob and Melissa took me out to dinner tonight. At the moment I can't remember the restaurants' name but it was nice and Keith Olbermann was there drinking drinks. He is my favorite MSNBC reporter. They, that is Rob and Melissa (Not Keith), were celebrating my 30th. I have to say if you are going to go out on the town (in NYC or anywhere) to celebrate your 30th birthday 5 days after it occurred with friends, you should at least do it with friends who are older than you. That way you just get the "Its all down hill from here Mike" jokes not the "Old man" jokes my sisters were saying on Monday. Oh and it has snowed or rained for almost my entire visit. Oh fun. Saturday, April 05, 2003 2:38 PM Vacation I am off for a week to the warm and beautiful climate of the islands. So posts, if any, will be few and far between. If you wish to contact me, then you know where I will be. Friday, April 04, 2003 11:26 PM 3 Days to 30 Years Plan: updated, but still loose, and always flexible and in constant flux. 1) Bachelor party for Andrew, in Las Vegas, last weekend of May, with the wedding in August. These two events now form the start and the end of my summer adventures. 2) Though Florida will be first, dates to be set this week, all set and it looks like I will be flying a bit this summer. 3) Still driving to the River Mississippi and it looks like I might have a blueprint in Road Trip USA on the Oregon trail. May take this all the way and then return on a southern route. 4) Play Golf. 5) Ride the bike, buy a new bike, love the bike, take long rides on the bike. 6) "Job search? What job search?" Will be my motto. 7) Write and write and create and write and bedazzle and write. Oh thirty, you are such a fine round number, to think, that the album that I am listening to now was captured on tape when I was just shy of 3 months of age. Oh the power of threes. The album is the great Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars The Motion Picture Soundtrack 30th Anniversary 2 disc set. Oh Ziggy, why'd ya leave us? 8:11 PM sitting If you had a dog who, for reasons of its own, on a Saturday, decided to stand in the corner and bark at a small discoloration on the wall. The dog would not move. He would sleep in starts and quick breaks. He would never move from his spot, guarding that spot on the wall. He would shit and piss in the stated corner. You would bring him his food and water, and while eating would continue to growl at the spot. You could not move him, he no longer listened to your commands. One day, fed up, your wife would leave. The dog then at that moment would wander over to you. Would you then say, "Good doggy. Have a biscuit."? Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:07 PM Information overflow There are too many forms of data in my room. All of them catching and holding my attention for various spans of time. It has, once again, reached the point where my room is beyond my grasp. It will take a day, but most likely more, just to get them into orderly piles. Then there is the TV, with repetitive news, whether breaking or talking head, 2 computers and the stereo. Unread books and unfinished stories. It is amazing to me how much data there is. 1) Computers: 2 laptops (win and mac) and a desktop. 2) Magazines: Macworld, Scientific American, Aviation Week and Space Technology, Aerospace America, 2600, Time, and Discover. 3) Newspapers: Boston Globe and New York Times. 4) Books: History, Fiction, Engineering and Computer. 5) ETC: Mail, bills, email, maps, printouts, notes and lists. Some of this stuff will be shelved and filed and cataloged but a good portion of it will be thrown out. Sidenote, whenever my paperwork gets out of hand so does everything else. There are piles of clothes all over the place, clean and dirty. My room is a complete and utter mess, and it will take most of my Friday to fix it up. Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:53 AM Tulia, Texas It looks like their will at last be justice in Tulia. Past: 7/29/02, 8/08/02, 8/22/02

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