April 29th: Today in 1992 was the start of the Los Angeles riots that followed the aquittal of police officers accused of beating Rodney King. Over the next three days over fifty people died and many businesses were looted and destroyed. I remember several days before the riots broke out I saw a short CNN [...]
I am waiting in the Newark airport for my flight to take me home for the weekend. Was supposed to fly at 9pm, now they say we should be good for a 2am take off. This means we will land just in time for me to catch the Friday afternoon rush hour out of London [...]
Darth Vader has joined the blogging craze. What more really needs to be said.
April 28th: After slapping Mel Gibson yesterday for Braveheart I thought today I would remind people of a far better movie he was in The Bounty based on the events that happened today in 1789. The real story of Fletcher Christian and William Bligh is an interesting one and has made for some great movies. [...]
Man bitten by deadly spider manages to snap picture of spider with cell phone camera. Apparently he didn’t think it was serious at first, but once the situation turned bad the hospital was able to use the cell phone photo to id the insect perp. Maybe humanity stands a slim chance against this insect threat [...]
Today I stumbled into the middle of the war on drugs. I take Advil Cold and Sinus to supplement my allergy medicine and to keep the sinus headaches down. Unfortunetly it isn’t available in the UK, which perhaps should have been foreshadowing, so I buy it when I am in the US. I tend to [...]