This is me rambling about me, mostly. Current stuff: home, family, my head’s on fire… that kind of thing. This also includes everything imported from LiveJournal.
My Linucon Schedule is up, and with it you have the opportunity to participate in my new “Will Draw For Food” promotion.
Begging aside, you can also find out where I’ll be, and when. And now, back to work with me. I’ve got a zillion things to do before I go, and this evening is my weekly shift at the temple, which means I need to get a zillion things done before 2pm.
In other news, I put up a “Third Orleans” footnote.
–Howard
Here is some local coverage of the Utah State University van crash. The accident is getting a bit of national coverage right now, because apparently people are tired of looking at pictures of floods.
Significant details:
1) Nobody was wearing a seatbelt.
2) The van was probably going at least 85. The posted speed limit there is 75, and the van was passing traffic. It could easily have been going 90 or even 95, though.
3) All eleven occupants were thrown from the vehicle during its high-speed, 4x rollover. Nine of them are now dead.
If you drive in the United States, the odds are about 600:1* that you will NOT be involved in a car accident this year. If you drive or ride without your seatbelt, you are playing russian roulette with a 600-chamber revolver and a single bullet. If you wear your seatbelt, you’re still playing russian roulette, but you don’t have to point the gun at your head each time you pull the trigger.
–Howard
*SOURCE: Extrapolation based on research into the number of fatal car accidents in the U.S., plus my wet finger in the air. There are between 30,000 and 40,000 car accident fatalities per year in the U.S., and more than 10 times that many accidents. If we assume that 250,000,000 Americans drive or ride in automobiles each year, each of them has one chance in about 6000 of dying in an auto accident, and one chance in about 600 of being in an accident at all.
Sandra and I are waiting to see Serenity until we can see it TOGETHER. That means Monday, because I’m gone all weekend at Linucon (where I’m sure people will be itching to spoil it for me, but there in person I can just punch them in the nose.)
If you must talk about the movie in your journals, please put your comments behind cut tags.
No, there have been no violations yet. This is a pre-emptive message only.
–Howard
http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1364
Yes, that’s my artwork there. Rob Balder provided the text a full year after I drew the picture — I had no idea what the dialog was going to be.
Nice work, Rob!
–Howard