Not Many Can Say This About Their Friends

A good friend of mine, Rebecca Watson, who run the skepchick website has received a great honor.

She's had an asteroid named after her.

Yup. Asteroid 153289 is now popularly named Rebeccawatson after being named as such by its discoverer, the Blue Color Scientist. Three other asteroids were named by the BCA after other popular scientist/skeptics, Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer), Michael Stackpole (author of various books, as well as the Pauling report, which countered every claim by D&D = Satanism crowd some years back), and Paul Myers, better known as PZ Myers a popular science blogger.

This is of course, the coolest thing ever.

Nigerian Scam Email

I just got a Nigerian Scam email. It made me wonder when the last time I got one of these things was. I was honestly beginning to think they had gone the way of MAKE_MONEY_FAST and were often more talked about than actually happened.

More Updates on the Website

The SSL and the Cart program took the switch to the new hosting company well, and I have spent much of the last 24 hours putting up images of products, as well as making thumbnails for 1000+ products. Things are tangibly progressing, although I do have some concerns as to how the store will function. Not helping is the fact that my laptop will be out of commission for a while and all the copy for the products is on that goddamn thing. Dumb of me, I know, but I had hoped it would be a quick turnaround repair. Nope.

Virii

My laptop computer I use at work seems to have gotten a nasty virus or some other kind of failure. This limits my work at work, as well as my level of communication. Its going to take a while for it to get fixed.

Fuck.

Another Bit o' Publicity

I got a little blurb in Main Line Magazine. Its a good little write-up showing the products on page 38. They played with some of my comments and copy a bit, not to any serious detriment, but that slinky ain't plastic.

What's Funny is That a Few People Came Up as Not Existing!

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 7 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Semi Annual Joke (and other things)

Well, here we are again at daylight savings. This means my semi-annual joke of the Wall of Clocks shall be presented.



There's two more clocks since last time. One a lame 8-Ball clock, the other a gift from my oldest brother...a clock from the Order of The Stock showing the Southern Pantheon of gods in clock form.

IN other news, at some point during this month Zot will reach one year of age and so will no longer be a kitten.



As you can see, she is now a very serious cat.

I went to my niece's birthday party and when helping my brother get pizza I got to see a really cool rainbow. It was pleasant.

How to Make a Lame Newspaper Comic Strip 100 Times Better!

Remove the Title Character!

As Long As Folks are Posting Punk Rock Videos

I figured I'd betted get this one in:



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