October 2006

Day 420: Philly’s Geology Bake Sale

October 23, 2006

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the “oldest natural sciences institution in the Western Hemisphere” is broke and may have to sell its minerals and gems collection to keep its library afloat. Trustees of a cash-strapped 194-year-old natural history museum are selling more than 15,000 minerals and gems that haven’t been displayed for decades [...]

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October 20, 2006

October 20, 2006 – Dolla’ Bill rocks … ‘cuz he made it into Rolling Stone! The representative from Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District is #4 on Rolling Stone’s The 10 Worst Congressmen. I thought they really meant congressmen until coming up on Marilyn Musgrave at #10. The Midwest will never be outdone – Hastert (IL) and [...]

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Day 417: Bill Moyers On The Internet

October 20, 2006

My favorite Bill Moyers quote has always been, “Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.” PBS and Mr. Moyers recently hosted a three-part series that investigates a triumvirate of issues of growing [...]

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Day 417: A Smattering

October 20, 2006

Ok, now I’ve been scared into blogging on a more regular basis. Consider it the equivalent of huddling with the posse while viewing a horror movie. What frightens me so? The following Google search phrases that led folks to my blog: “maitri matrimonial,” “clip da ashley tidal” and “nathan shroyer wife.” What the … clip [...]

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Day 413: The eBook Reader Revisited

October 16, 2006

Sony will soon unveil its latest version of the eBook reader, retailing at $350. In NYT’s Trying Again to Make Books Obsolete, David Pogue addresses readability problems and remarks that, with its new design, this reader has very few. The Reader employs a remarkable new display technology from a company called E Ink. Sandwiched between layers of plastic film [...]

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Day 413: Tongue-Tied And Twisted Just An Earthbound Misfit

October 16, 2006

On my return from Wisconsin and reacclimitization to New Orleans, the anti-S.A.D. light came out of cold storage and that can mean only one thing. This is the time of year when I (and hence, the blog) enter a state of inactivity and metabolic downtime. Since humans do descend from Eozostrodon and lesser mammals (I imagine an [...]

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Day 408: VatulBlog Adopts New Tamil-Only Policy In Airports

October 11, 2006

Man Questioned And Misses Flight For Speaking Tamil A 32-year-old man speaking Tamil and some English about a sporting rivalry was questioned at Sea-Tac Airport and missed his flight Saturday because at least one person thought he was suspicious … The man was speaking Tamil, a language largely used in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, [...]

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Day 408: Frenchmen St. Shooting Redux

October 11, 2006

Last night, I posted a piece on the Frenchmen St. shooting of Monday night and the bravery that the injured Westbank man and his wife projected in the face of near death. Gallant as the couple was, my post was a bit much, even if from the well of my own bad mood, so I took it [...]

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Day 407: Krewe du Vieux Brewe Doo This Friday

October 10, 2006

If you don’t know what Krewe du Vieux is, check this out (hope they get around to updating this site soon). It’s just another fabulous reason to live in New Orleans. We are the first (unofficial) big parade of the Carnival season and the only one that rolls through the Quarter. As the new Captain [...]

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October 10, 2006

October 10, 2006 – Citizens of hell, dig out your parkas … for O’Reilly isn’t fanatical enough for some. Perhaps it is time for fundamentalist Christians who vote only Republican to acknowledge that their faith, fueled by fear, was merely utilized for their party’s political ascendancy in the first decade of the 21st century, and [...]

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