What is being hailed by some as the world's first vampire remains have been discovered in a mass grave in Venice, Italy. The woman (who I suspect was a vampire-witch hybrid) was buried with a brick wedged in her mouth, which apparently has some link to being to vampiracy. During the Middle Ages, man...

Dr. Spielvogel, you ask if I want to connect with you. Yesterday, all the interns talked about my desire to connect and how I kept analyzing it instead of just doing it. They noted I’m desperate to connect yet keep throwing up road blocks to connection. What does it mean to connect? I’ve...

Even though I know that diamonds are common and that the value of diamonds is based on false-scarcity and multi-billion-dollar global marketing campaigns, I still want to buy my future wife a big-ass Tiffany solitaire.  However, diamonds are losing value like a lead brick, so even the biggest profi...

Anyone who’s had depression even once has to be aware of it creeping into their lives once more. Will it hit like a ton of bricks? Will it slide in from the back door? Everyone’s experiences are probably different, and particular to their patterns and diagnosis. One thing’s for sur...

All women building firm gets contract for UK's first straw council houses...

Start: Feb 10 2009 - 6:00pm End: Feb 10 2009 - 9:00pm An interactive art experience for GLBQTI students and straight allies! Free dinner, free program, no art skill needed! Meet at South Puget Sound Community College, Building 21, Room 293. A production of Queer Art Heals Your Heart. Sponsored by St...

Start: Feb 10 2009 - 6:00pm End: Feb 10 2009 - 9:00pm An interactive art experience for GLBQTI students and straight allies! Free dinner, free program, no art skill needed! Meet at South Puget Sound Community College, Building 21, Room 293. A production of Queer Art Heals Your Heart. Sponsored by St...

Filed under: Peripherals, Troubleshooting, Mac Pro When we last left this running soap opera of some Seagate hard drives failing, the drive manufacturer had issued some firmware fixes, then pulled a couple out of circulation, and now has returned them with some fixes for the fixes. The firmware upda...

Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals It hasn't been a great year so far for care companies and banks. Now, add Seagate to the list of enterprises facing unexpected challenges. The big manufacturer of hard disks reports that a 'small' number of Barracuda 7200.11 drives are failing. Once they fail, the ...

Appaloosa Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen are unlikely cowboys, Jeremy Irons is an even more unlikely villain, and Renée Zellweger is the least likely "proper widow" the Old West has ever seen. Appaloosa is a fitfully entertaining, post, post-modern Western; Eric D. described it well as "a budd...