Sorry, Schlake. I’d thought your ’turnips’ were just soaking up pork juices and seasonings. If that’s their native color, then they’re not turnips at all but good old rutabagas.

The Palermo Scale is used by astronomers to measure the risk imposed to earth by an asteroid. It's a logarithmic scale with values ranging (roughly) from -7 to +7. Anything less than -2 can be ignored, and those between -2 and zero merit careful monitoring. For the first time, an object with a value greater than zero has been discovered.
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Many congratulations go out to M for her new fairy tale life.

Overheard at the farmers’ market (from people under 3 feet tall):

• (while looking at a rooster) “Don’t touch it. It might be poisonous!”
• (while examining bins of produce) “It’s a weed.” “It is not a weed!”
• “It looks like you live on a farm.”

Since the television programs I watch have been captured by the TiVo, I haven’t watched commercials in a long time. Yeah, shame on me for stealing from the broadcasters. Anyway, because of this, I miss things like announcements of new movies and odd things like Stop the Polyp! and Watch the Frog. That’s where knowing [Kristie and Patty comes in handy.

Autographed copies of the DVD box set of Doctor Who’s Key to Time series, featuring voice overs by Tom Baker and Mary Tamm, is available for pre-order at Tom Baker’s web site.

Those people freaking out over the plummeting stock markets obviously didn’t read my announcement last year. True, I did expect the lows to come six months ago, but I didn’t anticipate 9/11 and the wave of patriotism that pushed the markets higher for a while. Now that that’s over with, real market forces are back in control and I stand by my previous announcement.

A pair of astrophysicists at the school I surly would have gone to had I remained in-state are advancing a theory that the solar system did not convalesce from a nebula of interstellar gasses, but rather from the remnants of a supernova, the core of which is still embedded at the center of our sun. It’s certainly not mainstream astrophysics, but it may be right.

A tiger after my own heart!

Mikey, guitarist for the immensely popular Athens band Widespread Panic shared some extremely bad news with his fans yesterday.