For some strange reason, I wake up at 1:45 a.m. My eyes are gooey and difficult to open because I fell asleep with my contacts in. I gaze outside my windowsill, and there's the full moon gleaming down upon me, and I remember that today, there's supposed to be a lunar eclipse.

I find it ironic when I think of who exactly got me to start reading the Harry Potter series in the first place. But that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

yikes. i've nuked my main blog site. now the question is, do i wait until the sysadmin re-enables my permissions, or do i just revert to my own homegrown system for blogging?

Y2K was a bust, but maybe Y2K+38 will be something quite unexpected. No one seems to be in a rush to adopt 64-bit time stamps.

I've been meaning to riff of off this blog entry about suicide. Maybe the timing is bad, considering that some guy just shot up six of his coworkers before offing himself [Chicago Tribune article][ABC News], but, as Michael Moore documents in "Bowling for Columbine", this sort of thing shouldn't be surprising.

Choice quotes from Arnold SchwarzeneggerRainier Wolfcastle and Ned Flanders

There were other reasons for this. I was supposed to write other things, but I have put it off further and further, and still, deep inside, I wonder if I wouldn't be better off just keeping it all inside, letting it build up like a pressure cooker until it was Time.