Wednesday, September 12, 2001
New Land Rush
[I originally wrote this on September 9th, before the horrible events of yesturday. I decided to keep it in here. –spc]
From some spam I received on the 9th it seems that the new
TLD .INFO starts
resolving today. Let the money games begin!
This is no Pearl Harbor
I'm watching the talking heads on the TV claim over and over again that the World Trade Center Attack is another Pearl Harbor.
This is no Pearl Harbor!
Pearl Harbor was a millitary attack on one sovereign nation's naval base by another sovereign nation's navy. The enemy was easily identifiable and most, if not all, of the causalties were millitary personel. The reasoning for the attack is understandable (if not forgivable).
The World Trade Center Attack was an as yet unidentified paramillitary or religious group attack on a purely civillian target. The enemy is not easily identifiable, most, if not all, of the causalties were civillians and the reason for the attack is not understandable at all (at this time; we're still trying to figure out who did it).
And like Pearl Harbor, it was an unexpected attack on the United States. That's about the only similarity between the two.
Galaxies Are Colliding
To get away from all the recent depressing events, Spring and I hit the local Lackluster to rent a few movies. She hadn't seen Real Genius, which is one of my favorite films. I, on the other hand, hadn't seen The Full Monty. So we grabbed both films.
It was only after we put the tape in did we realize that we had not rented The Full Monty, but instead had picked up a copy of Galaxies Are Colliding. And it wasn't a case of the wrong tape being in the right box, but the wrong box (with the wrong tape) being on the shelf in the wrong place.
Or something to that effect.
We decided to give it a whirl as we dyed Spring's hair. And we both kinda liked it.
