Maszman Speaks!

Damn, the Ken­Jen Jug­ger­naut has finally been stopped. It all seems so anti-climactic.

[Update 12/2/2004] For some rea­son, I had a feel­ing that the per­son who beat him wouldn’t repeat as cham­pion, and I was right. She was still all giddy from the pre­vi­ous show (they tape mul­ti­ple shows a day) and I’m sure the pres­sure release was immense. Oh well.

From the Strange But True File: Today at work my Dell lap­top sud­denly shut itself off and refused to start up again. I took it out of the dock­ing sta­tion and it was hot and smelled like smoke. I have no idea when it will be repaired, leav­ing me with no computer.

[Update 12/1/2004 ] The came and took it away to be repaired today. Any­where from 3 to 5 days from when the repair peo­ple actu­ally get it. I have my hard drive on the assump­tion it still works.

Temp work­ers get screwed by the NLRB, who seems mis-named nowadays.

Pic­tures By Tele­graph, the fax machine in 1900.

A recent study shows that kids with ADHD have phys­i­cal abnor­mal­i­ties in the brain, not just chem­i­cal imbal­ances. Another study seems to show that these abnor­mal­i­ties can be at least par­tially cor­rected using the stim­u­lant drugs usu­ally given to these kids. I won­der, though, about adults who have not been med­icated as chil­dren. Are these abnor­mal­i­ties per­ma­nent if not treated?

Weblog­gers may not have com­pletely replaced jour­nal­ists, but they’re cer­tainly get­ting noticed. More impor­tantly, the trend is to more diver­sity of opin­ions ver­sus the increas­ing polar­iza­tion of tra­di­tional journalism.