Went out alone looking for gas containers and at my second Home Depot (University Drive), I found some in stock. They turned out to be nice 6 Gallon containers which was a boon later on. Because of high demand, they limited us to purchasing two cans per person. While this sounds kinda hum-drum, it took more than two hours to accomplish, mostly standing in line to get inside Home Depot.

Cindy got the call that her Boca Raton office had lost its roof in the storm. This building is a four story building and the office space is on the third floor so it was a bit suprising how the property manager emphasized over and over again that it was a total loss. There just wasn't enough rain in this storm for it to be that bad but soon we found out the real story. One of the Doctors call the property manager and got out that the fire suppression sprinkler system had malfunctioned and flooded all four floors of the building.

Wilma+1

After spending the morning being stunned and reviewing damage information from Florida Power and Light and the local news stations, we trekked across broward county looking for an open gas station to keep our cars and generators running.

We are now at Wilma+8 and my super gracious friend whom hosts llamas.net at his company has come back on the Internet, so I have some backlog of information and pictures to share. The short story is this: South Florida got hit hard. Really Hard. The pictures are uploading though we have 1.3GB of them now and it'll take time.

Come Monday October 24, 2005, we will be under the influence of yet another hurricane of this most amazing season. Current predictions show it will be a Cat 2 or Cat 1 by the time it arrives over our home, so we aren't too worried about it at this point. The big problem is how long its been sitting over the Ycatan Peninsula and not getting on with where its going to go next. I suspect that the devastation in Mexico will be just as epic as New Orleans was from Katrina due to the immense power of the storm and the painfully slow movement. for several hours where was no recorded movement of the eye (zero mph), however now at 11:00AM EDT, it is racing away at a whopping 2 mph.

I don't know how it happened, but we we're baking some potatoes last night to accompany our dinner and when I went to retrieve said potatoes, I found this! We took a few pictures but have called in Mulder and Sculley to get to the bottom of this. While Fox and Dana are handling all the 'heavy lifting', I have but a single vexing question. Is it an 'Ex-Potato' or an 'X-Potato'? I'll put up a poll. -Chipper

“Up From Zero” is a documentary film that pays tribute to the brave men and women of the New York City building trades who put themselves on the line on September 11, 2001 – and for nine months afterward – to reclaim Ground Zero.

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William Gibson is the father of the CyberPunk genre and author of Neuromancer, the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. The following is an excerpt from his BLOG regarding the history and future of media.

Islands in the Clickstream: The Brain Needs Time to Catch Up with the Body

“Is that how you experience Israel?” asked my friend when I shared what I wrote about a week in Tel Aviv and Eilat. “With all the bombs, guns, and weapons, it sounds more like Texas!”