May, 15, 2002 archives

the internet is still broken. but today, it's an entirely different set of places that i'm unable to access. i ♥ pacific bell.

here's a view of next fall's television schedule, based on the schedules that the networks are announcing this week. nbc's boomtown sounds pretty cool, but having both donnie wahlberg and jason gedrick in the cast is like a kiss of death. (don't get me wrong—they're both fascinating actors, they just have that bizarre ted mcginley-like show-killing aura.)

the grounding of all the jets in american airspace last september gave weather scientists a chance to study the effects of contrails on the weather. turns out they form the basis for large cloud banks, and moderate the daily temperature swing. (there's probably some joke about clouds and silver linings to be made here, but it probably wouldn't be in very good taste.)

wow, the sale of farmland may be coming to russia. for the first time since 1917. in just a few more years, they'll probably be paying people not to grow anything. god bless capitalism!