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He’s refusing to answer questions about whether he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. I assume he didn’t do it, but why won’t he talk about it if he’s innocent?

Go to http://gb1990.com for all the details.

Update: Glenn Beck apparently now controls the domain DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com. Why would you want to have a domain like that? Specifically, why would you have that domain and not be willing to talk about it? Is it because he’s not innocent? I think he needs to address the issue.

Back to the peach tree. I was out looking at it yesterday and figured the time was getting close to pick all the peaches, so this morning I grabbed a bit pot in one hand and Sarah in the other hand to go pick them. When I got into the back yard, I saw squirrels scatter and saw a peach on the ground and though “Wow, good thing I’m doing this now.”

Turns out I should have done it yesterday. Besides the half-eaten peach on the ground, everything was gone. There weren’t even pits left. All of my pretty little peaches became squirrel food. Fuckers.

The good news is that we had picked a few (few=4 in this case) peaches over the last couple of days to try them and they were actually pretty good. Good peach flavor and decent juiciness although they could have been a touch sweeter. Now only to be found in squirrel stomachs.

Funny though

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No, not the casino where “Ooh La La” is performed, but the woman, Paris Hilton.

Apparently he’s going to be given the “Hastiest Pudding of the Lampoon Award”. The funny thing is the news article on Yahoo currently has a correction at the bottom:

(This version CORRECTS award to `Hastiest Pudding of the Lampoon’ from `Woman of the Year.’)

So someone originally said that Paris was going to get the Woman of the Year award from Harvard and then realized that they were very very wrong.

The Yahoo article.

Scientists have finally isolated a gene (LRRTM1) that appears to increase the odds of being left-handed by inverting the functions of each side of the brain – one side controlling speech and language and the other governing emotion/creativity/etc.

So, all I need is a bit dose of  stem cells, a bit of gene therapy, and I could finally be normal!

I couldn’t come up with a good title (other than “wow, Microsoft really sucks”) for this, but I just want to point people to this article on Microsoft’s Live Mail, the new email application apparently looking to replace Outlook Express.

What struck me was just how not-positive the whole article is… basically the reviewer says “Microsoft abandoned OE a few years ago and so far everything sucked.  Now the new program has monumental bugs but otherwise is a lot like the old OE so the learning curve is small.”  Which is fine, except that OE really sucked, with huge security holes and no features that distinguished it from Eudora, etc.  So, finally, after a few years, MSFT is rolling out a slightly updated version of 10-year-old software, which doesn’t work (well/at all) with their new OS, and has several spectacular bugs not anticipated to be fixed until Autumn?

Man I’m glad I have a Mac.