Okay, it's not an update, but...

...a help desk vignette.

*ring*
Penguin: IT help desk
Engineer: Hey, my machine won't boot up.
Penguin: Oh, yeah, can you describe the problem for me.
Brilliant Engineer: Sure. I power up, it boots past the bios and then nothing.
Penguin: Nothing?
MENSA Candidate: No, nothing but a blinking cursor.
Penguin: Okay, I'll be out there in a few minutes.

(Cut scene to Penguin walking through large cubicle area: fade to Penguin signing up for golf cart: fade to Penguin driving across plant site: fade to Penguin walking up stairs of Engineering building)

Penguin: Okay, now what's wrong with it
Mr. Einstein: Well, just look at it. I keep powering up and I get that cursor every time.
(Penguin examines machine. Pushes button to eject floppy. Machine boots to Windows)
Penguin: I think it's fixed.
The Thinker: Shit. Okay.

That, friends, is a Friday morning for me.

Mega-detailed update in progress. Ya'll have a good Friday.

Do they love their children, too?

On Sting's first album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, he had a song called Russians.

That song is ringing in my ears as I watch parents weep over small lifeless bodies in Beslan, Russia. I'm sickened and saddened that any human being would cause such a tragedy.

Bless them all, sweet innocents.