Journals of Journeys


Archive for February, 2007

A Valentine’s Message To Spammers

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Wassup?

In case you’ve missed it, this week on the Late Night Show with David Letterman, they’re having “Ventriloquist” week and the Monday night’s gent (Kevin Johnson) was fantastic! I think I’ve seen him somewhere before, he has a vulture and a cock-a-too that he uses in his act — puppets, of course, not the […]

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

A Sign of the Times

Drew Gilpin Faust, 59, was named president of Harvard, the first female to head up USA’s oldest, prestigious Ivy League college. She is the fourth out of eight Ivy League schools who have appointed a woman president.

This is after her predecessor, Dr. Summers, made a comment women have a lower aptitude in science. […]

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Comes Death With Beauty

How is it that these models are being photographed when it’s obvious they are on death’s door? The fashion industry claims they’re doing something about it[video] but are they?  Or is it just lip service?  If someone showed up for a photo shoot looking like these girls, wouldn’t you be compelled to rush them to […]

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Incredible!

Julian Beever is an amazing artist whose chalk drawings are found all over the world. I recently received several photos with his latest work via email (one of my favorite because of the exquisite detail is posted here as it came from my email). To see more of his work, check out his […]

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Should I Be Flattered?

Some brainiac from Iowa State U has titled his blogging program “eJourn.” Of course, this has sent a few smatterings of erroneous visits to my site and blogs, mostly of which a devout following of SPAMmers have risen up from their murky depths. So I went and visited the wannabe developer’s site and perused his […]

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

In The News

Honda “A” or so the salesman said who was trying to sell me the car. Repeat after me: idiot.

The head of my car’s manufacturer, Hyundai, could go to prison according to the BBC. I get that. Got that within the first sentence of the article, hell, even their headlines. What I fail […]

Sunday, February 4th, 2007