Author: tim

This is a pretty damn

This is a pretty damn scary article. The scope of this whole war looks like it might get alot wider soon. Iraq ‘behind US anthrax outbreaks’. They are already talking about which government to install once they get rid of Saddam.

One other thing about this article is the talk about the hawks vs. the doves. Is this some English journalistic device that I’m unaware of? (apparently so, dumbass. ed.) It’s kind of funny to hear about “dovish” Powell and “hawkish” Rumsfeld.

I just made myself scroll

I just made myself scroll through this entire list: World Trade Center Victims. It took me a long time and the whole time I was thinking about just how many people died at the World Trade Centers. I wanted to try to get a handle on the sheer numbers involved. My fiance and I had been talking about the fact that she had a hard time picturing 6,000 people. I thought that scrolling through the list would help me to try and get a sense for that number.

It took a long time.

Then, when I got to the bottom of the page I read this: The total number of people listed is 1,985. The page was updated October 9, 2001 at 9:45 a.m. EDT.

I wasn’t even close.

My concern about my honeymoon

My concern about my honeymoon has turned into concern for the people of Belize as I learn that as many as 50 people could have died last night as a result of hurricane Iris making a direct hit on the small town of Placencia in Southern Belize. Early reports are that 95% of the businesses have been destroyed in Placencia. Not damaged, destroyed. At least one diving boat, the Wave Dancer, has sank with as many as 20 feared dead. If we weren’t at war, this category 4 storm may have been more prominently featured in the news.