Saturday, October 27, 2007

return under warranty

Twas an uneventful and assignmentless week marked by some significant resurections.

The first, of most interest to no.6, is the return of the Casino Beef Week. Apparently a sponsor has been found to finance the parade and clean up the cow crap afterwards. The local newspaper had a striking frontpage photo showing the mayor of Casino recieving the cheque for $13.67 from the manager of Bruce's Beaut Beef Jerky. Strangely, a lot of people who heard this news throughout the rest of the Northern Rivers Region commenced twitching uncontrollably.

The other (seven year cyclic) return is comet 17P/Holmes which until wednesday was hiding half a dozen degrees north of the Pleiades at about mag 12. It managed half a million times brightness increase in a matter of hours and now hovers under (from a southern hemisphere perspective) Perseus at around mag 3.

Couldn't sleep last night and found (and finally watched) 'Blink' on my HDD. Extra cool! Definitely one of my favourites.
A bit easier: you know the people but which car, what engine, what date?

Cool for Kimi. One point over the top three. I hear Schumi is coming back. Actually I just made that bit up. Hard luck for Lewis - but he isn't going anywhere but up in the future.

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