9. February, 2003 - St. Rasputin?

• Orthodox Church Takes On Rasputin. See there are those who want Rasputin (as well as Ivan the Terrible, and perhaps even Uncle Joe Stalin) canonized. The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church thinks that might not be such a good idea. I dunno. I kinda like the sound of "St. Ivan the Terrible".
• [Soyuz-6] landed right besides a children's school Should the remaining shuttles be unavailable, the present crew of the International Space Station will have to evacuate and deorbit via a Soyuz capsule. While these Soviet-era capsules are considered reliable, their history is sufficiently mixed to make one think twice. [reed]
• Hey, Stavros the Wonderchicken's been back for almost a month over at Emptybottle.org. Why was I not informed?
• Yesterday afternoon I updated my quotes-page and wrote up a quickie about how I maintain my quotes file. It's not a great explanation, but it's a mix of sed, awk, and make to turn a plain-text file into both the signature file I want for my email program and the HTML file that lives here on the website. Now I only have to maintain things in one spot, and hopefully things will be easier to keep up to date.
• We've Got to Stop Eating Like This [popups] talks about how the food industry (and the fact that we can't stop shoving their products in our pie-holes) is making America fat.
• Apropos of hardly anything at all, other than stuffing my pie-hole I offer My cupboards overflow. It was something to write on a Sunday, rather than getting anything useful done around the house.

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