It's been a deathy week for celebrities. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and the remaining bits of Michael Jackson, all at once. ***** When I was in high school, every guy that I knew seemed to have that one particular poster of Farrah Fawcett. Except me - the poster than hung over my bed was a cute chestnut mare. ***** I'm amazed at all of the people having a fit over Jackson. One of the cow-orkers...

An interesting theory on where geomagnetism arises. I'd have to spend a few hours reading my old physics books to even hope to do approximations, but on first impression there hardly seems enough water in the oceans to do that. ***** I wanted devilled eggs, but had no mustard. I made them with the mustard from a can of sardines, and mashed up some sardine in it too. That turned out remarkably well...

austin_dern pointed this out to me. I know there are some car geeks reading this who will get the reference:

Hoorah from the technopeasantry. As my offering I put up Plum Tells A Fib, from a slightly different wartime diary of P G Wodehouse a gentle bit of alternate-history that's fairly out of character for me to write.

I know our journals don't have a lot of readership overlap, so I present to you Advances In The Field of Ham Dragoning by Austin Dern, who has always had a fascinatingly Hodgman-esqe aura about his writing.

76. sci : How do you break down the walls in your mind that stop you from reaching the potential you can feel there? I wish I knew. I think the biggest obstacle to my getting things done is procrastination. Hell, it took me five years just to finish answering all these questions everyone asked me. It's amazing I get anything done sometimes. The key to getting things done is to just sit down...

Day three of the long weekend (as I took today off): Hemmed the over-priced, poorly fitting Official BSA zip-off pants I bought this past spring and were so disgusted with that I tossed them aside, not wanting to deal with this as I knew it was going to be a tedious process. BSA has since gotten rid of that design (a few weeks after I bought these of course) for a slightly different design that supposedly...