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All of us here on the base would like to offer up our prayers and condolences to the family and friends of those in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area who lost family/friends/loved ones in the I-35W bridge disaster.

It is comforting to know, that in the Heartland of America, a stranger would go out of their way and even endanger their own life to save that of another human being. While we recognize that this also happened at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, it was repeated over and over in the reports already coming out of the Minneapolis area.

One thing that all of us can do, and that has been called for by medical personnel of the Twin Cities area, is to donate blood at your local Red Cross blood donation center.

If nothing else, take a few minutes and say a prayer for all those affected by or involved with this disaster.

All of us here on the base would like to offer up our prayers and condolences to the family and friends of those in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area who lost family/friends/loved ones in the I-35W bridge disaster.

It is comforting to know, that in the Heartland of America, a stranger would go out of their way and even endanger their own life to save that of another human being. While we recognize that this also happened at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, it was repeated over and over in the reports already coming out of the Minneapolis area.

One thing that all of us can do, and that has been called for by medical personnel of the Twin Cities area, is to donate blood at your local Red Cross blood donation center.

If nothing else, take a few minutes and say a prayer for all those affected by or involved with this disaster.

From the comic strip "Pluggers" for today.

Conservative champion William F Buckley, Jr. passed away today.  He was 82.

Buckley certainly deserves many accolades for bringing the conservative movement from grassroots to the White House and the National Review will loose a superior asset for how true conservatism should work.

May He rest in peace.

Dismissed^TM

...passed into the etherium.

News has reached the base that Sci-Fi genius and legendary novelist Arthur C. Clarke has died, at the age of 90.  This news will certainly cause fits for all Hal 9000 mainframe units, espectially those installed in interplanetary spacecraft designed primarily to remain within our Solar System.

Jim and Dave could not be reached for comment, but it was rumored that Clarke's last words were "My God, it's full of stars!"

We here at the base will certainly mourn this loss, and the Science section as well as the R&D folks have asked for a pass to attend the funeral in Sri Lanka.  Given the current security status, they might have to settle for a CCTV feed.

ThatIsAll^TM

Anyone in the blogosphere knows the name ThinkGeek.  The online retail outlet for just about anything a geek would want.....in their home, their cube, and to wear in order to demonstrate to the world your true geekdom status.

Well, this year ThinkGeek back on April 1^st they decided to list a wearable t-shirt that "would play sound effects or a short clip of various types of background music.  All controlled via a remote you had in your pocket".  Well, since SOOOOOO many people actually bought into the joke, TG is gonna do the right thing and ACTUALLY make the t-shirt.

Here's the TG response, in it's entirety:

Looks like we're the fools here. The Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt was originally an April Fool's Prank... but due to overwhelming positive response and hundreds of e-mails screaming to "make the damn shirt already" we're putting this item in to production ASAP. Keep in mind our army of robotic factory monkeys are a bit slow, and it might take them some time to make the real version of this nifty product. Also although we'll try to keep the Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt as close as possible to what you see here, the final version might deviate slightly in appearance, features or price. Capiche?

The guys in the R&D department are practically drooling over this prospect.  Guess your General is going to have to get on the mailing list.

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