Week of 26 Aug

Napa State Hospital. For a few years, before my parents had divorced, I'd lived in Napa California. My father & sisters had continued living there afterward. Whenever my brother & I would go visit, we'd always pass this place. It didn't really look so nice in the early 1970's. Neglect & cheap paint made it look pretty bad. But I remember my brother frequently teasing me that I would would wind up there. Little did he know that Reagan would withdraw that threat & send all the people there packing.

Heh. Experts. Why We Are All Insane.

Clearly, something we all need -- English Grammar 101: All You Need to Know. OK, there's far more to it than a single Web page can cover, but read it.

Unwanted tattoos can be removed by cream injected into skin - without pain or scarring. Now, would we could use this on annoying, over-stayed-their-welcome house guests.

Interesting. Another Stonehenge Found Deep In Amazon Forest. What were these used for? Really? They're showing up everywhere.

You can rest easy, now. Yellowstone's Ancient Supervolcano: Molten Plume Of Material Cooler Than Expected (or so they claim here). I don't know about you, but I prefer the excitement of potential. Yellowstone blowing up, the massive earthquake forever being predicted, etc. I can't think of nicer things I'd like to photograph.

In a "Screw you guys, I'm going home" move, Mars rover leaving crater after yearlong probe.

All light up. Smoking Occurs in 75 Percent of Movie Hits. These militants need to find a more realistic hobby.

Oh, dear! The weekends are more rainy, and it may be our fault. Yeah. Tell that to the Gulf Coast.

Thanks, Patrick.

Dunno what it is about this image, but I really like it.