8593 – elephants, eh?

Sweetheart is back from her road trip with Tina, safe and sound. It was nice to hear her have so much fun on her journey.. and to tuck her sleepy self in afterward.


Made tentative plans to hang out with Danny on Saturday – that’ll be fun.. it’s been a little while since we went out and hung around. Maybe we’ll get some pirates in.


Bro’s still been rather incommunicado… he’s going to be pretty surprised if I don’t get to talk to him fairly soon about things other than him.


Holy cow. Google video bought youtube?

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.

$1.65 billion. unimaginable.

funny how so many video-log folk are commenting on it.


An Elephant Crackup?
By CHARLES SIEBERT

Since the early 1990’s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses.

In India, where the elephant has long been regarded as a deity, a recent headline in a leading newspaper warned, ‘‘To avoid confrontation, Don’t Worship Elephants.’’

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