Gray

(Recurring title, yes.)

We are promised some rain.  Nothing like "Ike" proposes to dump on Texas and surroundings, of course, but damp and gray anyway.

And you folks down there Houston-wards be careful, y'hear?

Strange are the ways of modern logistics

Before we had internets and package tracking, we never would have known that four packages, sent on two consecutive days from the same UPS Store and to the same address, would follow three different routes 'twixt Maine and California.

One route apparently utilized a black hole.  The package vanished in Massachusetts, never logged out, and reappeared in California* without being logged in . . .

Commercial wormhole travel is here?

*Reappeared in a different UPS terminal than its shipping-mate.  Thus the third route.

Political musings for the day

If you show your sexist colors for questioning Palin's qualifications, are you "coming out" as a racist for questioning Obama's?

There's stubborn and then . . .

BBC World News has a reporter on Galveston Island.  He interviewed several people who planned to ride out the storm.  With a predicted storm surge higher than the high point on the island . . .