More William Shatner than you can shake a stick at. I’m not sure what to make of all that, but now I really want to see Nightmare at 20,000 Feet while wiping my hands with some Star Trek Towelettes.
Honk Honk!
Local officials call the geese a nuisance, saying their droppings are causing health and safety problems.
The county has rounded up hundreds of geese and killed them in portable gas chambers, angering animal lovers.
“It’s genocide of a wild species,” said Sue Russell with Center for Animal Protection.
New Jersey animal rights activists say there are non-lethal means of separating geese and people, such as using dogs to chase them away.
They charge that Union County chose gassing because it was fast and easy. “It’s a horrific way to die for a human or a bird, especially birds as sensitive as Canada geese,” said Russell.
Some New Jersey residents agree. Goose lover Hana Sedlackova says the community has been shattered by the gassings.
“It’s like losing a pet, a member of the family really. It’s brutal,” she told CBC News.
The gassings have fuelled a movement that’s pressuring some states to find ways to allow the geese to live in the community. But so far it’s met without much success. Gassing remains a popular method of goose control in a number of places.
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Canada geese have crossed the border and have now claimed the United States as their home.
Shatdot
WilliamShatner.com now uses PostNuke. That practically makes it a blog, doesn’t it? Or more like a Slashdot-type community.
And why is Shatner’s hair turning gray? I thought it was implanted; shouldn’t it stay dark? Unless he’s dyeing it so he looks his age.
Pinoy Food Blog
A Filipino cooking weblog!. Of course, “Beef Kaldereta Spaghetti” gave me pause for a moment, but old classics like Pata Tim and Chicken Adobo are there, much to my glee.
Away in NJ
I am currently spending the holiday in the quiet little suburban town of Union, New Jersey, and will not be back till Monday. Ssshhh.
Movable Photoblog
For later reference:
Tutorial for Creating a Photoblog in MT
I will soon be resurrecting the old photolog, but it will be a long, tedious process, as my old template structure was rather cumbersome, and the photos will need to be re-uploaded, named, and captioned one by one. I’m swamped with work, heat, and a daily two-hour commute, so things are moving quite slowly. In the meantime, enjoy the new webcam page, complete with semi-customizable history mode.
Filipino Mythology
On kuro5hin: Brief intro to Filipino folklore and mythology. (I recommend reading it with comments off.)
Kitty and Corridor
My unnamed kitty-for-a-day lives on in layout02, and layout03 replaces the old “not funky” rounded boxes. (Apparently “funky” now means other things in the markup world.)
Harry Who?
Harry Potter? Who’s that?
Update: Gary Kotter!
Car? On Tracks?
It hasn’t been a day for rail travel: a car fell onto the tracks at Silver Spring Station, and both Penn and Camden lines were tied up in both directions by heat restrictions and Amtrak engine problems, effectively blocking my two main routes home. So, I was on the MARC Penn Line for almost three hours again, at one point sitting idle just ten miles out of Washington for about 45 minutes, waiting on a stalled Acela Liner at the New Carrolton interlock which was blocking rail traffic all the way to Philly. They eventually got the nonfunctional engine off the interlock with a gentle push from a southbound MARC Local train.
Now I’m home, in a room without airconditioning, holding steady at 90°F. At night. With the fan running on high. It’s like I’m back in Manila.
Update: Washington Post photo of the offending car, and corresponding story.
