Well, at least it wasn't an aligator.

Steve Irwin is dead. He was filming a portion for his daughter's nature documentary, and he took a stingray barb though his heart after swiming too close to the creature. He leaves behind Terri and their two kids, Bindi and Bob.

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Rememember Pearl's Public Television from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank? I always thought that the PPTV was more parodying Twin Cities Public Television, than the Public Broadcasting System. (In other words, PPTV = TPT instead of PPTV = PBS) And while both showed at least an hour of "Are You Being Served" a day, I can't remember how heavy they were with the fundrasing. And not only was it an hour, it was staggered so you could watch an hour on one channel and switch to another to watch another hour.

Which is fustrating, because I know PBS was huge into the fundraising, 'cause it's PBS and I have on tape Steve Smith stumping for a Wisconsin channel. I don't recall much fundrasing for TPT, excapt for the miniads before the shows, like for the Radius Gallery for artwork created in a 100 mile radius of the Twin Cities.

...I can't belive I have that ad memorized.

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It's magnets. Well, not really magnets but a magentic field. Light and magnets are just diffrent part of the same kind of force, so if you got asoething to project both a light field anda magentic field, a light bee would work. I mean, a magetic feild is all that's really preventing everything plummiting to the Earth's core, no? Tiny magnets can defeat gravity. They make matter into blocks. So a magentic field! That would make solid holograms.

Yes, I'm playing with a concept from Red Dwarf. No, I don't care if it's science fiction, because it's fun to turn science fiction into science fact. Or at least do that one day.

I think I'm going to change my cognate from lingustics to chemistry. Because the thing is, what I want to do with lingustics I'm not sure if you can really do. I am, primarly, story driven. I want it to be easier to tell stories across languages, so some idoit with four years of Spanish doesn't take two years to transate you work. The mythical machine translation, but... is that what I really want to do? Is it really better to tell a story, when it's just as fun to break the story down to it's componet parts? To see what comes before and after the story? Why someone did this instead of that, why someone outed someone else cruelty, why someone always wears read, what something really is? It's a story still, just the tools to explain the whys are diffrent.

Infomatics is about solving problems using technology. It's about chasing that thing that ignites you're passion. It's praticality measured with joy. I'm not sure about where I'm going yet, I've gotten lost many times over the last few weeks, but this is where I want to be right now. And it's one of the best feelings ever.