WTF Is It Now?!?

I had to shut down early yesterday evening due to all the damn thunderstorms. More this afternoon, plus the worm virus. Great.


Weather forecast for the North East
Wednesday: Rain. Heavy at times. Followed by periods of precipitation.

Thursday: Lingering showers throughout the day. Chance of rain 800 percent.

Friday: Moist. Damp. Sodden.

Saturday: Rainish. Showery. Precipitacious.

Sunday: Light rain followed by heavy rain followed by pouring.

Monday: Unseasonably rainy in the morning. Uncharitably rainy in the afternoon. Unconscionably rainy in the evening.

Tuesday: Endless showers broken up by occasional flooding.

Wednesday: Remember "Waterworld"? Like that, only with more rain.

Thursday: Not sunny. The opposite of sunny. Just forget about sunny, O.K.?

Friday: Clearing just long enough for you to make weekend plans. Followed by obscene amounts of rain.

Saturday: Take a wild guess.

Sunday: Incessant, spirit-crushing rain. The kind of rain that makes it futile to get out of bed in the morning. The kind of rain that seems as if it will never end. And guess what? It never will. Ever. Do you understand?

Monday: Please go away.

Tuesday:Ample, brilliant sunshine throughout the day. Wait - did I say sunshine? I meant rain. Really hard rain.

- - Michael Rubiner, via email from LeeR.





Archaeologists: Caligula a nut-case
A lot like GW Bush, only smarter.

Archaeologists digging up Caligula's ancient palace say they have found concrete evidence that he was indeed a "maniac" who turned one of Rome's most revered temples into the front porch of his residence.

"Everyone knows this guy was a little crazy. But now we have proof that he was completely off his rocker, that he thought he was one of the gods," Darius Arya, one of the directors of the excavation, said.

While the remains of Caligula's palace were first excavated by archaeologists on the edge of the Forum almost a century ago, the new dig has uncovered foundations and a sewage system that prove the palace was much more massive.

Arya said that the ruins showed Caligula's sprawling residence extended into the Forum and jutted up against the Temple of Castor and Pollux just as Roman scholars who were later written off had said.

"It shows the palace incorporated and took over the temple," he said. - link.