This collection of entries is from November 23, 2002.
Tonight's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor is in Chicago, broadcasting from the Auditorium Theater. The guests include saxophonist Franz Jackson, Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones, The Sones de Mexico Ensemble.
Imagine the ramifications - scientists think that totally unrelated seismic disturbances (not associated with an earthquake) might indicate passage of strange quark matter (also known as nuclearites) through the Earth at speeds of 250 miles per second.
Oh. My. God. When I had an IBM ThinkPad on my lap on the way home from work for an hour on the train, I have to admit - my lap got pretty warm. But this - this is is just frightening. I mean, toasting one's private parts?