Oh dear - is it a SAP product? I've had that issue a few times. (Not the entire FAQ, but every now and then there's an error message that somebody forgot to translate.)

No, I think it is an internnaly built crappy lotus Notes DB thingymahoo. So completely un-intuative.

They internally built it in German?

I work for a German company. It is not uncommon that guidelines, meeting notes, manuals get sent out to the international branches only in German and then sometimes they get translated.

NCIS: LA went to a Steampunk bar last night. I suspect the writers have seen Steampunk on the Net and haven't done much else.

That was steampunk? I wasn't paying much attention. It just looked generically alternative.

This is hysterical. [link] One of the whacked out Left Behind groups is distributing copies of The Origin of Species (several key chapters redacted) along with an intro explaining how wrong it all is. Or something. It's all supposed to be a big poke in the eye to athiests, and a clever end-run around Berkeley's non-existant ban on any and aall religious expression or thought on campus. Somebody needs to go to Berkeley and get me a copy.

On the intro:

As for Comfort's introduction, it says very little about "The Origin of Species" per se, limiting itself to familiar creationist canards about the complexity of the human eye and the absence of "transitional forms" from the fossil record. (It's hard to lend much credence to the scientific arguments of a guy who thinks chimpanzees are monkeys.) There's a brief biographical section on Darwin's life, most of which has been plagiarized from a short text by Dr. Stan Guffey, as some bloggers have demonstrated. The rest has been plagiarized from Brian Regal's introduction to the Barnes and Noble edition of "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin," except for a timeline, which was plagiarized from an online resource.

Oh Kirk Cameron, when did you get so craxy? Don't ever change.

I had a copy turned in to Lost and Found at my work on Wednesday night, so they were handing them out in GA, too.

Somebody on one of the campuses SMACKED him down, too. It was awesome. It was on TMZ, if you want to see it. Kirk can't blame God or natural selection for the new asshole he just got.

My one meeting today was canceled. I am having a hard time staying motivated but I have a ton of catching up to do after the hurricane my project's been in the last two weeks.

BTW, my brother was released from the hospital last Friday and is doing pretty well. They think he has Fibrromuscular Dysplasia which not that much is known about evidently. They think there might be a genetic component though. scary stuff. For now he has to limit his activity due to being on blood thinners and make sure his blood pressure doesn't get too high. He is a runner and does aikido so this is going to be kind of hard on him. I'm looking into whether there are some gentle-type yoga classes available out where they live.

anyway, lesson: don't take your good health for granted!