I can't think of a title that would make sense here.

Galileo's Eyes) I don't understand this. Italian scientists want to dig Galileo's body up so they can get a DNA sample. They'll analyze the sample and try to determine what specific disease or condition cause his eyesight to fail during his life. The hope is, if I understand this brief article, to learn if and how such a condition could account for some of the inaccuracies in Galileo's observations. I get all that.

WHY anyone needs to know this is what eludes me. It sounds like someone is settling a bar bet. "I bet he was off cuz he had soap in his eyes!" "Nuh uh, I bet he had a degenerative eye disease!"

Depressing Eastwood Movies) I almost want to see Gran Torino. Then I remind myself that I've seen 3 Clint Eastwood directed films (are there more?) and had exactly the same opinion of all of them. "I don't like this as much as everyone else seems to." I can appreciate some of their finer qualities, but they are all depressing and don't really have much moral dimension. There's no lesson at the end. Characters don't grow or change. Even then, they aren't studies in cynicism. They don't seem to have anything to say about anything.. it's just "Check this situation out. Isn't that just effed up?!"

I'll probably still end up seeing it somehow.

Bill's Windows 7 Post) Bill, I really liked your Windows 7 post! I thought about adding a little Digg link to it but, since only me you and Ian come here, I wasn't sure what that'd really accomplish. Also, I didn't want to go modifying your post at all. But anyway, it managed to answer a lot of my Win7 questions.

A pipe burst in my basement a couple days ago) I'm out of town. Joe was stopping in to give Pezzo a pill (something's up with his jaw), saw water running down the wall outside the kitchen, and shut off the water. Unfortunately, the water had risen to a foot by then and managed to soak one of my amps, a couple of Joe's PA speakers and half my guitar pedals. I am hoping everything will work when it dries. That may be optimistic but, uhm, none of those things are cheap.. so I'm just gonna keep hoping.