What... my alert level reminder is still showing Bert (http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/). Did CNN say Ernie?

I'm working on original music and taking pictures of a local bakery today. I don't have time to be afraid. It could be anything... an asteroid, a dirty bomb, bovine spongiform encephalopathy...

Our government is a huge bladder of hot air and does not make so pleasing a sound as does the most poorly tuned and miserably played set of bagpipes. I am tired of listening. There's nothing I can do about any of this, anyway.