Today's puerile giggles news story

Bonus points for the writer being "Molly Bloom".

Firefighters put out blaze in cockloft
Monday, May 23, 2005

A Jersey City woman's summer clothes were lost but her home was saved after a one-alarm fire on Saturday evening, firefighters said.

The one-alarm fire on Suburbia Drive started shortly before 6 p.m., apparently when an electric lamp tipped into a plastic storage bin filled with summer clothes in the home's cockloft, Jersey City Fire Capt. Andrew Johnson said.

In spite of the difficulties of operating in a cramped cockloft, Johnson said firefighters had the fire under control within 20 minutes and concluded the entire operation within an hour, "It took a little maneuvering to get up in that area," he said.

There were no injuries to residents or firefighters and the only damage was to the clothes and some water damage to the woman's house, Johnson said. A firewall prevented the fire from spreading to the roof or to neighboring houses.

"They were very lucky, because once it's up in the cockloft, it's already gone," Johnson said. "Once it gets up there, it's almost out of control."

MOLLY BLOOM

Fffooccuusseedd.

Day 3 of Adderall, went up to 10 mg. Didn't want coffee this morning. Kind of alert. I don't think I need to go higher, may go back down lower. I can almost hear my eyes moving like in a Ren & Stimpy cartoon.

This list should be made into a bad techno song immediately.

A fine list of TERROR from cockeyed.

http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/terror/plans/terrorwatch.html

Terrorists might hijack a Sausage & Cheese cart and slowly destroy the economy of the mall
Terrorists might remove all the pictograph buttons from fast food cash registers
Terrorists might give president of USA a cat

Content-free linksmanship for Monday. Suck it up.

PUMPABIKE!, the bouncy bouncy people powered hydrofoil!

geek filter: things in Tiger I'm trying to figure out/fix

1. Backup to drive with the .Mac backup app is slow as hell now. No idea why, but it takes forever to do my firewire drive backup to the iPod.
   
   
2. If my wireless connection drops for even a second, my iDisk goes offline, iChat drops the AIM connection, and a couple of other apps shut down and I get the "Your network seems to be dead" annoy popup from the OS. There doesn't seem to be any way to tell the network "please ignore very temporary dropouts, it's wireless". Incredibly annoying!
   
   
3. Spotlight is slow. Way slower than Quicksilver was. It doesn't seem to cache *anything* as far as I can tell, so when I type in an app that I spotlighted earlier that day it still throws its pref file, its icon, all kinds of garbage before it announces that the "top hit" is the app itself. I'm finding it pretty useless.
   

This all sounds hatey but I do very much like Tiger as an upgrade otherwise. The fast bootup is particularly good on a laptop that restarts more often. I can't say the widgets do much for me, though. The goodies for me are mostly "under the hood" with this one.