Three Spam Names Get In A Fight

At a baby shower gone terribly wrong, shootings and beatings occur, affecting the lives of Aristotle Garcia, Jazz Rivas, and Cheryl C. Claprood.

The world is a fever dream lately.

HYP NO TOAD

I have a dashboard widget of the Hypnotoad. It's fun and rotates its eyes at me.

Tonight it started making noise, RRRR ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.

It never did this before. I don't recall updating it.

I'm afraid.

Word of the Day

PUERILE GIGGLES AND/OR TOTAL CONFUSION AMONG THE INTERNET HORDES IS SURE TO RESULT FROM TODAY'S GOOGLE CHOICE

Birthday Wikipedia "meme": ZAMENHOF DAY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_December

Selected Events:

1791 - The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia legislature.

1961 - In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released.

Selected Birthdays:

37 - Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68)

1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russian initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)

1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist

1955 - Paul Simonon, British bassist (The Clash)

1964 - me!

Selected Deaths:

1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. circa 1831)

1944 - Glenn Miller, American musician (b. 1904)(probably - date of plane's disappearance)

Apparently it's the Roman holiday of Consualia, on which day the Rape of the Sabine Women took place. The holiday is all about THE GRAIN THAT IS UNDERGROUND AND HIDDEN AND PROTECTED. Fascinating stuff.