“You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. That is the sound of your death.”
Classes at A&M are cancelled for Friday. The football game has been moved from Saturday to Thursday (gotta love the love of football in Texas, we’ll play no matter what). One of my professors recently taught at the University of Florida and has lived through a number of these… his recommendation to all of us, leave for Dallas.
For those unfamiliar with the geographical proximity of College Station and A&M to anything else: we are approximately, 95 miles north of Houston and 170 miles south of Dallas and 100 miles east of Austin.
The current trajectory has Rita hitting just west of Galveston/Houston from which it will then head north, passing close to the College Station area. So that means lots of puddles to splash in and good weather to fly kites.
And to give you an idea of the size this sucker is, someone on the Weather channel suggested that this was like a tornado the size of Georgia. That’s how we like things in Texas, big.
The Essence of Douchebag:
Detroit Tigers hat: Not that I have anything against the Tigers, but wearing this hat exhibits the fact that you are either from Michigan, or cheer for Michigan sports teams. Both are equally unacceptable. Everyone from and everything about Michigan sucks. Michigan, along with Wisconsin should join Canada. Or you could just move there. We wouldn’t care. And Canada wouldn’t notice that you’re wearing…
Apropos my article yesterday comes an article from News.com predicting and describing the same theme of Google creating “virtual” applications, accessible anywhere an Internet connection exists:
The notion of a network computer isn’t new. Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has for years been saying “the network is the computer.” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison formed a company around the idea. It was called the “New Internet Computer Company,” and it sold Web surfing devices before shuttering two years ago.
But unlike Sun and Oracle, Google’s timing could be impeccable, Arnold argues. “Sun defined it. Ellison tried to build it. But Google owns it,” he said.
