Prop2 is having some out of office issues...I overheard her very upset on the phone, and I offered to help but she kept schtum about whatever was causing her grief.

I haven't heard from the bro since last Thursday... I hope he gets a letter off to me by tomorrow.

I downloaded regmon, to look into my freezes. It is amazing to see how active the registry is on a seemingly idle computer. I suspect it's a hardware issue, probably the power supply that's been dying slowly the last few months.

Remember that scrambled letter entry? This site will truly rearrange all the letters between the first and last in words in my journal. Some of them result in a more difficult translation. Want to try it on some page of your choosing? (use chewy caramel center option) (This is closer to my regular journal, I think.)

The 1911 encyclopedia Britannica.

Global warming may now be killing giant squid, rather than aiding their biomass domination. (Rather prematurely, Reuters then goes on to describe giant squid as "mythical".)

MADRID, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Scientists are trying to find out what caused two enormous squids, one of them 12 meters (40 ft) long, to wash up dead on Spain's northern coast this week.

"It's not a natural death and it's not the Prestige," Luis Laria, president of marine protection agency CEPESMA said, referring to a massive oil spill from the Prestige tanker late last year. He declined to speculate on the cause.

Three of the little-known creatures washed up in the area about a year ago and marine biologists said global warming could be to blame for the mysterious deaths.

The giant squid, the mythical monster that attacked Captain Nemo's Nautilus in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", is the world's largest invertebrate and lives at depths of up to 2,000 meters (6,562 ft).

Laria said Spain's Asturias coastal region has one of the world's most important giant squid populations.

The second squid to wash up in recent days was a 87-kg (191-lb) female and was found by a man swimming. He told a Reuters photographer he had attached one of the tentacles to a float and dragged the creature towards the shore.

The Worst Jobs in Science - Astronaut was one that surprised me. I did guess Livestock Masturbator, though. I will be using the term "fistula feeder" as an insult sometime soon.

Britain's National Maritime Museum presents Robert Hooke: The Man Who Knew Everything:

By the mid-17th century, much of what underpinned Western thought was being questioned and replaced by a new way of thinking based on experimentation and observation.

Robert Hooke emerged as one of the leaders of this new age. Born in 1635 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, he was educated at home until the age of 13 and then at Westminster School. In 1653, he went on to Oxford University. His interests spanned a wide range of topics. Best known as an astronomer and instrument maker, he was also a skilled physician, surveyor, architect, anatomist and artist.

Among his incredible accomplishments is the illustrated book, Micrographia:

Robert Hooke was still in his twenties when he wrote Micrographia, yet in this prodigious volume revealed the immense potential of a single instrument, the microscope, and the many brilliant speculations of a multi-faceted mind. In it we are introduced to the living cell; to microscopic fungi and the life story of the mosquito; we find the two contrasting theories about the origin of the lunar craters posed for the very first time. We read the first sensible proposal for the origin of fossils, and an uncanny prediction of the artificial fiber industry in Hooke’s discussion of the spinning of silk by the spider. Elsewhere in his great book, gigantic insects populate the pages, and controversy and scientific argument pepper the text.