Drunken Pumpkin

Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson was stricken by a hemorrhage in his brain caused by a rare and sometimes fatal condition and required emergency overnight surgery as Democrats prepared to take fragile 51-49 control of the new Senate when it convenes in three weeks. Democrats seized control of both chambers of Congress from Republicans in November midterm elections.

If Johnson were to leave office, a replacement would be named by South Dakota’s Republican governor, Mike Rounds. A Republican appointee would create a 50-50 tie and effectively allow the GOP to retain Senate control because of Vice President Dick Cheney’s tie-breaking vote.

Doctors say that Senator Johnson is well on the way to recovery and no further surgery should be required.

The following are excerpts from Playfuls.com. You can read the full article here

“Scientists working in a remote area on the frozen southern continent have made a remarkable discovery: the well-preserved skeleton of a baby plesiosaur.”

“The team of paleontologists knew from the beginning that the icy skeleton was an amazing breakthrough, but it wasn’t until they reached a warmer climate that they realized the importance of their discovery. During the period when it stood covered in ash and ice, the head eroded but the other parts of the body were remarkably well preserved in the volcanic material, including cartilages too.

The fossil is what remained of a baby plesiosaur, less than 1.5 meters long. An adult plesiosaur could reach more than 32 feet in length. The animal’s stomach area was wonderfully preserved. Stomach ribs span the abdomen, and rather than being long, straight bones like those of most plesiosaurs, these are forked, sometimes into three prongs.”

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

Uh-oh, looks like the secrets out. Jeff isn’t a real person, he’s just an AI. That’s why he actually posts on time. Unlike me.

I encourage all of you to peruse the Turing link and then try to get Jeff to give you an “out of cheese error”. Leave your questions in the comments section, or just fill his email inbox with them. He won’t mind.

I like that even Oscar Wilde knew that something was up with Jeff. Jeff was always so chipper and bad things never happened to him. (Really, the cage thing is his idea.) It’s no wonder that Oscar never trusted him. In fact, I think that Wilde’s last words were, “Keep your eye on that one, he doesn’t blink enou…”

Tune in tomorrow when Jeff exposes more secrets of the computing world, and why penguins make the best servers.