Drunken Pumpkin

British detectives probing the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have wound up their investigation in Moscow and are preparing to leave for home, the Russian news agency Interfax said on Monday.

Russian agencies said earlier that Kovtun had been questioned again on Monday. The Prosecutor-General’s office refused to comment on the reports.

Last week German police uncovered traces of polonium in properties Kovtun used in Hamburg.

Kovtun has said he must have picked up traces of polonium from the murdered man when they met mid-October. That meeting in London was well before Litvinenko fell ill.

Kovtun, who denies any link to the murder, was questioned for the first time on December 5 and December 6.

The above are excerpts from an article on Reuters.com. The full article can be found here.

It ties rather nicely with some information reported by Xinhua.com last week (full article here)

Four people were hospitalized in Hamburg Monday, on suspicion they had been contaminated by polonium, the same radioactive substance that killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

The four had contact in Germany with Russian businessman Dmitri Kovtun, who spent four days in Hamburg in late October before flying to London, where he and two other Russian men met at a hotel with Litvinenko on Nov. 1. Litvinenko fell ill later that day from radiation poisoning and died several weeks later.

“A human’s sense of smell may not match that of his best friend but it deserves greater credit that it gets. A University of California at Berkeley study, aimed at finding if two nostrils are more efficient than one and if their spacing affects the level of olfactory abilities, has found that humans have a stronger sense of smell than previously believed.

Under the study, Jess Porter, Noam Sobel and their team conducted an experiment wherein 32 human subjects were made to follow a 10-meter grass trail of chocolate oil. The subjects were blindfolded and made to crawl on all fours. The trail, which was made using chocolate essential oil poured over a grassy ground, was followed correctly by as much as two thirds of the participants.”

The above is an excerpt from an article found at EarthTimes.org. The full article can be found here.
For those who don’t recognize it, the title is a quote from the movie Ghostbusters, said by Dan Aykroyd

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

That Bumper sticker thing has been hanging out on the server for about two months. I was wondering if Jeff would ever have the nerve to actually publish it. Please keep hate mail to a minimum of four lines and forward all viruses to Jeff and not Drunken Pumpkin. Thank you.

The way I see it, the chap attacking the bear and the cyclist have a lot in common. Both of them are after something that someone else has worked for. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. After all, I’m using software that someone else developed, and I almost never give credit to that achievement. And look at how many people write venom about Microsoft while using Internet Explorer or Office. However, that’s certainly off topic.

If you look closely the chap in the waders in the first video is clearly the same as the fellow that goes into the river in the second. Perhaps that is because of his deep love for bodies of flowing water. Or it’s just to allay those recurring suspicions that he is, in fact, a vampire. Anyone that can take down a bear with his bare hands is probably not human. And thus, one of the undead.

Tune in tomorrow for more tales of fishing corpses or fish corpses, whichever proves more entertaining.