News and stuffs and mostly unhappiness
Jan. 4th, 2006 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zhieTo begin, despite having the plan in my mind to remember to toast Tolkien this year, I took a nap at 6, woke up during the triple (or was it double?) overtime of the orange bowl last night, mumbled something to Mark about the professor's birthday as he concentrated more on the football game, fed the fish and the cats and went to bed. So, um... without you Professor, one of those fishies wouldn't have been named Morgoth. Tis the only Tolkien-named pet we have left, come to think of it. How very bizarre...
In other news, as I was going to work, the husband mumbled incoherently about the miners being saved. Had to tell him, nope, reporters got it wrong last night. While watching the news this morning, I'm thinking, y'know, I bet some of the newspapers are going to have messed this one up, too. Kinda like the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' only not something one can go and laugh at later.
Sure enough, and here's a big reason why I just want to smack my head against the desk sometimes, the local paper (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which used to be two papers, the Journal in the evening and the Sentinel in the morning, and quite frankly I preferred the afternoon paper myself, but now we have one and it just sucks) reads 'Miners found alive'. Good job, morons. Compare to USA Today (which, for having to cover fifty states, does a pretty good freaking job of it - it's actually my favorite of newspapers, even surpassing the New York Times or the Chicago Sun Times (yes, I like it better than the Trib, bite me), but I digress, and the fact I have a 'favorite' newspaper even worries me a little, as does the fact I'm this familar with newspapers in general) whose headline reads 'Mine rescue races time: One body found in W.Va.; 'glimmer of hope' held for survivors'. Apparently USA Today has reporters and editors with some amount of intelligence (which I think I just spelled wrong, but that's okay, it's early). I was also disappointed with the television news this morning... they spent more time on drivel than real news and never said a thing about the landslides going on in Indonesia. (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/indonesia.landslide.ap/index.html) Meh. Alright, I'm done, besides, I need to go water the plants. This rant has been brougt to you by sea turtles. Sea turtles: They're cute.
In other news, as I was going to work, the husband mumbled incoherently about the miners being saved. Had to tell him, nope, reporters got it wrong last night. While watching the news this morning, I'm thinking, y'know, I bet some of the newspapers are going to have messed this one up, too. Kinda like the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' only not something one can go and laugh at later.
Sure enough, and here's a big reason why I just want to smack my head against the desk sometimes, the local paper (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which used to be two papers, the Journal in the evening and the Sentinel in the morning, and quite frankly I preferred the afternoon paper myself, but now we have one and it just sucks) reads 'Miners found alive'. Good job, morons. Compare to USA Today (which, for having to cover fifty states, does a pretty good freaking job of it - it's actually my favorite of newspapers, even surpassing the New York Times or the Chicago Sun Times (yes, I like it better than the Trib, bite me), but I digress, and the fact I have a 'favorite' newspaper even worries me a little, as does the fact I'm this familar with newspapers in general) whose headline reads 'Mine rescue races time: One body found in W.Va.; 'glimmer of hope' held for survivors'. Apparently USA Today has reporters and editors with some amount of intelligence (which I think I just spelled wrong, but that's okay, it's early). I was also disappointed with the television news this morning... they spent more time on drivel than real news and never said a thing about the landslides going on in Indonesia. (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/indonesia.landslide.ap/index.html) Meh. Alright, I'm done, besides, I need to go water the plants. This rant has been brougt to you by sea turtles. Sea turtles: They're cute.
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Date: 2006-01-04 03:27 pm (UTC)So sad. Having been told they were alive and then told they weren't. That has to be the most horrible thing.
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Date: 2006-01-04 04:48 pm (UTC)Of course, our paper also calined that they wer alive.
How horrible for their families.
Hugs,
Kat
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:36 pm (UTC)Beinie and Celeb
Hoping you figured out what to put on his tushie.