I really, really hate it when I'm typing a long blog entry into Movable Type and I hit escape. When you're editing a document in vi, hitting escape takes you out of text entry mode and into command mode where you can move your cursor around, delete text, and cut and paste. When you hit escape while entering text into a text area on a web page, everything you typed goes away irretrievably. I've been burned by this many, many times. Every time I do it, I have a tendency to submit the entry multiple times in "draft" mode as I'm adding to it. Then I forget and stop, then end up losing another multiple paragraph entry, much like I just did right now.

Well, when I make a long trip out of town (Mardi Gras, Bonnaroo), I usually get some pictures and have an idea for what I want to write in the blog. A combination of some perfectionism (hah hah) and a lot of laziness keeps me from actually sitting down and writing the post. As a result, it takes me a long time, and it's hopelessly out of date by the time I do write anything. I promise I will write it up tonight, and include what few pictures I was able to take before my camera was taken to an early grave by the early morning Tennessee dew. Of course, I promise a lot of things.

Until then, I've found a couple of links you may enjoy.

Firstly, I loved this blog's name: Check out Occam's Toothbrush.

If you go here you can buy "What Would Jeebus Do?" T-Shirts, coffee mugs, and mouse pads.

I'm sure it's not the first, but this is the first design proposal I've seen for the World Trade Center site. And I like it, other than the pyramid on the top. I don't know what I'd put up there, but I don't think I particularly like that up on top. (Thanks Raven wolf.)

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because of the words "Under God". Yawn. The only thing that upsets me about this is the fact that I'm sure a lot of congressional time is going to be wasted on this issue. I'm an atheist myself, and if you ask me whether students should be compelled to say the pledge, I'd have to say no. But for Jeebus' sake, people give it a rest. Don't we have more important things to worry about right now?

Today my company is taking our group out to a baseball game. We get to see the Kansas City Royals take on the Detroit Tigers. Be still my beating heart. Kansas City is currently two games ahead of Detroit, who currently resides in dead last. So this will be an exciting game with Detroit trying to claw their way out of the basement and Kansas City trying to avoid the humiliation of last place. But don't worry, there's plenty of humiliation to go around.

I'll try to get that post about Bonnaroo up here this evening before my triumphant return to Racquetball.