I've only changed a headlight on my '72 Mercury Monterey. I called the Ford/Mercury dealership in my parents home town (I was at my parents at the time) to ask how to do it. It was somewhat tricky, as there were tight springs involved.

Poll says four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right: [link]

four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right

I wonder how many of the respondees were illiterate and living below the poverty line.

Freaky! The Horror Of Nature: The Slingjaw Wrasse

Nature is a cruel, twisted bitch; the overseer of a vast menagerie of strange and awful things. These creatures were put on this Earth to inhabit our nightmares. Witness then, the horrible distended jaws of the appropriately named Slingjaw Wrasse. Filmed in excruciating slow motion so that one may fully appreciate the powerful thrust of this fish’s disgusting (or, perhaps, just lazy?) eating habits. Yes, for now they are feeding on insects, but it is only a matter of time (or a matter of a massive dose of radiation) before they develop a taste for the human brain. Evolution will take care of the rest, no doubt bestowing upon them appendages not unlike out own legs, allowing them to walk upon the land — looking every bit like a Hieronymus Bosch creation come to life — if only for long enough to crack open the soft, eggshell-like skull of a child and slurp out its contents like so much jelly. Mark my words: The time is nigh; best to wipe them out while they can only swim!

That is so not even close to the freakiest fish I've ever seen. Kind of cool that it looks so normal but has obviously had a cyborg enhancement.

I wonder what they consider Internet. I know that in a lot of poor nation, extremely poor people. People living on less than a dollar a day have cell phones. They never make voice calls, but they all have plans with unlimited text messaging. I heard a talk from a Doctors without Borders, and these days even death threats usually come by text message. (Doctor without Borders gets a lot of death threats, cause it is a way for someone angry at a community to strike back by depriving them of medical care until the source of the threat is tracked down.) She says even homeless people in the Phillipines living on the street have cells. Of course if you are text messaging you are not illiterate...

She also talked about diagnosis in those conditions.. If you don't have a thermometer, you diagnosis whether someone has a fever by feeling their forehead. You don't need to know how high the fever is in detail, and you can certainly tell mild from severe fever. You can take a pulse with your fingers. If you are going into a post battle scene you can look a soldier and see if there is an exist wound to match the entrance wound to know if the bullet passed through or still in there. The soldier can tell by the pain level if they were gut shot. You see if a leg is broken by whether the person can stand or not, or whether it hurts to try. And what it comes down to, is you can do very effective triage with not instruments. She had a supply of antibiotic and she was able to diagnose bladder infections by examination and asking questions. Since in all the cases where that was the diagnosis the infection was cured by the antibiotics she is confident here diagnosis was right.

She was in the MILF area (Moro International Liberation Front, not hot mamas) and some of the people were so grateful to have medical care they tried to set them up with armed guards. The doctors gently but firmly turned them down: armed guards would be targets for the military, while the military was shooting their guards the military would also shoot the doctors - either accidentally or probably on purpose.

Anyway an amazingly brave woman, and amazing how matter of factly she described all this.

I consider text messaging phone service, not the internet.

Ethiopian food for lunch.

Mario and Luigi restaurants in Manchester

After they saved the princess, Mario and Luigi moved to Manchester, UK and went into the restaurant business. Luigi sells pizzas, kebabs, and burgers; Mario owns a bakery and confectionary. Who knew? The Neatorama guys found this using Google Street View.

IT'S SIXTY ONE FAHRENHEIT OUT.

A month ago, I had, what? Four feet of snow? Five?

I am so glad February is behind us.

OK, back to marking up requirements docs.