Alas, it's a slow news day (or two). No news clips today (gasp!). Instead I will muse on random things.
Today was the March for Life. I did not make it (as is customary for me, though I did go last year). I hope it went well. I did see some news articles about it which is a good sign.
A friend of mine wrote me email urging me to call my senators (ahem, Kennedy and Kerry) and asking them vote for Alito. Now, really, how funny would I feel to do that? It would be like calling the Vatican and urging the Pope to convert to Islam. If you do it with a straight face, you half expect them to laugh. Maybe if you admit it's funny, you'll have a chance of them listening to you. Or maybe they'll take you less seriously. I just don't know how to approach it. This is how I feel about most issues I care about. This is where I really hate being a Massachusetts resident.
This is totally unrelated to the faith, but I think it is cool, and this is my blog, so I'm going to post it. I've been perusing an interesting site, http://www.familytreedna.com. It's a site that will analyze your DNA for you and tell you who you are related to. As an engineer, I have to admit, I now know how other people feel when we try to explain stuff to them. The site is full of the arcana of DNA, and as they go on and on about clades and base pairs and DYS values, I find myself not only lost among the trees but inundated with details about pine needles when what I really want is to see the forest. They even go into details about the DNA base, and provide a complete base sequence for you as your results. Everything they say is well and good, but I find myself asking, so how am I supposed to use this information? Like the technophobe who just wants to get things done with a minimum of fuss, I know what I want and what I want to find out is if the test tells me what I want to know. I really don't care about guanine or thysine, base pair numbers, DYS numbers, or alleles! Just tell me what ethnic groups I come from, and who I'm related to. To be fair it's quite clear it provides that information, but wading through everything is a bit of a mess.
Maybe this will help me explain things better to my users. Aim at getting them where they want to go.
Oh, by the way, the JP2 coin came, and it looks really good.
Ah, here's a news article I am too lazy to post now that I've already written most of this entry (and it's bedtime for me): Michael Schiavo got remarried. I'll give him partial credit for waiting ten months, but the official mourning period is a year, thank you very much. Not much else of interest to the event, except that it was apparently in the church (!) and was both private and not private. Private in the sense that it was held secretly, not private in the sense that the media managed to weasel an amazing amount of information out of people nonetheless.
