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I’m all for comic strip writers getting back to their jobs, paying tribute to the victims, making wry, sweet, or political comments about the attacks.

But this is just weird.

Woo hoo! My first story for cbc.ca/science!

(Again, could I be any more of a geek?)

I just watched the opening credits of Enterprise. And I have goosebumps.

Could I be any more of a geek?

How long after a tragedy can someone express the snide-ass remarks we’ve all been holding back?

A little more than two weeks.

And who’s gonna do it? The Onion, of course.

Thank God. I’d really had enough of all this “death of irony” crap everyone keeps talking about.

Oh, and speaking of God… News flash: ‘God’s will’ equals ‘Don’t murder people.’

Separated at birth?

Not-yet-as-famous-as-Elvis usability guru Jakob Neilsen…

And not-yet-as-famous-as-Brent-Spiner character actor John Billingsley, who plays Dr. Phlox on Enterprise.

Uncanny, no?

“Either you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists.”

Well, I guess we now know where the peace movement stands in the eyes of the president.

And heaven help anyone who dares to point out that sending three aircraft carriers to catch a criminal might not be the best strategy.

I wrote a backgrounder on the Nimda worm yesterday, but it’s kinda lost on the site. It’s linked only from the news/indepth page.

I’m working on an account of what happened in the newsroom last week. It would be very self-indulgent if it didn’t appear on a site that was dedicated to me anyway.

The big news in my little world, which got completely lost in the chaos, was losing my job on Monday. And then getting it back today.

In fact, I’m going to be working on the science page for a while.

But tomorrow, I’m doing the video encoding starting at 7. I gotta get up early and bike in to work.

I’ll never complain about a slow news day again.

Well, it may have been silly, but it sure was popular.

Donna tells me MSN linked to my article. I’ll check the stats tomorrow to see how it did over the weekend.

And the rewrite desk over at Metro Today seemed to like it, too. They printed a good chunk of it on page 3 of their Friday edition. Not that that’s unusual. They’re always taking our stuff.