Brrr it’s snowing this week on the Isle. Kids are having a blast; they’ve seen snow before but it’s been so long ago that they can’t remember it.

It’s been since ’92 since I’ve actually lived in the snow so this is a refreshing change of pace.

Not bad, windy as all get-out, but with my new Balascarfa I’m warm as a bug in a rug (but I gotta be careful not to look like a mugger when I wear Option #3).

Here’s an interesting site for us conspiracy theory nuts who enjoy guessing who’s taking over the world…

http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/

On this I found, interestingly enough, Disney*, who in my opinion has a track record of changing often-told stories like ‘Hercules’ and ‘Anastasia’ also owns… The History Channel. Eek!

And, funny enough, Time Warner, the company who brought us the rather bizarre ‘Batman’ movies and the cool ‘Matrix movies, also recently performed an acid mod on Bugs Bunny’s descendants, making an anime version of Toontown**. They also own a publication called ‘Progressive Farmer’. Makes me wonder what they plan to do to tomatoes as well.

* See http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/DisneyTamaraland.html for an interesting analysis of Disney as a storytelling force in today’s world

** See http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/3045502 for more info on this topic.

Overheard from one colleague to another, as one was leaving in a bad mood, obviously off to some dreaded social event:

“So long, goodbye, enjoy the futility of it all….”