Have pity on me dear reader, for I must forsake my beloved paper in the name of good mental health. By “paper,” I am of course referring to the news… or the printed version thereof. I can not look at it for fear of what I know I will see: a large cover story about a certain local sports franchise with a pirate motif, who laid a second consecutive egg in the face of their opposition. I’m sorry, they didn’t exactly lay an egg – they scored three points after all…

After a decade long reprieve, it seems the football gods are once again angry with the Tampa (pirate-like) franchise. Pray tell dear reader: what is the source of all this bad mojo?

How long has the local news been showing off Google Earth in it’s evening segments? In it’s post-game, 11 o’clock show, channel ten was telling a story about something that happened in the Ocala National Forest. (I wasn’t paying close enough attention to learn what happened. I only left the TV on by accident.) Despite being less than one hundred miles away, there are probably more than a few folks around that couldn’t correctly pick wich state the Ocala National Forest is in (FL)… enter Google Earth. It’s awesome when the local newstainment scares mommies into believing that the internet is going to eat their children, then turns around and uses it as a prop in their regular broadcast.

Whoa Nelly, it’s going to be a long night.